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[PC] Steam - Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - $2.99 US (~$4.03 AUD) - Steam

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[PC] Steam - Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - $2.99 US (~$4.03 AUD) - Steam
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Lysander on 08/08/2018 - 21:24 store.steampowered.com (998 clicks)

This is a pretty fun arcade racing game which will keep you entertained if you like this kind of thing and do not expect a realistic driving simulator.
While the story might be cheesy, the driving is really fun and enjoyable.

About the game:

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.

You'll experience stunning speeds, takedowns, and getaways as you battle your friends in the most connected Need for Speed game ever. Through Need for Speed Autolog and its innovative approach to connected social competition, your Hot Pursuit experience will extend beyond the console onto the web, constantly moving your gameplay in new and unique directions.

Loaded with action, this game will challenge you to become Seacrest County's top cop or most wanted racer. For the first time ever in a Need for Speed game, you'll be able to play a full career on either side of the law. Whether you're a lead-foot speeder or a cop with a mean streak, make sure your aviators are spotless and your driving record is anything but.

Key Features

  • Career – For the first time in Need For Speed history play full careers as both cops and racers. Whether playing online with friends, taking on friends challenges or the single player career, players will earn bounty that levels them up and unlocks new cars, weapons and equipment.

  • Need For Speed™ Autolog – In Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, your friends drive your gameplay experience. Autolog is a system that links friends directly to each other’s games, enabling them to compare and share all their experiences, pictures and challenges. Autolog instinctively delivers challenges based on what your friends have been doing, creating a hugely dynamic, socially competitive experience.

  • Cars –In Hot Pursuit, the cars go from hot to hotter. Experience the thrill of driving the world’s most desirable high performance cars at incredible speeds. Feel the power of busting suspects in supercharged cop interceptors like the Lamborghini Reventon or outsmarting the law as a racer in high performance supercars like the Pagani Zonda Cinque.

  • Weapons and equipment – Take down suspects with a variety of cop weapons like spike strips and call in extra support including road blocks as the chase intensifies. Racers have a range of evasion equipment at their disposal to outsmart the cops including jammers that block cop communications and jam their weapons.

  • Seacrest County – Explore a world inspired by the California coastline with desert, forest, seaside and mountainous regions. The open world of Seacrest County helps deliver the most intense cop pursuit moments ever.

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  • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 21:44

    So more fun than Dodgem cars then?

  • DaTa on 08/08/2018 - 22:06
    +6

    Good game 8 years ago tried it recently and found that mp had no players , had some fond memories drifting in this game , must say the newer need for speeds haven't been that great, Forza games are much better.

    • The Gent on 08/08/2018 - 23:44
      +8

      Underground (the first) and Most Wanted are the only games in that franchise to me…well maybe HP2 as well for nostalgia.

    • magic8ballgag on 09/08/2018 - 09:41

      must say the newer need for speeds haven't been that great

      I've been reading this a lot lately and I must disagree, the most recent NFS (Payback) is probably the best yet.

  • danielh on 08/08/2018 - 22:18
    +2

    I loved Burnout on my original Xbox. Going to get this as it is pretty close to that style of game.

    • danielh on 10/08/2018 - 20:26

      Been enjoying this game in the last 24 hours. Looks great on my 34” ultra wide and also works great with my Steam controller.

  • Godric on 08/08/2018 - 22:23
    +3

    This isn't too bad how ever stuck with just Auto transmission

  • sli on 08/08/2018 - 23:47
    -4

    Not worth the funds. Rubbish game

  • Arcticviper on 09/08/2018 - 00:26

    It's okay, I bought it when I opened my origin account for $2 usd around 2014. It wouldn't be worth more than this but the car models are nice to look at.

  • non-core promise on 09/08/2018 - 00:50
    +12

    Be aware this is one of those titles where the PC version of this game has not been given nearly the same amount of attention as on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

    There are no officially released DLCs, just the events and cars from the base game. There is a janky way to mod some of the DLC cars and events in, but not concurrently. You have to choose between DLC events or DLC cars.

    The game is hard limited to 60 FPS. With 144hz monitors edging into the mainstream, while the niche competitive gaming ones move on to 240 (with 144 being relegated to budget tier), it is definitely noticeable when you go from a game that supports triple digit frame rates to this.

    V-sync is also forced on by default with no in-game option to turn it off. It can be forced off in the GPU driver control panel. There is a very noticeable input delay with it on, especially once you get more into getting better times on events and fine tuning your drift lines in the corners.

    As for the multiplayer, to put it lightly, it is completely dead. It is incredibly difficult to get any players into a lobby, and they're inevitably from all over the globe, from Mexico, USA, various eastern European countries, etc. Forget Oceanic only games. It's an 8 year old game.

    The weapon deployments in Hot Pursuit (essentially cop vs racer car combat) events are also not lag compensated. If you're playing with someone across the globe, there is an extremely large delay. You can tell the other person is not used to it when they try to deploy a spike strip against you, but it ends up spawning several metres behind you and you are unharmed, despite being directly behind the other guy and in an otherwise appropriate position to be spike striped in good ping/single player events.

    Sometimes it is so bad, spike stripes end up becoming mostly a long distance weapon to set traps for people a lot further behind where they will appear to materialise out of thin air.

    I would suggest buying it solely for the single player if you enjoy Burnout-esque driving physics. If you're looking for the physics in Black Box NFS titles from the 2000s, you'd be better off looking elsewhere.

    PC Gaming Wiki reference: https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Hot_Pursuit

    Steam charts: https://steamcharts.com/app/47870

    If you're interested in getting more into it and perfecting event times, I prefer Palinden's YouTube channel as a reference to optimal lines, techniques, etc. He's a bit of a twat in the comments, but he is very good at the game and continues to play the game to this day. https://www.youtube.com/user/SCPDPalinden

    If any of you are looking for someone from an Oceanic timezone to play multiplayer with or just compare times on the single player speed walls, you can feel free to add me in-game: "Nobel_Harvards".

    • [Deactivated] on 09/08/2018 - 15:05

      If only you could harness all this energy for good, like helping poor white people.

  • airal3rt on 09/08/2018 - 03:11

    Is this the real Hot Pursuit from 15-20 years ago? I never owned that but played it on a neighbour's computer…

  • Topdog on 09/08/2018 - 06:35
    +1

    This game was the bomb. First ever platinum trophy on ps3 very fond memories

  • Zachary on 09/08/2018 - 07:05

    Is Need For Speed series still a thing? I remember the games were usually hyped and some of them were actually quite good relative to the hype they got…now I barely see anything about them….did EA kill the series or something? Mind you I haven't played a racing game since Asseto Corsa…..

    • Piranha2004 on 09/08/2018 - 07:55

      Theyve mostly gone to Online play modes with a smattering of single player content. Which is a same becuase I thought they did a pretty good job with the Shift series.

      • Zachary on 09/08/2018 - 08:32

        What's the point of moving it onto an always internet required connection game if the content is only single player??

        • Piranha2004 on 09/08/2018 - 08:50

          I think you misunderstand. The content is mostly multiplayer with selected offline single player capability. Basically they are moving to the MMORPG model with city based driving with other players.

        • Zachary on 09/08/2018 - 08:53

          @Piranha2004: oh….yes i did…

  • Michael1983 on 09/08/2018 - 08:57

    Is EA back to steam store again? I thought they sell their games exclusively on their own Origin platform. That's where I've got that game for free but didn't have time to play it in a last 4 years.

    • Arcticviper on 09/08/2018 - 10:24

      Nope unfortunately. Origin isn't bad but I'd obviously prefer a unified place.

    • nuttapillar on 09/08/2018 - 21:28

      This game is nearly 8 years old. I think they've gone even further from steam since then.

  • datafellows on 09/08/2018 - 09:51
    +2

    I used to play Midtown Madness and the 2 as well for hours and hours. Loved the free drive at Chicago :)

    Any driving games like that now around? GTAs are pretty good but it's not in a "real" city.

  • exit on 09/08/2018 - 10:17

    Awesome game when multiplayer was active

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