The Wii also got its own Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit developed by Exient Entertainment the same year, though it was essentially a blander, buggier version of Need for Speed: Nitro.Ĭriterion's game would receive a remastered version, titled Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, in November 2020 for Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. It takes place in a not-exactly-open-world environment called Seacrest County, which is based on the American West Coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington. Hot Pursuit 2 was also the first sixth-generation NFS game, and the only classic NFS game released on sixth-gen platforms.īoth games would eventually receive a reboot/ Spiritual Successor for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in 2010, simply titled Hot Pursuit, note generally known as " Hot Pursuit (2010)" to distinguish it from the others, the sixteenth Need for Speed title and the first game in the series developed by Criterion Games, the EA studio behind the Burnout franchise, note with some help by EA DICE, the makers of Battlefield and Mirror's Edge, and features some online-focused "race and chase" gameplay, either through multiplayer or the then-new "Autolog" system that continuously compares your best times to those of your friends and challenges you to beat your friends' times. Hot Pursuit 2 was the last game in the series to focus on exotic cars for nearly a decade, and also the last game to have them (until 2005's Most Wanted), as following this game was Underground, which would basically serve as a reboot by radically shifting the games' focus on racing heavily-customized import tuners in urban environments. It was developed for GameCube, Xbox, and Windows by EA Seattle, and for the PlayStation 2 by EA Black Box, who would become the new main Need for Speed developer for the next several years. Hot Pursuit 2 is the sixth installment in the Need for Speed series and the sequel to III: Hot Pursuit, featuring more and bigger tracks, more cars, and more race types. The Lamborghini Diablo SV made its franchise (and video game) debut in this game. note In the form of, what else, free add-on cars the game did not support any more tracks beyond the nine standard tracks in-game due to hard limits (which also applied to the cars). Also, the PC version was the first NFS that was easily modded with add-on cars, as well as the first to have official Downloadable Content. Both versions, however, add the option for players to fine-tune their cars' performance and repaint their cars to unique colors. The Windows PC version provided the option to play as the police and catch speeders, while PS1 had unique secret tracks that could only be unlocked using cheat codes. III: Hot Pursuit, as its name implies, is the third overall game in the Need for Speed franchise, and it reintroduced the police chases from the first game and improved the AI system, now utilizing several tactics to stop both the player and opponent, thus making the exotic car street racing more of a Blood Sport compared to previous two titles, with each racer having different driving habits. Also, unlike what later titles in the franchise would be famous for, none of these games feature any plot. The first two games in particular would come to represent the identity of what's considered to be the first era of the Need for Speed franchise, that is, racing exotic cars in various scenic tracks while being chased by the cops. It consists of Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit (1998), Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002), Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010), and the latter's remaster, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered (2020). Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a sub-series of Electronic Arts' Need for Speed franchise. Hot Action Cop, "Fever for the Flava", part of Hot Pursuit 2's soundtrack note Actually the bowdlerised version made for the game.
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