Review MantaOrlando 4/5 · Mar 27, 2025
Nice arcade fun.
A nice long races game with a race and Hot Pursuit campaign. Worth picking up if you can get a copy.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002)
Nintendo GameCube · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 2 · Xbox
3.62 from 620 ratings
1274 members have it in their collection · 19 playing now · 102 backlogged · 81 wish listed
How long? · 100% 61h (from 1 logged playthrough)
The Need for Speed series returns, this time reverting back to the 'chase' arcade experience instead of a racing simulation. Top speed racing is the name of the game, where you must outchase not just the opposing drivers, but the cops.
Choose from a selection of today's (and yesterday's) top sports cars, including the Ferrari F50, Porsche 911 and a …
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The Need for Speed series returns, this time reverting back to the 'chase' arcade experience instead of a racing simulation. Top speed racing is the name of the game, where you must outchase not just the opposing drivers, but the cops.
Choose from a selection of today's (and yesterday's) top sports cars, including the Ferrari F50, Porsche 911 and a range from the likes of Ford, Corvette, BMW, Lotus, Mercedes, Aston Martin, the McLaren F1 and a lot more.
The competitive race mode allows you to take on other drivers and beat them to the line. A selection of tracks allows you to not only dodge incoming traffic, but perform deadly jumps and stunts to receive points. These points, combined with the points recieved from your finishing position, can unlock new cars and tracks.
The Hot Pursuit mode combines all the major elements of the competitive mode with the chance to out run the cops. They will throw everything at you to try and stop you, including running you off the road, setting up road blocks and unleashing an attack helicopter equiped with missiles. Three busts by the cops ends the race.
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Details
- Developers
- Black Box Games, EA Seattle
- Publishers
- Electronic Arts
- Genres
- Racing
- Themes
- Action
- Franchises
- Need for Speed
- Series
- Need for Speed
Release dates
- Sep 30, 2002 (Worldwide) Nintendo GameCube
- Oct 01, 2002 (Worldwide) PlayStation 2, Xbox
- Oct 21, 2002 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
Related
Bundled in
- The Need for Speed Collection (Oct 2003) · PC
- The EA Games Collection (Sep 2004) · PC
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Rating distribution
5 stars
116
4 stars
210
3 stars
243
2 stars
44
1 star
7
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Review Chauliodusi 2/5 · Apr 30, 2022
Speedily Obsoleted
The unique thing about this game is the splitscreen mode where one player is a police officer and the other is a speeder.
Sandwiched between Gran Turismo 3 and NFS: Underground, NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 does not have a soul, in comparison.