Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (Nintendo GameCube, 2002)

I have had this game for 2 and 1/2 years now and I am still not bored with it.
It has enough variety and challenges built into it to keep me playing it time after time. You can race another player, race against computer generated components, outrun the cops or be a cop chasing speeders. There are many different challenging tracks and very realistic cars to qualify for. The graphics and driving feel are great. You don't have to (and can't) set up the cars. You don't have to win money to get better cars. You just work your way through the championship and as your skills improve and you learn the tracks you get to race faster cars. As you progress through it the tracks keep growing bigger and more complex. You will recognize sections of tracks from previous tracks and some tracks will be reversed so that you are running them in the opposite direction. Don't bother with cheat codes or you will wind up on a track you don't know, with a car you can't handle. Take the time to work your your way through the championship and you will be rewarded with bonus races and cars. There are no maps to navigate, no characters to listen to, no confusing set ups to deal with and no money to earn. Just turn it on, pick a race style, pick a car and pick a track and RACE! I love this game! No B.S. just racing! There are many shortcuts in all the tracks for you to find.
Some will help you and some will not. It is up to you to decide which ones to use. There also is a way to race against other people online but, I have not tried that yet. This is a great game that will probably take you months to master and get all the way through everything and if you make it, you will have 49 different race cars, 5 different cop cars and many different tracks you can run on at any time. Outrunning the cops is the most challenging and exciting way to race! You can hear the cops talking to each other and the dispatcher. Your radar detector will go off when you approach a cop and if you slow down to about 55 mph and stay in your lane and don't do anything to draw their attention they will not bother you unless they are already looking for you. But where's the fun in that??? It is more fun to blow by the cop at high speed and hear the cop say to the dispatcher "I'm chasing a speeder who just flew by me and BLEW MY DOORS IN!" the chatter between the cops and the dispatcher is entertaining and even helpful at times. The cops will set up road blocks and spike chains and call in a helicopter that drops big bouncing bombs in the road that will explode if you hit them. In the upper stages when you get to faster cars the helicopter can even fire heat seeking missiles at you, that are just about impossible to dodge! Every car in this game has different handling characteristics and you must employ different driving styles to win with every car. Some cars are so powerful that you will have to blip the throttle just to get going or you will just spin the tires. This GAME is amazing! If this sounds good to you, then buy it and you won't be dissapointed.

what i like most about this game is when my husband is home it gives him and my daughter play time they love to race and wreck and it gets them out of my hair for a while. my daughter really wanted this game for awhile and a lot of the time i just do not have time to go to the store and search for a game. we get on ebay and look up games and watch them and then i decide how much i am going to spend then i bid. at a store you do not get a choice on the price so i love ebay shopping.

Its decent, but not really memorable. The graphics are very good, and compared to later NFS games the environment is much more eye-catching. Some of the other NFS games were really ghetto and dark and difficult to navigate - I guess that is the point, but it was more frustrating than fun - I prefer the bright paradise-like environments of this game. Gameplay is not as free as later NFS games - there is no free-roam, career play is very short, and there is no customization on the cars except color, and even that it very restricted - so it is difficult to become absorbed in it, but it is a fun escape game now and then. The one really fun difference is the option to be the police officer. I would recommend it to those who game for fun, but it is not for those who want intensity.

THE CHASE WAS ON, JUST LIKE IN REAL LIFE ON COPS, THE EXCITEMENT WAS
OVERWHELMING, ALL THE CARS YOU COULD CHOOSE FROM AND IT WAS SO REAL LIKE.
MY SON LOVES THE DRIVING GAMES, AND THIS IS THE REASON I CHOOSE IT PLUS THE WONDERFUL PRICE I PURCHASED IT. THE WHOLE FAMILY WILL ENJOY, WOULD RECOMEND FOR OTHERS. THANKS

I decided to buy this game because I wanted something that wasn't involving a lot of gunfights. Knowing that most kids like racing cars, I bought this item for the fun competition of high challenging speed races. It's fun and the kids get to use sporty cars as well as police cars. The roads are fun to race and the scenes are appealing. I think this game is definitely a top quality and exciting game for kids of all ages.