![]() This is a shame as when you’re playing a drift racer like Burnout or this, you want that confidence as you drive and don’t want to constantly over-adjust. They’ve added a more “weighty” feel to the cars, so you can’t change direction as quickly, and it’s hard to straighten cars out on corner exit. ![]() There’s also a big drawback that’s noticeable if you played the original as much as I did: the handling model isn’t what it was. And if you’re playing as a Racer, instead of the usual handful of official livery colors, there’s now a custom paint maker where you can basically drive in any colour you want with a matte, gloss, pearlescent or metallic finish, which is nice. There’s a new Photo Mode so you can capture the cars and scenery in all its glory while you play, or in the garage. They’ve added all the DLC that was in the original 2010 release so there are more events and cars, which is nice as you don’t have to grind online as much to get to Rank 20. Sadly, at the time of review, online wasn’t available, but I’m eager to see if chases online were as good as I remember them being. I highly recommend playing at 60fps if you can for the extra smoothness.Ī big plus is they’ve improved upon Autolog and added “Cross-Play” functionality, enabling people on all consoles to play and compare times, regardless of gaming platform. If you’ve got a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X, you can choose between playing at 1080p resolution with 60 frames per second, or playing 4k at 30. Same with the background scenery, even if you’re gonna be a little distracted driving at 200 miles per hour or more. The roads and cars have got an extra level of detail and polish. There are definitely visual and performance enhancements here. But be careful, as if you’re looking for new content, there isn’t a whole lot here. The game has held up pretty well, the elements making it fun are still there. ![]() Hot Pursuit Remastered still maintains a lot of the same fun that was had a decade ago. Overall, the weapon system was intuitive, slowly drip-fed into the career modes, and thankfully, not too much of a distraction from the pure driving experience. The chases as cops where you’re shutting down as many as eight cars in a race were so much fun, and once you got into it, it was very hard to put down. If you’re a racer with EMP’s, do you target your fellow competitor, thinking a takedown will send them down the field? Or do you target a police helicopter laying spike strips up ahead? Or is that what you use your jammer for, disabling all weapons briefly? The amount of weapons for each event are limited, so timing and situational awareness are keys to success. For better and worse, this all holds true in the remaster as well. The tactical element of which weapon to use, and when, showed a hidden level of depth as well. The drifting was tricky at times, the game carrying a small amount of input lag (A small delay between inputs on the wheel and the steering of the car), but when you got it right, it was incredibly satisfying. The beauty of Hot Pursuit was its simple fun. You’ll also gain access to weapons within races like EMP’s top fire at cars in front, spike strips to hit cars behind you. By the time your rank is in the double digits, you’ll be in full-blown hypercars of the time like the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport and the Koenigsegg Agera. At the start, you’re looking at relatively tame sports cars like the Mazda RX-8, and the Audi TT. In 2020, this certainly hits a little differently compared to the time of the original, but Need For Speed’s world is so much like a soap opera in its reality-stretching, over-the-top nature that it’s pretty much a moot point in the grand scheme of things.īoth sides of the events ladder have rankings, gaining access to faster cars and weapons as you progress. Based in the fictional area of Seacrest Country, it offers two paths: play as a hotshot street racer trying to win races and escape the cops, or you can play as one of the cops trying to break-up street races with force as you climb the ranks of the SCPD. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is focused on cops-and-racers car chases through picturesque scenery.
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