A solid racer but a bit repetitive, Need For Speed gracefully jumps into the PS2 generation with fairly detailed cars, large tracks, and a great sense of speed and weight to everything. The career progression gets a bit repetitive before it's over as you're asked to drive on the same dozen tracks again and again, but the faster cars feel different and you can hop between the regular racing and the Hot Pursuit mode (where you evade the police). It gets a bit brutal with the amount of rubber banding the AI employ, as well as how random some of the elements of the police go. The soundtrack is alright but it's shorter than some of the actual races you have to do by the end. It all looks fairly good though, especially for early PS2. It comes together into a fairly neat package and it definitely is worth a playthrough from this era.