Resolution's Andreas Varotsis writes: When Criterion announced to the world they’d be the geniuses behind the next Need for Speed, we all hoped they’d inject some much needed Burnout, speed induced fever into EA’s inconsistent, gangster-wannabe step-child. After much feverish anticipation and general fanboy glee, I finally managed to get my grubby hands on the Hot Pursuit demo at the Eurogamer expo – and the results are not at all what I expected.
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Paul writes - "EA know a good thing when they see it, and for multiple years November was Need for Speed month. In a break from the usual routine, I'm going to be looking back at two games here, released in 2005 and 2010 respectively. The earlier game is Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which has the distinction of being one of the very best in the franchise. The second game comes from 2010, and is Need for Speed Hot Pursuit; which I'll talk about just as the Remastered version of the game has hit the stores."
I completely adore this game! In fact its probably my favorite racing game. I recently dusted off my xbox 360 to play Most Wanted 2005. Still a great game, though I do not remember there being such horrible performance. Like massive frame-pacing issues. screen tearing, latency. If any game ever truly needed to be remastered, it this one for sure!
A pulled retailer page previously listed a November release date.
No NFS released since Hot Pursuit (2010) has came close. The Ghost Games NFS games were just dreadful (to me they were anyway, 2015 was okay I suppose). Would love to replay this and I hope it has an update for next-gen as well.
I loved Most Wanted as well (on PS3, I think it released in 2012). After that, it has gone downhill, but the latest games are slowly coming back up. I loved NFS Heat, but it needs to get better before it comes back to same level as NFS Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted.
Then again, NFS Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted were likely better because they were from Criterion (in fact, those were the last 2 games from criterion in nfs series).
I would be excited but NFS is basically dead in the water at this point, a shell of its former self.
The reviewer expected another Burnout game instead of a NFS game so they were disapointed lol.
I didn't know about this game. I think I'm going to cancel my reservation of gt5 and get this instead. This looks way more fun and faster. Nfs yesssss!
@maximusprime: good for you
@plb: where the trolling? All I see are honest opinions. Is it trolling because YOU don't agree with it? I thought that I could do whatever I want with my money. I'll keep gt5 reserved to make you more cheerful
Hope this game will be good!
yea he sound like he was just in love with burnout a lil too much.....i guess nevered played a nfs games at all in his life time to know what need for speed is about i am happy the burnout tam is doing this game and can't wait for it to come out