Electronic Arts has released some comparison screenshots between the upcoming remaster and the original versions of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. These comparison screenshots showcase the graphical improvements that the team has made to this upcoming remaster.
For these comparisons, EA used the original PC version, running at 1080p on Max Settings. So yeah, these screenshots will showcase the improvements of the remaster over the original PC version.
According to the team, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered features new and more destructible assets. It also packs better shadows quality and distances. Buildings have been replaced with richer and more colourful versions with higher quality models and textures. Not only that, but players can expect a better lighting system at night.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered will release on November 6th, and will be available on both Steam and Origin. Here are also its official PC system requirements.
Enjoy (remaster is on the left, whereas the original version is on the right)!
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Unfair as they didn’t force AFx16 on the original screens, it’s obvious on the first comparison, the third screen shows better lighting but the last one is where things starts to smell funny with obvious chromatic aberration in the distance…
The remaster has additional details in some places and some better textures (Motel and rocks in the 4th screen) but i’d like to see if all the places received the same treatment. The second screen in the original feels like a forgotten place and they just added stuff in it, better than nothing i guess
All in all, minor differences, doesn’t worth it full price at il for an owner of the original, i hope the settings are richer this time, a chromatic aberration toggle would be necessary
Well said. If it’s under 20$ i’ll get it because i really liked that NFS but over that, gonna have to wait for a discount for sure. It feels like they did a remaster just for the sake of doing a remaster.. like not putting any of their souls in it. idk if you know what i mean. Real craftmanship, you can ffeel the hours, the pain of getting the thing perfect.
Certainly don’t feel that way when i’m looking at this.
What the heck. They just raised some properties in the visual editor and pasted some assets and that’s literally it? Holly damn.
Add a dumpster here, 2 trees there, 1 crane here.
BAM
REMASTER.
60USD PLZ
Along with much improved shadows and anisotropic filtering, the two biggest improvements you clearly omitted. There are also a few others.
It looks basically the same WTF are you talking about? Not paying $60 for this and i’m a NFS fan
$60 or $10 it’s not worth it.
You can do more with reshade.
Where’s the problem forcing supersampled AA on a 2010 DX9 game? The original game didn’t have good antialiasing but was easily changed with file tweaks and driver settings
The AF didn’t look that bad from my memories, i could be mistaken tho. As for the shadows there’s isn’t much difference here for a “remaster” tag. Could’ve been a patch but could they charge for that ?
After a second look it feels like they’ve just added a setting which would be “soft shadows” instead of “hard shadows”. F.E.A.R 1 had that btw, more or less. Also i think i can see ambient occlusion ? If so, i believe it’s an addition. But then again are those details necessary when you’ll be passing @ 200km/hr ? Like is the foliage’s shadow relevant ? Is the “motel currus” sign relevant ? There’s more detail but not relevant detail.
What made this game wasn’t it’s gfxs, it was the gameplay, for me at least. I’m btchin about it but i’ll get it no doubt depending on price. If too high, i’ll just wait for a rebate; I’ve been itching for a complete replay for a month or two 🙂
Wow a mature reply making some good valid points who’d have thought it on here.
Bro we’re getting run down by all these big companies trying to squeeze every pennie from our pockets with the biggest “little effort” these days. My syntax is garbage lol. But i think you get the point. We’ve been “accepting” these cut-down games, dlcs, buggy messes etc for years and we’ve paid 60$USD many times just to end up being mislead or buying and unfinished product. I KNOW there’s a lot of negativity around here, it pains me sometimes because even the “good news” get tue biggest flak but this is a symptom of the state of gaming.
It’s just sad sincerely when you look at old games and think you know what i’d prefer to play mario 64 (who never crashed on me btw) rather than the new cod copy/paste bullshyte.
I feel your pain too 🙂
Shadows are the same.
16xAF has been on PC since Day 1, a decade ago.
Only thing actually new is SSR road puddles.
And to compensate, they downgraded the trees to hell and back.
I’m comparing from the images given above as I’m not a fan of the series as you clearly are. Look at images 7 and 8 and tell me those shadows are the same.
Besides I’m a half full kind of guy and try to see some positives at least.
I see the difference. It’s soft not hard shadows. Could be percentage close shadows or just a soft filter but still, there’s a difference.
Shadows are worse, the texture work barely is improved (and in the comparison i think it has to do more with the anisotropic value than anything else). The lighting is flat as sin (just look how flat the car stands out in the third screenshot, surrounded by darkness because is night)
LMAO!
Okay 35$ USD for improved shadows and details that you won’t possibly notice unless you’re going at 10km/hr in a racing game. Do you not get the point ? Even 25$USD is asking too much. Folks can just play the vanilla game and enjoy it just as much if all that’s new is gfx.
It’s actually smart from them i’m not surprised. It’s sad though. Folks that already had it will be able to enjoy.
Also there’s a huge *yarr crowd here it seems to maybe they’ll enjoy vanilla too idk.
Which one is the re-master, I can’t tell which!
The lighting and the shadows seem to be better in the original version.
A decade later. they managed to make it look worse (and the original was, still is in some aspects, a looker for the time).
In what way does it look worse? They added more objects and improved some of the graphics settings.
Adding geometry in a game where you move fast doesnt add too much. Just look at the shadows and the light of the last 2 screenshots, is embarrassing and asking AAA price for this Remaster is criminal.
Tell me which graphics settings are improved, please.
What is this?
Spot the difference?
Original looks better
How so?
Annnnd the crying prima donnas in 1…. 2…. 3….
Noting that original looks better is crying. LOL
Funny since your comments are only about complaining what other readers write.
Oh ye because we should praise re-release of the same game with dumbed down graphics (10 years later LMAO), Origin and Denuvo for $50.
The lighting system is certainly NOT better at night. Looks so much worse and are too bright.
The rest of the remaster doesn’t look particularly better either.
For some reason the entire remaster looks just like a PC port of a console version with just a little bit more graphical fidelity.
This is such a horrible remaster.
At least Mafia 2 The Definitive Edition actually looked more like a remaster, even if the change was minimal.
And even with all the complains and backlash Assassin’s Creed 3 Remastered received, the graphics actually do look better and looks like a remaster to some degree.
I wasn’t praising Mafia II. Nothing I said about Mafia II was related to the optimization. I was talking about it visually as a remaster, independent from whether it was buggy or not.
I was simply pointing out how much more different Mafia II’s remaster looked compared to the original game. And that looks more different, even if is buggy.
I’m fully aware of the many technical issues Mafia II Definitive Edition has.
I can obtain better results by making a Reshade preset by activating random filters. WTF is this what they call a remaster??
I see they’re putting a lot of effort… into snatching “the most useless remaster” title from Crysis
When you can hardly tell the difference between the original, and the ‘remaster’, it’s safe to say you’ve failed in spectacular fashion.
Typical EA, of course.
10years later and i see no difference
holy crap i didnt know this game was so empty i played it but i dont remember it being this empty.
Did they change the driving, or you still have to handbrake drift spin to turn the car?
The only difference i see is anti aliasing… And you can fix that in nVidia Control Panel.
But This…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpdnHfOOuN0
Let Bluepoint Games do a remake.
Remaster(left) vs Original(Right). Remaster has downgraded lighting, rain effects and trees. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/81dc1eb89900bc3cc3cc08977ddf5c7777f0fc5162d0c58a4da1c6a077e531d7.jpg
I can’t believe a multi-million dollar company can truthfully call this a remaster and not be ashamed of trying to sell this to people. this isn’t a remaster at all. Modders that don’t even get paid do better jobs then this
IS THIS A FU**IN JOKE?! A modder can do 10x better job in a few days!
Textures from the new version are better, but the lighting looks washed out, and the night scene photo from the new one is far too bright, while also missing light sources in multiple areas.
2010 PC Original running at 4k 60fps with forced 4xMSAA 16xAF, plus my own custom reshade profile on a 1080ti! Better than the remaster! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f381e5bfa950762678008e85b6fb44acf446d52dfd6797e3bb6d2a9b2caa5ab7.jpg
Remaster(left) vs Original(Right). Remaster has downgraded lighting and rain effects. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fddb77bdf33367a59a8d45e3fd0b087f1f81058c6905adb31a28f025fa943395.jpg
Having bought the DOOM Eternal season pass for the same price… this hardly seems worth it.
Maybe a tenner, and even that would be stretching it.
Also, chromatic aberration? Yuck!
Makes me want to vomit