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Hot Pursuit 2's PS2 version was different from the others- and Black Box Games secured their place as the Future of Need for Speed.
Twitter: kaceycalhoon
Songs used, in order of appearance:
Kelly Bailey - Brane Scan (Half-Life 2 OST)
Saki Kaskas - Callista (NFS High Stakes OST)
Rom Di Prisco - Cykloid (NFS Hot Pursuit 2 OST)
Rush - One Little Victory (Instrumental) (NFS Hot Pursuit 2 OST)
The Humble Brothers - Black Hole (NFS Hot Pursuit 2 OST)
Rom Di Prisco - Quantum Singularity (NFS III OST)
Nintendo - Animal Crossing Title Screen (AC GCN OST)
Hearing the original "uncleansed" version of Fever of The Flava shocked me as a kid lol
IKR
Gotta love EA soundtrack censorship, where EA has the studios pick super explicit songs about all kinds of edgy subjects for use in E and T rated games, and then mute half of the song’s vocals to make them “suitable” for said E and T rated games. This often leads to some really cringy and funny moments with awkward pauses in the vocal track…
This was the first nfs I've ever played. I have so many treasured memories connected with this game. I wish I could go back in time and play it with my brother, just like we used to. Thank you for all the hard work you've put into making this video.
Love hearing that these videos hit home with people. The PC version was one of the first video games I remember begging for when I was a kid, every time we went to staples. Had no idea that it'd start a lifetime of racing game and NFS fandom. I'm very glad you enjoyed the video
VAHE G. Same bro
Best nfs game
Same. Me and my brother would play NFSHP2 for hours. That an Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. Best Need for Speed hands down.
Same my first n4s and I'll die on this hill saying it's the holy grail of n4s
6:47 truth be told; I believe Hot Pursuit 2 on PS2 was one of EA's best racing games.
Extreme variety and quantity of cars and tracks, difficult cops and semi real handling of cars makes it easy to control and predict it's behavior. And the tracks allowed for high speed cornenring, straights and to a degree drifting.
I never felt a racing game that gave so many options in so many colorful environments that put most if not all open world racing games to shame. This one deserves a reboot.
It got one in 2010! Was one of the best games in the series post-Carbon. This was definitely a special game.
@@Kaceydotme Wish they changed equipment of for racers to more of racing than tanks in mind.
EA should have skipped the EMP and spike strips and add "lane changing" and time slowing.
It's "Need For Speed" not "Need For Battlefield"
I totally agree. NFS:HP2 was the best. Even the reboot was a downgrade. This was the best game to be the Police, as well. Not to mention the "Drunk Driving" code! Definitely the best in the series.
Actually the lack of straights kind of annoyed me
agree it needs a reboot. they need to take out the 4 versions of each track and have one version and then do revamps of the highstakes tracks and ad them to hot pursuit. ad a few more jumps and the game will be perfect.
I played NFSU2 on a friend's house when i was a kid, so the next day i went to buy that need for speed something something 2.
I got HP2 on accident lol. i don't regret it but i haven't played the PS2 version since i was 6 :(
very nice vid, is the underground story video coming? i'd like to see it
Underground will happen at some point. I usually make a point of waiting until I have a genuine itch to replay a game before covering it because when you’ve gotta throw ~40 hours into a video you gotta make sure you’re excited for it to not burn out
@@Kaceydotme Take your time :D we can wait
Very late to reply, but if you ever felt like revisiting it, PCSX2 runs HP2 fairly well with some tweaks on decent hardware.
@@AliceC993 actually got a ps2 last year and played HP2! Don't have a pc nowadays, only the ps2 with some classic games
I never seen a McLaren F1 but man I love that car. I owe it all to the first hot pursuit.
A car we may never own but will always have a special place in our hearts.
@@30yovegan34 dont forget Porsche Carrera GT
Hearing the narrator talk about the cars specs with such enthusiasm was awesome. I can listen to it over and over again.
This game on ps2 suprisingly influenced me so much back in the day and even now. It was the first ever racing game i played and i loved it, back then and even today i consider it to be the best racing game iv ever played hell maybe my favorite overall game. Hp2 really gave me a love for cars and gaming in general. It was truly a gateway for my future interests and hobbies to such extent that i bought a 25k 03 mustang Cobra and moded it to look like the Cobra R in game, wing and all, just because it was my favorite car in game and so that i could relive those childhood memories, this time in the actuall car listening to the games ost.
Yea I played the PS2 version of this game a lot back then, the other versions of the game I found inferior to the PS2 version mainly cuz I hated the bank currency used to unlock cars while on the PS2 version you only had to complete events to unlocks cars and tracks.
I had the Gamecube version, and I honestly adored it to death alongside Underground 1&2. I had no idea the PS2 port was so much different, this inspires me to pick up a copy (or emulate lol) and see firsthand what the differences are.
Also, thanks to this and 007 Agent Under Fire, I really love the Z8’s design and would love to see one for real.
What if i told you that the Black Box team wasn't just a bunch of newbies. The team was assembled from Radical Entertainment and from EA's core guys and EA Canada people, in fact you shouldn't be surprised that they got the reins on Need for Speed. It's the closest to the follow up team to Distinctive Software, who developed the very first Test Drive games and the first The Need for Speed game!
If you want someone to talk to for an interview, find Brad Gour! He has worked on... well just look at his Mobygames credits page. Look at it.
it wasn't really a risk. it was a sequel to a game so they already knew it would work. there was only reward in this... which was from blackbox. they had such enthusiasm and love for wanting to make the game the best it could be. and they succeeded by creating the better version of the game. they were so successful that they were given the reigns of the need for speed series for years...
I cannot believe that you put Calista by Saki Kaskas in the background. Much Respect.
I grew up relatively poor. But I managed to get a original Xbox in the early 2000s in form of a Christmas present to my dad. I can remember playing hot pursuit two up until 2010 because I loved it so much. My friends would come over and say "forget the Wii I want to play hot pursuit" 8 years after it came out! I can remember going to kindergarten and my dad picking me up and taking me home, even though he had a hour for lunch he would sit down and eat and watch me play and play himself. He loved it and to this day loves it. There's something truly amazing about a game that can make you enjoy it years after it's released. My friends who never played it love it. I'm glad I got to experience it! I still have my dad's Xbox and alot of games and I still play on it even though I have a PS4 and Xbox one. My only regret is that I was young and dumb and would never put the games back in the cases and because of that they got scratched up bad. But the three most important still work Lego star wars, hot pursuit two and the original star wars battlefront
Meanwhile I had the gamecube version, so the ps2 version seems foreign to me lol
same lol. i still love the gamecube version
Same here
Same. I forgot that the PS2 version was even different. Still love HP2 though!
I had played both the GameCube and PC versions, after playing the PC and now going back to PS2 it feels very hard to see anything compared to the PC version even on a normal 4:3 monitor from the time
The ps2 version of HP2 remains my absolute favorite in the series, and I think aside from HP2010 and MW2012, for me no other entry in the series gets close that came afterwards. I never really took to the whole tuner culture that FnF brought about, so UG and MW05 never stood out to me. Peak NFS for me at least is driving fancy cars through equally fancy locales.
This game has loads of that, and the cop vs racer aspect is the most blood-boiling it gets. Once you piss the cops off enough, they bring out the missiles on top of trying to drop explosive barrels on you. This game is utterly insane in that mode and it's brilliant.
The game also looks amazing visually and still holds up decently to this day thanks to the good lighting and modeling work. Also many of the courses are incredibly well designed and the campaign mode lasts a hella long time and entices you to push through by giving you cars and courses as you do so. 100%ing this game is one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had honestly.
Same. I just want to select colors for my cars, if I want full customization I’ll play Forza Horizon 4. HP2 has some tedious parts, but that’s mostly due to having ridiculously long missions at the end (10 laps on palm city?). Definitely the best NFS game overall. Second best is the 2010 version, third is MW05 for the best system, and fourth is Rivals.
Now I've got CLK GTR nostalgia… completing an entire 8 lap race without crashing... I about lost a few times.
I forgot about that event. One of the hardest things I've ever done in gaming lol
I'll be damned. I grew up with the PC version of HP2, as it came with the NFS pack my dad got me for PC along with High Stakes, Porsche Unleashed, and Underground.
I had no idea that I was playing the inferior version this whole time, I even had a PS2.
Also trust me, playing the EA Seattle version with a mouse and keyboard is awful
Same here I loved the PC version tho especially when I played the original doom an the worms franchise I was PC gamer before PC gaming was big
@@ryanlangston439 sameeeee
Grew up with the PC version.
Never got my hands on PS2.
They didn't skip 2001, they made a NFS spin-off called "Motor City Online".
Fair point. I just kind of forget that's a NFS project. and just forget it in general. because it's forgettable.
@@Kaceydotme And it was Online Only. So it died out quickly
This was my first racing game ever and i fell in love with cars because of this amazing game!
For me this is the ultimate NFS game (obviously the PS2 version, I downloaded the PC version and almost threw up about how diferent it is)
Fell in love with the ps2 version when i was 8, then tried pc last weekend and couldnt be more shocked.
@peter pan nonsense. As said in the video, the PS2 version had a second more realistic set of handling physics, and a desert biome.
@peter pan My best guess is that you either never played the PS2 version, or played it in an emulator with terrible frame-rate. they cut a lot of things, including a lot of shortcuts from the tracks, certain tracks too...
the pc version is ok. it's not as bad as people make it out to be, it's just the fact that ps2 version is better. i enjoy the pc version to this day tbh
@peter pan PC is the worst version of Hot Pursuit 2 you're just a noob.
6:52 High Stakes OST
That is where NFS needs again. Loved High Stakes on psx days.
i have honestly enjoyed ea seattle version of the game when i was a kid and i still do now. it's not a bad game at all imo, it has just been overshadowed by the blackbox brother
also i've seen a z8 once in my life when i was in germany just parked on the street like any other car, i was like 10 at the time and only recognized it because of hp2. didn't even realise how lucky i was and how rare they are untill recently lol
I remember sitting in 3rd grade and actively day dreaming of coming home to play this game
me with Most Wanted tbh. met some close friends through our mutual love for that game as kids.
@@Kaceydotme Yeah, HP2 was the first game I played on my first 3d console ever! The ps2 my family purchased in 2010! Holy fuck the memories are still with me
I'll never forget it. I had a PS2 at the time and my best friend had an XBox. We had spent weeks playing Hot Pursuit 2 non-stop on my PS2, enjoying every moment of it. My friend finally got around to getting a copy for his XBox. I received a call that day. "This game SUCKS!!!" is what he told me, as he listed off all the things that were different and worse about his version of the game. We were perplexed. I headed over to his house and confirmed that, indeed, the two games were very different. His copy immediately collected dust while mine still sees play to this very day. My favorite racing game of all time.
man the ferarri f50 was so op for the class it was in though. the nfs version could beat the standard clk gtr on half the tracks
I played through this game again like 3 months ago and loved every minute of it
I was always envious of the graphics on the Xbox version because I had the PS2 version, and when I finally played it on Xbox I was so disappointed in how horrible the cars handled.
I loved playing the PS2 version on the hardest difficulty... such a rush dodging falling bombs and missiles. Found out if you crashed into the cops just right before they start moving that you could take them down instantly with no pursuit. Running hardest difficulty against a friend on National Forest with 8 laps and trying to get the BEAT THE COPS points reward before the start of the 8th lap was always our goal.
EA Black Box made the best, most replay-able NFS games without a doubt. Although I found it strange how the Hot Pursuit series starts with Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, then Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, and ending with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit... kinda all over the place lol
I got confused as well at first.
i only tried hp2 on the pc and it made my childhood along with vc and carbon. imagine hos much i would enjoy the ps2 one
HP2's gameplay was the best. No story, no tuning, just a long list of challenges and driving fast cars
hot pursuit 2 is one of few games on ps2 that can compete with xbox
I just want to SEE a Z8 in the flesh, one of my favorite cars of all time and purely because of this game
The PC version was actually pretty awesome
There's a trade-off for pretty much everything that the PS2 version does better than the PC/XB/GC version. It had more tracks but fewer cars, better environments but ugly car models, better sense of speed but a less complex physics engine, you could take out the cops but the helicopter could take you out, etc. Given the popularity of the PS2 at the time I think Black Box simply did a better job at appealing to a casual audience.
I have played both PC and Ps2 and never liked this game. My first NFS was II for PC and I loved. Same with III, IV and Porsche. This Hot Porsuit 2 seems to me like a downgrade. Also, I miss Saki Kaskas, Jeff Dyck, Romulo di Prisco and others music.
I agree it is a downgrade, it didn't have nearly the amount of depth or features it's predecessors did. But even so it's still a pretty solid racing game, just aimed more at a casual audience.
I feel so blessed I found your channel. Your taste in games are exactly like mine, esp the racing games. Subbed 👍🏽 Hope to see a GTA IV review soon
It's videos like these that make me wish that Most Wanted 05' wasn't such the "basic bitch" game that it is, because if it wasn't, we'd be seeing more praise of games like HP2. Yeah, it's great, but the fucking "holy praise" it gets just makes every other game seem inferior to a 15 year old game.
It's praised as It's where NFS generations come together.
You have the original PSX hardcores, and you have the newer NFS UG players.
HP2 was lost in the middle, but what MW was able to do was combine the best aspects of both generations.
The PS2 version was superior and finally somebody points it out!
If you ever choose to remake this review (I remember when this channel was Kaxey and you've come a LONG WAY), I'd highly suggest playing Black Box's version via PCSX2 with the 60fps hack, and the Seattle version with the widescreen hack via windows 10, it's amazing because it really does show that with a higher framerate and resolution, black box's version STILL SHINES THROUGH.
Never played the PS2 version, wanna get my hands on it though. I had the Gamecube version (I have all the NFSs on Gamecube lol).
that's what I played growing up :) I remember christmas 04, unwrapping a GameCube and Hot Pursuit 2, and playing it to DEATH. Still like EA Seattle's version, even if this one's a bit better :)
Hey, man, nice to see you again on TH-cam :)
Glad that your life's gone better, and I hope that it will be that way for a looong time, thanks for your videos.
Love these vids, I never knew the game cube version I played for years is obsolete compared to the ps2 version. I figured they were the same lol.
The beginning of the Black Box Era, but the end of the Classic NFS Era
Want to know something really fun you can do with Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2? Hook up a pair of DDR dance mats and try and race with the police in split-screen!
The PC version is my favorite NFS, guess i need to give the PS2 version ago...
ive had several vacations from the series, Heat was my first 8th gen time spent with NFS, and its pretty much my favorite NFS game ive played. The idea of both the Diablo AND the Viper in the same racing game blows my little 90s kid mind lol
Hot pursuit 2 was the game that got me into cars
Exact that done Hot Persuit 1 for me. XD
Just like you said, the music, the look and the feel of the game come together to make it feel special. It was my favourite racer when i was a kid (tied with Burnout Revenge later i'd say) and playing it now on an emulator, it's still hella fun. The classic NFS games with sweet views, exotic cars and banging tunes were all amazing.
One of my top 5 games of all time. I've been dying to play this game again but since all I have is my phone I cant rly do that. Maybe sometime in the future. The memories man, such an amazing game
wow, This is a great review!
Not gonna lie, it would definitely be interesting to see the behind-the-scenes for Hot Pursuit 2, and how it would explain how vastly different the PS2 version is from the other versions.
I had a PS2 back then, also a Gamecube, yet I ended up with the Gamecube version. I was this close to glory. *bruh.*
Didn't expected to see you once more.
I exclusively grew with the original xbox, alongside Underground 1/2 and Most Wanted. However in 2017-2018 I was given the PS2 of a former best friend and considering my copy is finnicky, looking to try the PS2 iteration is in the top of my agenda.
Pretty good review mate, been looking for a review that talks about the difference between the ports and this was it. shame that the xbox version wasnt' the one by black box, cause imagine the ps2 attention to detail with the powerful hardware of the xbox
I honestly loved Hot Pursuit 2 for the PS2, me and my dad spend hours playing it. I recently bought it again and played it.
it's cool that one day i was curious about the xbox version of half life 2 and you also had videos about need for speed, something i cherished when i was younger.
i checked your channel and i thought it was "dead" so i move on. You popped up in my recommendations and i suddenly recognized who you were!
i'm actually very happy that you are back and i can't wait for more content! have the sub that you deserved all that time ago. :)
Thank you so much for giving me another shot! It's been a busy year but I'm very excited to start creating stuff again :) Welcome aboard, I hope you enjoy things to come
Believe it or not, the first ever Need For Speed game I ever played along with my siblings was High Stakes (NFS 4 on the PS1) and man did that soundtrack kick ass. Rom Di Picaso became one of if not my favorite DJs of that era that I loved his music. It felt like EDM mixed in with some heavy drums and very tingeling bass. Thankfully with this game, they brought in soft rock, and even had two of my favorite artists, Hot Action Cop, and Rush, to compose music for the NFS HP2 soundtrack. Going Down On It, along with Paradigm Shifter, will always be my top favorite NFS audio tracks of all time. None of the NFS series games has ever matched the original 6 games of the original generation. In fact, Rom Di Picaso and the humble brothers, in a section that you had to find in the options menu, had four songs from the four artists that worked previously on NFS High Stakes, to bring their music over to NFS HP2. Sphere and Cykloid are my favorites in this game.
As for playing the game, you HAVE to play the PS2 version, by far one of the best versions to play the game. The Gamecube, Xbox, and PC version look meh at best, and I'm glad my dad bought the PS2 version. Believe it or not he was using it for medical research on a project he was working at St. Claire's back in 2003 on some sort of video game mental and adverse effects for children and teens. A year later after he finished the project, he gave it to us, and when I played it for the first time, man it was freakin' awesome. 20 years later and this game I can still play on both the original PS2 consoles AND on the emulator. heck, PCSX2 is the only emulator I know of that can take physical CD/DVD copies and play them right into the emulator. That to me is freakin' awesome, same goes with the PS1 discs using a CD/DVD USB Drive into yoru laptop's USB ports.
To this day, it's been twenty years since this game, and Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, have been released in both October and November of 2002.
I love how you ended the video. It's what made me subscribe in fact cos it changed the feel of your channel to being human than just another generic reviewer 😊
Use to play this game all the time with my grandpa on the GameCube. This brought back so many memories! Keep up the good work, it was a good video!
Now i get why the pc version sucked, gr8 review, this game was my childhood pretty much as a ps2 owner
now that is a love letter
You complain about the 7 minute race in NFS Underground but this game has multiple races that last over 10 minutes and some are over 20 minutes long
I reviewed this game a loooong time ago lol. Also, the 7 minute race isn't too long-- it's that the AI are broken and make it incredibly difficult. I don't mind long races. In games like TDU, I welcome them.
@@Kaceydotme Yeah but the rubber banding AI in HP2 can still be a bitch sometimes
I still have this game on my PC in ISO format running on a virtual drive that I was playing just now. I remember buying the original in 2002 when I was looking for a game for my new PC that I had just assembled: a very modern Pentium IV 1.7GHz Willamette 256MB RAM and a RIVA TNT2 64MB AGP. it was enough to run in 800 x 600 @ 20 to 30fps. And the cool thing about it is that I STILL have this old PC here with me working with small upgrades like a new video card (GeForce FX 5700LE 128MB) and two more 128MB memory sticks totaling 512MB ... I'm still looking for 512MB sticks to get 2GB but it does not exist for RAMBUS 800 models with fair price. Anyway, the game was one of the best I bought and I regret to this day that it sold and great conditions in the box and manual. thing that is no longer found today.
Like this If you know how to drift in Hot pursuit 2. When I saw the title NFS hot pursuit 2 I clicked on her so fast. I deadass had a massive daydream about when I used to play it when I was a kid, the best moments i had in this game is where i was driving the purple Lamborghini diablo and i was coming up on a hill getting chased by two Corvette cops. When I hit the jump I stopped on breaks than the cops went past me trying to stop but hit eachother and hit the guard railings and I was like OHHHHHHHHHHHH I BROKE BOTH OF THEM, HAHAHAHA THEY WAS ON SLATES 🙄🤣🤣🤣😊
My other second best moments is when I was driving the red Ferrari F50 driving on the beach seat with tight Cornings getting chased by the cops and helicopters. The chopper was putting down bombs so pressed the brakes and dodge all 5 of then and the last two I drifted to dodge it.Who remembers when the time you was outrunning the missile strike the helicopter shot at you?
I don’t think that NFS can count as having diversity. It’s like putting the same logo over a random handful of FPS games. Yeah it’s Halo Modern Warfare, Halo Fortress2, And Halo Portal.
I watched this video twice, read wikipedia, googled and still don't understand: EA passed half-finished assets to newly purchased Blackbox and commissioned them version for most popular platform 4 month before release? Who does that? What was the plan for PS2 version prior to Blackbox acquisition?
If I remember correctly HP2 was the first NFS game I ever played. I was 6 years old and my parents showed me 2fast 2Furious on dvd. When I saw the cover I thought hp2 was the game version of 2f2f.
Hope someone could answer my question. I've been searching for answers in gamefaq and there's no concrete answer.
Does anyone know what does the speedometer flash does when you reapply the throttle in the PS2 version sometimes? Is it some type of unexplained hidden boost/ perfect shift mechanic?
This was a really interesting video essay, thanks, and glad I'm subscribed to I didn't miss it :)
Didnt even know the differeces between versions, I played PC and it always seemed off for me, like it lacked some quality that I dunno, Hot pursuit 1 had on PSX
No police pursuits were not the main draw of the PS2 NFS hot pursuit nor any NFS game before under ground 2. police pursuit is part of what's ruing NFS games. i thought PS2 NFS hot pursuits main flaw was to many version of the same tracks. i always felt they should have taking the tracks from high stakes an brought them up to PS2 grapics an ad them to the game instead of having 4 versions of each track. got bored driving through the same scenery over and over! i thought the criterion version of hot pursuit and most wanted were the suckiest NFS games to date!
If only I had a playstation 2 and my copy wasnt scratched to shit.... Le sigh.... Well...... I have the PC version so that'll have to do for now....
We are so lucky blackbox blessed us with the best racing games ever made second place goes to the midway Nintendo 64 cruisin series.
Maybe it's the gamecube specifically but I don't like the Seattle version. Some events feel impossible and you slow down so fast whenever you turn.
i only got internet in 2005 , and only discovered that i could search games in order of launch in 2012, back then it was like u search for tip in far cry, and u got tips for far cry 5, is like nowadays when u say xbox, but no one think xbox, they think xbox series x
WAIT couple years back i felt nostalgic about hot pursuit (as a kid played it only on the ps2) so since i don’t have a copy i downloaded it onto my pc and was really disappointed, this explains why.
Anybody else realize that if you pressed the button to do the 360 degree freeze frame thing while your tires were on the black and white start finish line, you got a shit ton of bonus points? I remember how great it felt to discover this without reading it on the internet. I just really enjoyed hitting that button for cinematic 360 pans that I thought to capture it on the start/finish and then I had to do it every single lap there on. I'm talkin about the ps2 version btw
I didn't even know the PS2 version was that much better. Only played the PC version lol
I asked for Underground on PS2 one Christmas and my parents got me this and a Pelican steering wheel and pedals. I was hooked.
Omg played this game on pc soooooo much. This game began my undying love of the Lamborghini Murcielago
The race was difficult to me no nitro XD but the legendary car and the enviroment was 💯
Got to know this nfs when i was 9 in 2016. My dad used to play it back in 2005 in his ps2 emulator on pc lol
Is it weird that I always choose to play as the police? I just think it's really cool to chase down other cars and pull them over.
PS2 version of this game reigns supreme I don't care what anyone says
The only nfs game I like after nfs high stakes hp2010 and nitro
This and Porsche Unleashed are my favorite NFS games
If I say McQueen and car games make my early car guy self and I am it is still my child hood
Also at 8:02 what is that I see? CLONE HERO!!?? 😏😏
Wish they remake was like this instead of more like burnout
Anyone else play the GameCube version
Got it with my GameCube, Christmas 04
I recently got this at a retro game store for my old GameCube when I found it and started playing it again, also thanks for replying :D
Is it possible to play hot pursuit 2 on Xbox 360? 👀
First time here, i hope life's still being good to you
This was very well done. Subscribed*
Where is Need for Speed III Hot Porsuit a Retrospective?
Your Spotify is missing ordinary by buzzhorn
No no no just no. Lol. Ps2 doesn't even look remotely better
Lamborgini cop car was the best!!
0:31 for a moment, I thought it was irl 😳
I kinda missed the Porsche 996
*learns EA killed Black Box*
This is so sad Alexa play despacito.
Also, why did they kill BB?
Did they get too powerful?
They became so overloaded and crunched for time that their projects were coming out worse and worse every year.
My very first NFS game was Hot Pursuit 2 for the PS2, followed by Porsche Unleashed on PC. I have a huge soft spot for both games, but HP2 remains my favorite NFS game to date, especially the PS2 version. The tournaments, the cars, the tracks. I spent countless hours (honestly, years put into that game) on that game, and put several dozen hours unlocking the numerous cars in it. The soundtrack was amazing, as well (especially with Bush, Uncle Kracker, Rush, and Hot Action Cop) and helped shaped my music taste early on, along with ATV Offroad Fury 2. I've played this game on PC and Xbox, and it's just not the same to me. I mean, it has most of the same elements, but the feeling is all different. It especially shows in the downgraded graphics. Given everything, I still believe the PS2 version is the superior version, and I'm glad I came across this video. Incidentally ended up reliving my first moments playing it and how much I fell in love with the game.
Edit: Oh yeah, also, rest in peace GameSpy. I miss the PC servers
fix your aspect ratio bro... if you wanna run 16:9 there is a patch for that, stretch 4:3 is awful
This video is five years old
Gran Turismo 4 is one of my favorites
One thing I don't understand if the Pc port was from the same staff of the previous games why was it so terrible, considering how excellent they were
It was not the same staff. EA Canada did the previous, not Seatle.