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Need for Speed III

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: May 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game for the money. Easy to load, easy to navigate, and very addictive game play. Works excellent on the XP platform which has been an issue with me. Keeps ya going back for more, changing options and starting over again and again. I'd recommend into to anyone into casual game play.

Relatively Fun but Too Basic

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Overview:
As a summary, I think Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit is relatively fun but it should have a lot more realism than it does. It is low in realism especially when concerning graphics.

Cars:
The car selection contains a good variety of driving characteristics including top speed and handling. The cars maneuver realistically.

Locations:
This is where I downgrade the program. The graphics look too simple with few color shades. All of the race tracks seem to follow the same style. There are a lot of cool shortcuts though!

Racing Dramatics:
The dramatics are great in the hot pursuit mode. Otherwise the race is dull. In the regular race modes, there is no concept of getting ahead of behind the AI players. The AI cars never crash. You can either get ahead and stay ahead, or fall way behind. There are not many strategies to keep you ahead.

Pursuit Mode:
The getaway pursuit mode is fun. The AI police are challenging and set roadblocks as well as spike strips that flatten you tires. You cannot work with other police in be cop mode which does not make the chase exciting enough.

Conclusion:
For a conclusion remark, the software is acceptable. It just is not dramatic enough at times. It would be a game to consider buying, but I generally would suggest other games more.

An old classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Its ridiculous. There are 8 games in the Need For Speed series. 8! Count them! And yet I've only played two, this one and its forefather Need For Speed 2. That's right. No High Stakes. No Hot Pursuit 2. I saw someone else playing Underground once, but that's about it. I can't believe that the sequels to one of my all-time favourite games are yet untouched by me. But there could be a very good reason - that I love this game so much and still play it regularly today that I've never had any need to update. That and my old computer was crap.

But since getting a new computer and sticking an ATi Radeon graphics card in it, I've been getting back into gaming, and the first game I fired up was this. You can ignore the fact that was the only game I actually took with me to university, although maybe that in itself is saying something. I mean, I've just bough Grand Theft Auto Vice City and Halo Combat Evolved but I'm still playing this. The racetracks are some of the best I've played, the graphics still look pretty nifty today (you can imagine my amazement when I first the demo for the game back in 1998) and the Hot Pursuit thing was/is just incredible fun.

Lets be realistic - there's really no chance that anyone's gonna buy this old game now. Others have come since and they're all under a tenner as well. I saw Need For Speed Underground in a shop for £10 already, and that's the 7th in the series! In fact, on Amazon.co.uk (yes, I'm a Brit) this game was going used for penny. Yes, once pence. Search for it (if you can be arsed). But I felt like writing this anyway, because I can't believe I'm playing this game still loving it even more than I ever did. Oh, the memories.

The Best Game I Ever Played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Need for Speed 3 is the best game I ever played. It has awesome graphics and great gameplay. In Pursuit mode you can race against others and become "Most Wanted" at the same time. I reccomend this game for everyone. It is truly a fun and thrilling experience.

excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. There are eight tracks. I haven't got bored of it. There are a lot of cars. You can be a cop or have them get you, or just race. You can choose the color of your car. and it is fast to load. I like it so much and i am eight years old. But it is hard because i have been racing a long time. But it is still fun.

Excellent Service

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Product was received about 4 days after placing order, with standard mail delivery. Very pleased with quick service. Item received in condition advertised.

Sick and Tired of the original cars?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The original cars for this game get boring after awhile. So if you want new cars type in: Need for Speed download cars on the internet. One of those sites may have downloadable cars. The graphics are okay, but a little choppy. It's a good game!

The Perfect Racing Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit is surely one of the best games for PC. There are many cars to choose from, and if you don't like any car from the list, you can download a new one from the internet!

The gameplay is really challenging, making this game highly addictive and fun. The graphics are pretty good, too. Yeah, they're not the best, but still good. The cars look extremely life-like.

In this game you can race against a second human player. Another good feature is that you don't have to be the racer; you could be the police! You have your radar to detect speeding cars and can stop them with spike strips, roadblocks, and many other things.

If you like challenging games, I think this is the game for you. You won't find a better one.

What A Great Racing Game This Is!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love this game! If I had to choose one out of the first four NFS games in the series, then this is, by far, my favorite. I still play it a lot. I'm so glad I kept my old computer because that's the reason why I can still play it! The return of the pursuit mode was great here after it's absence on NFS 2. I still remember when I purchased it back in early 1999. Brings back memories like, for example, when I was in my last year of Junior High School...

The game play is excellent and so are the graphics, especially the sky desing on each track. I liked the music too, but only the hard-rock/metal jams. The techno songs are nothing special. There are five circuits to choose from: "Hometown/Country Woods", "Red Rock Ridge/Lost Canyon", "Atlantica"/"Aquatica", "Rocky Pass"/"The Summit", plus a secret track that you can unlock after winning the knockout competition called "Empire City". Now, for the first time, you can race during the day or at night, plus with rain too!!
But my favorite, by far, is the "Atlantica"/"Aquatica" circuit! A very cool track this is, with those exotic looking buildings. But my favorite part is the boardwalk! When I use the pursuit car and have only one opponent left to bust, this is the place where I like to deploy the spike trip so that, while I wait for the car to come by, I can look at that sunset sky from the boardwalk in Aquatica. I really like this place! That's where I would like to go for a vacation! I like the music (not the techno, but the hard-rock number) that shows up here too. A very cool theme with a melodic guitar solo keeps repeating. I really like this melody and fits well with this part of the track. Of course I thought the other circuits are great too.

As always, a good line-up of exotic cars is featured. The cars are divided into three classes according to their performance: A, B, and C. In the class A you can find cars like Lamborgini Diablo SV, Jaguar XJR-15, Mercedes Benz CLK-GTR, Italdesign Schigera, among others. Class B includes Lamborgini Countach, Chevrolet Corvette, Ferrari F355, and class C features the Jaguar XK8 and Aston Martin DB7. There's also a secret car as well called "El Niño" which is really fast indeed! You have access to it once you win the tournament mode.

The other playing modes, tournament and knockout, are a lot of fun too. Definitely one of the best racing games from the late nineties for sure!
Thanks for taking the time to read!
Later...

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