The story has never been a strong suit of Need for Speed games, but in 2011s Need for Speed: The Run, EA Black Box studios steered into a completely new direction by creating the game around a ...

This is the first-ever Need for Speed – it even has the now slightly off-putting "The" in the name. Don't get me wrong - by choosing this rank for the OG NFS, I'm not saying it was a bad game.