What bugs me about Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
The Need For Speed franchise has been around for a long time. To date, my best were Underground, Most Wanted, Porsche Unleashed, NFS World and my favorite is definitely Need For Speed: Shift. The new Need For Speed Hot Pursuit is none of that. Apparently gamers didn’t think Shift was a good franchise reboot and wanted something a bit more simplistic, less real and more like facebook. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit does just that. Even though it has amazing graphics, there is no racing game in there. Just a social network of boasting the biggest numbers to your online friends and nothing more. There are no currency systems, no modifications to your cars whatsoever, hell the cars are not really yours; they’re just unlocked by the tons as you play Facebook Hot Pursuit.
Why did I say it’s not really a racing game? Well first of all; really bad car handling. It feels like all brakes of all cars were made with pairs of loafers trying to squeeze the wheels while you’re headed dead-on to a concrete wall. Next, and most frustrating; let’s say you win a race in career mode by a tenth of a second and by god you must be really proud of that feat and you wish to know how close you were; it’s impossible to know. There are no scoreboards, no time boards no nothing. You just hit A a couple of times then hit the Gas and drift around until you win a medal.
I can’t wait for Gran Turismo 5.
