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| Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Review by Cian |  | | PALGN Review: Drifting towards a brighter future. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| PALGN wrote: | | You can't customize any of the cars apart from changing the colour |
Whaaa...??
Think I will just wait for Test Drive Unlimited 2.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:28 am Post subject: |
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such a late review. Almost a month late?
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| THEMAN wrote: | | such a late review. Almost a month late? |
These guys don't have a magic vault containing...
- A Scrooge McDuck-size pile o' cash.
- All the time in the world.
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| Shadow Wave wrote: | | the thing i disliked about it was how horribly fake the turning was. I know its an arcade racer but it something I couldn't get my head around. |
Really? I found the handling pretty intuitive, although I have put in a lot of hours into various burnout games.
I agree with this review, too. What the game does, it does very very well. The problem is Criterion have played it very safe, there is nothing here that is original. The sense of speed and handling is taken from Burnout (and even Burnout ripped their handling from Daytona), the weapon system is very standard, the cops and robbers thing has been done by EA a number of times before, open world free driving has been done before (and it's barely worth mentioning here)... nothing is innovative here at all.
That being said, the Autolog system is excellent. It really makes you want to try and squeeze those extra few seconds off your time to beat your rivals/ friends. And I've still put a lot of hours in. I'd probably give it 8.5/10
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| light487 wrote: | | PALGN wrote: | | You can't customize any of the cars apart from changing the colour |
Whaaa...?? |
Well, this was never supposed to be a customizable car-racing thing. In fact, it's the opposite - a throwback of the non-street racing Need For Speeds of yore, with arcade controls, a simple cops v. criminals approach, and bright 'exotic' graphics.
Actually, I'm not sure why I'm commenting; I'm never going to buy this game. It's good that they've taken the series back to its roots, and I hope Criterion get rewarded for it.
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Actually, I thought the handling was rubbish as well, and went away bitterly disappointed the first time I gave it a go. Then I gave it another shot, realised that the cars are all just a big weightier than I was expecting, and suddenly it felt like distilled arcade genius.
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mmm...i liked the review very much...although i took exception to the comment about the soundtrack.
i agree that the soundtrack wasn't a fantastic one by any means, but why say that you wouldn't ever want ANY hip-hop music in an arcade racer? 
chiddy bang wasn't THAT bad. and they had some Lupe Fiasco. but they would have been much better off with some BigBoi or even some Jay-Z
I was most shocked to hear what's happened with Weezer these days. What the hell was that song they had in there? Terrible 
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CHiddy Bang == instant skip... >_>
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Disapointing about the soundtrack. Burnout 3 had a really awesome soundtrack and Burnout Paradise's was pretty good as well. The use of GnR's Paradise City as the title song was obvious, but brilliant none the less.
I agree, no rap/hip hop in racers please. Rock FTW!
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NFS:HP has just some of the best online multiplayer, craps all over Burnout. And that's a big statement.
But there's something about chasing someone down careening across infinite landscapes at break-neck speed trying your arse off to total that guy in the way too flashy Lambo, calling on every scintilla of reaction and concentration (because hey, they could all of a sudden do a 180 and try evade you that way).
This is just multiplayer racing bliss, and it's not to be had often these days.
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When I heard they were bringing out a new Hot Pursuit, I was rapt. I spent so much time in the first HP. Then it came out and I found out that it has no split screen multiplayer. As good as the game may be, that's a deal breaker for me. I want to play against my friends/family that are in the same room as me.
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