This game is a great buy for portable play on the Switch. It runs surprisingly well and looks pretty good. It’s super satisfying to play as a cop and tear through the racers on Hot Pursuit. Unfortunately the physics make it frustrating to play when you start using the high-end cars.

Drifting feels good but if you’re trying to make small adjustments, like changing lanes, the cars are total boats. Hitting traffic is a 50-50 chance, which sucks when you’re doing Rapid Responses and you get penalized +3 seconds/civilian you hit. Rubberbanding can be pretty obnoxious as a cop or as a racer. If you manage to stop somebody with a roadblock, you have to wait to see whether the game will reset the AI and launch them at 80mph+ or will have them accelerate like normal. As a racer, even if you’re dominating the entire race it always ends within a 1 or 2-second margin where you’re one spike strip or guard rail bump from losing.

Another weird issue is when you unpause the game, you don’t regain control of your car for another 2 or 3 seconds. When you trigger an in-game cutscene(like taking a car down) sometimes the game won’t autopilot and you’ll end up running off the road.

I don’t remember if the original was this clunky and awkward, but Hot Pursuit is still super entertaining and it seems like a very faithful remaster.

O game é basicamente a mesma coisa do original, com a diferença sendo uma mudança nos gráficos e no sistema de rubberbanding do jogo, que consegue ser pior do que o original. Ele tem uma variedade de carros que no geral é sempre bem-vinda, tem um mapa bem bonito e uma soundtrack que é bem boa. O problema mesmo é ele no geral ser bem repetitivo, e a campanha da policia ser bem mais chata de fazer do que a campanha dos corredores, tanto no quesito dificuldade, tanto por mecânicas malfeitas. E quase que me esqueci do elefante na sala, a gameplay dele é SUPER ESQUISITA. E você pode se perguntar, "como assim esquisita/?" Se você jogou pelo menos um pouco de jogos de corrida, você vai perceber que os carros nesse jogo tem um delay que por mais que seja bem pouco, é algo que acaba atrapalhando MUITO em relação a fazer algumas curvas ou viradas bruscas (Consegue ser pior nas versões de consoles), e juntando com as hitbox dos carros que são extremamente sem sentido, você vai acabar se frustrando demais em muitos momentos do jogo.

Самый ненужный и необязательный (для владельцев оригинала) ремастер последних лет. Сможет заинтересовать людей, не игравших в нее до этого момента и имеющих у себя в наличии только консоль нового поколения

По какой-то неведомой мне причине EA продолжают игнорировать более старые части Need For Speed, попутно снимая их с продажи в цифровых магазинах, оправдывая эти действия закрытием серверов и проблемами с лицензиями, хотя большинство явно играет в них из-за одиночной кампании. Однако, по какому-то невероятно "удачному" стечению обстоятельств, им удалось сохранить большую часть автопарка и саундтрека в ремастере Hot Pursuit.

Геймплейно и графически на 99,9% это абсолютно та же игра, что и оригинальный релиз 2010 с парочкой улучшений. Без досконального сравнения лоб в лоб с лупой практически невозможно найти различия между ремастером и оригинальной игрой.

За основу для ремастера Stellar Entertainment Limited взяли версию игры для Xbox 360

Сначала поговорим о плюсах
— Завезли достижения, карточки, значки и фоны в Steam
— Мультиплеер пока-что "живой" из-за относительно недавнего релиза и добавленной кроссплатформенности с другими платформами.
— Улучшили сглаживание, теперь глазам не грозит порезка об лесенки. Было улучшено освещение и окружение различными мелкими деталями.
— Присутствуют небольшие улучшения в тюнинге. Появились винилы, при желании машину можно перекрасить в любой цвет при помощи RGB палитры.
— Добавили несколько ранее невыпущенных на PC паков с автомобилями. Теперь мы сможем ездить на Lamborghini Countach и Sesto Elemento, 82' Porsche 911 Turbo, Porsche 959 и 911 Speedster
— Интерфейс стал более четким и адаптированным под современные соотношения сторон. Нельзя также обойти стороной переработку внешнего вида карты выбора заезда, на этапе выбора машины у гонщиков теперь не чернота, а полноценный детализированный фон.

Теперь перейдем к минусам
— Так и не добавили возможность включать свою музыку, хотя на PS3 такой функционал был.
— Баг с отсутствующим звуком в начальной заставке и игре вообще. Лечится переключением на Alt + Tab. Люди также сообщают об просадках FPS, фризах и вылетах.
— Была с концами вырезана русская озвучка. Данный недочет легко исправим благодаря энтузиастам, восстановившим ее в виде легко устанавливаемого мода
— Как и все нынешние игры EA, игра намертво привязана к Origin и не всегда запускается с первого раза. Порой приходиться потанцевать с бубном, чтобы сделать все в правильном и нужном игре порядке
— Несущественные для ремастера изменения в графике. Местами ухудшенные текстуры и эффекты в сравнении с оригинальной версией. Это тоже легко исправимо установкой мода, восстанавливающего былой вид.
— Из-за слияния Mercedes-Benz и McLaren из автопарка пропали Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition, Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss. Точно так же не повезло Carbon Motors, представившей в оригинальной версии игры E7 Concept. Компания так и не выпустила ни одного автомобиля и была закрыта в 2013 году.

NFS Hot Pursuit is a great nifty arcade racer with alot of little nusances that weigh it down a lot.

First for the positives:
+ The game has a great sense of speed and acceleration, which makes racing down the highway at 400 kph actually really thrilling and adrenaline pumping.
+ The car selection is great with many of the most iconic vehicles of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
+The AI is actually pretty decent and poses an actual challenge, if you are not perfectly driving.

For the negatives:
- The handling of the cars feels a bit imprecise, which is especially highlighted when you are trying to get through a road block which has a small opening, that is almost impossible to navigate through, due to the floaty handling.
- The progression in this game is quite strange for me, as you are constantly unlocking new vehicles but alot of the time these are just duplicates as many of the cars have a normal and a convertable version. Also after completing every event in the game the final unlock, the Gumpert Apollo, (which I really looked forward to) was still miles away from actually being unlocked, therefore I never got to drive it outside of the preview events.
- The general feel of the menus and UI is horribly sluggish. On top of that you have long loading times (even with a PCIe 4 SSD) and unskippable cutscenes for every race (you can tell the game to skip the cutscene but most of the time it will play most of the cutscene anyway). All of that feels like it wastes your time not doing what you actually want, which is racing.
- This last point may seem like a small issue but it is really not and is probably alone respobsible for why I give this a 3,5 instead of a higher rating: The Crash Cam. If you haven't played the game, let me explain what the crash cam is: It is a slow motion camera that takes away controls from you racing to look at an opponent "wreck" after every succesful action. And if I say every succesful action I literally mean EVERY single one. You hit someone with an EMP, you hit someone with a spike strip, you hit someone heavily with your car, you wreck somebody. You might think that is a rare or special occurence but in the end this will happen to you about 15 times in a 5 minute race. I get what they were going for, I know the crash cam from Burnout, they want you to enjoy the carnage that you caused when you sent an opponent into the wall and gaze upon its bend metal wreckage. BUT this does not work at all in the context of this video game, as first of all, all of these cars are licensed, which means they are not allowed to have any sort of damage model at all except for scratches and bumpers hanging off and second of all, they even use this when you use your EMP, where all that is happening is, that the opponent is lightly swaying to the side, which is like the least interesting slow motion "crash" footage I have ever seen. And you know what is the best thing about all of this, if the constant interruption of your driving with boring slow mo footage wasn't enough? Half of the time you will immediatly crash into either a wall or a traffic car afterwards, killing all of your momentum, which actually makes it a better strategy to not use your power ups in a race. And all of this could have been circumvented when they made this Remaster, where they could have just acknowledged that it was a shitty feature in the original and could have made it at least optional.

The last part developed into kind of a little rant into this little part of this game but it made me so frustrated and dampened my experience with the game heavily which is otherwise a fun arcade racer.

Who would I recommend this to? If you are looking for an old school arcade race in the style, that they are not making anymore, this is still a solid pick.