Incredible sixteen years now, there is already need for speed, bringing the racing game series can truly be called a veteran. We experienced many highs and some crashes, so the franchise has not gone completely without scratches, but we also proffered some fun hour before the screen, since no one hot on boxes and high speed is. What make the “Hot Pursuit” games were the police pursuits, which in the current part are again relevant. Here you have to watch out for the purpose of naming but that can become easily confused. Because the first was called “Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit” (1998), the second “Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2″ (2002) and the third and latest now simply just “Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit”. It seems almost as if someone had as counting backwards.
Also somewhat backward-looking acts, there is the complete absence of an underlying story. Any racers that we name familiar with and which should be overcome, there is no more, also we have a clue how the grim policeman is not that we hedge depends on, in this regard namely is the latest Need for Speed absolutely minimalist. We no longer slip into the skin of a racer who wants to assert itself, instead of us lies the whole city at your feet and we play in practice two parallel careers. Once the racer, who stages the “speeder” to “Most Wanted” high 20 operates, and one of the policemen of the “Cadet” to “Ultimate Enforcer” would rise up from. On both our careers are available for each event on the city map displayed and harvested according to new score added. At the same time we want this road to ever faster cars free and it most sports cars in the corresponding variant is the police. It falls on, however, that we have many of the cars from past and from other racing games to know her well, just the latest sports cars like the Bugatti Veyron, found their way into the game. Conversely, it would have been a pity, would not some classics in the same boat.
As just mentioned, we play really two careers simultaneously, with that of the police not only to distinguish it from that one tries to escape while the other is behind in her. As racers, we encounter three different challenges, namely, time trials, duels, and real race with four or more riders on the slopes. As racers we have four systems for the prosecution to withdraw: the EMP to disrupt the on-board electronics, the jamming itself against the EMP fight to be able to nail strips to drop the can and a super-boost, the longer and stronger has clearly than the “normal” boost. All these systems are available only in limited numbers and will also be charged before they are ready. On the part of the police has to be similar, but the Super-Boost will be without, but can instead call the police helicopter to help. He can either throw nail strips or roadblocks coordinate. As a replacement for the time you have to race as a police officer as soon as possible to the site and race as little as possible, at best, do no harm at all.
However, since the two careers, in fact, despite story line is no one and actually only lurches from one to the next challenge, the gameplay are starting to repeat quite soon. This here is beautiful, that the difficulty increases slowly but surely, so as to half of the game you have to really work hard to have gold to get the rewards, but the bad thing is that the free ride is pretty pointless. Because off the challenges, there is nothing to do, the free ride is so little sense, except perhaps to find a nice spot to photograph his car. In this context we also mention that the race marked out principle held to be yourself, you can not, as in Burnout, for example, own the best way to search. However, there’s quite a number of ways to shorten that distance us even showing the radar, so that it is hard to overlook the falls.
What the single player again for this very enhances, the so-called AutoLog feature that works similar to the system as we already know from BLUR. For what it cares about players that are of a certain course challenge the 14 385 in the world rankings assigned to? Much more interesting is what place it has taken with his friends in the comparison. And that’s AutoLog shows us in “the wall” at. There we can compare performance with that of our friends and our even those start right where we were outbid by this. We will also notify you when a friend has surpassed our best performance one. The practice is of course more motivating than a given time and moves to beat in the one hand, always certain to race until you reach the limit of its performance is really on. Also part of the AutoLog features are the capacity to just online gambling friend directly challenge you to. But one must note here that the online mode basically two game modes offer only, namely the race or the prosecution. Unfortunately not at present version is a split screen for two or more players on a console, you will play against human drivers have to go online. Also AUTLOG itself is of course only makes sense if you also friends, the game the same sports games, otherwise it is truly in the rain to put it this way.
Burnout, which is programmed also known by the Criterion Studios, leaves the current need for speed means its mark. The staging of such an accident is quite familiar, which is not meant negatively. Also bring the “take down” known memories to light. to inspire also understands the soundtrack, which offers a broad mix of driving beats fit nicely with the frenzy. And yet sometimes you stumble on a song no one likes, press a button and it will be changed to the next track.
Need for Speed Graphic playing: Hot Pursuit in the top league, especially on the PC. For only on the PC, we can provide full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and enjoy the direct comparison with the console versions, we have also provided much more detail and effects. The city is wonderfully detailed and beautifully designed, offers us from coast to snow-covered mountain peaks much variety and many great views. The vehicles themselves are well done and they lack are actually just a cockpit view, to which one has probably omitted, since one runner per camera simply can better maintain an overview of what goes on behind one. Perhaps this is also the reason for the strange mirror. In this fact we do not see the real picture, but a kind of electronic image. The entire world consists only of a blue-gray vector mass from the police cars in blue and yellow racer in that stand out. This looks very nice does not help, however, the things one has to follow behind in the corner of your eye up to the mirror without having to look after.
Of course, even this Need for Speed again a pure arcade racer, what one example of the lack of manual switch marked for, but this does not explain why it is sensible differences between the various vehicles are few in the top apart. While extending the drift a little easier to get one as the others, while some do not like to go into the corner again, but the differences are not particularly large. Listen to the different vehicles for different at least legally, so you can sound her a Lamborghini quite different from a Viper. With engine sounds, next to the picture, one of the highlights of the title represents. Just listen to it required in order to adrenaline in the required amount to bring the distribution.
As compared with the console version on the PC less like is the navigation in the menus. Namely, there is no mouse support is provided, you must use either the keyboard or the gamepad, and that in turn forces us to the game to use the directional pad, analog stick by, as on the consoles, you can not navigate through the menus. But of course, the Xbox 360 gamepad support, so that you can use your PC exactly the same control as on the consoles.
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