Favourite need for speed game(s)?

[Strittan]

I’m revisiting Underground 2 right now. I’m not an NFS connoisseur by any means, but it’s amazing to me how well it holds up. Maybe it’s just nostalgia but I love the atmosphere.

 

[nickf1gr]

My all time best NFS games are:

Need For Speed II

Need For Speed Porsche Unleased

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit

Need For Speed Most Wanted

Need For Speed The Run

I wish for a remaster NFS Porsche Unleased with all new (2025) cars!!!!

 

[Chris30]

Mine were:

NFS Hot Pursuit 2
NFS Underground
NFS Most Wanted
NFS Heat
NFS Payback

 

[Vermeil]

My favourite Need For Speed are:

Need For Speed Porsche 2000
Need For Speed Underground
Need For Speed Underground 2
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit '10
Need For Speed Unbound

 

[Fezzik]

Somehow I don't think I've ever played a NFS game. Hot Pursuit Remastered is one of the free PS Plus games this month so I will remedy this personal failure.

 

[Chris30]

I forgot another favorite game of mine: NFS Payback

 

[dylpro]

Hot Pursuit 2 will always be one of, if not my number 1 video game of all time. As recently as a couple years ago I would fire up the PS2 and play through it to near completion. Unfortunately, left my PS2 and my NFSHP2 copy at an ex girlfriends house and it ended up in a Goodwill box (mistakenly not maliciously I should say)

After that, High Stakes and HP1 will always hold a special place in my heart as one of the reasons I ever got into cars and video games at all

 

[SlimCharles]

High Stakes on PSX is my absolute favourite.

It also seems to be the most refined from EA Canada. Eden did great with Porsche 2000. Any Black Box era game eats Criterion or Ghost releases, specially with game direction (with some exceptions). It's so difficult to chose a game from them because even when flawed, they are quite special.

Past that, I think NFS peaked with Hot Pursuit 2010. And on a side note, I think SMS never did a greater game than Shift 2.