The Official 'Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit' Thread! [PS3] [X360] [PC]

Give out your reviews guys... quick, quick. :P

Three things I'm looking answers for:

1) Is the graphic good, at least 80% of what's shown in trailers?

2) Is the game well optimized? Butter smooth like Burnout Paradise? (those who played crap called NFS:Undercover will know what I mean)

3) Is there a network play option? I mean LAN play, not internet play (unlike Burnout Paradise)
 
LAN play would be a great option, but I guess this time they are mostly gunning for online play with the whole auto log feature. I'll try to sum it up tonight or tomorrow morning, tops. If anyone already has got it, please post the game's performance report. That's what I'm mainly interested in. Can't wait to unlock all those kick-ass cars.
 
Played for an hour straight and me likes the game. I have completed about 6 different races (5 Racer and 1 Cop) and unlocked nearly 8-9 different cars now and raised my bounty level to 3. Got gold in almost every race, except for the one where you have to just test the Pagani Zonda, for which I got a silver rating. I have both good news and bad news, as far as the visual quality goes on the PC version. First the bad news: There is no AA. Yes, we yet again receive a game with no freakin' AA. WTF Criterion? Now for the good news: The game runs flawlessly. For people with higher configuration, you can easily max this out with steady 60fps. I maxed it out with my rig and frame rates hovered around 47 with 3 other vehicles and 57 if no vehicle in sight. It would take a hit on cornering, rendering smoke effects and crashing. But then again, it's just my hardware which is showing signs of ageing (must resist upgrade).

The music is sucky and I mean REALLY sucky. The races are fun, especially once you start unlocking the cars, it really starts to kick in the pace. There are no custom mods which you can perform on the cars, at least I couldn't spot one till now. It doesn't have split-screen or LAN play (Sorry iGO). The feel is completely arcady when it comes to racing, but the rubber band AI almost kills the fun at some point. I unlocked the Spike strips option and now we can wreck those cars. I haven't start the Cop campaign fully as of now, but will "try" to complete the racer campaign first. The rules of the Career mode are simple; win races, raise bounty level, create carnage, find short-cuts, unlock faster cars and won't be long before every cop car in the county is on your ass.

Any questions? NO? Then let's get this show on the road people.

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Awesome! So it does live up to the hype then. I'll be getting my copy tonight. :D

/vows not to take a day off from work tomorrow.
 
It's total fun, like any other Criterion title. For those expecting it to be on the lines of Most Wanted, it's NOT. Look at it from a stand-alone perspective and it will grow on you over time.
 
The graphics looks neat ! The cars look pretty realistic . Just hope the game play is good enough :D Sourcing it now .
 
Played a bit of it this morning, so far it seems to be much much better than most of the recent NFS titles, run's smooth on my 4870 and looks awesome :D
 
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