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  • ASIN: B004E10R4K
  • Release Date: November 16, 2010
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (124 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
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Platform: PC Download | Edition: Standard

From the Manufacturer

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is a high energy racing game that brings the Need For Speed franchise back to its racing/chasing roots. The game allows players to experience a massive open-world game environment from both the perspective of a racer or a cop bent on shutting down racer. Players on both sides have access to a wide range of real, high-performance vehicles, as well as weapons, equipment and power-ups that heighten the excitement of the race and chase. Additional features include: Need For Speed 'Autolog,' a powerful in-game social media communication system; 1-8 player online support; and leaderboards.

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit game logo

A Revolutionary Addition to the NFS Franchise

In Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit players will experience the thrill of the chase and the rush of the escape as they play through full careers as both a cop and a racer – solo or connected. The blistering speeds, brutal busts and heart-stopping getaways are all connected via Need for Speed Autolog. This network not only connects friends for epic head-to head pursuits and races, but also enables players to compare performances and stats, thereby setting the stage for the ultimate in friendly competition.

Police road block of a racer in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Return of the race-chase game mechanic to the Need For Speed franchise.
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High-performance police car in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
High-performance rides on both sides of the action.
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Gameplay

A throwback to earlier games in the series, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit allows players to experience the thrill of the chase from either the perspective of a racer or the police, with police cars constantly chasing racers. Set along 100 miles of road situated in fictional Seacrest County, the gameworld of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is fully open-world, meaning that players can go wherever they want and race or chase whomever they want to. Players have access to a career mode regardless of which side they are on, and police and racers both have access to differing power-ups to give them an extra edge in a pinch. Cars available in-game are realistic replicas the pantheon of high-performance vehicles available in real-life, with cops and racers having equal access to most cars featured, but some being exclusive to either side. Additional features include: Autolog, which allows players to communicate and compare stats via a social media type network, 1-8 player online game support and multiple play modes.

Key Game Features

  • Career – For the first time in Need for Speed history, players will experience the gripping and heart-racing action of both cops and racers. Hot Pursuit seamlessly links a tremendously deep and fully-defined single player career with a groundbreaking multiplayer experience across all race modes. In the end, whether playing online with friends, taking on friends challenges or the single player career, players will earn bounty that levels them up and unlocks new cars, weapons and equipment.
  • Need For Speed Autolog – In Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, your friends drive your gameplay experience. Need for Speed Autolog is a revolutionary system that connects friends directly to each other's games, enabling them to compare and share all their experiences, pictures and challenges. Need for Speed Autolog instinctively delivers challenges based on what your friends have been doing, creating a hugely dynamic, socially competitive experience.
  • Weapons and Equipment – Enhance the intensity of the pursuit using multiple weapons as the heat level increases during a pursuit. Whether taking down suspects with a variety of cop weapons or using evasion equipment as a racer to outsmart the cops, players will always have a method for gaining an edge over their opponent.
  • Cars – Experience the thrill of driving the world's most desirable high performance cars at incredible speeds. Feel the power of busting suspects in supercharged cop interceptors like the Lamborghini Reventon or outsmarting the law as a racer in high performance supercars like the Pagani Zonda Cinque.
  • Multiplayer Support - Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit contains 1-8 player online support as well as leaderboards.

Minimum PC System Requirements

  • OS - Windows XP/Vista/7
  • Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.8 Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
  • RAM Memory - 1.5 GB
  • Hard Drive - 6.5 GB free
  • Video Memory - 256 MB
  • Video Card - nVidia GeForce 7800 / ATI Radeon X1900
  • Sound Card - DirectX Compatible
  • Network - Absolute minimum internet broadband connection speed of 512 Kbps for online multiplayer
  • DirectX - 9.0c
  • Other - Keyboard, mouse

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Cop chasing a racer in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
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Blue muscle car with racing stripes in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
1-8 player online support.
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Green Lamborghini from Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
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Red high-performance car in the desert in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Awe in Seacrest County December 31, 2010
By pnuts
Platform for Display:PC| Edition:Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase
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NFS Hot Pursuit is Jawdroping. When I installed the game the first thing I did was I went to freedrive mode. When everything loaded and I accelerated the car for the first time I was stunned. Not only stunned by the cars realism, but at Seacrest County (The location the game takes place).

Everywhere you turn there is a new place to explore. The developers must have spent endless days placing every little detail in this scenery. I mean, you might be driving by a airport and you deside to go inside. Your on the runway and a plane swoops over-head. You keep driving and 30 seconds later your at the pinnacle of the county. You are driving up EaglePeak Road and now the stunning night cycle has set in. It is 1:20am when you emerge over top of the mountains and see all of Seacrest below you. Words cannot describe the feeling of awe you get driving a 1.6m dollar exotic car in this virtual playground.

This game was not meant for keyboard. If you are buying this game you NEED a gamepad. You can use the keyboard but it is highly impractical. I would strongely reccomend the Logitech F310, F510 (My favorite), or the F710. The Logitech F510 is currently on sale with all the features of the F310 and rumble compatibileties. The F710 has everything already said, and wireless compatabilites.

If you are not into the scenery (which I would find hard to believe), there is an amazing storyline with the option to be a cop or racer as you battle it out in seacrest county.

Lastly the greatest part of the game;ONLINE MULTIPLAYER. "You Havent Crashed Until You Crash In Seacrest County" Battle your friends or rivals from across the world in online multi thanks to Autolog. NFS Hot Pursuit is built around autolog, keeping you and your friends together and beating eachothers times.

There are probably about 70 cars to unlock in this game and 5 tiers respectivly. This game is golden, and for the price of 39.99 it is a steal. There is nothing else like it.
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23 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By Wesha
Platform for Display:PC Download| Edition:Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase
Sadly enough, Amazon's description of this game incomplete, or I wouldn't have touched it with a 10-foot pole. Got burned in the past, so this time I made sure to call Amazon customer support and ask them; they said that I will get to download the installation package and will be able to install it whenever I want. WRONG!

First of all, I should note that the amazon digital downloader program sucks. I tried to download the game to my personal laptop, and that's where the trouble started. The site said, "file size 8.7GB". Fine, I freed up 10GB on my drive (yes, my drive is not all that large, as it's an SSD). The app downloaded the 8.7GB file and... gave me the message: "You need to free up 2 GB on your hard drive". So I did. Still same message. I did free up some more... now the message started giving me different numbers every time I hit "Retry". Oh my, who wrote that thing? I had to free up 20 GB and delete the already downloaded package and re-download it all in order to finally get the installation files. Gosh, Amazon, you CAN properly warn me beforehand how much space I need, can't you?

OK, with that out of the way, I try to launch the game installer. "Please insert the CD into drive \:" -- What the hell? There's no CD! It's a digital distribution, dammit!

Starting to troubleshoot, I looked through the documents in the game installer's folder. And of course, there they are: "GAME REQUIRES INTERNET CONNECTION TO ACTIVATE", "NUMBER OF ACTIVATION IS LIMITED", blah blah blah. Amazon, your game description does not say that! It says it needs Internet connection for multiplayer, doesn't say anything about activation! And I called you and asked you and I was told it doesn't! When I buy a game, I want to keep it, regardless of whether Amazon or EA goes out of business and shuts down their activation servers. I still have my Wing Commander floppies from 1995, and they still install just fine, without all that crap.

Now, there's at least one good thing about Amazon digital orders: they DO give you the refund if you are pissed off enough. I was.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PC Download| Edition:Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is the fist game I've ever downloaded using this option, first of all, I have no problems with the download manager at all. even though I reboot my PC two or three times before the game was downloaded completely. The price as my tittle says is very very affordable. Second of all, the game is amazing, good graphics, a lot of playable options and the online games are just challenging.
Finally, I recommend this game to every NFS junkie.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Absolutely... AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
This game is awesome. I will say that my processor really heats up when playing it, but this game is intense. Read more
Published 1 day ago by BigKid33
5 ACTIVATION LIMIT EXCEEDED, but how?
I have two computers, my primary and a back-up, so I thought I'd have no concern over the 5 activation limit. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Aaron
It Just works - Awesome graphics!
I downloaded and installed this on a Windows 7 64-bit machine (w/ Nvidia GT 440) without a hitch, and it has been running without a single hiccup. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Binary Spin
good game
There seems to be a few glitches with the game but overall it's still great and is a good game.
Published 22 days ago by Kimberly Muehlhauser
My dream comes (partially) true
As a crime-focused game addict, I've always wanted a good game where I would be a cop chasing after the bad guys. True Crime:LA was one solution, then we had its sequel, New York. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Roger
A great successor to the original Hot Pursuit
I wasn't so sure about this NFS game when I bought it. However, at $7.50, I wasn't going to be disappointed if the game was bad. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Patch Rowcester
ORIGIN
20 words minimum, ok. For the price of 4.99 I wont or can't complain too many other things in life to complain about. It's Origin only. Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Seidel
A mix of Burnout and Need for Speed make for a great racing game
The Good: Great new feeling for NFS, fast paced, hectic online play, looks and sounds great, Autolog is a neat feature

The Bad: Single player can drag after awhile,... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Richard Baker
great fun I can't get enough of this game
The only complaint is the fact that I can't just choose any car and take off driving. Which means I have to play the game more to unlock the other cars. Read more
Published 1 month ago by just me
Racing at it's Finest
I had waited to find this locally but to no avail. Ordered through Amazon. Shipping was very fast.
Game is a lot of fun. Racing at it's finest. Really keeps you on your toes. Read more
Published 1 month ago by joenonymus
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