GamesMaster has published the world's first Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit review - and given Criterion's new racer a glowing write-up.
After nearly three decades of NFS games, here's a list of the best Need For Speed titles that have ever been released in the past years, ranked by The Nerd Stash.
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.
9.3 impressive score, cannot wait for this awesome game! :D
finally!! a need for speed game thats worth getting :D last one i played was most wanted. well done criterion games :) thanks for making something special. DAY 1 buy for me
I'll wait for the GOTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! version.
DLC announced before launch= delayed purchase. In the days of online only MP and 8hr campaigns, one has to be a smart consumer.
Last NFS game I played was a few years ago but I remember going from playing console racers to playing it on PC and my jaw dropped. Generation gap= confirmed.
The last 'leap' I saw in racing games was Project Gotham (1) on xbox....that was a mind blowing racing game. GT5 is definitely the next.
....and here I am waiting for GRID 2...
@toaster
I was just trying to get on steam chat because I saw that you were on, but steam is so gay it won't even launch in offline mode. I went into offline mode to update and after updating steam doesn't even launch lololololololol
I surprisingly had a lot of fun with the demo
I'm actually really impressed with the autolog system they've implemented, me and my friend have had a blast trying to beat each others times.