Unique to Hot Pursuit is the You’re The Cop sub-mode where you can choose any unlocked police vehicle and arrest racers. You can set the skill level, amount of traffic, enable or disable catch up and visible damage, and even select the time of day and/or weather conditions when choosing the track. Both World Racing and Hot Pursuit come with a Challenge sub-mode where you can set up a race or event. Hot Pursuit is about racing, evading police, and arresting racers. You’ll participate in standard races, tournaments, knockouts, and time trials. You’ll earn NFS Points for participating in events and completing certain ones unlocks additional events, vehicles, and tracks. Both consist of a series of events to complete. The Championship is the meat of World Racing and Ultimate Racer is the meat of Hot Pursuit. There is a nice selection to choose from but most need to be unlocked by winning certain events in certain game modes and by accumulating enough NFS Points. You’ll get to drive vehicles from different manufacturers including Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche among others. You can activate a boost to help you catch-up to racers and you can call for roadblocks and helicopters. When driving a cop vehicle, you must activate your siren to target a racer. You can accelerate and brake and when selecting your vehicle, you can choose the color, transmission type, and handling type. You can be a racer or cop and drive different vehicles. The main draw of Hot Pursuit 2 is all the police stuff and if you’ve played some of the previous games like III or High Stakes, you should be somewhat familiar with how the mechanics work. There are significant differences between the PlayStation 2 version and the other versions and from what I’ve researched, the consensus seems to be that the PS2 version is the best so that’s the one I played for this review. The PC, Xbox, and GameCube versions were developed by EA Seattle and released that same month. Developed by EA Black Box and published by EA, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 was released for the PlayStation 2 in October, 2002. The funny thing is I’ve acquired copies for multiple systems over the years but was never in the mood to play them. Out of all the Need for Speed games, Hot Pursuit 2 is the one I’ve wanted to play for a long time and that’s because it’s the successor to Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, the game that got me into the series and the racing genre in general.
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