Review-Need For Speed:Hot Pursuit

Review – Need For Speed : Hot Pursuit

Nobody needs an introduction to the Need For Speed series,the ever popular series of games that captured the people’s imagination of “how cars need to be driven” for generations.Sixteen years since the first game released.Every november we look upon a release of a new version of the game. Played almost all those Fourteen releases ,have seen the ups and down of the series.To be frank,till Hot Pursuit i felt Most wanted was the best game in the series.

A New Studio(in the long no of studios who created NFS over the years) takes up the challenge to make one of the biggest NFS ever to be made – The studio that brought us Burnout(PS3,PC) series of games.

Coming onto the game,the trailers were pretty interesting as it depicted the same scenes from the original game which was a hit also with the addition of all the exotic cars in world (except the Ferrari-s).

The game takes place in Seacrest County.The Game has two modes – play either as Cop or as Racer.Both has  a seperate ranking level,reaching upto the maximum of 20.Both of them has unique cars,the police cars looks pretty awesome in their custom paint job.

The Gameplay is different,the tracks are wider,the crashes are realistic,cosmetic damages are realistic too,but lack of story mode,no customization at all(changing the paint job is the only customization available.).The lack of strong motivation to play the game is very high,except for some facts like good cars and visually pleasing tracks.All the gizmos in the car makes it challenging to play such as EMP,turbo,spike strips,jammers for racers while Cops had roadblocks,spike strips,helicopters and EMP.

Overall the game is short lives,even if u complete all the races in the game,u may not unlock all the cars or reach the level 20.we have to play the races repeatedly to reach thats status.

The cars are very realistic,From Alfa Romeo 8C Spider  to Porsche 918 Spyder and to Bugatti Veyron.Some cars to be mentioned are..

Aston Martin One-77

Audi R8  5.2 FSI quattro (both Coupe and Spyder)

Bentley Continental Supersports Coupe

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport

Koenigsegg Agera

Lamborghini Reventón Roadster

McLaren F1

McLaren MP4-12C

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG

Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss

Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster

Porsche 918 Spyder (Concept Study)

Porsche Carrera GT

The Graphics are better,but lacking the extensive use of motion blur,ie as we hit the NOS,the only effect we feel is increase in the speedo and the growling of the car,graphicwise there aint any change,but they have saved the motion blur for the turbo mode,which is unique to racer.In turbo mode the car gets accelerated in power equals that of four times the NOS helping them to escape from the cops.

Rating

Gameplay : Short but engaging,Interesting gadgets,awesome car details. 7/10

Graphics : Neat,Realistic,glitch prone. 8/10

Story : None,just plain mission type. 5/10

Sound : Vehicle and surroundings are good 8/10

Overall : Playable,just for the racing part and the NFS hype,loads loads better than the releases we saw in last 2-3 years.But not at all upto the level of NFS Most Wanted. 7/10

Reports are that the new NFS Shift 2 is getting released in march next year.Looking forward to that.