There’s another new Need For Speed game on the way, Hot Pursuit, and it’s the product of Burnout studio, Criterion. The manic new trailer is right here…
EA's long-running racing franchise Need For Speed may have had its ups and downs over the years, but the series is experiencing something of a renaissance of late, with the three pronged onslaught of NFS: Shift last September, the MMO NFS: World, which went live last month, and finally, the forthcoming NFS: Hot Pursuit, which is due to arrive this November.
Readers with a keen memory will recall that Need For Speed games with the suffix Hot Pursuit have appeared before, and this 2010 iteration aims to reproduce the same high-speed police chases of those earlier titles.
What's most exciting about Hot Pursuit is the fact that its developer is none other than Criterion, the studio behind the magnificent Burnout series. And from the latest trailer you can see here, the same dizzying turn of speed that distinguished the Burnout games is all over Hot Pursuit, along with plenty of crashes and numerous ways to knock your opponents out of contention.
Positively received at this year's E3 expo, and even managing to whisk the Best Racing Game critics' award away from its most obvious competitor, Gran Turismo 5, Hot Pursuit is looking like a particularly promising racer, and one that may be able to help us get over our addiction to Black Rock's excellent Split Second: Velocity...
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is due for release on 19 November for PlayStation 3, Windows, Wii, and Xbox 360.