Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 PC Game 2002 Overview:
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is a racing game with an emphasis on evading the police and over-the-top courses featuring lengthy shortcuts. It draws primarily from the gameplay and style of one of its predecessors, Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit. Two primary game modes are offered: World Racing Championship, in which the player competes against other drivers in a series of races, and Hot Pursuit Ultimate Racer, which adds police to the races. In the latter players must complete the races while also evading capture.
| Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 | |
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 Cover art featuring a Lamborghini Murciélago | |
| Developer(s) | EA Black Box EA Seattle (GameCube, Xbox & Windows) |
| Publisher(s) | EA Games |
| Producer(s) | David C. Hooper Richard Mul Stefan Q. Wessels |
| Designer(s) | William Ho |
| Series | Need for Speed |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Microsoft Windows |
| Release | GameCube, PlayStation 2 & Xbox Microsoft Windows |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is a 2002 racing video game, the sixth installment in the Need for Speed series and the sequel to 1998’s Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit. It was developed by EA Black Box for the PlayStation 2, and by EA Seattle for GameCube, Xbox and Windows. It features cars from various high performance and exotic car manufacturers. Players can compete in races using these cars, or opt to play as a police officer and pursue speeders.
The game features several popular recording artists from its time such as Uncle Kracker, The Humble Brothers and Hot Action Cop. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 received “generally favorable” reviews on the PS2 and Xbox, while the PC and GameCube versions received “mixed or average” reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
In 2002, the game was awarded Console Racing Game of the Year at the 6th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. Hot Pursuit 2 was not released in Japan.
Features of Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2:
- Cars –In Hot Pursuit, the cars go from hot to hotter. Experience the thrill of driving the world’s most desirable high performance cars at incredible speeds. Feel the power of busting suspects in supercharged cop interceptors like the Lamborghini Reventon or outsmarting the law as a racer in high performance supercars like the Pagani Zonda Cinque.
- Weapons and equipment – Take down suspects with a variety of cop weapons like spike strips and call in extra support including road blocks as the chase intensifies. Racers have a range of evasion equipment at their disposal to outsmart the cops including jammers that block cop communications and jam their weapons.
- Seacrest County – Explore a world inspired by the California coastline with desert, forest, seaside and mountainous regions. The open world of Seacrest County helps deliver the most intense cop pursuit moments ever.
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Minimum System Requirements:
- CPU: Pentium III or Athlon equivalent
- RAM: 128 MB
- OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
- VIDEO CARD: 16MB DirectX 8.1 compatible video card using a supported chipset (NVIDIA TNT2+ / ATI Radeon+)
- TOTAL VIDEO RAM: 16 MB
- DIRECTX VERSION: 8.1 (Included)
- FREE DISK SPACE: 1.2 GB
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File Size: 112.3 MB
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