During EA’s Gamescom keynote, Criterion’s The Websterhoff took to the stage to get to grips with Need For Speed : Hot Pursuit.
As you can see in the footage below the experience starts off in the game’s Autolog, this is a ‘live’ homescreen where you’ll be able to see at a glance what your friends are doing. You’ll be able to respond to challenges and get notifications if they’ve beaten one of your times, with the option to jump straight in to try and better their time.
From then on, it’s straight into the action as you race super cars through gorgeous scenery in a world brought to life by EA’s DICE studios, which is four times bigger than Burnout Paradise. The gamplay seems to show a kind of ‘Spidey sense’ whereby you get a little preview of obstacles ahead including roadblocks, police spike strips, and yes that is a Pagani Zonda police interceptor unit.
In the past I’ve always been confused by Need For Speed, I’d never really bought into the whole urban racing thing, and although NFS: Shift was solid I felt it was lacking something, then when I’d heard that Criterion (one of my favourite devs) were doing Hot Pursuit I thought the waters were muddied further still.
However, following this outing it’s clear that no one knows how to add thrills and excitement to a race quite like Criterion. Its now shot straight to the top of my Crimbo must-buy list, and I’m counting down the days until its November 18th release date.
philzy85
The way the camera pans back when you wreck a cop is very burnout’esque in the way it does when you get a takedown :)
philzy85
the way the cars drift also has a whiff of burnout about it, so its gonna be amazing then? :D :D :D :D :D :D
ps sorry for DP’ing
Amphlett
I hope by “DP’ing” you’re refering to your double post and nothing else! ;-)
philzy85
tut tut, filthy mind :P
mark w.
This will be a must buy also for me…
Foxhound_Solid
Looks good….
Charmed_Fanatic
I hope GT5 beats this … i really do
philzy85
thats a bit of a daft thing to say…. why does one game have to ‘beat’ another? ENJOY BOTH!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
icuyesido
Every time I see footage of this game it makes me wan’t it more! =D