![]() "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit: Remastered" features the same setup as before, meaning players drive a collection of supercars while getting chased by cops through the fictional Seacrest County. ![]() The title is making a comeback this November on multiple platforms with a remastered version of the 2010 edition of the game. All of the original’s DLC is also included, meaning this is not just a remaster but more like the typical “game of the year” editions that you used to see around the time the original released, giving you a more complete experience.With its emphasis on police chases and explosions, the video game "Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit" has served as an alternative to super-serious racing simulators. Hot Pursuit Remastered is more than simply a visual remaster, though: the tracks now feature some small degree of destructible scenery, the tracks are designed a little smoother, especially where shortcuts are concerned, and the cars control and feel a little more realistically than before. You’re not exactly presented a ton of advantages playing one mode over the other so each one presents its own challenges but feels similarly enough that you can flip between them without feeling like it’ll change your experience or that you have to change up your skillset. The game’s just a bit more than simple races, though, as you have the chance to play as the aforementioned cops, whose aim is to take down or stop the racers and you collect more Bounty based on how many of the racers you can stop before you’re forced to stop, yourself. When you get the opportunity to slow down and look around during, say, a Takedown, you really get to appreciate some of these things. There’s a great deal of quality of life additions when it comes to resolutions, sound quality, and ambient graphical qualities, but most of that is under the hood and isn’t really noticeable as you’re tearing across the game’s tracks. A great amount of visual polish comes to this game: the cars look better, things have been added to the scenery on tracks, you can change the color of the car you race with, everything moves smoother and responds better it’s where this game got the most attention and it was really the only area that needed a whole lot of noticeable modernization. There’s been a lot of releases that came out recently that remastered older games and we get to witness a great example of what a remaster should be when it addresses a beloved game like Hot Pursuit was. Hot Pursuit Remastered offers a refreshingly straightforward racing experience that gets nostalgia perfectly right. You’re just expected to race and I feel like that’s really underappreciated these days. I mean, there’s also the option to take down racers as the cops but that’s it. Compared to the Need For Speed games of today, where there is often a driving narrative, a large cast of characters, or tons of menus, options, and customizations, Hot Pursuit Remastered gives you a game where you’re expected to race and perform and that’s just about it. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered does not waste a whole lot of time telling you what Seacrest County is about, why you’re racing, or giving you the ability to customize your car: you’re dropped into an overworld map and you’re given a small selection of cars to start with, and then you race. These days, it would seem that Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered accomplishes this again by giving us a straightforward arcade-style racer that makes no qualms about what it is and doesn’t get bogged down in the details, something that I feel the franchise sorely needed. When Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit first rolled around the corner ten years ago, studio Criterion brought a certain intensity to the Need For Speed franchise that was much needed, taking a concept from Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit and giving it that trademark Criterion feel that people came to expect from its popular Burnout franchise.
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