EA's Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remaster Has Been Rated

You got my hopes up thinking this wouldn't be the 2010 game, which didn't really need a remaster. A Hot Pursuit 2 remaster is something I would dream of and instantly buy, but this... no thanks.

Sounds great, would be fun for a Hot Pursuit to come to the Switch! I would buy it but I do think it will depend on the details and price, hope we find out SOON

Before all the EA whiners and haters come out complaining about price or how they hate EA, I will just say that I absolutely loved Burnout Paradise on the Switch and look forward to this game as well.

I've been on a hunt for good racer. This is looking like what I've been searching for. LOL my last NSF game I was crazy obsessed with was the original PS1 game NSF 3 Hot Pursuit

@JayJ Agreed, Hot Pursuit 2 is still the best in the (waning) series, in my personal opinion. I was baffled by the lack of jumps in the 2010 game; those (and that great, if a little repetitive by today's standards, soundtrack) really made HP2 one of the very best racers of that console generation.

@JayJ Yeah, I fondly remember that time of like, 98-02...Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2, Motocross Madness, Midtown Madness...super fun PC racers at the time. Haven't played them since then though.

"Seven new games"?

EA is shameless in implying that a "legacy edition" of a "legacy edition" is a "new game".

Why is it always go faster, faster, faster! How about, Need To Go Slower? It's all about driving safely and not destroying cars, running over people, running into buildings, get away from cops and using your seat belt. What a nice and fun family game!

Need for Speed: Hot Legacy Demaster

There are so many other NFS games that deserved a remaster, like the Old Hot Pursuit 2, or the two last Most Wanted, or Underground 2. Hard to understand how they choose to remaster something that doesnt really needs to be remastered.

@Gus_Campos and why does it not need to be remastered? Its a 10 yr old game and not 60fps, its also a favourite amongst the new nfs games. Your comment makes no sense

I would love a good / semi serious racer on Switch however the lack of analog triggers is a problem... Kind of a deal breaker really.

Of course this would happen right after I buy Burnout Paradise. Not.that Burnout isn't fun, but THIS is the game I wanted.

I'm torn. There hasn't been a good NFS game for a while. I haven't really enjoyed a NFS since Most Wanted. The last few have made me hesitant. I used to get all the new NFS games, but the last few titles were not as fun. I'll wait and see the reviews.

Hot Pursuit 2 on the Gamecube, those were the golden days.
I got excited thinking this was a remaster of that game.

All I want from EA is the Mass Effect Trilogy. No remaster needed, just port 1-3 and their DLC to Switch.

@Heavyarms55 Amen. With Skyrim and Witcher 3 already on Switch we're only missing the Mass Effect trilogy to complete the trifecta of best all time Western RPGs

We are living in the Age of Remastered, we got so used to the idea of re-buying games that it becomes a norm. Not only do we not complaint, but we expects them - we expects remastered like we expects the sun to rise the next day.

That's how easy it is to condition people - first they resist, then they became indifferent, next they expects them as a part of life.

@Tonyo I can play it natively on pc with at least 1080p on ultra settings. something that is released on 1080p with ultra settings hardly needs to be remastered...
You have all the right to disagree, but saying it is nonsense just shows how little you know about NFS history.

@Gus_Campos good for you but reality check not everyone games on pc and the game is currently stuck on the ps3/x box 360 era.get ur facts straight buddy

Goddamn the switch probably has more remasters and ports than actual new games.

@Tonyo unfortunate you missing out on PC and its sales, cause nowadays intergrated GPU/APU is more than enough to play switch ports.

I will gobble this up as it is one of the best NFS games ever. However, I do agree Hot Pursuit 2 (or maybe even Most Wanted 2005, Underground 2) would have beena better choice to remaster. Hey ho.

@Xylnox As much as I enjoy racing games, I would love to have a game within a big town and some kind of taxi driving as the main gameplay loop, and safe driving, following the rules, taking a safe shortcut being rewarded.

@Tonyo ps3 and xbox360 wont receive this "remastered" version. so no, it does not need to be remastered, it needs to be ported for ps4, xbox x and switch. A true remaster would be more welcomed for versions that really needs to be remastered. Sorry about all my "nonsense". I don't understand much about these technical details, I am just a game a developer.

Why don't they give us SSX 3 and SSX Tricky Remastered? I want Bunout 3 Remastered, too.

EA... let me think... NO THANKS... I got Asphalt 9.

@Gus_Campos Because Underground and Most Wanted were both garbage and nobody wants to see them get remastered.

I "might" buy it, depends if the port is as good as the paradise one. NFS Rivals was the game, i was hoping for, because it's like Hot Pursuit 2010, but way better in every way - but --- depending on the price tag - and if the whole game is on cart (which i suppose, i mean a 2010 xbox 360 game has normaly around 4~6 GB) i will buy it. almost done with burnout, time for another fun racer

Hopefully it's $59

@San_D Ya, a good calming game is nice to relax to sometimes.

@DaquanHarrison17 Both games you are calling garbage are simply the ones who sold the most on the franchise's history lol:

#5: Need for Speed: Carbon (2006)
#4: Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004)
#3: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010)
#2: Need for Speed: Underground (2003)
#1: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)

You mean I can pay a premium price for a game I played 10 years ago?!

No way, nintendo too good to us

There are enough good racers for Switch. Why should I buy one from EA?

@Gus_Campos Don't care. NFS 2015, Payback, and Heat are 10x better.

I'll believe it when I hear it from EA or Nintendo, but the comment section is hilariously full of people either booing at post-MW05 Need for Speed in general (although even the latest I've played, Rivals, is fun, and Payback with all its RPG-ish grind - ever heard of this lifehack against MTX, gamers?😜 - remains one of my most anticipated playthroughs in the franchise; I might have jumped in long ago, but I don't risk buying practically anything on PS4 for the oft-discussed reasons these days, especially racers)... or singing the usual ballad of premium-priced ports.

PSA for the latter folks: if you already bought and played these games 10 years ago, there's only so much of a target audience you make for the premium-priced remasters. For all my enduring fondness of NFS franchise, it's not quite Bioshock/FFXIII/Dishonored to me either - I don't readily picture myself replaying the already finished entries like Underground 2 or MW12 from scratch. But once I reach HP10 in my franchise binge - which could come as soon as in the wake of Undercover since Pro Street and Shift entice me less (for conventional autosports, I have my hands full with Grid anyway), - I'd be damned if I went for a supposedly cheaper laptop version in the potential presence of a Switch one.

If you caustically believe in the "Switch tax" meme, start getting used to the fact that there's a market for this tax on the console you carelessly bought. Even discounting (no pun intended) all of us who civilly counter the launch "premium" with our sale-fu.

They should've remastered underground 2 but nevertheless I'll still be picking this up assuming there's a physical version.

@LeighDappa same

@Silly_G It's more like six games now, as one of the games reported by Jeff Grubb has had it's support dropped on other platforms after it released just last year.

Hell yea! Loved this one much more than the second one. Gonna pick this up for sure. Def gonna be nostalgia.

@DaquanHarrison17 You dont need to care. but you said nobody...maybe you should change it to "I".

Is anyone worried about this anti-police mob? I really don't like companies are pleasing that faceless mob. Police releated TV shows, movies, and video games get canceled or rewritten and get ruin by sjw and woke writers. I worry that EA will bow down to that mob as well and cancel the release of this game not make anymore games were you get to play as a cop ever again.

@JayJ I agree, Hot Pursuit 2 on Playstation 2 is a masterpiece in the racing genre, and by far the best NFS game. I would have loved a port of that, but this game is still great, I never got that far into it on PS3.

So is it Hot Pursuit 1, 2, or 3, and why can't this damn industry bother to name/number its products properly?

Hmm, I enjoyed playing this one on WiiU back when that was the one and final EA release on WiiU before they abandoned the platform. I'd imagine this is a pretty straight port, of a decent game that I actually prefer over Burnout Paradise since at least it gives you an arrow and path to follow for each race instead of letting you just get lost like in Paradise. Still not sure about wanting to play a 10-year-old racer when they should instead just bring us the new NFS...

I'll get this if they add split screen.

@Dazzle But when?!

#whiner

@Park_Triolo This, Asphalt 9 is more than enough for me.

I will get it. Just not sure if I should get it day one or wait a while. I think that Burnout Paradise went on sale pretty fast.