(from wikipedia)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a 2010 racing video game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, webOS, and Windows Phone.
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Hot Pursuit goes back to the Need for Speed series' roots and takes on the gameplay style of earlier Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 titles in the Need for Speed franchise with exotic cars and high-speed police chases. Hot Pursuit lets players be either a racer or a police driver, and features a full career mode for both roles. The relationship between the cops and racers is described as "a dog chasing down a rabbit"; the police being more powerful while the racers are faster. Each side has several power-ups including calling for roadblocks and radar jamming.[7] According to Criterion the single-player section is somewhere between 12 and 15 hours long, but with much replay value.[8]

The game takes place in a fictional location known as Seacrest County based on the West Coast subregion of the Western United States.[7] It's an open world and features over 100 miles (160 km) of open road, four times larger than that of Burnout Paradise, Criterion's previous title.[9] Hot Pursuit features a new social interaction system called "Autolog" which is described as "Facebook for the game".[10] The game features both single-player and multiplayer game modes with up to eight players; as an option to live multiplayer racing, players can post records and achievements on the Autolog feed for friends to see, which they then can try to beat. Autolog also contains an experience system called "Bounty".[11] As of July 2012, the Web Dashboard for Autolog was shut down for all games, except Need for Speed: Most Wanted.[12]

The driving mode of the game is described as "fun, accessible, okay", however not as arcade-styled as Burnout Paradise, but far from a simulator.[7][11] All vehicles in Hot Pursuit are licensed real-world cars and SUVs, described as "all the cars you dreamed of driving, in the way you dreamed of driving them".[13]

Most vehicles are available in both racer and police variants, but a few cars are exclusive to each side.[11][14] Also exclusively featured in the Hot Pursuit is the Porsche 918 Spyder concept.[15] Ferrari automobiles however, last seen in a Shift DLC-pack but notably absent from all other Need for Speed games since Hot Pursuit 2, are also absent from Hot Pursuit.[16] There is no car customization or tuning, other than color changing, "just because the game really focuses on the Hot Pursuit element."[11] Unlike previous Need for Speed games which use unbranded, fictional models, real cars like the Audi A4, Chevrolet Cobalt, Porsche Cayenne, Nissan Frontier, and Ram 1500 are used as traffic cars. 

OK blah blah blah its a fuckin car game

but

ill be damned if it doesnt have the best soundtrack of any game ive ever played, which is both saying a lot and not much.

in this context, soundtrack means licensed tracks (songs that you can go out and listen to on the radio or something)

please listen to the soundtrack

also, you may want to brush up on your dc trip for this one, as there may be a couple mentions of it in here

informations about it

from Tumblr:

the need for speed hot pursuit soundtrack has some of the best vibes ever and you cant tell me otherwise 

i dare you to listen to "Giant" by Funeral Party while sitting on a crowded coach bus driving back to ohio after 3 days in Washington DC (freshman year of high school dc trip that was supposed to be for 8th grade but covid) and remembering the good times you just had and all the things you likely wont experience again (including things that i have signed a nda preventing me from speaking about) and how surreal the experience was and try not to form a core memory (100% impossible)

on a less specific note that may reveal less personal information, a lot of the songs are just fucking amazing

for example, if you're going for a night time aesthetic (thunderstorm maybe), might i recommend "Nothing From You (Redanka Remix)" by Pint Shot Riot or "Watercolour" by Pendulum. put those on during a night time thunderstorm and i will be singing along

other highly recommended songs that i cant determine a specific aesthetic for include "Edge Of The Earth" by Thirty Seconds To Mars or "Bigger Than Us" by White Lies, both of which i will also be singing along to

my point is that somehow ea didnt majorly fuck something up for once and gave this game the best soundtrack (with real songs, not songs made specifically for it) of any game ive ever played. the worst you get on this soundtrack is "not for me" and the best is "I BELIEVE IN GOD NOW".

im just happy ea got all the songs back for the mediocre 2020 remaster of nfs hp

to conclude,

please listen to it

#need for speed #hot pursuit #need for speed hot pursuit #nfs hp #game soundtrack #ea #video game soundtrack #2010 #please listen to the soundtrack #i cannot stress hard enough how fucking amazing the soundtrack is #dc trip #also the soundtrack has “Stay Too Long (Pendulum Remix)” by Plan B (most people know this from something called “FlexAir 5” apparently) #(its a bunch of memes animated very time consumingly to create a plot. watched it and its certainly interesting. definitely feels very #november 2020 [in a good way i guess]) #fuck i just remembered literally no ones gonna read any of this

songs and explanation for place (left to right, top to bottom)

S:

Giant Song by Funeral Party - its fucking amazing and im not ashamed to admit its mostly because nostalgia

Nothing From You [Redanka Remix] by Pint Shot Riot - its a legitimately good song

Watercolour by Pendelum - legitimately good song with emotion

Stay Too Long [Pendelum Remix] by Plan B - legitimately good song just fucking listen to it

Bigger Than Us by White Lies - SO MUCH FUCKING EMOTION ITS FUCKING AMAZING

Ruling Me by Weezer - amazing song with emotion and lyrics i can interpret in my mindbrain to be about cute boy

Edge of the Earth by 30 Seconds To Mars - STAAAAAAANND OUT ON THE EDGE OOFFFF THE EAAARTHHH title track to game and its the best title track ive heard in a need for speed game but thats not saying much but it is saying much when its on par with FUCKING LANGUAGE BY PORTER ROBINSON or whoever the ufck from Forza Horizon

A:

All The Same by Does It Offend You, Yeah? - very good song but its technically not released so its not on spopify or anyhting [again, this song is now in S tier, it is extremely good and was recently released onto music streaming services]

Bombshock by Hadouken! - its a very good song BOMBSHAQUE

Stronger by Lazee - very good song with emotion its like an alternate universe In The End by Linkin Park

Opposite of Adults by Chiddy Bang - pretty good song and honestly the nostalgia bumps it up from B to A

Shining Down by Lupe Fiasco - pretty good song

Big Weekend by Lemonade - preetttyy tripppy maaayyyun

Born Free by M.I.A. - I throw this isht in your face when I see ya 'cause I got something to say this song censors swearing by reversing it and honestly thats much better than blank

Superbad (11:34) by Travie McCoy - pretty damn good song

The Resist Stance by Bad Religion - Bad Religion

Cinema by Benny Benassi - its good fuckin hell get off my case

B:

Live Like You Wanna Live by Greenskeepers - good song but the rhymes are a bit shit and they censored "damn"

Get A Rise by Killa Kella - good song but it sounds like hes saying that you wont get a rise out of him but lyric shit says that hes saying that you will get a rise out of him whatever the fuck that means

Groove Me by Maximum Balloon - pretty good song with unmemorable lyrics

Echoes by Klaxons - good but blends in with Twin Flames

Twin Flames by Klaxons - good but blends in with Echoes

Yeah Yeah Yeah by New Politics - good but doesnt fit in with the other New Politics songs ive heard

Devil's Music by Teddybears - good but entirely unmemorable

Divisive [Tom Staar Remix] by We Have Band - good but jeuse fuck it sounds different from the original

C:

Sofi Needs a Ladder by deadmau5 - okay but the spotify is like 7 mins long and i pronounce it as dead mau five

Conscience Killer by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - the needle in the 5 star meal that is this soundtrack, it doesnt fit at all, the guitar bit towards the end is nice but i dont know man

Do the road signs in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit make sense?

ok thats all i found (im not looking very hard) but trust me when i say that the soundtrack is amazing

also the game is pretty damn good too

got "remastered" in 2020 which was basically just an excuse to charge $10 more for the same game but its still good

Fun Fact

In the Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) universe, the 2008 Financial Crisis is a canonical event. This is proven by the fact that there are multiple large infrastructure projects located around the map that reference the "Seacrest Recovery and Reinvestment Act", an obvious reference to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law in February 2009 by President Barack Obama, which aimed to create more jobs and invest in infrastructure in response to the 2008 Financial Crisis.

fun fact mini: all the need for speed games ive seen use the Clearview font for road signage, instead of the more common Highway Gothic. this is interesting because someone somewhere put the effort in to use a different font for the signs but making sure it was a real font actually used on roads (Highway Gothic vs Clearview) and also Clearview might be a font you need to pay for (?) while Highway Gothic is very much free to use and very much everywhere if you know what to look for (the lowercase "g" is very distinct in Highway Gothic).

fun fact mini pro: feel free to use those screenshots of need for speed hot pursuit 2010 remastered on a 2013 Dell Latitude E6430 business laptop that does not like playing games (cpu temp when gaming: 85° C, [hotter than it would prefer to be])