Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Pigs, gavvers, filth, babylon, bizzies. The sheer wealth of familiar pejoratives suggests few people admire the police. Even fewer, I suspect, admire traffic cops. But despite an incongruous contempt for those who uphold the law, I'm sure many people share my fantasy of a night spent behind the wheel of a lumbering Volvo Estate …
Cop Mode is just a shinied up Chase HQ and that is nigh on twenty odd years old. The progression/reward system is Burnout. Seacrest County is the hilly bits of Paradise City.
Having said that, the game is massive fun and I haven't really got into the online racing aspect of it yet. The social side of it, with the integration of your friends list, is going to be pure crack as you get close or beat your friends times.
maybe I missed it and this game does it too, but, in the immortal F1GP by Geoff Crammond there was "indestructible mode" - so, start from the back of an F1 grid in a 3-lapper, and try to win by zooming up the insides of chicanes etc and "braking" by crashing into rival cars.
enormously skilful, great judgement required, laugh out loud hilarious.
as the first posters say, feels like the perfect mix of chase hq, out run, spy hunter and the first 3 nfs games.
i think you can use manual gears but the thing is so frenetic and addictive that i haven't been able to bother to look. its more about braking, handbraking and using weapons than changing gears really
not like midtown madness though, that was a free roamer as far as i remember, here you don't get much choice of which way to go but it is real fun: simple, fast and did I say addictive?
soon to come test drive unlimited 2 as well, that will sort out the free roaming bit
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