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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 for PlayStation 2 Videos >>
Rating Reviewed By Tim(lots) Review Date 08/18/2003 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Value Rating 5 of 5 Visitors rate this review 5.00 of 5, 3 votes Rate this review? Summary Its an awesome game, much better then NFS:HP, had that a long time ago, this game is worlds above it. much better then the ps2 version cuz PC kicks any consoles ass. I cant wait for NFS: Underground, looks like that could beat any other racing game ever.Sound engine sounds are nice, horn sounds can be a little wierd. Oh the voices of cops can be irritating when you are driving in a different country, say austrailia and the cops are still talking with american accents, whatever. the soundtracks alright most of its decent for driving too. still gotta find out if i can race to my own music (only got the game a couple days ago)Gameplay The car models are very nicly detailed along with the maps. The roads you race down vary from highway, to winding country roads, and have many alternate roots and short cuts for avoiding police and kicking ass.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Mike PallantiFrom Philly PA Review Date 06/25/2003 Overall Rating  4 of 5 Visitors rate this review 5.00 of 5, 1 votes Rate this review? Summary Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is the sequel to the first Hot Pursuit game, which was widely regarded by many as the best game in the NFS series. Fortunately, NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 goes above and beyond the call of duty, surpassing the original Hot Pursuit, as well as NFS High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed.Gran Turismo 3 remains the best racing game by a substantial margin...a margin that I think no racing game will be able to make up (until GT4 comes out, of course). However, that doesn't mean that NFS:HP2 isn't a great racing game. It is, in fact, it's the best arcade-style racer currently available on the PS2 right now. Sound This could be better. Most of the cars sound weak and underpowered, and the music just isn't my cup of tea. The announcer can grate after awhile, but the cop chatter is top notch.Gameplay First, lets talk about the cars. There are lots of them, and they are all awesome. From supercars like the Ferrari F50 and Lamborghini Murciealago, to racing beasts like the Mercedes CLK-GTR and McLaren F1 to everything else in between, this game has it covered. Of course, the car selection can't even begin to compete with Gran Turismo's massive lineup, but all of the cars in here are awesome, and there are even some limited edition "NFS" model cars to unlock.The cars drive good for the most part. The handling takes some getting used to. The Classic control scheme is horrible. Here, all of the cars, even the most nimble sports cars like the Porsche 911, control like tugboats on wheels. Switch to Extreme, and you'll be in powersliding heaven, where tight control and mad drifts are the name of the game. Much more preferable. The tracks are well designed, and packed full of shortcuts to discover, allowing you to gain an upper hand on your competition. (Don't get too cocky though, your opponents will use the shortcuts too!) However, some of them are too long, making a 2-lap race seem to take an eternity to complete. As far as modes are concerned, NFS:HP2 is great. There are Single Race, World Racing, and Championship modes where you can unlock cars and compete for bragging rights. Each race has different stipulations, which makes them fun and increases replay value. The Hot Pursuit mode is fun as hell...more on that later. It should also be said that the 2-player mode is great, and will keep you and your friends entertained every time. The AI of your opposition is pretty lame. They are smart enough to use shortcuts, but if you ram them around enough they will get scared of you and let you pass them. However, the cop AI in Hot Pursuit is nasty. They ram you off the road, set up roadblocks and spike strips, and even call in a helicopter to drop bombs and shoot missles at you! Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary The goods, some bad, but not ugly......Sound Im not a music teacher!!!!Gameplay A racing game is a racing game....what do you think. NFS:HP 2 is very fun indeed, but it did not keep me coming back like GT3 did. However, this area deserves a Kudos for its extreme in your face speed of a title.........Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Timothy Timothy JonesFrom Stantonsburg, North Carolina Review Date 04/14/2003 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary This Is far the best Need For Speed out there.I still love Gran Turismo 3 tho but i think Need For Speed has outdone Gran Turismo.The only thing about Need For Speed is that u can't tune up your car which is ok but it would be nice to have a McLaren F1 with about 900 HP than 627 now wouldn't it?The far best thing about this game and Gran Turismo is that 90% of the time u hit top speed(or sometimes go over it)In Sega GT 2002 and Project Gotham Racing u couldn't ever get your car to the top.In Project Gotham Racing i couldn't get the Ferrari F50 over 167 MPH and i know it'll go faster than that but in Need For Speed:Hot Pursuit 2 i got it up to 211 MPH down a hill in the Ferrari F50.Sound The sound is very good and it has a pretty good variety of music.But i prefer using the XBOX and playing my soundtracks like eminem and saliva.But the sound i would give a 4 tho because they could have more different types of music and songs.Gameplay The Gameplay i would give a 5 because its just so fast.It doesn't matter whether u go through the middle of the city or the country everything just flies by u even in the slowest cars in the game.Although i have one problem about this game is that the XBOX version is easier than the PS2 version(i havn't tried the gamecube version yet).Although the cops are tougher in the XBOX version the racers are slower so overall i like the XBOX Need For Speed:Hot Pursuit 2 the best.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By ArthurFrom Brazil Review Date 03/26/2003 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Visitors rate this review 1.00 of 5, 1 votes Rate this review? Summary The Need for Speed is, in my opinion, the best arcade-style racing game series. No NFS game released had technical and realistic features like, for example, those contained in Gran Turismo series. The main aspect of NFS series, as its name says for itself, is the feeling of speed when you drive a four-wheeled machine, and here the NFS games do their homework very well. And with Need for Speed : Hot Pursuit 2, the brand-new title of the series, there's no exception. It's the first appearence of a NFS game on a 128-bit console, and on the Playstation 2 it's really awesome. The most important features of the previous games are here, and were improved: graphics, sound, gameplay, fun factor... There are two major game modes, one that matches the subtitle "Hot Pursuit", where you face the cops and even play as a cop, and a classical mode, where there's "only" you and the other racers. Both major modes have some sub-modes, like sigle-race, two player games and a very interesting career-like mode, when you race through 30 solo events and unlock new cars and tracks while doing this. Actually, NFS:HP2 has a very high replay value due to the non-stop-playing-to-unlock-several-items feature. There are about 50 cars to drive, a record-number on the series, but only 7 are avaiable at the beginning. The same thing could be said about the tracks. Finally, Need for Speed : Hot Pursuit 2 is a game that will make you play for several hours providing anything but fun. You don't get tired, the more you play, the more your desire for continue playing increases. Its outstanding graphics, sound and gameplay will make hands and joystick, eyes and screen always together.Sound Everything works pretty fine here. You can hear engine and tires noises, birds singing and fire and water noises. The great point here is the soundtrack, that contains many different songs from different rock bands. They are all good, and you may even select which ones you want to listen when racing on the different kinds of game modes.Gameplay The game controls were changed a little,regarding the previous games of the series, due to new features on the gameplay. The game brings some Matrix-effects to the races, like the air-jumps you perform (that earns you some NFS points, a kind of experience points found in many games), when a slow-motion occurs ; it's a very nice effect. There's another type of slow-motion effect, this time done when you press a button, that the camera perform a 360º spin around your car, when you can see the opponents behind you. Also introduced in this game, there's a kind of fire-projectile thrown by your car that hasn't any other purpose but giving the racer a foward view of the track while you can notice how far your next opponent is from you as well as in which points of the tracks the police cars are located. Of course, this new feature is very useful. The sliding brake is used pressing the R1 button now, instead of the O button, that now goes for horning. The rest of the commands remains the same. The analog function of all buttons of the Dual Shock 2 are very welcome here; the buttons answer well to the pressure and motion of the fingers and, depending on the car, it'll be easier or harder to control it during the turns. The colisions still lack realism, but we're talking about an arcade-style game, so that's alright.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member.
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