Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered has been officially announced and will be released in the month of November. stellar entertainment, who edited the remaster edition of Burnout Paradise, released in 2018, is also working on this title.
It is expected for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. The new version will enjoy many new features both for multiplayer (cross-play and Autolog update) and for the single player campaign.
“We said to ourselves: we absolutely have to do it”, he replies to Polygon Chris Roberts, the creative director of Stellar Entertainment, on the implementation of the Multiplayer in cross-play, which involves gamers from different consoles, “we wanted to add cross-play so that everyone is connected to compete”.
THEAutologous is a kind of multiplayer social network that allows all kinds of asynchronous competition between gamers; even subsequent NFS have implemented autolog in their multiplayer and EA, surprised by its result, has introduced a similar function in Battlefield as well. Autolog allows new weekly online challenges, contests, screenshot sharing via Photo Mode and much more.
This new version of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit will have tall original DLCs available during the main campaign. On older versions, digital content was available after the campaign ended. This will give a new sense of continuity within the game; the original DLCs last a total of six hours.
Roberts later adds that the thing he loves the most about the Hot Pursuit campaign is there Career mode, you can choose to play as a cop or racer, according to the discretion of the gamer; without any limit or constraint. New content will be available for both cop and racer careers; not a simple graphic restyling for NSF: Hot Pursuit, but a total restructuring in terms of content.
The success of the Burnout Paradise remaster has paved the way for this “new” chapter, completely redesigned and available on all platforms. And it is also a way to renew the franchise, following mixed results (Payback - currently a free October PS Plus game - and Heat products Ghost Games) obtained from 2013 onwards. Electronic Arts has decided to bring the franchise back into the hands of Criterion, closing the headquarters of Ghost in Sweden.
Criterion Games has returned to the series by offering two well-made and content-rich remasters. With the hope of reviewing a new, unreleased chapter in the popular arcade car racing series, Matt Webster, general manager of Criterion, declares about it: “Are we done with the racing games? No, no, no, not even remotely ". This bodes well for a new chapter of Need for Speed for next generation consoles.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered is expected for November 6, 2020 for PS4, PC, Xbox One and, the 13 November, on Nintendo Switch.
