NEED FOR SPEED HOT PURSUIT 2011 LIMITED EDITION - PS3- NO RESERVE

Right out of the gate, Hot Pursuit delivers excellent control and handling, which isn't all that surprising given this is the Burnout studio. But the game structure here is one of point-to-point races along long stretches of road and often calls for extremely precise, split-second maneuvers in order to avoid traffic, bust roadblocks or take a shortcut on what are some comparatively narrow roads. Criterion has upped the precision to suit its design, and the result just feels ...great.

The game does an excellent job of digging its hooks in and not letting you go.

The marquee element is allowing players to blaze through an entire career as a cop or a racer. Whichever you choose -- and you can, at any time, take part in a racer event, even if you're dozens of missions into the cop "path," for example -- expect a different, but equally thrilling experience. In one instance, you need to focus on avoiding traffic, threading a needle through gaps in roadblocks and generally driving as fast as possible; in the other, you're trying to ram racers until they crash and just generally being more aggressive.

But it's about more than spot-on controls. Hot Pursuit is great because the core concept of escaping from the police, and trying to catch speedes as the police, is delivered on so well. There's a uniqueness to each that is enough to make racing the same exact stretch of road in both roles feel entirely different. Plus, these locations, which are all sections of one big game world that spans the coastline to snowy mountains to an arid desert, are expertly designed. They succeed at being challenging from a pure racing standpoint, but also play to the pursuit element of the game, offering up myriad shortcuts and side roads that can be used to ditch the fuzz or, conversely, cut off racers and drop a spike strip.

"from joystiq.com"