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Doesnt get any better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: August 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, yea the game isnt out yet. But hey with a car line up like this, how can it be bad? Lambo's Ferraris, Mercedes, and, of course, the king of all supercars - McLaren. Throw in amazing graphics and the best arcade racing ever seen and you have a winner. I don't know about you, but this game is a must-buy to me.

best racing game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 19
Date: September 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

EA's NFS series are pretty much the only racing games I play (with the xception of Rallisport Challenge). It is not a typical boring racer where you have start with a [cruddy] car, race on dull tracks, earn money and then race again and again until it gets any more fun when you get a decent car. In Hot Pursuit 2, you start off with one of the hottest dream cars on the globe. You get to try them out on open road, with lots of cops, copters, and other hazards. It gets much more intense than other racers (say GT3 or Sega GT).

Dang! this is gonna be fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: September 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

key features:
Over 20 coveted exotics, fully licensed and rendered in awesome PlayStation 2 detail
Multiple game modes including Challenge, Hot Pursuit, and Championship
Dynamic lighting effects, true reflections, and animated drivers bring the cars and tracks to life
Detailed environments bring to life real-world elements such as rain, blowing leaves, sun beams, and dust storms
Edge-of-your-seat driving as you dodge traffic, race neck-and-neck with other exotics, and elude police at breakneck speeds upwards of 200 mph.
Open world environment gives way to off-road adventures and shortcuts
60 different racing events -- Emerge victorious to become the Champion Road Racer
Reap rewards for winning events -- Upgraded cars, new driving courses, and more
Two player split-screen action
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I own this game... And it owns me!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: October 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Unlike everyone else who reviewed this, I actually own this game for the X-box! ;-) Although I am a racing purist, NFS2: Hot Pursuit offers a level of excitement and challenge not offered in other console racing titles. Because (as the name implies) you are being pursued by cops while in a race to the finish, you have to avoid patrol cars, spike strips, road blocks, and helicopters that drop explosives in your path while trying to finish first amoungst the supercars you're racing against.

In addition to the impressive array of vehicles (NOTE: The cops get supercars too, so you can expect to be chased by Lamborghini and Dodge Viper police vehicles!), the tracks are interesting and fun. Shortcuts and reverse modes make them exciting to play over and over again, and the rewards for winning (you earn money to unlock special NFS editions of the super cars) make the game "replayabilty" absolultely top-notch.

Short answer: If you like the Need for Speed series, you'll love this X-box port. If you haven't heard of NFS, but enjoy driving games that offer more than just a start-to-finish line challenge, this is the title for you.

in the need for speed tradition

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Now my favorite racing game and one of my best XBox game purchases. The length of these highly detailed tracks within the game is incredible. Like all Need For Speeds there are very beautiful landscapes surrounding you. My heart rate jumped up after running from the police. Don't like running from the police all the time? they thought of that and have an entire portion of the game devoted to racing without them.

THIS GAME STINKS!!! Don't waiste your money...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...I feel robbed just renting it! This game is miserable in so many ways I don't know where to begin. As the race started, the first thing I noticed was, the frame rate is about 15-20 frames per second(the average is 30, a good-decent game is 60 frames per second. Heck, most racer games can generate 60 fps). There is NO excuse for this horrible frame rate. It looks more like pictures flashing in front of the screen! It's so choppy that I never felt like I was racing, just watching a bad cartoon. The SECOND thing I noticed was the graphics are pitiful. This game is NOT worthy to be on the XBOX(... the XBOX is capable of much more and I expect it!)...

Shame on EA SPORTS...this game is MISERABLE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

People should NOT be allowed to rate a game before its release! This game was clearly NOT ready to be released. There is so many things WRONG with this game all I can say is SAVE YOUR MONEY! DO YOU UNDERSTAND? SAVE YOUR MONEY...It's NOT even worth renting. In fact, I feel ripped off just renting it(but I thank the good Lord I rented it first!). I'm serious...DON'T WAISTE YOUR MONEY! It's a choppy, poor frame-rate, sorry graphics and miserable car physics piece of VIDEO-[garbage]!

SAVE YOUR MONEY!!! this game is horrible...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe the designers of the game thought this was ready to be released. The graphics are PS1 comparable and the frame rate is worse than PS1 NEED FOR SPEED. This game is a huge waiste of time and a failure. I am so dissapointed that I wish I could smack the designers and tell them to get back to work on this game until it is finished. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!

Buy the Playstation 2 version, or forget about it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: October 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Since I have always been a fan of the Need for Speed series since its inception on the 3DO system, I bought the XBOX version of this game the day it came out, I thought it would have to be better than the PS2 version, right? Wrong. Despite the obvious lack of PlayStation 2 technical capability, the PS2 version is actually much, much better. The XBOX version plays like a beta of the PS2 version. It has several mistakes I noticed right away (incorrect statistics, cars driving on the left side of the road in US locales, etc), and the bottom line is, the XBOX one isn't fast or fun and the PS2 one is. Luckily, they took back my XBOX version and gave me a PS2 version. And, BTW, only the PC version will have online play, unfortunately.

It was better on the Play Station

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I gotta say that I was looking foward to this title, and I bought it as soon as I saw it on the shelf. My wife and I were big fans of the game for the PS1, so we expected this version for the Xbox to be updated with better graphics, cars and tracks.

Nope.

The graphics are terrible. It's hard to believe that Porsche Unleashed for my PC looks 100x better than this game, and the Xbox has a better graphics card inside it!

The physics for the cars are awful, vehical damage has been scaled WAY back as well.

The only thing I do like is the music. Can this be played as a CD?

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