Criterion Games' Burnout Paradise was a revelation for its time - a gameplay and technical accomplishment on a par with the best of the platform holders' first-party developers in a release that was equally impressive on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. If anything, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is an even closer cross-platform product, and a remarkable 9/10 game to boot.
The studio's technical leads discussed their philosophy towards cross-platform development in a special two-part interview, and introduced us to the refined Chameleon Engine in the recent Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit tech inquisition.
But now's the time to put all the claims made by the studio to the test! Let's kick off with the comparison assets. There's a 360/PS3-specific gallery along with a bonus triple-format effort which includes the PC version operating at 720p. On top of that, there's the requisite head-to-head movie...
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.
"So if we leave the technical comparisons behind for a moment and concrete instead on the friends comparisons, and it's evident that the core, competitive appeal of Hot Pursuit is at its strongest on console - and thanks to the engineering team at Criterion, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game are exactly the same, and equally worthy of your time and money."
well that's that.
too bad GT5 has my money so I'll be passing on this
Ur right, im going to buy both as well. both gt5 and need for speed. funny enough i like need for speed more than gt5 because of d fun factor and the police chase, and need for speed is more arcade game play compared to gt5 which is more serious.. just how i like saint rows 2 compared to gta4....
Oh wait, i can c the future, ps3 fan boys gonna kill me with disagrees cuz i said i like need for speed better.
Hopefully to break up the obligatory 360/PS3 fight from the fanboys, can I say that am I seeing it right but is the PC version the inferior one this time? If I read the article correctly, it has no AA at all? So while it may run at a higher resolution, it looks bad cos of jaggies.
PS3 and 360 look identical imo. It's made by Criterion - those guys know what they're doing.
Suc on this TriTech/activision
"thanks to the engineering team at Criterion, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game are exactly the same, and equally worthy of your time and money."
Found this part about the control response speed interesting.
"In our previous tests, we have never seen controller latency on a 30FPS game improve over a baseline 100ms. However, multiple measurements with Xbox 360 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit confirm a five frame delay - so 83ms in total. This makes the game the most responsive 30Hz title we've ever tested and means that despite halving the frame-rate, controller response in Hot Pursuit is just one frame slower than the 60FPS Burnout Paradise."