‘Hands-on’ Articles

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In addition to the single-player campaign and online multiplayer shenanigans players can get up to in Need for Speed: The Run, there's also a standalone event mode dubbed, 'Challenge Series'. This mode is a collection of single-player events which ape certain races during the campaign but add gold, silver and bronze medals to reward those [Continue reading...]

Thanks to last year's NFS: Hot Pursuit, this franchise has become inseparable from the social aggregating system Autolog which catalogues player performance and compares it with their peers. Even though 2011's entry in the popular series has been developed by EA Black Box rather than Criterion, those finger prints are all over NFS: The Run. [Continue reading...]

During our recent multiplayer session with Need for Speed: The Run we spotted six different race series for players to prove their mettle against other players online and we can tell you exactly what each of them consist of. [Continue reading...]

Intrigued by Need For Speed: The Run’s out-of-car sections? Want to find out more about the game’s character-driven story? Or do you just want to know more about the epic action-packed racing you’ll be getting up to in The Run’s epic coast-to-coast exploits? In this month’s issue of P3Zine, available to download for free by [Continue reading...]

Following on from our Career and Autolog Recommends previews, today we’re going to be taking a look at Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit’s online multiplayer. Hot Pursuit’s multiplayer options let cops and racers duke it out online, either with their friends or via a matchmaking system, across Hot Pursuit, Interceptor and Race game modes. When [Continue reading...]

Autolog’s seamless Recommendations feature means that you’ll always be notified when a friend beats your best time in an event, and lets you instantly jump directly into that event to try and take back the title. [Continue reading...]

There’s been a fair amount of confusion over the progression system used in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit’s Career in recent months. Is it fully open world? Is it menu based? Well, as it turns out, it’s a mixture of the two. [Continue reading...]

Two weeks ago we invited a handful of our readers down to EA’s headquarters to play Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit with Criterion – and they walked away convinced that this year’s Need For Speed was one of the best yet! One of our lucky readers who got the chance to play the game, James [Continue reading...]