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by Brian Leahy, Dec 30, 2010 5:00pm PSTThis post, like the one I'll be posting tomorrow night at your regular chatty time is little more than a comments reset to make sure things stay fresh and smooth over the New Years break.
Over break, I hope to hit level 80 in World of Warcraft so I can actually start digging into the high-level Cataclysm content. I'm about to hit 78 and I've been doing mostly quest marathons mixed in with some random dungeons. Queuing as a healer makes that go by so quickly.
Talk amongst yourselves.
I'm really wanting to pull the trigger on it.
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Pros:
Beautiful graphics
Hot pursuit gameplay is wildly fun
The controls feel very natural for an arcade racing game
Cons:
Too many events that are not hot pursuit events!
Time trial/rapid response events are incredibly difficult and annoying--must use shortcuts to get gold medals, stupid penalties for collisions, way too much traffic
Limited number of tracks/environments
No manual shifting!
Cars are not customizable in any way
Interceptor mode can be frustrating as the racer is able to escape too easily (and I screw it bugs out sometimes)
No racer escape mode to parallel the cop interceptor mode
Can't really skip cutscenes (hitting A to skip still shows a 10 second cutscene)
Can't skip movies
No jumps like the old NFS:HP games
AI stills rubber-bands, especially the cops when you're playing a racer. They can run alongside you even when you use turbo mode which is supposed to make you go fast enough to escape EMPs. Cops don't get a turbo mode but somehow AI cops are able to catch up and pass racers that are in turbo mode
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