Don't let a low playtime fool you. I 100 percent completed this game in 2010, did it again on the Switch, and have now started enjoying it on the PC specifically on my Steam Deck, which in my opinion is the way to play this game.

The versatility of the deck means it can be docked and played at very high settings on a 1080p display without breaking a sweat. Haven't tested at 1440p or 4k but would not be surprised if it is capable of it, considering the age of this game.

Despite it's age, HPR is a wonderful looking game. It's got a very clean art style and the gameplay is buttery smooth. It feels like a slightly more "weighty" Burnout, for lack of a better term. The cars all feel different from each other and there are clear winners within a certain class. It just takes experimentation to find your favorite flavor.

Despite all of this, my go to is always the Mazda RX-8 for any racer challenge that allows me to use it, as I'm a lifelong rotary engine fan. And the noise from that car does not disappoint. It's handling is knife-edge sharp and it's so fun to avoid collisions and cops with. Highly recommended for the additional challenge too.

Overall, I do recommend this game if you enjoy the solo aspect of gradually building your skills and unlocking cars. Great for a car collecting type game. Minimal customization to worry about, outside of choosing a color. It's basically pick a car and go race.

On to the multiplayer portion of this game. This is where it truly shines.

If you have a few friends, or even one friend who enjoys setting times and challenging your best back and forth, this game has a wonderful asymmetrical multiplayer component called Autolog.

Keep in mind this originally came out in 2010. At that time, I am certain this was one of the first if not THE first game to implement this feature. It's now common place (because it's such an awesome idea) in other games. But basically every time you set a time you can challenge your friends, which will notify them the next time they play the game. If they beat your time, they can choose to notify you. You've even got a "wall" to post your best times or brag about the fact you beat your friend's time. All good stuff.

If you have a few buddies to play online with regularly (I'd recommend at least 3 other people, though the game supports up to 8), it's super fun to do cops vs racers, or just straight up racing. There are a number of fun modes to play. I do recommend spending some time solo to unlock your favorite cars, as it makes the online races more competitive. Unless you all stick to the standard cars in each class, which is fun and makes for a level playing field for all.

Overall, this game is 100% worth the price in my opinion. It goes on sale often, so it's a good buy either way.

This is A-Tier NFS in my opinion. I'm an old school NFS gamer, with my rose tinted glasses for the original NFS 3 Hot Pursuit from 1998 and NFS High Stakes, and 2002's NFS Hot Pursuit 2 being my S-tier level games. This is not far off.

Greatest racing game of all time

Really good like the original, howevery they have made glaringly little improvements, reduced texture quality, removed 2 cars, the EA app is aweful and doesnt connect to my friends list incredibly frequently and the cloud storage doesnt work well on linux, and has anti-tamper digital rights management, duelshock support and sometimes not even steam input works, and is really unnecessarily big (bare minimum 7gb is wasted on 2k movies when there is also 4k on disk (which are 14gb and should be optional))
the texture quality and the large movies can be fixed, check the pcgamingwiki articles

It hitches a lot with less than 40% GPU and CPU load. In the police event "Zero Tolerance" I hit the car head-on at full speed and did no damage.

This game is full of console hackers u wont win online ... Dont buy.

Weaker NFS. Def not on the same level as Rivals or the more recent titles, but still fun.

Nice...

good game

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