Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Aiming To Be A Social Experience

Criterion has said that it wants Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit to be a social experience via NFS Autolog.

Speaking with PlayStation Blog, James Deverill and Doug McConkey said, “digital communication is at the heart of how people behave these days so, given that, we’ve included a social network in the game to connect, compare and compete.

We call this the Need for Speed Autolog.”

Speaking more about the social experience:

“Online multiplayer supports eight players, and one of the coolest things we’ve included, for me, is the way that you can have any combination of players; you can even have seven cops against one racer if you like,” said Deverill.

This adds a lot of variety.

We’re very excited about the way that Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit brings players together.

It can be a bit depressing to see a leaderboard and discover you’re ranked 10 millionth in the world, or something like that so we’re looking to drive rivalry between friends foremost.”

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit releases on November 16 2010 in the US and November 19 2010 Europe on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

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