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Who plays Mia Townsend?
Actress and model Josie Maran played Mia in the 2005 game. GameSpot reported Maran’s casting in its July 26, 2005 coverage of EA’s announcement, and the game’s cast listing also credits her as Mia.
What does Mia do in the story?
Mia helps the player get started in the street-racing scene and gives advice about taking on the Blacklist’s top racer and avoiding police. In a Prima strategy-guide interview titled “Josie Maran as Mia,” Maran described the character as someone who “helps you get into the scene” and said players eventually discover there is more to her than they first expect.
Which Most Wanted game is this?
This answer refers specifically to Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005). The franchise also has a game with the same title released in 2012, so the year matters when identifying the character. The available descriptions distinguish the 2012 game’s cast and story structure from the 2005 version.
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- Go up against the best street racers on the scene to earn respect and rise to the top of the Blacklist
- Build up your Rap Sheet with Record breaking times, epic races and wild headline making stunts
- Show off your skills by outrunning and outhinking cops, even as they escalate their vehicles, tactics and technology
- New Performance Tuning options Can't compete against a sports car? Head to the safehouse and tune up your ride
- Master shortcuts and use the traffic and destructible environments to your advantage
Rank #4
- In Need For Speed - Underground you'll have to prove yourself against the world's best (and toughest) street racers. Dive into the illegal racing world and build up your reputation, as you tune your machine with the finest aftermarket parts
- Need For Speed - Underground 2 lets you heat up those cold city streets with high-octane thrills, as you try to rule the underground circuit! Prove you can dominate the underground as you explore a free-roaming city divided into five distinct neighborhoods, from suburban hills to an intense downtown grid -- all connected by freeways you can race. Drive over 30 of the hottest Tuner cars on the market, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, and Toyota to Ford and Volkswagen
- eed for Speed - Most Wanted is underground racing action so real, you almost smell the burnt asphalt. The thrill of illicit street racing permeates the air - out-race rivals, evade cops and exploit hundreds of miles of open road as gamers make their way up the Blacklist. Build up your street cred and Rap Sheet with gripping, White knuckle, head-to-head races with the top Drivers on the streets. Then pull daring, evasive moves to out-run and out-fox the cops that patrol the open road
Rank #3
- Open World Action - Lose the cops - your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, lay low, or shake the cops in surroundings that play to your car's unique strengths. Freedom is everything. Drive anywhere with your friends, discover hidden gameplay or utilize your knowledge of the city to beat them in a never-ending supply of challenges.
- Non-Stop Multiplayer - Pick a car, hook up with friends and jump into a non-stop playlist of tight, competitive events. No lobby screens means the action never stops. Score big, rank up and earn endless rewards and upgrades. Keep the fierce rivalries going between events with endless opportunities to race, battle and explore in a huge open world.
- Beat Your Friends - Autolog 2 ratchets up the intense competition with personalized race recommendations and feeds broadcasting all of your most newsworthy scores, speeds and times to your friends. Earn Need for Speed points at all times on any system as you try to outdrive your friends and become the Most Wanted.
- Racing Without Rules - It’s survival of the fastest as "Need for Speed Most Wanted" fuses the franchise’s, authentic "real car" feel with the intense speed and aggression of Burnout. Power down, slide out, and battle your way past cops and rivals using pure driving skill, and heavy doses of nitrous.
Rank #2
- very good game
#1 Best Overall
- Electronic Arts 15207 Need for Speed Most Wanted PC
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