Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

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Okay! We have been waiting for a long time,to drive a decent car in our PC... Now it is only a matter of weeks.

NFS:HP Demo is out on PSN,XBL. But it won't be for PC, Wii(source).And, it will hit stores on Nov 16

PC requirements are..

Min Specs:
OS: Windows® XP SP 3 (32-64 bits) / Windows Vista® (32-64 bits) / Windows 7® (32-64 bits)
Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ
Memory: 1.5 GB Windows® XP / 2 GB Windows Vista® - Windows 7®
Graphics: 256 MB DirectX® 9.0 compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0
Hard Drive: 8.0 GB
Sound: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card
Supported Peripherals: Keyboard, optional controller

Recommended:
OS: Windows® XP SP 3 (32-64 bits) / Windows Vista® (32-64 bits) / Windows 7® (32-64 bits)
Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
Memory: 1.5 GB Windows® XP / 2 GB Windows Vista® - Windows 7®
Graphics: GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0
Hard Drive: 8 GB free space
Sound: 5.1 sound card
Supported Peripherals: Keyboard, joystick optional (Xbox 360® Controller for Windows recommended)

Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: ATI® RADEON® X1950, hd 2000/3000/4000/5000 series NVIDIA GeForce ® 7 (7600 or better)/8/9/100/200 series.

* This product does not support Windows® 98/ME/2000/NT

Lets brag now.

Just got off from trying 360 demo and it was super short for a 1.5GB sized demo. I have mixed feelings from what I played. Graphics are pretty good, but sometimes looks arcade-ish. Demo featured just one playable race where you play the cop and we head out into a Hot Pursuit. You get 2 cars to choose from; Ford Victoria Crown and Nissan 370Z, both of which are extremely lame in terms of handling. But then again, they are cop cars and it's a demo, so we'll just move on.

The controls are simple. You boost with 'A' and Handbrake with 'X'. You'll have 4 "weapons" if you get a cop car to take out your opponents; EMP, Helicopter support, Spikes & Road Block. You don't get EMP and Chopper support in the demo. So Spikes and Road Block are you're 2 choice of weapons, 3 in quantity.

In the actual chase, you'll have to smash your opponents car to put them out of commission. You can see a car damage meter on the top of your opponents vehicle. This let's you keep a tab of how much beating it can take, before it goes down. The CB voice-overs are repetitive and average. NFS: Most Wanted topped in the voice-over part. The music was rubbish.

Overall, I'd say the full game may have more potential, as opposed to this sub-par demo. I'm interested in watching the day time environment as seen in the E3 demo. With the elite cars kicking in, I think it should be a good ride.

OOh.. that's disappointing. But its Criterion. This company has a terrible history with demos. Many thought that Burnout Paradise will not stand a chance when the demo was out. But the retail game was a huge success. Hope this game belongs to the same category.

There is one Online Co-op Only race. Where you play as a racer. Try with some of your friends or our fellow members.

hey.. any one here got the demo? or willing to try it in co-op with ethan?

Like I said, the full game might have better things in-stored for us. I, personally, didn't like Burnout Paradise at all. It was a huge disappointment and went against the fast paced knock-out action that Burnout Revenge and Takedown had established. But Hot Pursuit seems to have subtle touches of those games, so that's a good thing.

I thought someone bumped an old thread. When is this going to be released for pc?

IGN Review

They gave an amazing 9/10. And editor's choice award.

I think , this game is going to be phenomenological.. Eurogamer gave it a 9. Finally, a game this year, that is worth the wait..

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit PlayStation 3 Review - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

Shall I preorder it, getting a Tee justifies the act ?

^you are going to pre order it!

@kbharathb, its not Hotpersuit 2 which was released for PS2, PC in 2002. And Spam with standards

Played for an hour straight and me likes the game. I have completed about 6 different races (5 Racer and 1 Cop) and unlocked nearly 8-9 different cars now and raised my bounty level to 3. Got gold in almost every race, except for the one where you have to just test the Pagani Zonda, for which I got a silver rating. I have both good news and bad news, as far as the visual quality goes on the PC version. First the bad news: There is no AA. Yes, we yet again receive a game with no freakin' AA. WTF Criterion? Now for the good news: The game runs flawlessly. For people with higher configuration, you can easily max this out with steady 60fps. I maxed it out with my rig and frame rates hovered around 47 with 3 other vehicles and 57 if no vehicle in sight. It would take a hit on cornering, rendering smoke effects and crashing. But then again, it's just my hardware which is showing signs of ageing (must resist upgrade).

The music is sucky and I mean REALLY sucky. The races are fun, especially once you start unlocking the cars, it really starts to kick in the pace. There are no custom mods which you can perform on the cars, at least I couldn't spot one till now. It doesn't have split-screen or LAN play (Sorry iGO). The feel is completely arcady when it comes to racing, but the rubber band AI almost kills the fun at some point. I unlocked the Spike strips option and now we can wreck those cars. I haven't start the Cop campaign fully as of now, but will "try" to complete the racer campaign first. The rules of the Career mode are simple; win races, raise bounty level, create carnage, find short-cuts, unlock faster cars and won't be long before every cop car in the county is on your ass.

Any questions? NO? Then let's get this show on the road people.

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Gr8 Upgrade in graphics ! looks good Gettin Tom !

@Ethan_Hunt

R u using HD 4850 for this game to pay with full HD ??

You can always force AA with ATI CCC. Try that.

Will 9500gt be able to run it at 1360x768?
Does it have online multilayer option like burnout paradise?

I so want this game

Gollum said:
Will 9500gt be able to run it at 1360x768?
Does it have online multilayer option like burnout paradise?

Yes 9500gt should be able to run it at cranked down settings and resolution. And yes, It has online multilayer. Both Co-op and competitive.

I'm not so much happy with this - the game is nowhere close to MW but it's better than undercover so I may bear with it.

Another irritating thing is the camera mode option is really very less - only 3 modes - WTF! it's like NFS underground but that was released ages ago.

This game should have camera options like NFS shift - come on wake up criterion and EA - add more camera modes so that we can drive in comforts.

BTW, are there any hot chicks this time ?

Sorry to say !

Worst NFS series Ever !

Really? I haven't played the game yet.. but many were quite satisfied with the game!! What was wrong?

^^PEBKAC problem !

My only problem is the f*ckin' rubber-band AI. PERIOD. It's not MW, it's not perfect, but hey it's FUN.

Just tried this. I don't like the handling(of any car). I have played 5 Racer races and 5 Cop races. Handling is cheesy. After playing pile of simulators I had a long break for Arcade racers(except BLUR, Split/Second I haven't played any arcade racers since burnout paradise). It seems I should go though some learning curve.

And AI.. they have super natural powers. Some times.. they will race so fast that we can't even see them in our sights...I was like "WTH is happening!". And the catchy thing is they don't even use N2o to pull that supernatural feat.

Except these two complaints the game is good. And.. I was expecting something that will blow my mind into tiny little pieces. It didn't

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i think after MW, its the best NFS yet.

yeah you can say that if you like chasing race games but NFS shift was not bad either.

Before claiming that, Hot Pursuit is the REAL game after Most Wanted..Please check out NFS shift.

Shift is more inclined towards simulation. Most Wanted was pure arcade racer and so is Hot Pursuit. Need for Speed games have always been arcade racing titles, right from day one. So this is certainly a very close title to MW, if not better. If they had ironed out a few things and added a good storyline, this would have been a refined version of Most Wanted.

IMO,Shift was only simulating the controls. Career progression was no where near to Racing simulators(Grid, GTR, GT, FZA). In fact, i found shift career progression very similar to Burnout games(except Paradise)

The essence of Shift was to emulate simulation racing. Turning the controls in to simulation mode was just one step towards it. This is something which Pro Street tried to do, in a small sense and failed miserably. There is a reason why Need for Speed games have stuck to their traditional arcade racing format. MW2's storyline was a compelling part. This is something which we rarely used to witness in racing titles. Hot Pursuit could have pulled this off, had they devised a parallel storyline, to the already polished up title.

The races against the clock are extremely frustrating. Especially this Mc-Laren Test thing. I tried this for nearly 5 times.. and only managed to grab a sliver.

I know.. they are 'Gold' for a reason.. we should earn it. But a level of this difficulty :O. And the worst part is.. we can't restart the races instantly... we should face a loading screen and then an intro(skip'ble) which will take nearly 20 seconds or something.

Any one here aced E-breaking system?

vamsi_krishna said:
Before claiming that, Hot Pursuit is the REAL game after Most Wanted..Please check out NFS shift.

yep, Hot Pursuit is better than Undercover but I wrote about shift coz after undercover it was the only exciting racing game of NFS genre but Hot Pursuit indeed is more better now only issue is the camera mode option.

This game seriously needs a patch that will correct AI significances. Minutes ago.. I was in this race where I have to bust the Racer within 2.5 minutes using 2EMPs and 4 Road Blocks. I used all the EMPs and initiated a road block which worked quite well, making racer's car upside down. while I was approaching the car to bust him... the car disappeared and showed up 1 mile away. WTH is wrong with this game! And IIRC, he was using Porsche Cayman S and I was in Maserati GranTurismo S which is quite powerful than Cayman S, but still he blazes away in front of me.

A patch is already released. Get it! File Name : NFS_HP_PC_Patch_1010.exe

Download: Need For Speed Hot Pursuit PC Patch 1.0.1.0

After 4 TERRIBLE games from Carbon to Undercover....EA finally bucks up and releases a good NFS...I'm gonna be busy with this game for a while.....The only thing it lacks is a gripping story and Anti-Aliasig for the PC (WTF Criterion??!?!?)....Otherwise it feels like Most Wanted upgraded....

topgear said:
A patch is already released. Get it! File Name : NFS_HP_PC_Patch_1010.exe

Download: Need For Speed Hot Pursuit PC Patch 1.0.1.0

Thanks for the thing. Never even knew

But after applying patch, I find nothing improved. FPS are still the same, and the game still crashes when i force AA with catalyst control center. Any suggestions?

After MW and CARBON, happy to see u guys praising HP. Shift has good graphics really boring gameplay. But this looks more exciting, gr8 screen shots,can I get similar graphics with my 9600GT at 1024*768 resolution? :-D

^^ yes you can.

Robin van Persie said:
Thanks for the thing. Never even knew

But after applying patch, I find nothing improved. FPS are still the same, and the game still crashes when i force AA with catalyst control center. Any suggestions?

as the game does not support AA I don't think AA can enabled by forcing through CCC.

There are rumors about a second patch though even I'm not very sure about it - so we may have to wait a little longer.

topgear said:
^^ yes you can.

as the game does not support AA I don't think AA can enabled by forcing through CCC.

There are rumors about a second patch though even I'm not very sure about it - so we may have to wait a little longer.

But that's the point of Forcing AA. AA can be forced on a game which will/will not feature any kind of AA in-game.

Hey does anyone else have the problem of the Controller settings not being saved?? I need to re-configure my Joystick everytime I start the game...!!!

lethalweaponforever said:
Hey does anyone else have the problem of the Controller settings not being saved?? I need to re-configure my Joystick everytime I start the game...!!!

Wait for a patch. you are not alone in this department. As of now, only Non English windows version have a fix for this. Either way.. go through this thread

And Criterion is working on a patch which will fix this.
Source

they better hurry up... it's getting annoying setting the controls over and over again!!

The AA problem is buggin me too.. I'm on GTX 260 with full HD but the graphics are not upto the mark.. btw.. how do you take screenshots in NFS Hot Pursuit..?

FRAPS is the best way to take screenshots.

Download FRAPS from here

Just launch FRAPS and then the game. Then hit f10 at desired moment. You'll find your captured shots in C:/fraps/screenshots.

Robin van Persie said:
But that's the point of Forcing AA. AA can be forced on a game which will/will not feature any kind of AA in-game.

yep, AA can be forced using CCC for games but as you said this game is crashing if you force AA I think as of now AA can't be forced for this game. A patch may change all this though and even I'm waiting eagerly for proper patch which will fix the issues, enable AA natively and include more camera modes for cars.

topgear said:
yep, AA can be forced using CCC for games but as you said this game is crashing if you force AA I think as of now AA can't be forced for this game. A patch may change all this though and even I'm waiting eagerly for proper patch which will fix the issues, enable AA natively and include more camera modes for cars.

I don't think there will be more camera modes. It already features Hood camera, Bumper camera and Standard third person view. First Person perspective is rare to see in arcade racers.

The game is fantastic, but the lack of AA is bloody irritating, I cant even notice the road block properly, anything thats far away

Hope the second patch fixes it.

This game is awsome ! I liked it so much!

Robin van Persie said:
I don't think there will be more camera modes. It already features Hood camera, Bumper camera and Standard third person view. First Person perspective is rare to see in arcade racers.

there were two Standard TP view in MW - that can be added into HP.

camera modes like NFS shift would be really a great addition. I liked the inside car view of shift.

Helmet view in Arcade racer? I will not be that interesting as it was in a simulator, it won't be that engaging in arcade racer. But, we won't be seeing it in this game though.

I cant believe this I am playing it in 1600 X 900 with maxed out settings with frames not going less than 40.But the first impression wasnt good.It looks nice but physics sucks so I feel like playing a childish game.Dont know whether my opinions might change or not as the game progresses.

Opinions didnt change.
Game has only looks; handling is pathetic

I cant win a gold anymore.Drifted cornering and boat like handling made the gameplay worst.There is nothing like precision in this game.

^^ agreed - uninstalled it 2 days ago anyway !

the game is very arcadish. if you want simulation wait for shift 2

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Best NFS game i ve played

really amazing graphics

best of them all

beauty without brain.

^^ rightly said - even shift has better gfx than this and without AA I can't really say the gfx is that much good.

Don't compare shift with this. Shift had a rather close environment, with less dynamic tracks and few body count. Shift's Emphasis is only on the Cars, If you drive in a track where there is any vegetation, you can spot the ugly things right away.

But Hot Pursuit had a much wider scope and scale. Tracks have to be dynamic.. can't say how the track will be in next second due to the traffic. And it has to render lot of other things in the world than shift. So, I think, developers had to tone the overall visuals slightly. The only downside is lack of AA. And, with motion blur turned ON, we won't notice Jagged edges while driving. But we can see aliasing in initial stages of race.

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@ Sam
How to play that game ? I cant get anymore gold after some races.I have played almost all NFS games and come across different physics mechanisms.But I fail at this one.Cars just keep on sliding or drifting in corners.

I expected NFS MW like game play :cry: