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Review: Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered – A Racer From A More Innocent Time

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Here’s a fun fact for you: there isn’t a single person on this planet who can recite the titles of all 24 Need for Speed games in order. It’s actually physically impossible, like licking your own back or hearing the words “Hi, I’m Daisy” without getting irritated. While this ‘fact’ is open for debate, here’s one thing that isn’t: there hasn’t been a Need for Speed game on a Nintendo console since 2013 (Most Wanted U) and it’s about time that changed.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, as the name suggests, is a modern upgrade of the 2010 instalment of the series (the 16th one, if you were keeping count, which you weren’t). While Hot Pursuit was given the Nintendo treatment back in the day in the shape of a Wii ‘port’, it was actually a completely different game that had nothing to do with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. As such, title aside, this is the first time the ‘proper’ Hot Pursuit has been playable on a Nintendo system.

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