Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

40 to 100 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Highly addictive"

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit is an outstanding racing arcade game that shows that you don't need realism or physics to make a driving game FUN! Need for Speed III came out after the first Gran Turismo game on playstation was released and that of course was a blockbuster for the simple fact that it added highly realistic physics and made it an all out simulation. Need for Speed III is purely arcade and FUN instead of relying on the realism that was the craze at the time. The cars are detailed beautifully and new cars were also available for download from EA's website. Later on, the mod community made a TON of new cars for free download that just added even more fun into this game.

The basis for the game is quite simple. You start a road track race with other opponents and try your best to win. Along the way you'll pass speed traps in which you have to out run the cops however, this isn't always an easy thing to do. They can deploy spike strips ahead of your position and use other sneaky tactics. ALSO you can play AS the cops can have a certain quota of tickets you have to write before the race is over and this mode is equally as fun!!

The multiplayer aspect of the game is also a great fun because you have your classic head to head AND a co op mode AS cops so you actually get to work as a team to bring speeders to justice!!