The visual effects are pretty solid, Sparks debris and such all look and move pretty well, basically the game is very pretty but it's not going to knock your socks off and a lot of the work can be attributed to the initial design done by Criterion. Because the detail in the textures is so much clearer, it is now possible to see the lines between textures on sharper edges, and while you generally won't notice this when you're racing at 220 kilometres down the road, slow down a little bit and you will see. In terms of everything else, all the assets have been improved, but this also highlights one of the more common mistakes that remasters present, and it's more to do with the world than the cars. Looking things on the presentation side, it's a very well-done remaster, the menus all look identical to when the game was first released, so don't expect anything new there.
The only way to know if you've been racing against somebody on a different platform is that it has the platform icon next to their name, even on your own name it displays the platform you are playing on, so play on PlayStation see the PlayStation icon and so on. Finally I guessed this had to be the only thing going wrong, so I selected no and it preceded on, but then I could go into the settings and turn it back on manually, weird little thing but there you go. Something odd that happened for me is every time I tried to boot into the game initially, it would ask me if I wanted to enable crossplay, it's not something turned on by default, selecting yes crashed the game and it did it a few times. Something new for this iteration of the game is that it does offer crossplay, meaning anytime you can be racing against people on PC, PlayStation, Xbox or Switch, which does increase the player base. Other need for speed games have had similar things since but this was the originator of the concept and at no point does it ever get bogged down in superfluous options it is just who beat you and do you want to race and try take back first place. Autolog is such an intrinsic part of the experience that it is literally has its own separate option on the main menu, so rather than having to navigate the map and the checklists, you can just see who's beating you on what track and you jump straight back in and try and beat them back. The games really only saving grace is Autolog and it works just as well here as it did when it first released, each time you complete a race, you can see where you place on the Speedwall and where you stack up against your friends.
There is a free roam mode available, so you can take any of the cars you've unlocked and hit the streets and drive, but there is nothing to do apart from drive there's no races to find, no speed records to set, it's just an open world completely devoid of anything to do. Even though some of the races can be quite long and demand a lot of attention, being forced out of it back into the checklist loses any flow the game may have had and it never manages to capture any again. My issue with the gameplay is simply that it feels like a checklist rather than an experience, all of the events that you can enter either on the side of the racer or the police are highlighted on the map and you simply navigate to the location and then once selected a list appears of options available. As you level up as a racer your bounty level increases which means the police will be more aggressive when trying to take you down on the flip side when you are a police officer you get access to more cars and such. Between the levels as you earn bounty you will unlock more cars which you can then use in more events to earn more bounty it is a very cyclical system and it works. Regardless of which option you choose the career progression is basically the same, as you undertake different events you earn points, bounty for both side, collect enough and you level up. the career is still divided up into two sides, racer and police, giving you options for how you want to proceed through it. Now this is a remaster of the original release which means all the content is the same career progression online multiplayer just with more refined visuals and minor tweaks here and there.
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It was never my favourite game in the series but with the remaster I had hoped it might have changed and grown on me the result is a little complicated. hot pursuit was a retooling of an original idea from early on in the need for speed series but featured modern everything and the all new Autolog.
When criterion first took over the need for speed franchise I was very optimistic about the future, they had just come off of burnout paradise improved that they could do large open world games.
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