Official Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit thread

[Lotheron]

Trying to get the achievements and all tracks done first. I am no good against human players either. :\

Eh, you'd be fine. The skills of those who show up vary from beginner to expert. Besides, if you'd like, we'll give you a headstart

 

[warcrow]

What's interesting about the game is it brings back one of the things I love about Burnout Revenge (and missed in Paradise)--the takedowns! So much fun, love doing it, love watching the slow-mo results of the crash. It empowering for sure! I didnt expected the cars to handle/feel a little more arcadey, so it was a little bit of a turn off.

I'm not a huge fan of racing simulators so, for me, the idea of this not being a hardcore arcade racer from Criterion doesnt feel right.

 

[purbeast0]

just gave the demo another go.

im definitely going to buy this day 1, was having a blast just playing it now, trying to beat my friends times on the race on the demo. it will give a lot of fun competition.

definitely really arcadey though, i've come to realize you don't have to brake like at all (on the demo races) and can just let off the gas, then floor it again and drift.

 

[purbeast0]

Product Total: $59.99
Reward Certificates: -$15.00
Sales Tax: $2.25
Why am I charged tax?
Is this purchase tax exempt?
Subtotal: $47.24
Gift Cards & Pitch In™ Card: -$20.00
Order Total (charged to credit cardcharged to PayPalcharged to PayPal):
$27.24

just used all of my Halo Reach bonuses to preorder it from Best Buy for $27 out of my pocket

 

[purbeast0]

picked up my copy today at lunch, gonna give it a pretty good run through tonight while i do laundry.

(hopefully i can time manage when my laundry is done so that no one comes and removes my clothes from the laundry machine!!)

 

[purbeast0]

this game owns so hard and online mode with friends trying to shut eachother down is so much fun.

 

[Soundmanred]

Played it for a few hours this morning.
I don't like it, and I think I know why.
I wanted another Burnout Paradise City, except with cops and a different setting. Free roam to events, keeping the same car until I decide to change it, etc.
I knew a few of the things before playing, but wanted to give it a shot anyway.
It feels slow. I don't feel any connection to the cars since it makes you choose certain ones (or only a single car) for events. The scenery and cars look great, but it doesn't have any life to it.
It's not totally devoid of fun, I'll still play the heck out of it, but it feels like another EA/NFS game and I was hoping for a change.

 

[purbeast0]

once you get the faster cars it feels much faster.

online i was playing as the lambo and it felt fast as shit and intense as hell running from the cops in it, and they could not catch me. mainly because while they were both trying to get the guy in 2nd place i was building up a huge lead.

there is also some other car i used last night in a preview race mode that was awesome, forget the name of it, but it was one of those cars that seats only 1 person (not the mcclaren though)

 

[CVSiN]

Will be picking this up this weekend.
got really good reviews and I enjoyed what little there was of the demo.

 

[thegimp03]

I still feel like the last good Need for Speed game was NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 which came out in 2002. Is this game supposed to be similar? Maybe I'll pick it up when it comes down in price a bit.

 

[Yoshi629]

I tried out the demo, but it seemed a bit too much like Burnout Paradise for my tastes. I still miss the original hot pursuit for PC, that game was great.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I still feel like the last good Need for Speed game was NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 which came out in 2002. Is this game supposed to be similar? Maybe I'll pick it up when it comes down in price a bit.

Yeah it is similar, but its fairly different as well. I agree with your sentiments (not saying some of the NFS games since haven't been ok or good in their own right, but NFS is more this style of game in my opinion).

To me, its like Burnout 3 mixed with Hot Pursuit 2, with current gen graphics, and a dash of Mario Kart and the older Need For Speed games thrown in. I actually like all of those, but the combination doesn't quite equal the sum of its parts.

The online mode would be really fun, but I'm not going to play it that way I guess. I forgot about EA's stupid online bullshit, and had planned on selling this after playing through it, so I didn't register it.

I like it, but its not as good as I hoped. The handling takes some getting used to (this, and the track layouts are the two parts that really feel like they mashed Burnout and NFS together), and I still can't get some corners right. I brake too much and lose too much speed and get passed. Strangely, I'd say it doesn't feel quite twitchy enough, but at the same time it goes from that to overly twitchy too quickly. The handbrake requires a deft touch and so I rarely use it. I think that's probably the key to getting cornering right. Its not exactly bad, but its not as enjoyable as PGR or Burnout (well 3 and Revenge, not sure about Paradise).

Oh, and don't think you'll play this like Burnout, takedowns are significantly more difficult, which is probably a good thing (Revenge was ridiculous in online play because takedowns were too easy and half the time one person would get outright screwed over).

The throwback bits to earlier NFS games are not very well done. I almost thought this was intentional, but it seems to me they tried to be serious about it and it just isn't very good.

I don't like some of the ways its like Burnout 3 in that there's a bunch of presentation stuff that you can't skip. If it wasn't for the fact that it happens after races I would think they were doing it for load times, but there's noticeable load times involved and it gets a bit annoying. The initial time you start the game up is annoying. You have to sit through the whole opening, plus watch a Shift 2 trailer.

The graphics are good and its been perfectly smooth from what I can tell, even with the full pack of racers and several cops (a couple in pursuit and several as part of the road block) onscreen at once. Er, actually its not perfectly smooth, it has those dynamic camera angles that I personally find annoying (not sure if they're able to be turned off or not, I didn't see the option to).

What it comes down to though is getting value from the online play. If you have a bunch of people on your friends list playing and regularly can get into actual games with other people, it would be worth it. If you don't, then I would say its not worth $60.

 

[purbeast0]

darkswordsman17 before you get rid of it, i strongly suggest you at least use the 2 day free trial that comes with it. the online play in this game is ridiculously fun, even with strangers.

also about the tracks being burnout like, most of the tracks are from the original nfs:hp game (not sure if all of em are, but i remember quite a bit of them and they are bringing back memories heh).

 

[Soundmanred]

I've been playing it on and off the last few days, and I'm just not impressed. It's ok, but it's not the game I hoped for. I guess with NFS:World, they wouldn't be interested in a free roam* game like Paradise. I have more dislikes than likes, so it just doesn't equal a win for me.
I will say that this is based on the single player only, I don't play online. I used to be an online gamer, but it's too hard to get good people together and I always ended up with tweens with anger issues, or people that cheated.
-The events are 95% easy, 5% too hard
-Cars don't feel all that different, other than a few exceptions.
-Too much flash, not enough fun.
-It's funny when you hit the button to skip, and it still plays the scene while saying "skipping" at the bottom, then skips the last half second before starting the event.
-As usual in racing games the other cars seem to have stats that exceed what the car is capable of when you're using it.
-No complaint about the sound and visuals at all, everything is top-notch. Too bad it doesn't add much to the game.
-The heli and EMPs don't do much, it's just easier to ram the opponent into submission.
-Not a fan of the "+X Seconds" for hitting a wall.
-No additional things to do (another reason I prefer Paradise)

I like my racers to be about fun and speed without being too serious. I prefer arcade style over simulation, and Paradise is as arcade as it gets, and I enjoy that. NFS:HP is just kind of boring to me, and feels like the same thing over and over.
I have more fun with the police car in Paradise doing takedowns. I hoped this game would be similar to that, just expanded. (Like when you have to takedown a car driving around Paradise to own it.)
My 2 cents.

* Free roam where you can actually do things, not just drive around!

 

[LtPage1]

I own it on 360, never played the demo.

I'm a little surprised at all the disappointment in here; I'm really enjoying the game. It's very clearly an arcade-style racer; are people mad that it isn't closer to a sim like Forza? Anyway. My gamertag is thesecretbarn if anyone else here plays and wants another name on their speedwall in the game.

 

[darkswordsman17]

darkswordsman17 before you get rid of it, i strongly suggest you at least use the 2 day free trial that comes with it. the online play in this game is ridiculously fun, even with strangers.

also about the tracks being burnout like, most of the tracks are from the original nfs:hp game (not sure if all of em are, but i remember quite a bit of them and they are bringing back memories heh).

But, once I register the game, doesn't that basically screw over resale (as the next person will have to drop $10 for EA's shit)? I'm not sure I'm keeping the game (not sure that I'll play it much any more).

I definitely can tell they lifted plenty from previous NFS games on the tracks, they added a bit of Burnout to them as well. I think its good for the most part.

I own it on 360, never played the demo.

I'm a little surprised at all the disappointment in here; I'm really enjoying the game. It's very clearly an arcade-style racer; are people mad that it isn't closer to a sim like Forza? Anyway. My gamertag is thesecretbarn if anyone else here plays and wants another name on their speedwall in the game.

Its a good game, but it didn't grab me like Hot Pursuit 2 or Burnout 3 and Revenge did. I'd say its better than HP2, and would be more fun if I played it multiplayer, and actually probably would be more fun than those Burnout games online.

I beat all the race parts (with Gold or Silver). I think I'm at a 12 Wanted rating.

I think it feels much more like Burnout 3 now, but a bit more realistic. The handling is kinda wonky on the lower end cars but it feels right as you get better cars. The Super and Exotic sets are probably the most enjoyable. Hyper is ok, but needs more car variety.

I also learned how to do the slides a lot better, still screw some up here and there (mostly its when I'm in a pack of cars and going into a tight 180 corner just off a straightaway, or when the corner changes halfway through and you get the AI sliding into you). Basically you tap the brake at the start and don't let up on the gas at all. Sometimes you do need to lift off the gas for a moment, but rarely.

 

[thegimp03]

Yeah it is similar, but its fairly different as well. I agree with your sentiments (not saying some of the NFS games since haven't been ok or good in their own right, but NFS is more this style of game in my opinion).

To me, its like Burnout 3 mixed with Hot Pursuit 2, with current gen graphics, and a dash of Mario Kart and the older Need For Speed games thrown in. I actually like all of those, but the combination doesn't quite equal the sum of its parts.

The online mode would be really fun, but I'm not going to play it that way I guess. I forgot about EA's stupid online bullshit, and had planned on selling this after playing through it, so I didn't register it.

I like it, but its not as good as I hoped. The handling takes some getting used to (this, and the track layouts are the two parts that really feel like they mashed Burnout and NFS together), and I still can't get some corners right. I brake too much and lose too much speed and get passed. Strangely, I'd say it doesn't feel quite twitchy enough, but at the same time it goes from that to overly twitchy too quickly. The handbrake requires a deft touch and so I rarely use it. I think that's probably the key to getting cornering right. Its not exactly bad, but its not as enjoyable as PGR or Burnout (well 3 and Revenge, not sure about Paradise).

Oh, and don't think you'll play this like Burnout, takedowns are significantly more difficult, which is probably a good thing (Revenge was ridiculous in online play because takedowns were too easy and half the time one person would get outright screwed over).

The throwback bits to earlier NFS games are not very well done. I almost thought this was intentional, but it seems to me they tried to be serious about it and it just isn't very good.

I don't like some of the ways its like Burnout 3 in that there's a bunch of presentation stuff that you can't skip. If it wasn't for the fact that it happens after races I would think they were doing it for load times, but there's noticeable load times involved and it gets a bit annoying. The initial time you start the game up is annoying. You have to sit through the whole opening, plus watch a Shift 2 trailer.

The graphics are good and its been perfectly smooth from what I can tell, even with the full pack of racers and several cops (a couple in pursuit and several as part of the road block) onscreen at once. Er, actually its not perfectly smooth, it has those dynamic camera angles that I personally find annoying (not sure if they're able to be turned off or not, I didn't see the option to).

What it comes down to though is getting value from the online play. If you have a bunch of people on your friends list playing and regularly can get into actual games with other people, it would be worth it. If you don't, then I would say its not worth $60.

Thanks for the feedback. What kind of online bs is there? They charge for it or something?

 

[darkswordsman17]

Thanks for the feedback. What kind of online bs is there? They charge for it or something?

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/ea_charging_10_online_multiplayer_fee_used_sports_games

I'm not sure if that is true for this game or not, but it asks you to sign up for an EA account every time you start the game up so that gets annoying.

 

[purbeast0]

yes that is true. if you purchase it you get a free code included.

genius on EA's part, will be very surprised if this isn't very soon implemented by all the major players.

 

[warcrow]

Hey guys! Let's talk about how awesome this awesome NFS video game is, ok? Where is everyone?

Over the last few days I've been playing this a lot and I love it. I love this recent trend of showing peoples times/scores/feats in comparison to you (autolog). I find myself getting a gold or silver in a challenge, which might place me in 4th amongst friends, only to keep pressing myself to beat the guy if 1st place. In fact beating a friends time is sometimes more satifying than getting a gold medal.

So. Much. Fun.

 

[purbeast0]

yea i agree, this game owns and the autolog is probably one of my favorite features. i havent played it in a few days just been busy, but i'm hoping it gives my friends some time to catch up in the career mode because so far I only have 1 friend I'm really going against and I am beating his times by A LOT. like some races that take 4 mins to finish for him I'm beating by over 30 seconds so I dunno wtf he is doing heh.

i agree though this game is awesome . definitely my favorite racer in a very long time, probably since burnout paradise was released. love the arcady feel to it.

taking turns at 150mph is so fake but it is so much fun

 

[warcrow]

Feel free to add me so we can compete: v0mitg0d (in zeros)

 

[purbeast0]

will do when i get on next! i think i only have like 5 friends who own this game so more is definitely better.

 

[Kaervak]

Just picked up the full version today (woo, black friday), feel free to add my 360 gamer tag. KaervakSD6

 

[Childs]

Its pretty sweet but some of the events seem overly difficult. On one pursuit the best I could do was 2nd after 15+ retries. I went on Youtube looking for tips and I was a good 10 sec faster than the videos posted by those who finished in first. God damn cops wouldnt leave me alone, yet the AI racers seemed to have a free pass. AI racers were also really aggressive, cutting me off from shortcuts and causing crashes. Eventually got first using a slower car and finished 10 sec slower than my fastest time, although my 2nd place finish is on the wall.

I find the "running from the cops mode" at times unbearable. Dealing with cops emps, bumps, road blocks and spikes aretough, and its infuriating when an AI driver whips by at the last second and steals the race by .00x sec!!!! I hated Marked Man in Burnout Paradise, and this is like marked man on steroids.

The pure races however, are awesome. I think I would enjoy this more if I wasn't compelled to get gold in every event, then getting second wouldnt be such a big deal and I could just enjoy surviving. That and some kind of upgrades for the cars, as I would rather use my Challenger, but it was pretty much obsolete as soon as I got it.