Hot Pursuit 2010 was also called just "Hot Pursuit". We, the users added 2010 to avoid confusion. So, Most Wanted will be "internally" called Most Wanted 2 or Most Wanted 2012.
I can't agree with you. The gameplay in NFS HP 2010 was not childish, in fact it was quite deep. The main problem were glitches and cheaters that ruined the police chases online.
Teleporting traffic cars, glitchy spike strips, cheaters and helicopters dropping spikes on you directly even though it was you who called it in. Lack of car selection in the lobby where you had to wait 60 seconds most of the time for game to even begin and then got 30 seconds to actually pick the car. Similar nonsense like in The Run, just less severe.
And all this is because of retarded consoles which don't have enough memory to run the lobby and game selection menu at once. Obviously, because i cannot think of a single other reason why that cannot be done. Plus the car control was really crucial and with proper driving skills you could outrun much faster cars easily. Where in The Run it's apparently faster to just grind the protective railings than to try and drive properly through the corner. Have seen bunch of dorks just smashing into the railing fulls peed and then just grind it all the way and then press nitro to get it going. If you do that in Hot Pursuit 2010 you'll lose even more time.
I was mainly focusing on the single player experience when I said the stuff above. and in that respect, hot pursuit 2010 was rubbish. the main issue i had with it was that i could never find me saying "I HAVE to finish this race because then i will see a cutscene with my girlfriend talking about what things have gone wrong for me and what must i do to put them right." there is no excitement in them like there was in the olden days. but I do understand that people have different taste.
the other issue was the car selection they are making to put in. I really don't like travelling at over 5000 kmph in a veyron supersport, where drifting gives you more speed and stupid points. I want game play to be realistic and not childish like those nintendo gameboy games,
but I don't like either focusing too much on driving technicalities like getting the perfect line whilst driving through corners or entry speeds of a corner and having to drive tiring and boring laps in silverstone.
What I would like to say as a summary is that I like a driving game to have Realistic ganeplay and more importantly physics, meanwhile driving on a nice open road with beautiful sceneries. good quality and realistic engine and exhaust noise, good sense of speed (you don't fell like you're going 210 when the speedo shows 329), and not aggressive.
in short the perfect game is:
TDU 2 or 1 world,
Car control and physics like NFS Shift "1",
Good story line not like, but of the same qualities as NFS Carbon,
Graphics appearance like NFS Run,
interior view like Shift 1.
so come on developers! make that, please I beg of you!
Criterion