The best part about it is that this remastered version also includes all of the original DLC content from 10 years ago and it's still only $40. I’m glad to have a new, super-fast-feeling racing game to throw into the rotation. Other than that, though, I had a lot of fun with this game as a first-time player. Is it the biggest deal in the world? No, it’s not, but it's still annoying. I’m not sure how every QA tester didn’t instantly lose their mind over how annoying this is during development, but alas, it made its way into the original game and now, the remaster. Someone had the bright idea during the original development of this game to show mostly extreme close-up shots of the car while picking a new color, then fading the image to black, for what seems like a really long time before going to a new, random, way-too-close angle of the car, and that cycle just repeats seemingly forever. I don’t have too many quibbles with the game in general, but my biggest by far has to be with the car color customization screen. Your mileage may vary with higher-powered or next-gen (now current-gen, I suppose) consoles. On an Xbox One S, it looks right at home against other racers on the machine. I can’t compare them to the original because I never played it, but the remastered version doesn’t look out of place against other racing games of this generation to me. The graphics, for what they are, are fine. To me, the drifting in this originally 10-year-old Need for Speed offering far outpaces the attempt at the mechanic in "Need for Speed: Heat." Although, I’ll be fair here, they are both very different games, so maybe they shouldn’t be compared. It’s outrageously fast, and the drifting is very tight and easy to control. Luckily, for my money, it does!įirst and most importantly, the feel of the driving is right in the sweet spot for me. For this game, though, those wouldn’t exist, and I was interested to see if the now 10-year-old racer would still hold up. Because of that, I’ve often had my nostalgia goggles on for these types of packages.
Somehow, despite the absolute onslaught of remastered games being released in the past few years, I’ve managed to never play a remastered version of a game that I hadn’t at least dabbled in when I was younger. Multimedia Producer Erik Maier: "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered" was a game I was particularly excited to try out because I had never played the original.
We played PlayStation and Xbox versions of the game for this review.
It launches on Nintendo Switch on November 13. The game is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC. All of this for the price of $40, about $20 less than most new releases.
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With the Need for Speed racing game series taking a year-long hiatus between last year's " Need for Speed: Heat" and the next-generation game being led by development house Criterion (of Burnout fame), EA has seen fit to relaunch an updated version of Criterion's first Need for Speed game: "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit." Its full name is " Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered," and the game boasts the full complement of downloadable content (DLC) released for the original, just like the remastered version of Criterion's "Burnout Paradise." In addition to the as well as some graphical upgrades and the addition of cross-platform multiplayer.
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