Other missions, however, hand you a badge and a gun (okay, maybe not the gun) and put you in the law-loving boots of an SCPD cop, with your aim now being to break up any races you see and take down as many punks as you can. Some missions obviously have you taking part in races, hurtling through country and city roads at obscene speeds while trying to avoid being taken down by the cops. The twist here is that Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit lets you see what life is like on both sides of the fast/fuzz divide.

As such, there’s a constant battle going on between the racers looking for their next fix of hi-octane hijinks, and the SCPD officers trying to get these speed freaks off the roads before they do themselves a mischief. Turns out Seacrest County is ideal for illegal street races, the sort of ones where there’s some sort of… desire for velocity, for want of a better phrase. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked)įor those not familiar with it, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is set in Seacrest County, a fictional region of the United States that’s based on the states located on the country’s west coast. As such, title aside, this is the first time the ‘proper’ Hot Pursuit has been playable on a Nintendo system. While Hot Pursuit was given the Nintendo treatment back in the day in the shape of a Wii ‘port’, it was actually a completely different game that had nothing to do with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, as the name suggests, is a modern upgrade of the 2010 instalment of the series (the 16th one, if you were keeping count, which you weren’t). While this ‘fact’ is open for debate, here’s one thing that isn’t: there hasn’t been a Need for Speed game on a Nintendo console since 2013 ( Most Wanted U) and it’s about time that changed. It’s actually physically impossible, like licking your own back or hearing the words “Hi, I’m Daisy” without getting irritated. Here’s a fun fact for you: there isn’t a single person on this planet who can recite the titles of all 24 Need for Speed games in order.

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