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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit – Social Modes and EA Answers Your Questions

PSBlog:
"Recently, the Need for Speed caravan rolled into town for a media/community event bringing PS3s loaded with Hot Pursuit, a free rap show, and the Boston Celtics’ Paul Pierce.

With the game only about 2 months away, the team from EA was eager to talk about the social elements of Hot Pursuit. Watch this video, then read my conversation with Need for Speed producer Jesse Abney, who not only answered my questions, but yours as well."

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WildArmed4947d ago

Ah, after finding out that this isn't an open world game, i suddenly lost interest in it :(

I was looking forward to an open world game like Burnout Paradise

MaximusPrime4947d ago

Open world or not, criteriongames will still be awesome.

sak5004947d ago

Open world doesnt work much in driving games let alone gangster games due to overly long side missions. Test drive unlimited was open world and got boring fast. GTIV was boring after few missions as too many distractions due to idiotic phone calls for more missions. MAfia2 is a good example of semi open world with linear mission structure. You could explore the world but missions keep you on track.

WildArmed4947d ago

Well considering Criterion are developing the game, I thought they could pull it off.

I LOVED Burnout paradise.. best racing game i've played this gen.
It had alot of stuff to do than just run events.
and that's what I liked about it (not to mention the 60+ hours i spent playing online!).

So i guess I just wanted a more Burnout-ish experience.
But I"m hoping to get a demo of this game on psn/xbl down the road. I want to try, then may pick it up.

ManBearPork4947d ago

It makes me smile that this isn't an open world game.
I own all burnouts on xbox(360) and i owned dominator/legends on psp. Paradise was a fun game but the open world part took most of the fun out of it somehow.

Paradise was more of a hang and fool around in the city game, while i've had much more fun racing and doing road rage on revenge and takedown.

Cop chases and destroying opponents' cars sounds great.

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Top 10 Best Need for Speed Games of All Time, Ranked

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.

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Looking Back to Two of Need for Speed's Best Games - Most Wanted and Hot Pursuit

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."

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Retroman142d ago

Hotpursuit 2 was good as well.

The-Matrix-has-you142d ago (Edited 142d ago )

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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The still-unannounced Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit remaster has been rated

A pulled retailer page previously listed a November release date.

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boing11295d ago

Uuuu, I loved this one. I want it.

LucasRuinedChildhood1295d ago

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.

DarkZane1295d ago (Edited 1295d ago )

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).

LucasRuinedChildhood1295d ago

@DarkZane
complete agree. Most Wanted was good fun as well.

boing11295d ago

Yeah, Criterion has made two best NFS games in my opinion.

georeo1295d ago

Oh yes! They cops vs the drivers online was a blast.

LucasRuinedChildhood1295d ago

Better be 60FPS unlike the original console ports.

Sgt_Slaughter1295d ago

I would be excited but NFS is basically dead in the water at this point, a shell of its former self.