Need For Speed Hot Pursuit

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a continuation of the Need for Speed series, a racing game that emphasized on exotic cars, over the top speed races, and occasionally the thrill of the chase by police forces as the player screams down a road in a car worth several million dollars.

Hot Pursuit differs from the older games in the series with the return of cops versus racers that has been absent since the 2002 entry of Hot Pursuit 2. There is no longer the ability to customize your vehicle to your liking like the previous entries that focused mainly around the street-racing scene. Instead of having to drive to certain spots in Seacrest County to initiate a race, you will have an overview of the Seacrest County and pick which races you wish to participate in.

The game has a campaign mode and online mode but sadly you cannot play this game via split screen. In the campaign you can either choose to be a racer or a cop and tackle about 3 different types of races while playing as racer has one extra race type. One type is a “preview” race which essentially is a time trial mode and is basically there to give you a feel of a new route. Throughout the campaign it felt like there was way too many preview races and even worse is when you are playing as the cops, you will get penalized each time you get your vehicle damaged. On the other hand, the hot pursuit modes where you either chase down racers or escape the cops are just fantastic. You earn experience for completing each race, which is used for unlocking faster vehicle and better weaponry to give yourself more of an edge.

Instead of comparing scores worldwide, NFSHP introduces the Autolog. This system tells you when a friend of yours beat your time on a certain course will cause an endless cycle to try and beat the other person. The Autolog will also recommend people to add as your friend if you’re into to that sort of thing.

Online mode basically has the exact same modes as the campaign except for the time trails ones. It can be a 1 vs. 1 or 4 vs. 4, cops against racers or you can have 8 people racing for the finish without any cops. The hot pursuit online is easily the most entertaining, having 4 racers trying to get away from 4 cops. The 1 vs. 1 mode can get a little frustrating with some players just doing things such as hard braking and going the opposite way over and over which breaks the intensity. Learning to use your weaponry efficiently is crucial to taking out other players because ramming them will not do as much damage as it does towards the AI.

Graphics are overall p good and the crashes look real nice. The music is alright but the ability to have a custom playlist makes it nice to listen to whatever you want. The graphics and sound of the game is p solid.

Overall the game is great fun unless you have some sort of OCD to get all gold medals in which point some of the time trial races well be a tad frustrating. The online pursuit mode is totes the best mode out of all of them as long as there is people out there willing to race. As with all online games you are bound to run into a few jerks who will try to do the cheapest things or simply play to annoy others.