It appears that EA is currently planning to release a remaster of the 2010 Need for Speed game, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. According to Amazon, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered will be coming out later this year.
The game is currently available for pre-order on Amazon and lists a November 13th release date. Now I don’t know whether this is a placeholder date or not (but seems likely). I went ahead and captured a screenshot from that page (in case Amazon takes it down).
We don’t know the platforms for which Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered will come out. My guess is that, similarly to Crysis Remastered, it will target PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
Interestingly enough, Criterion – the team behind NFS: Hot Pursuit 2010, is currently working on the next-gen NFS game. So yeah, this remaster sounds reasonable (in order to create a bigger hype for the new NFS game).
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit came out in 2010 and is considered by many as one of the best NFS games to date.
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Finally, some proper NFS. Can’t wait! No crappy story. No dudebro characters. Only pure racing with exotic cars on exotic locations. Those are the real roots of the NFS franchise, not underground racing.
They seem to have forgotten how to make a good racing game. Why not just re-release an old one? I’m in if it’s a full visual overhaul (and not 30fps ffs).
car licensing.
in this game you need to brake drift to turn, so sorry this isnt nfs, its burnout, the entire game is about brake drifting to turn and hitting other cars to remove them from the race.
We clearly played this game very differently.
so you didnt use traps to take out other cars out which is the main mechanic of the game? Also how did you turn without brake drifting? The game has no grip handling mode.
There is no way to avoid drifting in the game, break or hand-break always end up on the car sliding like butter just like Burnout, i don’t know if we’re talking about the same game, i don’t consider this as a problem for a pure arcade racer, but Durka’s right
https://www.reddit.com/r/needforspeed/comments/3nbcxg/heavyslow_steering_issue/
this is for 2015, but same issue really, turning its impossible without drifting.
Well, obviously this ain’t 1994 anymore. NFS is a relic. The remaster is for NFS Hot Pursuit, which is its own breed of racing.
the next game made by the same devs most wanted was also like that, a burnout game with brake drift turns and hitting cars to remove them from the race including the crash camera, it has nothing to do with most wanted no car customization either, the next game nfs rivals was an upgraded version of hot pursuit,criterion’s racing games are not nfs, they are burnout games and i hope now that they are gonna make the new nfs, they keep it in the pants and not turn into into freaking burnout…..again.
It’s a straightforward arcade racer, what were you expecting, Gran Turismo?? It’s why I like it over other racers in the first place, no nonsense or excess bloat, just really over the top car chases and simple racing, a nice callback to titles from the ps1 era.
man arcade not need necessarly that you have to drift EVER to take a race. The force of some other racing like the need for speed beetween HP 2002 and carbon was the handling model totally free, without scripted drift mode…your car can do anything in the limit of player and physics, it can drift if is powerfull, it can not if is slow or with not much horse power. In those game not, you will drift even with a front wheel drive abarth.
There are many other arcade racing, such as forza horizon that have a proper handling model luckily.
Nah, since the Burnout team took NFS they just recreated Burnout…not a problem for me..i like Burnout games for what they are…but don’t call them NFS:..the series while arcade had an identity and way of play that it lost after Hot Pursuit 2.
arcade racers dont make you brake drift to turn.
You’re very optimistic.
Oh man, welcome back from your coma. Clearly, you are unaware of the infinite ways that EA would f**k this up. How long were you out? 10, 20 years? Either way, hope you’re recovering well.
Waiting for the day they remaster most wanted.
My favorite was always High Stakes.
Man you reminded me the good ol PS1 days…good times.
Indeed. That game took skill, and crashing had real, financial consequences.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they remastered the one from 2012 instead the 2005 edition.
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The game looks and plays fine even now. No need. “Remaster” will add 4 more pixels, will slap Denuvo into exe and will require Origin to play.
We wouldn’t want that kind of a remaster for sure. But an actual remaster/remade would be real magic
stutters heavily for me and its very pixelated. So no.
How can it possibly stutter? And how is it pixelated? You have 16K monitor?
doesnt have anti aliasing. I think the stutter has to do with unreal engine or something.
N1gga what UE in Most Wanted?
hot pusuit
They already did a remake, in 2012 and was awful.
Lol
That game i liked so fkin much. I think i went through it flawlessly like 4 times. Twice as cops and twice as racer.
Will look into this if it’s true
doubtful, all those games have real cars in it, which means you need the licenses to re-release it and these companies tend not to give the licenses.
What are you talking about? Games have these cars in them ALL THE TIME. You pay up and they’re happy to give in, assuming you can’t damage their cars too much.
no moron, they dont give up the licenses, you cant guarantee that you will get the licenses for all cars. Why would they give you the right to have a old car in a game? They might but not always. Things change too, you might have notice that nfs payback and heat have no toyotas in it because they dont want their cars to appear on illegal racing games so they put them in forza instead. Speaking of which forza has a exlusive deal with some new model of a supercar so it cant appear in other games. The grand tour game had one car covered up because they couldnt get the rights.
it seems you are an idiot so i will explain it to you, the san andreas re-release on steam removed some songs, they wouldnt license them again this is why. Well same case with cars. Remasters of racing games with real cars are less likely to happen for this reason.
Remaster for a shoddy reboot. Hot Pursuit 2 was better.
Agreed. The 2010 Hot Pursuit was average at best. The graphics were ok but the 2002 Hot Pursuit 2 was a better game. Just the soundtrack alone was way better.
I wish they remade Porsche Unleashed with next gen graphics. That game I played the most, loved the progression and all the different Porsches.
Point me a PC racing game that has your sh*tty photorealism to compete against HP… Only Forza can boast about it.
Hot Pursuit 2 was awesome.
What’s up with these EA Remasters?
They were absent at the lackluster EA Play Live June event.
Yet, they’re cropping up for pre-orders.
Can’t wait to see all those “new” features like crappy pc port and microtransactions!
It won’t have these “features”. To compare, look at Burnout Paradise not Mafia 2.
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The best one, nfs3 deserves a remake.
If we’re gonna remaster all the old NFS titles then it’s only proper to remaster the original Most Wanted. I spent endless hours on that game.
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a remaster of fake burnout game called need for speed (as the latest 5 nfs). I will love a remaster of need for speed hot pursuit 2002, one of the best game i played… that game is actual even is almost 20 years old, crazy.
I suspect it’s gonna be Burnout Paradise-style remaster – 0 difference in graphics, just DLCs finally added to PC version officially. Although Burnout doesn’t have licensed cars.
There’re unofficial mods to have console DLCs on PC but you can only have either new tracks or new cars at the same time.
Oh let’s hope they do a better job than that.
Yeah, knowing how EA handles the remasters you could be right. It’s weird for me a remaster of this one, since the original still looks great (on PC of course) imho.
Wow finally some good news! My fave nfs getting a remaster, imagine that! I hope they add the option to skip tutorials and other screens.
Racing games don’t need crappy history, and 50 hours of videos. it does need a lot of adrenaline and a sense of speed!
I want a NFS: Most Wanted(2005) remaster! That was the last good NFS entry i remember! Though it should be stripped of all the dramatic/cringey actors…
Good game, but if this remastered doesn’t have split screen, I will ignore it
Series hasn’t been good since Carbon
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Good news, but I was just playing the original recently and it still looks great. Not Horizon 4 great, but hella good for 2010.