The demo for Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is out now, and it's never felt so good to be a lawman. Check out Gameplaybook's initial impressions!
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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!
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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.
Waiting for this to dl.
Play the demo, it's meh.
played the demo and could only do one race till someone on my friends list plays it which know one seems to be doing so ive only played as police and well i thought it was ok nothing special i just hope theres some normal racing its what criterion do best so i hope the police arnt part of every race
I like how its looking, I loved the original Hot pursuit and Hot Pursuit 2, this one might be just as good and maybe better, will know a little more when I play the demo later tonight.
So far I have played it on mah xbox and its almost just like the PS3 hot pursuit 2.
Graphics are not as pleasant as burnout paradise on my PS3.