Hot Pursuit is a gorgeously crafted game, but more than that, it’s a slick package held together by the quite brilliant innovation of Autolog. In returning to Need For Speed’s first principles, Criterion has found its lifeblood, and set it pumping around a structure that will last far beyond Christmas. This is World’s Wildest Police Chases meets The Fast And The Furious – and choosing a side is irresistible.
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!
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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.
Awesome Game, Racer of the year.
This game is too much "arcade "for my taste.
Is this game compatible with Logitech wheels?
I'm kind of disappointed GT is getting outdone by ye old Need for Speed but hey, casual is where it's at these days. GT5 is staring a 7/10 in the face from Edge.
I picked up GT 5 today and after about 2 1/2 hrs of playing I went back to playing hot pursuit.I just can't get enough of this game.