Released in November 2010 by Criterion Games, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit revitalized the franchise. It stripped away the tedious underground tuner culture and pointless open-world exploration of its predecessors, returning to the core DNA of the series: hypercars, open highways, and cops versus racers.

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