Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

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  1. VeuxVIP
    Jan 25, 2023
    0
    the only good nfs that criterion has made, good use of weapon mechanics but sh*tty physics that started with brake 2 drift era.
  2. bar0yka
    Nov 14, 2022
    4
    Özelleştirme yok illegal bi yarış oyununda sizden polis olmanızı istiyor bir de tam bir açmalık gidip remasterladılar bunu awq
  3. Shadowxxx
    Jul 15, 2022
    0
    Disgusting fake trash Disgusting fake trash Disgusting fake trash Disgusting fake trash Disgusting fake trash
  4. StarkAgentos
    May 14, 2022
    2
    Совершенно обычная гонка без чего-либо особенного. Открытого мира нет, своих фишек тоже нет. Самый настоящий конвейер.
  5. Gorbunov2004
    Jul 14, 2021
    4
    Игра хлам, у полицейских временные шипы где это видано? А гонщиков невозможно догнать 1 место даже с полной закисью азота. Все что в этой игре хорошо это большой выбор машин но ты их даже покупать не можешь тебе их выдают, брехня. И музыка фигня.Игра хлам, у полицейских временные шипы где это видано? А гонщиков невозможно догнать 1 место даже с полной закисью азота. Все что в этой игре хорошо это большой выбор машин но ты их даже покупать не можешь тебе их выдают, брехня. И музыка фигня.
  6. KanyeYeast
    Jan 5, 2021
    0
    Game is terribly toxic, people can kick you for no reason and boom you lost everything you've worked for. The pursuit tech is annoying, they should remove that crap. Can BARLEY PLAY THE GAME so many glitches send you flying from absolutely nothing. Stupid game that needed major fixing the first time around but of course EA is in it for a quick buck. Avoid at all costs.
  7. Luka1998010
    May 9, 2020
    0
    One of the worst in the series...
    -No customization
    -No story
    -Only supercars
    -Weapons
    -No real open world
    -Nothing to do after finishing all events and getting the highest rank
    -Awful rubber banding, which ruins every darn race
    -No car buying
    -Car damage
    -Handling
    -Crash scenes
    -Boring map
    -No city
  8. NotBanMePLZ
    Apr 30, 2020
    3
    Пиздец, а не игра. Сбиваешь соперника шипам - он сразу же разворачивается, сраным мать его телепортом, а потом еще какой-то магией догоняет тебя за пол секунды, хотя расстояние ни капельки не маленькое. Геймплей - ужасный, машина не ощущается, повороты проходятся со скольжениями, которых всех бесят. Я как-будто бы в мобильную игру играю по типу асвальта, а не в нфс. После перезахода вПиздец, а не игра. Сбиваешь соперника шипам - он сразу же разворачивается, сраным мать его телепортом, а потом еще какой-то магией догоняет тебя за пол секунды, хотя расстояние ни капельки не маленькое. Геймплей - ужасный, машина не ощущается, повороты проходятся со скольжениями, которых всех бесят. Я как-будто бы в мобильную игру играю по типу асвальта, а не в нфс. После перезахода в игру, все настройки сбрасываются и приходится занаво настраивать управление. Очень много бесячих деталей, которые только мешают. Как можно получать удовольствие от этой игры - я не знаю. Сюжета - нет. Геймплей - ужасный. Меню - лаганное. Управление - кривое.… Expand
  9. SrCre
    Mar 10, 2020
    4
    [ ] Perfect
    [ ] Awesome
    [ ] Good
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    [ ] Fail

    Não vejo necessidade em escrever um longo texto analisando uma arte, a nota é apenas um conselho para saber o quanto ela vale para sua vida.

    I see no need to write a long text analyzing an art, the note is just a piece of advice to know how much it is worth in your life.
  10. Mollomomo
    Apr 5, 2019
    0
    This game had me quit and uninstall it after mere 5 hours of playing it. I WANTED to like it, because i love driving games, cop 'n robbers type action and on top of that it's made by Criterion. Except that it takes all what was executed well in Burnout, throws it away and delivers total utter garbage. The only positive I can find is that the graphics look nice. Presentation is bland atThis game had me quit and uninstall it after mere 5 hours of playing it. I WANTED to like it, because i love driving games, cop 'n robbers type action and on top of that it's made by Criterion. Except that it takes all what was executed well in Burnout, throws it away and delivers total utter garbage. The only positive I can find is that the graphics look nice. Presentation is bland at best, cutscenes and loading sequences are unskippable, monotonous and infuriating, no customization, no manual shift, cars of the same class all handle the same despite being RWD, FWD or AWD and they all drive like motorboats, downright cheating rubberbanding AI that makes your driving skill irrelevant, boring and repetitive tracks with no personality and finally horrible invasive always on DRM even for single player. If you have any love for yourself, stay away. They still have the guts to charge $15 for it (on steam) in 2019.… Expand
  11. YochiThMaster33
    Nov 16, 2018
    2
    I bought this game at Steam and played a bit, but this game is a complete failure because the NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 reboot is same Burnout game. The goods in this game are licensed cars, nice graphics and weapons usage, but the bad things is most of the gameplay, which is heavily based on Burnout games (including Crash Cameras).
  12. LifeHistory
    Jul 9, 2018
    4
    I am really tired of every damn game today is an OpenWorld crap. I specially hate OpenWorld-Racing games. Why can't we have Racing games like the original NFS Most Wanted and NFS Carbon when you have a carrier and you choose your Race from the menu without the need to drive around. Even NFS The RUN which many hated but I liked it a lot because it was new idea and was hell lots of fun. TheI am really tired of every damn game today is an OpenWorld crap. I specially hate OpenWorld-Racing games. Why can't we have Racing games like the original NFS Most Wanted and NFS Carbon when you have a carrier and you choose your Race from the menu without the need to drive around. Even NFS The RUN which many hated but I liked it a lot because it was new idea and was hell lots of fun. The only bad thing was that the game was short.
    And another thing I hate about this game and other NFS games like it... is the COP/RACER carrier its just stupid no one wants to be a cop. I play a racing game to be a racer no a cop you brainless devs.

    I DO NOT CARE ABOUT MULTIPLAYER CRAP........    … Expand
  13. modimagic
    Dec 5, 2017
    4
    PROs
    ********
    + Beautiful graphics + Day-Night cycles and varying weather system. + Spectacular crashes (only mine. The other AI involved in crash keeps on going unaffected). CONS ******** - Cannot takedown racers & cops by ramming them. Ramming has no effect on them. - Rubber band AI - Unfair advantage of almost perfect driving skills to AI racers. This is NOT a SIM game !! -    PROs
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    + Beautiful graphics
    + Day-Night cycles and varying weather system.
    + Spectacular crashes (only mine. The other AI involved in crash keeps on going unaffected).

    CONS
    ********
    - Cannot takedown racers & cops by ramming them. Ramming has no effect on them.
    - Rubber band AI
    - Unfair advantage of almost perfect driving skills to AI racers. This is NOT a SIM game !!
    - Good driving skills are not just enough to win races. Luck is a major factor here: a couple of slip ups and the race is gone.
    - There are innumerable ways you can crash and many times it is unavoidable. A minor crash and you can go from 1st to 6th in a matter of seconds after driving flawlessly for 95% of the race.
    - No description of finishing time of opponents at the end of race, the cars they were driving or anything else.
    - No customisation except body colour change.
    - No photo mode in offline mode. Can't even properly admire the looks of the car I am going to drive.
    - No mouse (Playstation game rushed for PC after minimal thought).
    - After a couple hours of gameplay, it stops being fun- and a long long grind ensues.    … Expand
  14. choppy
    May 5, 2017
    4
    Great graphics, but as everyone else says, the gameplay sux. Every car drives the same - there are almost no noticeably differences beyond top speed. They all handle terribly on turns - which AI competitors always handle perfectly, hitting the exact combination of speed and brake that you're left to guess at.

    The AI cheats ridiculously. It keeps you at a the center of a pack at all    Great graphics, but as everyone else says, the gameplay sux. Every car drives the same - there are almost no noticeably differences beyond top speed. They all handle terribly on turns - which AI competitors always handle perfectly, hitting the exact combination of speed and brake that you're left to guess at.

    The AI cheats ridiculously. It keeps you at a the center of a pack at all times. When you crash or fall behind, the other cars slow down for you, which is an obnoxious way to handicap the play, but if you're winning, and pass everyone, the game gives every other car a powerboost, regardless of top speed. You can never be far ahead, no matter how many shortcuts you take or how many times the other cars crash or are stopped. EVERY other car is NEVER farther than 1 to 2 seconds behind you, and if they far behind, the AI speeds them or teleports them ahead. Ridiculous.

    The cop missions are just as frustrating. The unlocks are meaningless - although you constantly unlock cars, in the vast majority of missions, you get only one, or at most two choices - most of the other cars get locked out of that mission. You always are given a car that's slower than the racers. They drift every corner perfectly and never hit walls and obstacles. And you are given a pursuit helicopter that misses more than half the time, but drops its spike strips right in front of YOUR car every time. To add insult to injury, usually after scraping by in bronze or silver, you're given the equipment you just needed in order to win mission at the end of the mission as a reward: a better EMP after the EMP mission; a car that's actually as fast as everyone else was driving.

    This means the missions are designed purposely for you to lose on: you're expected to place 2nd or 3rd because you literally don't have the equipment to win, and then after 10 unlocks later, come back and actually have a chance of winning.

    Most frustrating of all is the fact that to win, you need a @#$*-ton of random luck - opponents must hit oncoming traffic, your heli must actually work for once, the AI must not tip you perfectly into the nearest wall for once. So, you play and play until you get that one lucky run, but it's not about skill, it's totally about random chance - just waiting for everything to get lucky. And that makes this a beautiful-looking, but ultimately terrible, game.    … Expand
  15. bigsilverhotdog
    May 1, 2016
    0
    Rubberband AI will kill your soul, and if it doesn't, the cheaters will. Not even good compared to Carbon or Underground, this is Criterion's worst game by far.

    I tried multiple times to get some kind of enjoyment and value out of this garbage (on multiple occasions, spanning YEARS) and I eventually had to permanently throw it in the garbage with extreme postjudice. Unskippable    Rubberband AI will kill your soul, and if it doesn't, the cheaters will. Not even good compared to Carbon or Underground, this is Criterion's worst game by far.

    I tried multiple times to get some kind of enjoyment and value out of this garbage (on multiple occasions, spanning YEARS) and I eventually had to permanently throw it in the garbage with extreme postjudice.

    Unskippable intros, the worst controls ever seen in a driving game (and just as bad with racing wheel and pedals), more cutscenes and menu navigation than actualy racing, ruining up a long event takes a second and is easy with horrible controls but restarting an event takes ages even loaded on an SSD, the cars all have essentially the same handling and are simply different for brand promotion, absolutely farcical AI that slows to a crawl if it gains a solid lead but drives impossibly fast if you get ahead... I could go on for a long time. To hell with this game, **** off Criterion you sellout piece of worthless **** developer. **** off for never bringing Stunt Island and Cops & Robbers to PC. That's what I get for buying every game you've ever made. **** I almost want to throw all my Burnout games in the garbage as a way to cleanse myself of this horrible modern Criterion decline that just keeps going and going. ARGH, I AM SAYING ARGH!    … Expand
  16. BaSsGaz
    Jul 12, 2014
    1
    We play games to have fun, this is not a fun game at all.
    in brief : Career mode is not worth it, it has so much flaws, and it's mostly not fun, Multi-player is still good but it also has so much flaws..
    in detail this game has so much bad points in it : 1st : The repetitive of many points in the game, this is mainly for races against time, they're hard to achieve, and they want you to    We play games to have fun, this is not a fun game at all.
    in brief : Career mode is not worth it, it has so much flaws, and it's mostly not fun, Multi-player is still good but it also has so much flaws..
    in detail this game has so much bad points in it :
    1st : The repetitive of many points in the game, this is mainly for races against time, they're hard to achieve, and they want you to get the best record to mark it as done, if you get second best, it's not enough, so all you do is keep playing a race over and over again until you succeed or give up, this is a cheap way from Electronic Arts to keep players playing their game for a long time.
    2nd : vehicles are a paint in the bu** they're not as responsive as they should be, sometimes i get the feeling tat the car is not turning at all.
    3rd : Tracks sometimes are not clear, especially in shortcuts, i never do good the first time going in a shortcut, i have to do it twice or trice to get familiar with it, which is what EA want me to do, keep re-playing over and over again..    … Expand
  17. athoma13
    Jan 18, 2014
    2
    Was expecting something like the old NFS. But this has no story, no plot, you get a car after every race or so - there is no feeling of being rewarded. The game play is ok, but there is a very annoying 'feature' that will switch the camera to the cop car waiting for you, while you're busy taking a corner, and when it switches back, well you end up pretty much in the sticks.
  18. GamrXprt
    Dec 31, 2013
    1
    I expected more from this game. I got it for $10 and feel totally ripped off. Another great series being ruined by EA for the sake of saving on developmental costs.

    This is more of a Grant Turismo type game using high end highway cars since most racing is done on gravel, if you want to win anything. So they pretty much took your regular highway cars and put them in a race where half    I expected more from this game. I got it for $10 and feel totally ripped off. Another great series being ruined by EA for the sake of saving on developmental costs.

    This is more of a Grant Turismo type game using high end highway cars since most racing is done on gravel, if you want to win anything. So they pretty much took your regular highway cars and put them in a race where half of it is done on gravel but you aren't able to upgrade your car to make it so either. The cars handling is so unrealistic and awful that my 10 year old car would put to shame a freaking brand Porsche at 130 MPH according to this game. Not good commercial for those manufacturers. I will play NFS: HP on PS2 long before I play that stupid game again.

    I gave it one and could have given it less. Avoid at all costs if you are older than 25 years old and have a keen understanding of handling vehicles at high speeds.

    Good game for kids and beginners to racing games as it can be quite challenging but not fun for those who like to race other cars. Honestly, I have nothing nice to say about it. You get what you pay for and even at $10, unless you're a collector and want bragging rights then there is no reason to get this game.

    Anything made by EA after 2008 is total garbage and this game is falling victim too.    … Expand
  19. themblues
    Nov 25, 2013
    4
    Please read Colonel_Panic's review in 2011 for a perfect review of this game. While I won't give this game a 0, I will say this game suffers many shortcomings. As many people who bash the gameplay have said, this game looks great. Graphics are steady and accurate and the cars all look great. The cars all do indeed drive very much the same, but there are differences. I don't play that manyPlease read Colonel_Panic's review in 2011 for a perfect review of this game. While I won't give this game a 0, I will say this game suffers many shortcomings. As many people who bash the gameplay have said, this game looks great. Graphics are steady and accurate and the cars all look great. The cars all do indeed drive very much the same, but there are differences. I don't play that many driving games and only picked this one up on Steam because it was cheap. I'm not sorry I bought the game, but it is very frustrating at times. This frustration comes from a few things. First and foremost, I know a game is supposed to increase in difficulty as the game progresses, but the computer drivers are simply better than they should be at the later levels. They go faster than their actual top speed when you get very far ahead. Also, they "know" where the traffic is before they "see" it, so they can avoid it about 9 times out of ten while you are left crashing right into them about twice as often. This is especially true when you use turbo, which is basically complete luck that you don't crash into anything because the difficulty of turbo is that the gameplay speeds up about 150% so your handling is completely off & you are forced to react 50% faster (which is a little difficult to do when you are travelling at 240 mph on a crowded highway.) Cops in pursuit of the car in first place accelerate 160-500 mph in one second, very realistic there. With all this, it's pure, blind luck in winning some of the levels. Overall, not a great experience, but fun at times.… Expand
  20. northerndark
    Nov 11, 2013
    0
    I was into the "muscle reflex" race for the tenth time and it hit me; "what am i doing here, trying to beat a shamelessly built time trial track?"

    a game, first of all, has to be fun. this game is not. it has the worst cheating enemies i've ever seen in a racing game. and when you realize that all you are doing is trying to beat this shenanigan in not so different and repetitive tracks,    I was into the "muscle reflex" race for the tenth time and it hit me; "what am i doing here, trying to beat a shamelessly built time trial track?"

    a game, first of all, has to be fun. this game is not. it has the worst cheating enemies i've ever seen in a racing game. and when you realize that all you are doing is trying to beat this shenanigan in not so different and repetitive tracks, you just go, "ok, this is ridiculous".

    stay away like plague. bubonic one, i might add.    … Expand
  21. The_bug
    Jul 28, 2013
    3
    Huge disappointment of a game for 3 big reasons and thousands of little reasons:

    1. No graphics options for the PC (as usual from EA). if it wont run well its either turn down the resolution or remove the shadows?! 2. Physics is awful. Im all for arcade style racers but the direction controls are there to direct how much drift you get rather than actually turning corners. 3.    Huge disappointment of a game for 3 big reasons and thousands of little reasons:

    1. No graphics options for the PC (as usual from EA). if it wont run well its either turn down the resolution or remove the shadows?!

    2. Physics is awful. Im all for arcade style racers but the direction controls are there to direct how much drift you get rather than actually turning corners.

    3. Loads of little annoyances such as 14 seconds into a game, i've just reached 100mph in my BMW M3. I swear it said it did 0-60 in 4.2. you can never get ahead of the competition. they ALWAYS catch up! doesnt matter what car you have, its the looks and sounds that differ, handling, speed and acceleration are the same.

    The old NFS's were great as arcade racers so buy them instead.    … Expand
  22. rezzealaux
    Jul 14, 2013
    3
    This game emphasizes everything which is not helpful.

    The intro cutscene was so long, I switched to another window and read several articles before I looked at my taskbar and saw an icon I didn't recognize. Not the cutscene with publisher/studio/etc, the cutscene *explaining the main menu*. And then it takes forever narrating whatever kind of car you first get, the fictional location of    This game emphasizes everything which is not helpful.

    The intro cutscene was so long, I switched to another window and read several articles before I looked at my taskbar and saw an icon I didn't recognize. Not the cutscene with publisher/studio/etc, the cutscene *explaining the main menu*. And then it takes forever narrating whatever kind of car you first get, the fictional location of the game, what it means to be a police officer. And then it throws you into a race, without ever bothering to tell you that the four directions are not mapped to either the standard WASD or up/down/left right. This it continues to do: the spike strip is state of the art blah blah can do x y z regenerates (what? regenerates?) and then don't bother to tell you what even the default key for it is. Then every time you get a new car, it shows several lines of "NEW CAR NEW CAR" diagonally for maybe three seconds, then moves aside for another three seconds, then waits another three seconds until it ~grandly reveals~ what kind of car you got first the brand, then the model, and then after more waiting it shows you the car. Clearly there is no need for speed anywhere but when you're in the car.

    Then the cars itself are boring. Your customization is the color of the car and that's it. You can't do anything in any car without drifting, and of course it doesn't teach you the optimal way to do that either. There are no amazing things you can pull off, it's a linear course each time and the top speed actually is the only relevant stat because there is no such thing as building advantages. Some older NFS games it was possible to get half a minute or greater lead on multilaps because you continually do things right; here we have a nitrous system and a slipstream. With random cars that get in the way and think it's a good idea to simply come to a halt whenever you get vaguely near them.

    If you crash, you get tons of shiny particles. There's a lot of shiny things in this game. The cutscenes are shiny, the cars are shiny, the environments are shiny, even the voices are shiny. But the handling is terrible on everything, and there's no incentive to stick with any car because you can't upgrade.

    It isn't fun in the slightest.

    It was worth 8 of my dollars, but it wasn't worth two hours of my time.    … Expand
  23. Florindez
    Jul 12, 2013
    0
    When I heard criterion would be in charge of NFS games, I had a bad feeling. Nevertheless, I decided i'd give it a try.
    One of the worst decisions in my life as an NFS fan.
    The first thing that got me was the crappy intro.... I mean come on, every good NFS title had a nice intro which gives you the adrenaline and the feeling of "i need to race right now", but not this one. The graphic    When I heard criterion would be in charge of NFS games, I had a bad feeling. Nevertheless, I decided i'd give it a try.
    One of the worst decisions in my life as an NFS fan.
    The first thing that got me was the crappy intro.... I mean come on, every good NFS title had a nice intro which gives you the adrenaline and the feeling of "i need to race right now", but not this one. The graphic options are just resolution, textures, motion blur, and that's it. It has no anti-aliasing, so, that's a 4 for graphics. Sadly, graphics are the less of my concerns.

    Every time I try a new game, I check the keybindings. This was no exception, so I got to it, and... honestly, I wasted 5 minutes of my life trying to find the "shift up shift down" keys. There is no manual transmission in this game! Since automatic is for (oh, and many shift points aren't optimal), just for that I should give a 0 for gameplay, but there are other reasons, like the physics, every car handles the same, every car's acceleration feels the same, being exotics, Japanese, american, FR, FF, 4WD, every damn car feels the same! (and have an horrendous understeering too), the only difference is the top speed. The way to start a drift is just wrong, come on, even NFS SE II is better on that.... not to mention that drifting is 'faster' than gripping on about every corner. So, for all those other reasons, on gameplay it still gets a 0.
    In race, "teleportation" is just stupid. On other NFS games I just unmap the "reset car" key. On this game, its not only impossible, it just happens automatically, I can't have the choice of pulling myself together, shift to 1st (or reverse) steer hard, open gas and get back on the race on my own. Not to mention the crash cut-scenes... there is nothing more annoying than that.

    Another bad thing is requiring an internet connection and logging in to play career mode.... feels like xbox one.

    You don't need any skill to play this 'thing'. Just slam the accel and steer, you'll be fine.

    NFS HP2 is much, much better than this game. Even NFS SE II is better than this game.
    Let EA-Blackbox be in charge of NFS again.... please.    … Expand
  24. graverobber83
    Apr 17, 2013
    4
    this could have been a great game. looks good. great multiplayer features. no scripts, just racing. but the "ridge racer" driving style ruins the game for me. i couldn't even finish it.
  25. dumle
    Feb 27, 2013
    4
    At its best Need for Speed Hot Pursuit is an average arcade-racer. The visuals are nice, there is no shortage of tracks and there is a decent amount of cars The cars handle for the most part fine though very arcady which might put some people off) and most cars handles quite similar to each other. The game is also playable with keyboard which is always nice. The game do sadly have lot ofAt its best Need for Speed Hot Pursuit is an average arcade-racer. The visuals are nice, there is no shortage of tracks and there is a decent amount of cars The cars handle for the most part fine though very arcady which might put some people off) and most cars handles quite similar to each other. The game is also playable with keyboard which is always nice. The game do sadly have lot of flaws that ruined my time with the game. The camera in the game is awful and it constantly switches to crashes, new police cars etc when it really should follow the car i am driving. Another problem in the game is the rubberbanding. I can accept a certain usage if rubberbanding but its extremely noticeable in this game and it takes away any kind of immersion in the game not to mention the fact that the result of the race can be determined by those hidden calculations. Those two are my biggest problem with the core gameplay but there is also quite a lot of minor problem. Minimal graphical options, menus without mouse-support, forced on social unskippable cutscenes, too much nonsense between races and an uneven difficulty-curve. I might sound really negative but the game is not all bad. I had a couple of hours of fun with it but i would describe it as a below average arcade racing game. There is definitely worse games to pick up for a cheap price but the are certainly better as well.… Expand
  26. Ekskliuzyvas
    Sep 17, 2012
    0
    No real tuning like were in Underground times .Real NFS like Underground is dead sad. Sorry, EA, you're the ones making us not buy your games. I wish EA did spend all the money they used to buyout all the game reviewers out there for actually developing a quality game. This game is a total disappointment. I have to admit that the graphics are okay, but the game-play is very bad.
  27. SystemParadox
    Sep 7, 2012
    1
    Very disappointing. Great potential completely wasted- just another boring console driving game ported to PC. All cars feel the same with mushy handling and silly drifting. Not even an option for manual gears. Courses are generally pretty boring, wide straight roads doing almost top speed the whole time, no decent corners which is frustrating even with the drifting and poor handling. CanVery disappointing. Great potential completely wasted- just another boring console driving game ported to PC. All cars feel the same with mushy handling and silly drifting. Not even an option for manual gears. Courses are generally pretty boring, wide straight roads doing almost top speed the whole time, no decent corners which is frustrating even with the drifting and poor handling. Can get very sluggish even on a way overspec machine, sometimes to the point of being unplayable. The police element is embarrassingly cheesy and over-the-top. Progress scenes are unskippable and transition frustratingly slowly. Avoid.… Expand
  28. gas
    Aug 6, 2012
    3
    Bought it recently at a super nice price, i expected an arcade just to have some fun, but tbh i really didnt expect a game tard like it is.
    I play with a wheel and cars handling is really unnatural, the feeling of driving a Pagani Zonda is the same as driving a Mitsubishi Lancer, and still it seems not realistic at all, not that i tried a Zonda... but c'mon.
    There is not much sense of    Bought it recently at a super nice price, i expected an arcade just to have some fun, but tbh i really didnt expect a game tard like it is.
    I play with a wheel and cars handling is really unnatural, the feeling of driving a Pagani Zonda is the same as driving a Mitsubishi Lancer, and still it seems not realistic at all, not that i tried a Zonda... but c'mon.
    There is not much sense of speed, its too easy to drift, to recover, in most occasions its possible to drive the entire race without using brakes at all, just hand brake at full speed :P
    There are no options to raise a bit the difficulty or to make the game a bit more realistic.
    Damage system reminds me to OUTRUN the coin op, and also something incredible, there is no way to drive with manual shifting.
    Other issues are about the fact there is no logic in what you doing, why you are competing, and even if the idea of the Island and the free roaming is cool, i really miss championships or something to give some more sense then just beat the best track time.
    The unlock system is lame, the port is quite bad, no AA, no effects, it seems more an hard port.
    Cant really understand what kind of customer they designed the game for tbh.    … Expand
  29. jacksparr0
    Jul 21, 2012
    3
    Thank you critics for once again giving a game a misleading rating. This piece of crap game shouldn't even have the title of "Need for Speed". No customization, no story, free-roam mode is an after-thought. The introduction when you first play the game is more like an introduction to a driving lesson simulator as opposed to an actual NFS game. Oh, and don't get me started on the selectionThank you critics for once again giving a game a misleading rating. This piece of crap game shouldn't even have the title of "Need for Speed". No customization, no story, free-roam mode is an after-thought. The introduction when you first play the game is more like an introduction to a driving lesson simulator as opposed to an actual NFS game. Oh, and don't get me started on the selection of songs. I was pleasantly surprised to hear 30 Seconds to Mars' "Edge of the Earth" on the title screen. If they had kept with the hard-rock genre I would've been happy, but sadly I was disappointed to find I was lured in and tricked, as I endured the endless amount of "indie" tracks. I'm not slating the bands or the genre, but who wants to drive to that **** 'Does it offend you yeah', 'MIA', 'Klaxons', etc. Bull****. What happened to Most Wanted's soundtrack? Give me Celldweller anyday. As for the gameplay itself, it's not bad. But then it's not good. Firstly, automatic transmission is mandatory. Yeah. Even the old Outrun game at arcades have manual transmission. Secondly, why can't I turn off the cutscenes every time I crash or take out another race? After the cutscene you're automatically driving again, which has sent me off in the wrong direction in cop mode. Another thing is when NPC cars crash, they do the same. One NPC crashed into one of my roadblocks and then he suddenly disappeared and was placed onto the track a hundred yards ahead at full speed. Was it too hard for the programmers to enable NPCs to back up and turn around?… Expand
  30. Ilinithili
    Jul 19, 2012
    2
    I have to start by saying this is the worst Need For Speed game I've ever played and I'm a big fan and have played nearly all of them since the first Hot Pursuit coincidentally. The handling is atrocious, no matter what car you choose it's gonna handle like its towing a caravan full of obese hippos. There's a horrible delay whenever you try and turn making avoiding other cars and trafficI have to start by saying this is the worst Need For Speed game I've ever played and I'm a big fan and have played nearly all of them since the first Hot Pursuit coincidentally. The handling is atrocious, no matter what car you choose it's gonna handle like its towing a caravan full of obese hippos. There's a horrible delay whenever you try and turn making avoiding other cars and traffic a nightmare and if you do manage to turn in time your car will wobble all over the place before straightening up again and to get round bends power sliding is a must although, paradoxically, the cars handle best when they're sliding sideways around a bend at 100+ mph. I can't help but feel that the handling could've been fixed somewhat by allowing you to tinker with a few simple settings such as steering sensitivity, ride height/stiffness, aerodynamics etc but there are absolutely no tweakable options whatsoever, you can't even have manual transmission, let alone purchase any upgrades for your car like in nearly every NFS game in the past decade. It really detracts from the sense of achievement and progression as you get handed cars after most races and you know that they're all gonna handle abysmally with no incentive to race them anyway to save up for upgrades. The AI is another serious problem with this game. Extreme case of horrible rubber banding where you can be flying along at top speed after a near perfect run and the AI can still cruise right on past you half a mile from the end, it just makes playing boring and frustrating. The graphics aren't too bad but there's a distinct lack of options for tweaking and no support for AA. Made by Criterion and yet manages to be worse than both NFS and Burnout. Overall extremely disappointing.… Expand
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#10 Best PC Game of 2010
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#20 Most Discussed PC Game of 2010
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#12 Most Shared PC Game of 2010

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85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. PC Format
    Jan 29, 2011
    91
    Intoxicating. [Jan 2011, p.104]
  2. PC Games
    Jan 12, 2011
    82
    Criterion Games hits the old and trusty NfS-Series with a welcome and refreshing blast from the past. It offers fast and furious oldschool-action, plenty of mileage and an overall good ride. A lack of modes, some rather bland racetypes, the always present rubberband-A.I. and a lack of challenge bothered us. But overall we liked what Hot Pursuit had to offer. A lot!
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  3. Gamers.at
    Jan 12, 2011
    82
    NFS Hot Pursuit will not reinvent the genre but it is great fun and perfect for quick races inbetween. If you aren't the competetive type however the game starts to lack soon.
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