Special Wednesday Edition From the Archives: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 (2002)

Every Friday (or Wednesday when we're busy, like today) we celebrate the heritage of Code Redd Net by posting a retro-review from our considerable back catalogue of embarrassingly naive, but nonetheless entertaining and heartfelt, movie and game reviews. Please pardon the prose; most of these articles were written in our immediately post-pubescent years. Hopefully you find them as enjoyable as we do.

The following is actually ChickenMan's original review, culled from the archives before the original site went down in 2009 and before I had an opportunity to post my own thoughts. He makes many fine points below. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 is still the perfect racing game and the only one I truly love. It is, indeed, "hot and spicy chicken."


"I love this game! I absolutely can’t find anything serious that I don’t like about it and you can’t say that with every game. It has loads to play from event trees and unlocking cars. Sometimes with games it seems like a chore to completely and totally beat the game while not having the most fun possible. But with this game you pass the time having lots of fun with it. It has 49 cars to choose from so you can fit your taste and style. It has many tracks to master, lots of cool music, and a very good pre-sequence video. Anybody who loves speed or cars can enjoy this game; what’s not to love? Maybe hitting spike strips, but you get over it, eventually. One thing I would request is the classic Lamborghini Diablo SV from the original Hot Pursuit. HP2 is hot and spicy chicken. Play it."