Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit - Playstation Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ย. 2020
- In 1998, a Need for Speed title was released that took racing games to a whole other level for me. It combined arcade racing, tons of options, and multiplayer from the gods. Here is my review.
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Episode Notes:
1. Playstation version on real hardware.
2. PC version is original game with updated patch for 1080p and widescreen.
3. The mainline Need for Speed games would stay Playstation console exclusive for years. It wouldn't be until the Xbox and Gamecube that they would branch out.
4. I often wonder if the Saturn could have done this. The first game looked great on the Saturn, but all that extra lighting might have been too much.
5. 2005's Need for Speed Most Wanted is another favorites of mine for many of the same reasons.
6. I still own my original PC version.
7. I own the rare Collectors Edition of the PS1 game.
8. I'd love to see this game get reissued for modern machines. - เกม
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In night two player split screen races, we used to turn off the headlights and find hiding places on the tracks that were extremely dark where you couldn't find one another.
such an awesome game
I also ever used that split screen multiplayer in NFS III.
I cannot describe how obsesed with this game I was back then. EA has never managed to capture the spirit of it ever again. Absolutely the best NFS there is.
Along with High Stakes, Hot Pursuit 2, and Hot Pursuit 2010 and MW2005.
High stakes on the psx is an improved version of hot pursuit in any regard
NFS 2 with the 3dfx patch or NFS 3 on the PC with a 3dfx card were awesome times back in those days!
2 things not mentioned in this review:
1. In NFS 3 on the PC it is possible to create/import custom cars and do wacky stuff with that.
2. The LAN multiplayer aspects of those games on the PC. Up to 8 players were seriously good times!
Back in those days it was one of many games like the original Half Life, Counter Strike 1.6, Command & Conquer/Red Alert & Starcraft that my friends and I played at a lot of LAN parties!
damn you def were a rich kid lol. i wish theyd remake/remaster this instead of the hotpursuit they decided to remaster
Yep. Agreed.
Fun fact : some of the manufacturers had issues with their cars being used in this game to be racing against the police. this is why they werent all available in HP mode. LOL
How stupid, it is just a game. lol
@@atranfanatic At least the cars can flipover here. The manufacturers didnt allow it for Test Drive Unlimited and Crew ...
Also in the F1 series, codemasters is not allowed to make the cars able to flipover. Also very limited to damage with all the sponsors on the cars :/
Yep. Ferrari and that's it. Lamborghini and others are /were ok with it.
Easily fixable with a mod at least.
Man, I love NFS3, I was so good at it nobody wanted to play with me because they stood no chance. It was also one of the first games I've played on the 3DFX Voodoo 2 along with Quake and Turok and it was a thing to behold.
The pc version also had a fine tuning option so you could customize the driving behaviour of your car and it was glorious.
Only now I can see the graphics difference, ate the time I bought a new pc with 3dfx and it blew my mind the difference in this game and tomb raider 2
@@baltax11despite NFSIII has only 9 cars tho.
One thing that needs to be said. The 3Dfx version on PC looked miles ahead of the software or D3D options.
D3D was identical to Glide mode except for the headlights' rays were removed
@@GTXDash Yup and some smoke effects were a bit better on 3DFX version
@@GTXDash it was far different. Way smoother. GLide was amazing. If you could see a side by side comparison of Quake 2 or Tomb Raider 2 your see stark differences
@@tristanholley7141 Look, I do prefer glide mode, I've played it in Glide mode and also in D3D mode, I really didn't see much of a difference. In fact if anything it looks a little worse in glide because a voodoo didn't have good fps with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering at 800x600 when compared to a GeForce or Radeon. Ironically, Glide mode now looks the best on modern systems with a glide wrapper and fan patch implemented, especially since the glide wrapper can convert any game to native 32bit color.
I never owned 3dfx cart,i beat Tomb Raider and Quake 2 on software mode back in days.
I still have it, the techno music is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
Very! I have some of it on my phone lol
@@Mrpartyallnight101 High Stakes too
Hell yes it is 😎
This was the game that compelled me to get my first 3D card. And a PC steering wheel.
I still play it sometimes on my Vita.
When EA announced a remaster of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit I was expecting a remaster of this classic.... not the game that wasn't even 10 years old at the time. This, Most Wanted, Underground 1 & 2, and Carbon were the peak of the NFS series.
underground 2 sucked
And so MW05. Sorry but HP10 was needed
Either these two are trolls, or just stupid.
Lol Criterions 2010 NFS HP was awesome, Carbon was crap.
I wish there would be sequel to NFS: HP (2010), not a remaster...
Your best review to date. Please continue this trend of reviewing PC games of that era. The golden age of Computer gaming.
Nice to see someone else that knows that the 90s were the golden age of gaming. This was when consoles had some killer games and pc's had some of the best games only on pc before they got badly done ports to console.
One of my favorite games of all time. I share your passion for this game.
I played this on PC with my 3dfx Voodoo card and I was blown away. I even printed some screenshots from the game and hang them on my wall. I am a huge fan of the early NFS games.
I played NFS3 constantly until NFS4 was released.
90's Need For Speed games with 3Dfx cards were something visually fascinating back in the day, but I think it's still are impressive now as well.
This is the Need For Speed I grew up with. This and High Stakes were my favorites. I haven't played any Need For Speed games since. From what I've seen of them, they look like they've drifted away from what I liked about the old ones.
High stakes was the one I owned but I had a friend with III. You definitely missed out as the NFS Underground series was excellent.
I had and loved both of those games. And for the most part I agree with you, but the Criterion developed Hot Pursuit that came out on XBOX 360/PS3 was a serious return to form. They came back with the elegant Road & Track style reverence and presentation for the cars, and the gameplay was super awesome. I highly recommend you find that game for whatever system you can and play it. They even just released a fresh remaster, although if you're on PC, the original release holds up just fine.
You HAVE to play Porsche Unleashed and Hot Pursuit 2(ps2 version). Both keep having that classic NFS charm and are amazing.
The Underground and Most Wanted went a different direction but are amazing games nonetheless.
Haha no pun intended then with the drift reference then??😆😆
@@Gatorade69 yeah they were good but I think the best one that was on ps2 was most wanted absolutely loved that game...carbon was pretty good as well
I've just started playing Gran Turismo on the PlayStation for the first time so this video caught me in just the right mood. It's great to see you reviewing PS1 games as well man! I know you are mostly into Sega but do keep in mind the PS1 for future reviews! Us PlayStation lovers will always appreciate it :D
Nice! The first 2 Gran Turismos are my favorites in the series. Hope you enjoy them!
@@BawesomeBurf Thanks! Will Do!
I owned the PC port back in the day, and had the 3DFX setup needed to make it look fantastic.
This and High Stakes were my favourite racing games on my pc back then
This game is so perfect in every way. Every other racing game I've played (before or after) never really measures up to the fun I had with this one. I still hear the tunes and the voice actors like ear worms regularly.
I played this game when I had a Geforce 256 and I still play it on my modern gaming PC! Never gets old.
Not even some of the Burnout games? Takedown and Paradise were pretty stellar if you ask me
@@j.samuelwaters81ONLY Burnout 3 toped this fun factor but many many lays later. On ps1? Nothing beated this.
@@j.samuelwaters81so did Burnout 2 and Revenge.
The first 3 Need for Speeds were and always will be my favorite. My best friend had the original on PC when we were kids it was INCREDIBLE graphically in 1995. Nostalgia is a powerful drug and I still get my fix occasionally.
Agree. For me even NFS III HOT PURSUIT is miles above Gran Turismo 7.
My Dad and I played this constantly, we loved racing games and this was our favorite on the Playstation
Simply the best Need For Speed game of the NFS series!
My all time favourite game! The atmosphere with music is something special. Love the fact that there is such an active community around it still.
25 years on, NFS III HOT PURSUIT still legendary.
This is what got me into racing games and cars. Loved that Diablo SV! And it was so much fun playing as a cop, unlocking new cop vehicles. Amazing game. When I saw that intro again after so many years it gave me chills!
This game still looks really good, it aged extremely well, I never play in 1st person and always play in 3rd person.
Was a big fan of this game as well, enjoyed it a lot back in the day. Will probably never forget the Empire city and its little shortcuts..the El Niño...ah good times. It really was a special game and made me follow the franchise ever since hoping perhaps to recapture the magic of this episode. Thanks for the vid.
Yep. El Nino supercar that had 1000bhp. It is also the only ever appearance in NFS series for that car.
I use the Need 3 soundtrack on car trips to this day. For me, this game is the last Need that didn't give the competition a chance. I really like the underground and MW phase. I remember playing Gran Turismo a lot with Need 3 and Ridge Racer 4.
I remember being unable to get past Redrock Ridge because the disc kept crashing the game. In 2016 I finally managed to finish it all. The soundtrack was the GOAT.
Ahhh, this game and High Stakes were the ones that ate into both me and my dad's time on the PC. The OG Hot Pursuit and High Stakes came out at the right time of gaming as a whole.
I'll never get tired of playing these games, all the classic need for speed racing games are unmatched in terms of presentation and quality, and I love all of them individually for what they bring to the table!
Hot pursuit 2 was the final goodbye to the classic need for speed legacy that no one expected, I enjoy the underground era, but I really miss the classic need for speed concept! I know there's Forza, but it isn't the same, albeit there moments from these classic games that can be replicated there though.
great review as always!
channel supporters will appreciate more reviwes of classic playstation games. this channel is one of the best on youtube. keeping up a good job
I have this on PC, and still play it on occasion. What's great about it is that there's a pretty big modding community, allowing you to use new cars and tracks.
I often drive a pink Buick Grand National.
Man as a huge need for speed fan! I never played this entry I was a need for speed underground kid! Peter Pablo's need for speed song was blastin' in my room as I customized my cars! Those were the days! Great video SLX! As always amazing content!
Great video. I love these games and I still play them today. True classics.
Gotta give you props. I always enjoy your videos. Even when you cover a game I don't care about, if you made the video I'm gonna want to watch it. Keep em coming!
Both versions were my childhood. I hold them in such high regard, that I find it hard to even pick which one is superior. The PSX version will always hold a special place in my heart though because it was a true companion when I was going through a rough patch in my life - I'd be sitting in my home, dead of night, just blasting around the secret tracks in the CLK-GTR. It was a surreal, but intensely atmospheric experience.
I wish they had finished the alternate version of Empire City, since that does exist in the PSX version unfinished.
Bought ps1 with this game back in 98. So many memories. When you can, please review Nascar Rumble.
Nice change of pace from Sega stuff, and always I like the way you personalize your reviews. Me? Not sure why but even though I love arcade racing games, the NFS games have always left me cold.
back in 1998, this game on pc basically put every other version on consoles to shame, i remember getting the game same time as my cousins , they had it on ps1 and i had it on pc, we played it first on ps1 then the next day my cousins came over to see it on pc, i could literally hear their jaws hit the floor and was kinda a bummer for them seeing how much of a tech leap there was, back when 3DFX was king of graphics.
I was never huge into racers , but I absolutely loved this game back in the 90's . I was in the military at the time and stationed in North Dakota and I loved this game as an outlet when I wasn't on duty .
This was my childhood. The track with all of the fall leaves transports me back immediately.
This was my favourite racing game of the era.. Porsche Challenge was my first racing game and didn’t think it could get any better than that! Some great nostalgia.. great video!
I played the first NEed for Speed in about 2001 on a buddies Play Station at his house. Only had Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and love that game.
Absolutely stunning, the first three NFS are the best, giving the horizon for the other multiplatform racing. It went without saying that we already had the DualShock wired and it was amazing play on it. Awesome video
One of the games of my life. Thanks for this video, dude! Greetings from Brazil.
Not to mention that tracks that you later unlock are brimming with shortcuts!
On a side note: on PS1 version, tracks were streaming from the CD (along with music of course). You'll probably hear how lens mechanism was working overtime while speeding trough. If you would open the CD-ROM lid on the console during the race itself, the game would freeze.
Your reviews are great as always!
Thanks for the support, Bruno.
@@SegaLordX this one and NFS hot pursuit that came out a year later are my favorites of all time!
I'm with you SLX, all the way! Need for Speed III is one of the best racers on the PS1, one of the best racers in the entire NFS series, and (to me) one of the best racers of all time. Some of the best tracks ever created in a video game and lots of modes and options to create unique races. Thanks for the great content.
Love your reviews man
Thanks man. Appreciate that.
Excellent review and I agree with every point. This was one of the last great EA games. I played this too on my first gaming grade PC and it was amazing for the time. I recall many nights where I would use the games modem to modem multiplayer to dial up a friend across the city to play this game all night (mixed in with come C&C Red Alert of course).
This game was part of a PC bundle that we brought back in 1999. Pentium III 450Mhz and a Voodoo 3 3000. The graphics were great compared to PS1. Loved the El Niño car.
I had that C5 corvette in real life, a 98’, and it was fast as hell.
Thx for this. One of my all time favourites!
Yep one of my all time favorites as well. I also love Need For Speed Hot Pursuit II on the PS2 right behind this one. And thanks for giving love to the 3DO as that is my favorite Need For Speed version.
Wow...I don’t remember this game looking as good as this!
Dang, man. I had almost forgot about this game. This was all I played on the PS when I bought it. God this game was beautiful and quite brutal at times. It even impressed my Dad, who could have literally cared less about video games.
A+ content as always, SLX. It is always a highlight when I see a new video!
Aong with Tekken 3, this was one of my two first PS1 games ever. I had a lot of fun with both of them as a teen and love them till today, dearly.
They also still play quite well, despite their age :)
I used to have this on PC but saw the PlayStation version for like 10 bucks at the time and played the heck out of both of them. i remember the police chases at night looked so good on pc. Love that Romulus 3 music. I believe beetle adventure racing used this engine on the n64
This game needs to be played with a wheel and pedals in the dashboard view. It's an incredible experience.
Played this when it came out,it was a great pursuit racing game and one of the first of its kind.
Awesome video!! I agree with everthing.
I also had a PlayStation and a computer at the same time, but I used the computer for, well, computer stuff and the only videogames I played were the C&C RA types of games. I was playing the NFS2 and later NFS3 when someone lend me the NFS3 for computers. And everything was just as you tell it.
And, yeah, totally agree that there are no more games like that since years. Last year I borrow from someone the NFS Rivals and I still can't believe how can exist a racing game with no manual transmission.
This was one of the first games i got for my playstation and i loved it! It was also my first Need for speed game (i got part 1 on the Saturn much later).
I also liked NFS Road Challenge a lot, especially when you played as a cop!
I got this game for pc through scholastic book club magazine back in elementary school and it was the only thing from the magazine I ever asked my mom to buy me (90% of the time we didnt have enough extra cash for games) but luckily it was around my birthday and she agreed to buy it. My dad got a plugin controller for the pc and it was by far one of my most played pc games then. Still have the game tucked away in a box.
I love this game and it's music, especially the rock tunes.
The PC version looks like an early dreamcast title in some tracks. Was fun in college inviting a die hard console gaming friend to the room I had my PC set up, showing them not only how great console ports looked with 3D acceleration but also playstation + N64 games on emulators in VGA res. Back in 1998 we got both a ps1 and n64 emulator while the consoles were current and both emulators ran a large collection of games full speed. Bleem for ps1 games and UltraHLE for n64 games.
man i miss playing this game to rob zombie's "hellbilly deluxe" HAH such a great game
I remember having fun with this one when I rented it back in the day!
That was very good for an 1998 game on the PS1. Truly look forward to your videos SLX! PS: I hope thing's are better for you and your sister!
I had NFS3 for playstation. PLAYED IT ENDLESSLY and always showed it off to my friends. The graphics blew my mind. THEN I saw the PC version on a pc at someone's house my father brought me to. I KNEW I needed to somehow get this. So I begged my mom for a 3d card (we had a Pentium 233, 32MB ram and just onboard what, 1mb video?). Mom was a single parent on welfare so we pretty much had zero money but somehow, she got me a 3d card. The shop she brought it to put in a freaking Voodoo 3 2000 pci. MY JOURNEY HAD JUST BEGUN. NFSIII melted my brain. Quake 3 stole my nights. Unreal Tournament WHAAAAAAAAAT. I still have the PC with all of the games on it and I play it regularly! I did some upgrade to a Pentium 3 and 128mb ram so I could play them smoother tho. The 90's were the brightest in gaming. Now it's just pump out crap every day to the masses. We get very few quality releases. Hell, we get very few FINISHED releases.
One of the best need for speeds
Still play this, Porsche Unleashed and Hot Pursuit 2 on PC, loved that era of racing games
IMO this was the best Need for Speed. The original was fun and memorable. The 2nd one was kind of punishing but only because the controls were so bad. The 4th was rediculous with the rain and again punishing controls.
I remember some of these levels from when I was a kid.
I enjoyed playing the Elnino when you entered the code: SPOILT or was it SPOILED? That car was lick fast and was able to beat out every opponent in KO mode. I remember winning the first time and not knowing what to do after....
El Nino.
I bought this game and really loved it, but there was another dimension for me - at the time, there were websites out there that created custom car models for the PC version that could be dropped into the cars folders, which allowed me to quite literally CHOOSE the cars I could have in the game! It's a shame that my hard drive died, and I lost them all. Those websites have since vanished, but the memories of a game that I made my own are still fresh in my mind so many years later...
I don't know about you man, but the electronic music in this game by Rom Di Prisco left a huge impression on me when it first came out, and has still remained as some of my favorite VGM compositions. Listen to the track Romulus III 😎.
Yeah, this game blew my mind back in the day. I spent so many hours playing it that I damn near memorized every track, and was able to set records without crashing, while at full speed the whole time, AND with the hidden El Nino car! Lol. Crazy good times.
Something a lot of people dont mention is the use of rumble. This game had one of the best use of it onnany game Ive played. I remember how it would rumble slightly different on different types of road.
I remember playing it as a kid and on ps1 and on pc classic racing game
This game and Driver was my favorite games on PS1.... and yes GranTurismo.
I absolutely love your review style. Would love for you to do a Super Metroid review
Cool Story: this game was the first 3d racing game that me and a friend ever played.
His family was celebrating his grandma anniversary and invited me to the party as well, we started playing NFS Hot Pursuit on his brand new PS1 but we were stuck taking turns in a certain race which was too difficulty for both of us.
As soon as my turn came (for the 20th or so time) his family asked for his help to clean up the dishes, while he was there, i managed to beat the race, and soon i was waiting for the game to save, the lights went out on the city, the game failed to save, i told him i truly managed to beat that stage, but he didn't believe me, that was simply too hard for him to believe.
Love this and High Stakes. And Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2) gave me vibes of those games too. I just couldn't see NFS going back to this, simply because of EA Games. EA Seattle and Blackbox were hands down some of the best developer teams EA ever had
Great video
Amazing game. Rented it one weekend and fell in love. Probably rented it 6 times before I got the game for my birthday.
Remember purchasing the pc version for $3 at my local cyber cafe, and the videos that come with it, it was amazing in my low end pc
I played this game a ton. Haven't played it in a long time but I'm sure the gameplay is enjoyable as an arcade style game. The PC version looks amazing, that could have been great on Dreamcast.
Ahh the days when DLC was just stuff you unlocked by playing the game, you could play against the person next to you and a game being published by EA, meant very good things
The music isn't memorable? Lmao, I feel bad for you. I still play these tracks over twenty years later and know by name both the main artists behind the tracks in the game. Honesty, it's insane to believe that this game still holds such a cherished spot in my childhood. I'm 32 now. I started playing this before my tenth birthday and I still remember every track and every piece of music that accompanied along with the main menu themes.
I still have my original copy for the PC from 1998 if you can believe it. I PLAYED THE HELL OUT OF THIS GAME.
This is a good game for beginner sim racers. Good simulation mode
Agreed. This was one of very few PS1 racers that really resonated with me (preferring Sega's approach generally) but this was epic. I remember when I was working in a game shop at the time and me and my colleaguespent a whole afternoon playing this - way better than Gran Turismo. Super fun, super frenetic, fantastic performance from the PS1 hardware Tight controls meant you were able to absolutely push the limits and feel like you were right on the edge of losing it.
Other thing I distinctly remember is that this game supported the short lived DualAnalogue controller (the one with the concave control sticks and the precursor to the Dual Shock controller) believe it meant the controls were like an RC car i.e. one stick controlling acceleration and braking, the other steering. Worked really well.
Also the tracks were some of the better designed tracks from a non Sega or Namco racer. A true gem!
One of the main music Producers for Need For Speed 3: Hot Pursuit and Need For Speed : High Stakes, and Need For Speed : Porsche Unleashed, is Romo Di Prisco.
Oh man I forgot about this game, I played this a lot when it came out!
I loved NFS Shift 2. That game was so freakin fun it blew me away
Great video! This is the first time I've played this game and I really enjoyed it. I wouldn't normally go for a NFS game, I'm more Ridge Racer, but in some aspects this is better than Ridge Racer Type 4, which came out at a similar time in 1998. The only gripe is if you hit a tree or hit a head on side track object you can easily loose 3-4 places in a race. But otherwise all good. Would you try the new Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered version? Does it have the same feel as the PS1 game?
Anyone else expect the ecw theme to start in the sega intro of this channel?
Need for Speed 3 on PC was amazing at the time.... went from playing old games like Test Drive, Stunt Drivin, then the original NFS to this was outstanding. Never owned a Playstation until after playing the PC version and thought it was trash...actually sold the Playstation soon after... Total PC master-racer back then as the only games I couldn't really get on the PC were the 3D fighters.
My brother and I used to play Hide and Seek in split screen mode. My favorite hiding place was to pull into a driveway face the garage and enter bumper cam.
As a kid NFS were PC games ! I loved playing these espacialy NFS 1 and 2. My PC was too weak for NFS 3 😢
Yeah, I also loved the PC port a lot back then. Seeing it all again brings some good memories!
I never played the playstation version but I loved the PC game. I remember unlocking everything and beating all modes. First PC game I played with an analog gamepad.
I played this game with a V3 Racing Wheel when I was a kid. It was absolutely amazing.
Glad we share the same opinion on this game, its a fun game and I have fond memories of it