About the Game

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit plunges you into a sprawling open-world landscape, placing you behind the wheel of the planet's fastest and most breathtaking vehicles. Developed by Criterion, the acclaimed studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit is set to redefine racing games for a new generation.

Experience blistering speeds, explosive takedowns, and daring getaways as you clash with your friends in the most interconnected Need for Speed game ever. Through the innovative Need for Speed™ Autolog system, your Hot Pursuit experience transcends the console, extending to the web and continuously shaping your gameplay in unique and dynamic ways.

This action-packed title will challenge you to become either Seacrest County's most notorious racer or its most relentless cop. For the first time in the Need for Speed franchise, you can forge a complete career on either side of the law. Whether you're a speed demon with a heavy foot or a cop with a fierce pursuit style, ensure your aviators are clean and your driving record is anything but.

Key Features

• Career – For the first time in Need For Speed history, experience full careers as both cops and racers. Whether playing online with friends, tackling Friend Challenges, or progressing through the single-player career, players will earn bounty that levels them up and unlocks new cars, weapons, and equipment.
• Need For Speed™ Autolog – In Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, your friends are integral to your gameplay experience. Autolog directly links friends' games, allowing them to compare and share their experiences, photos, and challenges. Autolog intelligently generates challenges based on your friends' recent activities, creating a highly dynamic and socially competitive environment.
• Cars – In Hot Pursuit, the cars get hotter and hotter. Experience the exhilaration of driving the world's most coveted high-performance vehicles at incredible speeds. Feel the power of apprehending suspects in supercharged cop interceptors like the Lamborghini Reventon, or outmaneuver the law as a racer in high-performance supercars like the Pagani Zonda Cinque.
• Weapons and Equipment – Take down suspects with a variety of cop weaponry, including spike strips, and call in reinforcements like roadblocks as the chase escalates. Racers have a range of evasion equipment at their disposal to outsmart the cops, such as jammers that disrupt police communications and disable their weapons.
• Seacrest County – Explore a world inspired by the California coastline, featuring diverse regions including deserts, forests, seaside vistas, and mountainous terrain. The open world of Seacrest County delivers the most intense pursuit moments ever seen in the franchise.