Need for Speed 6 (Hot Pursuit 2) - Mediterranean Paradise with McLaren F1 LM

With Need for Speed Heat on the horizon I decided to do a quick revisit of the 21 previous NFS games leading up to the launch of Heat. Here you can see Need for Speed 6 (Hot Pursuit 2), which was released in 2002 for various platforms. In this game I recorded a race on Mediterranean Paradise against AI and police with the McLaren F1 LM.

I spent several hours trying to record an interesting run here but it wasn't easy because the AI was a bit slow. In the end I couldn't decide between two different runs for the video, so I just added them both. The second one shows the police helicopter in action, while the first one has several other "interesting" moments. :)

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 for PC has 4 different locations and each location has 2 circuit tracks and 1 sprint track, so in total the game has 12 different tracks.

For each car there is also a special "NFS Edition" with better performance (not shown in the video).

Like all 21 main NFS games Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 can be played on a modern PC with Windows 10.

Various people say that the PS2 version of the game is better but I can't comment on this myself because I don't have much experience with it. Either way the PC version is very nice too.

In the multiplayer mode you can actually spectate races and send chat messages that the racers will see. I remember during my first ever online race I was behind another guy for a while and then finally did a clean overtake and I was surprised to see a chat message praising my move from someone who had been watching me, which was an awesome experience.

As you can see this game also allows you to add police to races while still keeping a full field of racers, unlike NFS 3, where adding police limits a race to a duel.

I will attempt to show you all 21 existing NFS games before the release of Heat, so expect to see a video almost every day from now until the release of Heat and on some days even two. :)