Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is a racing game, where you complete missions switching between a police officer and a racer. While the goal is the same - to reach the finish first, the game allows trying another…
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a racing developed by Criterion Games, released 16 November 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 13.5 hrs to finish.
What Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a racing game developed by Criterion Games and released in 2010. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Chameleon.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a 2010 racing video game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Windows, iOS, Android, webOS, and Windows Phone, and by Exient Entertainment for the Wii. Hot Pursuit is the sixteenth Need for Speed title and was released first in November 2010, and digitally in December. It serves as both a reboot of the series and a revival of the Hot Pursuit name last used in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002).
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Need for Speed series
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is the 56th of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. The next entry was Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Limited Edition in 2010. Its critic score of 90 is 16 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Limited Edition at 92.
How it was received
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 94% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Players rate it 84, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.0 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ; 1.5 GB Windows® XP / 2 GB Windows Vista® - Windows 7®, 1GB (XP), 1.5GB (Vista), 1.5 GB (Windows 7) of RAM and DirectX® 9.0c Compatible 3D-accelerated 256 MB video card with Shader Model 3.0* or higher. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB.
What it launched against
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit launched on 16 November 2010, within three weeks of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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