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28 February 2011
Awful
7 of 16 found this helpful Review for Xbox 360 edition of Hot Pursuit:
This game is just plain awful. You buy a race game with cops in it to outrun the cops. There is very little of that! The driving mechanic is terrible, as is the pacing. The develops put all their effort into the graphics and didn't care about any other part of the game. Expect to spend the entire game bouncing off walls.
In the original NFS Hot Pursuit you could expect excellent races with cops chasing everyone and trying to box you in, etc. Expect none of that.
This game includes a few childish gimicks that no one cares about and throws the cop chasing part in the garbage can.
When you play this game, you will feel like your in a pipe just bouncing from one side to the other all the way to finish line.
EA is notorious for rushing games with a one hour "wow" factor in order to sell to the video stores, and make a fat profit if they are the only buyers. They could care less about customer satisfaction and they take no pride in their work.
I don't think the developers ever played the original need for speed hot pursuit. They were probably too young.
Instead of real time crashes, you get cut scenes and then miraculously your car is straigtened up on the road after the cut scene. There is even a cut scene at the beginning of each race the "automatically" starts you out so you don't even get to take off from the starting line yourself. This is all the hide the broken mechanic in this game.
The physics are way off as well, and there are too many other bad things to mention about this game.
buyer beware.