Much like its prequels, there's a whole range of customizations the player can implement for his upcoming ride on the road. Speedy menusĪfter the obligatory opening introduction FMV, we're brought to a slick menu screen with all manner of swishy sound effects to accompany it. Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit continues the trend and while providing nothing particularly revolutionary, uses some of the most astounding and advanced graphics we've seen yet, and adds a mode of play that will certainly prove most popular, allowing you to outrun the cops in your supercar or don the boys in blue uniform and drive reckless speeders off the road in a police cruiser. The Need for Speed series has long been a respected arcade racing game on the PC, which, besides allowing you to drive hot new sports cars, really achieved in doing what its title suggests: gives you the feeling of moving at breakneck speeds in actual real-life settings rather than on a stuffy race track. Of course for the majority of us, on your PC, you get to drive cars (and cause accidents) that you would never even get close to in real life. The feeling of incredibly high speeds combined with realistic-looking backdrops and roadside objects and all sorts of fancy special effects make you wonder which is more authentic - getting in your car or sitting on your PC with a force-feedback racing wheel. Arcade racing games are appearing on consoles and 3D-accelerated PCs and visually, just keep on breaking all the boundaries. Anyone remember Outrun for the Amiga? Och, what a mess!īut that time is long gone. I remember my disappointment so few years ago as conversion after conversion of graphically astonishing, fast-speed driving games from the amusement arcades were brought over to the popular home computer of that era and just failed to accomplish anything that their arcade machine counterpart did. Racing games on the PC are peaking right now. Read Full Review I still remember Pole Position

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