Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered

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  • Summary: Feel the thrill of the chase and the rush of escape in Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered on Nintendo Switch™. Unleash a savage sense of speed both as an outlaw and a cop in the world's hottest high-performance cars. Outsmart the heat or take down lawbreakers with the tactical weaponryFeel the thrill of the chase and the rush of escape in Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered on Nintendo Switch™. Unleash a savage sense of speed both as an outlaw and a cop in the world's hottest high-performance cars. Outsmart the heat or take down lawbreakers with the tactical weaponry at your disposal in a heart-pumping, socially competitive racing experience. Updated with enhanced visuals, cross-platform multiplayer – including the asynchronous competition powered by Autolog – plus all additional DLC content, this is the ultimate edition of Criterion Games’ critically acclaimed Need for Speed debut. It’s time to reignite the pursuit.

    CROSS-PLATFORM MULTIPLAYER AND AUTOLOG – Bolt down the winding Seacrest County roads headfirst in racing that is socially competitive at its core. The groundbreaking Autolog connects you and your friends in head-to-head pursuits and races and instinctively delivers challenges based on your friends’ activities. This highly dynamic system is fueled by friendly competition and is now supported with cross-platform sync and new multiplayer gameplay so that you can race each other no matter what platform you are on.

    ALL DLC INCLUDED, PLUS MORE UPDATES – Get all the additional DLC content delivered at launch including an extra six hours of gameplay and more than 30 challenges. Brand new achievements, wraps, car colors, reduced hard stops, an updated photo mode and gallery, and multiple quality of life updates create an even more well-rounded gameplay experience this time around.

    EXOTIC CARS WITH WEAPONS – Drive the world’s most desirable supercars on both sides of the law. Bust suspects in supercharged cop interceptors enhanced with tactical weaponry, or level the playing field with counterattacks and defensive maneuvers as an elite racer. Strategize to gain an edge over the competition, no matter what side you’re on!

    CHASE AND ESCAPE – A deep and fully-defined single-player career delivers the action of both cops and racers, with a seamlessly linked multiplayer experience across all race modes. Take on friends or play through the career solo to earn Bounty and unlock new cars, weapons, and equipment.

    ENHANCED VISUALS – Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered delivers a timeless racing experience updated for today’s generation of hardware with enhanced visuals.    … Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Game Over Online
    Nov 9, 2020
    90
    Overall, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered may very well be the best Need For Speed game on modern hardware. There’s something about the more focused menu-centric system in place here that makes it more fun to go back and forth between racing and police action, and the retooled graphics and sound do a lot to help make the game more intense than ever before. If you enjoyed the game the first time around, it’s better now and feels more modern than one would expect for something that isn’t a ground-up remake. For anyone who missed it, you can now enjoy a better-looking, better-sounding, and better-playing version of one of the best racing games of the past decade.
  2. Meristation
    Mar 5, 2021
    82
    Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit has aged wonderfully. Ten years have not been enough for this work to begin to show some seams, because both in the playable side and in the design structure of its challenges it is still intact. The remastering work is minimal, only technical, and we miss a greater effort to improve some textures, the fluidity of the images or the models, which do not stand out excessively. Luckily, on the playable level it is still excellent in almost all its sections, the Autolog is a sensational idea and there are always reasons to return: wasted content. Hot Pursuit is back in 2020 to remind us just how good it is.
  3. TheXboxHub
    Nov 21, 2020
    80
    If you have ever wanted to smash police cars/racers off the road then Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered on Xbox is the game for you, and that goes double if you've never played it before. It’s fast, furious and will have you on the edge of your seat as you hurtle round corners, inches from disaster, winning a race by the skin of your teeth. If you played the original then there’s not a lot new here, but it looks and plays great - that in itself means it’s got to be worth a punt.
  4. SomosXbox
    Nov 4, 2020
    76
    Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit was a good game that allowed us to remember the foundation of the saga classics . But Criterion offers a Burnout style game that works quite well. Now, with a need for new games that provide an experience that fans deserve, appears the remastered edition of this game. And it works well, especially on Xbox One X, with the performance mode and the 60fps that gives a really fast experience. But we can't ignore that this game is ten-year-old game. improved resolution, some new effects and, most importantly, new stages and races, rejuvenates this classic arcade racing experience.
  5. Vandal
    Nov 4, 2020
    75
    Hot Pursuit’s core has aged very well, although not everything around it has. Even with its flaws, this is a solid racing game that we recommend to everyone who misses simpler times, when games didn’t need filler content to be greenlighted.
  6. Impulsegamer
    Nov 16, 2020
    70
    If you have a reverence for the original Need for Speed Hot Pursuit or if you’ve never played the original and are simply looking for an excellent racing game, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered is worth your time. The game doesn’t quite look or feel quite on par with modern racing games, but it has always been in a lane of its own and still offers an undeniable sense of speed and satisfaction in the gameplay. The remastered edition also includes all the additional DLC content and some new achievements, so there’s a decent value proposition here too. If you’re sitting on the fence, my advice is to get it while it’s hot. There’s an online fervour building for this game that you won’t want to miss.
  7. Vgames
    Dec 4, 2020
    60
    Despite having high hopes for Hot Pursuit's new remastered version, I found it to be just another mediocre Need for Speed game, using the name of the veteran series, without actually living up to it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 22
  3. Negative: 6 out of 22
  1. denlunar
    Oct 7, 2022
    10
    Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a really good racing game with great graphics and gameplay. The only flaw is that there is no opportunity toNeed for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a really good racing game with great graphics and gameplay. The only flaw is that there is no opportunity to tune your car like in Need for Speed Underground 2… Expand
  2. LudaBosta543
    Feb 13, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Dufi mgdncnebsbsbwncgnvosjwhergtkcvkkesjwvdjivsi2r796847274vfsjngbdvawhrhrjdhsscbgnnlooppoejwjd… Expand
  4. Dawggpound1
    Nov 11, 2022
    9
    Hands down the best generic NFS title since the days of HP3 & High Stakes, simple arcade racing fun and the ability to play both sides of theHands down the best generic NFS title since the days of HP3 & High Stakes, simple arcade racing fun and the ability to play both sides of the law makes this my all time favorite NFS title to date.… Expand
  5. Nostalgigamer
    Dec 7, 2022
    7
    A remaster that no one needed.

    Gameplay is still just as entertaining, but it doesn't take long to go flat — you can really see how games    A remaster that no one needed.

    Gameplay is still just as entertaining, but it doesn't take long to go flat — you can really see how games have progressed over the years when playing this. You start to feel like you're doing the same old races over and over.

    Also, for some reason, you're still unlocking sports cars when you've reached the hypercars towards the end of the game. I wanted to use them but I'd already completed all of those races a long time ago.

    Strangely, quirks of the original game are annoyances now that our taste is more sophisticated — rubber-banding is at it's worst in this game which could have easily been changed.

    Audio is good, but again, you can tell that games these days have far more recordings and with no new engines notes, this game is starting to show its age. The cars sound good—passable—but no gold star.

    Graphics are very good and it's so nice to see a shiny version of the game you loved back in the day, but you can tell the screenshots used to promote this game are from a high-end PC and not what you will get close to even on an Xbox Series X. You feel like you're being conned.

    Overall, a very good game that will keep you thoroughly entertained for a few hours, but EA's trademark arrogance has meant that this game misses the mark — it just doesn't live up to what fans deserve from a remaster.    … Expand
  6. churros
    Jul 2, 2021
    7
    Pros:
    + playing as a cop
    + graphics aged well + short races + not open-world + balanced difficulty Cons: - barely a remaster -    Pros:
    + playing as a cop
    + graphics aged well
    + short races
    + not open-world
    + balanced difficulty

    Cons:
    - barely a remaster
    - boring ost
    - no car customization
    - too many time trials
    - boring scenarios    … Expand
  7. OGMANLC
    Mar 27, 2022
    5
    Didn't found difference between remaster and original Hot Pursuit. Luckily I didn't pay for this game.
  8. Katoyama
    Jul 7, 2022
    0
    So, I have an Xbox One and I'm fan of Hot Pursuit since 360, and what I get when I have hands-on on "remastered" playing in my Xbox One? SameSo, I have an Xbox One and I'm fan of Hot Pursuit since 360, and what I get when I have hands-on on "remastered" playing in my Xbox One? Same gfx, textures, controls and even FPS...
    Frustrating.
    I'm just goes to the shop for buying Series S, to play my favorite Need For Speed... ) And what i get?
    Same outdated gfx, same resolution, and what is very frustrating - same FPS. 30fps for outdated game coming out a decade ago... Are you normal, EA?
    Making this, in that type of "quality" on next gen?!?
    I disappointed. Very    … Expand

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