Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit

Need for Speed ​​III: Hot Pursuit (short NFSHP ) is the third part of the published by Electronic Arts Need for Speed ​​series and was released on 30 September 1998 for PlayStation and Windows.

Versions

Need for Speed ​​III was sold in different versions worldwide. In the Australian version, for example, there are the domestic muscle cars Ford Falcon GT and HSV GTS included. Furthermore, there is a Wal- Mart edition, which was sold only in branches of the supermarket chain in the United States. This additionally contained an image of the pace car based on the Corvette, which was used at the Indianapolis 500 in 1998. Also included in this version of the program was MRCCartool to remodel an editor to the cars of the game. Thus, it was first possible to load created cars in the game. On the basis of this program, the program CarCAD was developed by fans of the series, which allowed the development of numerous, available on the Internet, modified cars for the 3rd and 4th part.

Gameplay

The subtitle of this part, Hot Pursuit, points to the possibility of succumbing to the chase with the police. Compared to its predecessor, there are a greater variety of mobile trolley. There is also the option of downloading additional cars and tracks from the Internet.

In the titular Hot Pursuit mode, the player and his opponents are persecuted by the police. This tries to move the cars through crowd control, road closures or nail strips to stop. If a player has been stopped several times, he is eliminated from the race. There are three different game modes: Road tournament and knockout races. The latter differs in each round from each of the last placed rider.

The two versions of the game are fundamentally different, the menu structure is already different. There is also a version for the Playstation to select control, which is not possible in the version for the computer can switch between " arcade -heavy " and " simulation -heavy ". Therefore it is to drive only in the PC version possible the race from the perspective of the police.

Carlist

Need for Speed ​​III: Hot Pursuit includes the following cars:

  • Aston Martin DB7 ( Only available in the PC version )
  • BMW M5 E39 ( Can also be used as a police car )
  • Chevrolet Corvette C5 ( Can also be used as a police car )
  • Chevrolet Corvette C5 1998 Indy 500 Pace Car ( Only available in the Wal -Mart PC version )
  • El Niño ( Can also be used as a police car )
  • Ferrari 355 F1 Spider
  • Ferrari 456M GT
  • Ferrari 550 Maranello
  • Ford Falcon GT (only available in the Australian PC version )
  • HSV VT GTS (Only available in the Australian PC version )
  • Italdesign Nazca C2 ( Only available in the PlayStation version)
  • Italdesign Scighera ( Only available in the PC version )
  • Jaguar Sports XJR -15
  • Jaguar XJR -15
  • Jaguar XK8
  • Jaguar XKR
  • Lamborghini Countach '97
  • Lamborghini Diablo SV ( Can also be used as a police car )
  • Lister Storm
  • Mercedes Benz CLK GTR
  • Mercedes Benz SL 600 ( Only available in the PC version )
  • Spectre R42

Stretch

In this part there are the following routes:

  • Atlantica
  • Aquatica
  • Country Woods
  • Empire City
  • Hometown
  • Redrock Ridge
  • Rocky pass
  • Summit
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