The "Autolog" system is the key to it all, really, keeping constant track of how your friends are doing in any given event, which makes retrying races in an attempt to one-up them irresistible. There's also an excellent online component. They succeed at being challenging from a pure racing standpoint, but also play to the pursuit element of the game, offering up myriad shortcuts and side roads that can be used to ditch the fuzz or, conversely, cut off racers and drop a spike strip. Plus, these locations, which are all sections of one big game world that spans the coastline to snowy mountains to an arid desert, are expertly designed. There's a uniqueness to each that is enough to make racing the same exact stretch of road in both roles feel entirely different. Hot Pursuit is great because the core concept of escaping from the police, and trying to catch speedes as the police, is delivered on so well.
In one instance, you need to focus on avoiding traffic, threading a needle through gaps in roadblocks and generally driving as fast as possible in the other, you're trying to ram racers until they crash and just generally being more aggressive.īut it's about more than spot-on controls. Whichever you choose - and you can, at any time, take part in a racer event, even if you're dozens of missions into the cop "path," for example - expect a different, but equally thrilling experience. The marquee element is allowing players to blaze through an entire career as a cop or a racer. The game does an excellent job of digging its hooks in and not letting you go. Criterion has upped the precision to suit its design, and the result just feels. But the game structure here is one of point-to-point races along long stretches of road and often calls for extremely precise, split-second maneuvers in order to avoid traffic, bust roadblocks or take a shortcut on what are some comparatively narrow roads. Right out of the gate, Hot Pursuit delivers excellent control and handling, which isn't all that surprising given this is the Burnout studio. Unfortunately for them, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit from Burnout Paradise creator Criterion Games just took first place.įor the reboot of this Need for Speed sub-series, which saw two installments across PS1 and PS2, Criterion has created a racer that not only lives up to expectations of thrilling speed and pristine visuals but blows past them with a cops-and-robbers career mode.%Gallery-107062% It's been a good year to be a fan of arcade-style racing games, with Blurand Split/Secondneck-and-neck in the race to be the year's best.
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