Game Podunk blogger, Natetodamax writes, "It says a lot about the team at Criterion when I find myself saying that Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is one of the most intense and refreshing racing games I've ever played. What's even more surprising is the fact that I bought this game despite not being excited for a NFS game since..... well, ever. Criterion breathed life back into a series that was slipping out of the limelight, but the game is certainly not without its fair share of frustrating moments that are either caused by irritating behavior from other players or by design. Let's take a look at what I think are the top five most frustrating things about Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit..."
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.
Its funny when i call a chopper at high speed but then he drops a spike in front of me but i don't have time do evade. Well, that is not too funny when you're playing.
There's something missing in this game. It's not half the game Burnout: Paradise was. Might have to do with the repetitive races and that you almost never get to choose between more than three cars for each race.
I've stopped playing and consider selling it.
just bunch of complaints man!
the driving is slow? then you must be playing with Sports Car pack:/
I am not annoyed with the Team Kills, I'm more annoyed with the farking idiots who play as a cop and ram you even though you are a cop too.
It's alright to do so as a racer but as a cop is just irritating because you are on the same damn team!
Other than that, all of the authors complains are flawed, he better go back to playing real life racing sim like Gran Turismo, this kind of game is an Arcade racer.
The problem I just have with the game is the constant waiting for a game! I can start the game on a session and happen to wait nearly 10mins just to get a game to start because I'm constantly getting booted from rooms and waiting for people to join because others dropped out (booted).
not to mention the constant disconnecting during racing!
If disconnection happens again in Dead Space 2, I'll never buy EA games day one!
-Ninja Gaiden 3- is sick!:)
is it me
or is there NO exhibition mode?
how can a racing game NOT have a feature like this and instead have a boring free mode with nothing but cars passing by and no Cop chases
I dunno, sort of seems like the writer is just awful at the game.
1. Teamkills - Adds a level of balance in case someone on your own team starts acting like a fool. Plus, adds another dimension of competition.
2. Autobusts - It's called realism/strategy. If you get busted... well then you're just too slow. Too bad.
3. Chopper Teamkills - It happens, so what? Just watch where you're going!
4. Time Trials - Admittedly annoying, but they make you a much better driver and add real challenge to the game.
5. Unpredictable/Rubber Band Racer AI - Well then you just plain suck at the game, I'm sorry. Most of the races I won were by overwhelming margins. Only towards the end of the game did things really get tough, at least for me.
I will say, I'm a HUGE fan of this game, so I may come off biased, but that's not my intention. This game is fun, it's pretty darn hard at times, and I may have even agreed with the writer at points throughout the game, but as you play and understand WHY these implementations are in place, especially online, you begin to not care so much when it comes to these minute grievances.