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The game features three modes of play - Career, Quick Race, and Challenge Series - with a fourth mode allowing for multiplayer being available to players on certain console editions. Racing events feature a mixture of competitive racing across circuit or point-to-point races, and checkpoint, sprint and drag races. In the game, players take part in illegal street races across Most Wanted's setting, utilizing a variety of licensed real-world cars (available at the time of the game's development and release) that can be upgraded and customized with new parts, while contending with the involvement of the police in their efforts to impede the player. A reboot of the game, developed by Criterion Games, was released in October 2012. An virtual edition of the Playstation 2 game was made available for PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Store in May 2012, but was discontinued from the storefront later that year. The game received a collector's edition entitled Black Edition which provided additional content for the game, and was succeed by Need for Speed: Carbon, a sequel to the game's story, in 2006.

Upon its release, the game received positive reviews and became a commercial success, selling 16 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling title in the series. Certain editions of the game were also packaged with the ability for online multiplayer gaming. Most Wanted brought in many notable improvements and additions over other entries in the series, including customization options for cars, and more in-depth police pursuits. The game focus on street racing-oriented game play involving a selection of events and racing circuits found within the fictional city of Rockport, with the game's main story involving players taking on the city's most elite street racers to become the most wanted racer of the group. An additional version, entitled Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0, was released in the same year for PlayStation Portable. Developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts, it was released on November 11, 2005, for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance and Xbox 360. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a 2005 open world racing video game, and the ninth installment in the Need for Speed series.
