History VideoGame / NeedForSpeedHotPursuit

** ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010)'s response missions are [[DifficultySpike incredibly hard]] as they require to dodge everything and perform a perfect run while under a time limit at more than a hundred miles an hour. Weather conditions amp up these missions considerably. And there's that damned Bugatti Veyron response mission which does all of this at more than two hundred miles an hour, and it's recommended to reach its top speed of ~250 MPH(!) during that mission for max points!

* OffModel: The majority of the cars from ''Hot Pursuit 2'' suffer from this on the [=PlayStation=] 2 version. However, this is somewhat averted on the inferior EA Seattle version (though there are a few cars that do this, like the Ford Crown Victoria and the McLaren F1 models).

* OffModel: The majority of the cars from ''Hot Pursuit 2'' suffer from this on the [=PlayStation=] 2 version. However, this is somewhat averted on the inferior EA Seattle version (though there are a few cars that do this, like the Ford Crown Victoria).

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Played with in the [=PlayStation=] release of ''III: Hot Pursuit''. The beginner tournament requires the player to drive class B vehicles[[note]]Ferrari 355 F1 Berlinetta, Chevrolet Corvette and Lamborghini Countach[[/note]] in its first four events[[note]]Hometown, Redrock Ridge, Atlantica and Rocky Pass[[/note]]. While class A vehicles[[note]]Italdesign Nazca C2, Ferrari 550 and Lamborghini Diablo SV[[/note]] unlocked by default in other modes, they won't be accessible in this mode until the second half of the tournament where player has to race in the expert-labeled courses in the game[[note]]Country Woods, Lost Canyons, Aquatica and The Summit[[/note]].

** Event 29 in ''Hot Pursuit 2'''s Ultimate Racer mode is an 8-race tournament, with 3 laps per race. Takes even longer. You have to finish first in the tournament to unlock the next event, but fortunately, you can restart individual races without having to start the whole tournament over again.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In ''Hot Pursuit 2'', one of the female cop's voice samples contains the phrase "he's really moving down there".
* MarketBasedTitle: For an in-universe example, ''Hot Pursuit 2'' had "both" the Opel Speedster and the Vauxhall [=VX220=]. For those who don't know, "Vauxhall [=VX220=]" is simply the name the car is sold in the United Kingdom (Opel and Vauxhall are sister brands). The only difference in the game is the lack of a roof on the [=VX220=] while the Speedster had a slightly higher acceleration.

** The [=McLaren F1=], which first appeared in ''Need for Speed II'', missed two games (not counting the Porsche-exclusive ''Porsche Unleashed'') until returning in ''Hot Pursuit 2''.

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** The ''Remastered'' version allows you to give any of your car a custom car color as oppose to just selecting the available factory colors.[[note]]The [=iOS=] version has that the ability to give the cars a custom color, something that was already featured 10 years earlier before ''Remastered'''s release.[[/note]]

** Its Wii version has already this in spades. It allows you to apply decals, give the car a custom color and even applying a body kit and custom rims. [[note]]Once you purchased and installed a body kit, you cannot revert the car back to its stock body.[[/note]]

* DeathFromAbove: ''Hot Pursuit 2'' had a helicopter that would rain bombs across the road to blow you and your car to smithereens. The [=PlayStation 2=] port [[UpToEleven amped this up]] by allowing the helicopter to dump [[MoreDakka two bomb barrels at once]] instead of just one, as well as firing a [[NoKillLikeOverkill heat-seeking torpedo]] toward you, and worst of all, dropping spike strip bombs in front of you. [[DisproportionateRetribution All because you were speeding]].

* NitroBoost: The [=PlayStation=] 2 version of ''Hot Pursuit 2'' was actually where the famous nitrous was introduced in the franchise, where police cars used it to catch up with racers, then turned mainstream since ''Underground'' as generally a racer-exclusive ability.

''Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit'' is a sub-series of Creator/ElectronicArts' ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' franchise. It consists of ''Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit'' (1998), ''Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2'' (2002), and ''Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit'' (2010). These games would come to represent the identity of what's considered to be the first era of the ''Need for Speed'' franchise, that is, racing exotic cars in various scenic tracks while being chased by the cops. Also, unlike what later titles in the franchise would be famous for, none of these games feature any plot.

* CreativeClosingCredits: Since just ''Creative Credits'' don't exist, ''III: Hot Pursuit'' on PC has them in the form of fake Seattle and Vancouver drivers licenses for the main developers, including role, birthplace, birthdate, driving style and vehicle. Aside from their role, it seems anything goes when they wrote their information, such as answering birthplace with "[[LiteralMinded A hospital, duh]]" and driving styles ranging from [[DrivesLikeCrazy "The road's mine!", "What speed limit?", to "Aggressively courteous"]].

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The tracks in ''III: Hot Pursuit'' and ''IV: High Stakes'' can (or occasionally have to) be raced on in the rain. Summit, however, a track that's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin already, replaces rain with snow. And no, you don't get any vehicle that's halfway sensible to drive on this track in such conditions. Good luck keeping a Countach on the street.

* CharacterCustomization: Well, ''car'' customization, but ''III'' allows you to repaint your cars to unique colors, and fine-tune your cars' handling and performance.[[note]]''II'' beforehand had the simple handling tuning options[[/note]] ''High Stakes'' (which basically serves as its MissionPackSequel) also introduced upgrades that turns your car into a sufficiently PimpedOutCar.

* CharacterCustomization: Well, ''car'' customization.
** The ''Remastered'' version allows you to give any of your car a custom car color as oppose to just selecting the available factory colors.[[note]]The [=iOS=] version has that the ability to give the cars a custom color, something that was already featured 10 years earlier before ''Remastered'''s release.[[/note]]
** The February 2021 update features a Livery Editor, allowing you to create custom wraps and designs.[[note]]Livery designs cannot be shared though.[[/note]]
** Its Wii version has already this in spades. It allows you to apply decals, give the car a custom color and even applying a body kit and custom rims. [[note]]Once you purchased and installed a body kit, you cannot revert the car back to its stock body.[[/note]]

* [[CharacterCustomization Car Customization]]: ''III'' allows you to repaint your cars to unique colors, and fine-tune your cars' handling and performance[[note]]''II'' had the simple handling tuning options[[/note]]. Its MissionPackSequel ''High Stakes'' also introduced upgrades that turns your car into a sufficiently PimpedOutCar.

* [[CharacterCustomization Car Customization]]: The Remastered version allows you to give any of your car a custom car color as oppose to just selecting the available factory colors. [[note]]The [=iOS=] version has that the ability to give the cars a custom color. Something that was featured 10 years earlier before the Remastered's release]][[/note]]
** The February 2021 update features a Livery Editor, allowing you to create custom wraps and designs [[note]]Livery designs cannot be shared though.[[/note]]

-->-- '''Hot Action Cop''', "Fever for the Flava", part of ''Hot Pursuit 2'''s soundtrack [[note]]Specifically, the {{bowdlerise}}d version made specifically for the game.[[/note]]

-->''27 County. I'm out of examples.''
--->''County 27. Index is en route. ETA 5 minutes.''

!!These ''Need for Speed'' games contain examples of the following tropes:

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** ''III'' is this to ''II'', which brought back police pursuits and turned the exotic car street racing into a serious BloodSport.
** The 2010 game is this to the fairly legal ''Shift'' and the wacky ''Nitro'.

* AnachronismStew: A subtle but noticeable one in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) is an F-14 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-14_Tomcat Tomcat]] that likes to fly by every now and then near Memorial Highway. [[RuleOfCool Though not a particular source of frustration,]] it still has some of the fans that are well-versed in aviation crying foul because the game more or less takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture and that the [[JustPlaneWrong plane in question has been out of service since 2006]]. It does serve as an [[ShoutOut homage]] to [[Film/TopGun the film that inspired the series' name]].
* ArtificialBrilliance: It's subtle, but while playing as a Racer in ''Hot Pursuit'' game modes in, well, ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010), the A.I. police do actually engage the A.I. Racers racing with you. It doesn't sound like a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that they could have simply made the Police and Racer A.I. only engage you to save the trouble. They don't hold back either, the Police can be seen and heard ramming, administering EMP strikes, and Spike Striping your fellow Racers all around you. However, that doesn't stop...
* ArtificialStupidity: ...the police chopper in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010), who lacks complete navigation skills. For some reason, it prefers to navigate between spike drop points by flying along the roads with all their twists and turns, instead of simply flying straight over the terrain.
* ArtisticLicenseCars: The [=McLaren=] F1 in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) has the airbrake deploy when driving at speed when this particular part is only meant to deploy to assist in braking. This is odd because the active wings on both the [=MP4-12C=] and the Veyrons that will deploy at speed to provide downforce but then flatten out against the wind to assist in braking.

* CallBack: The "Blacklisted" event in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) calls back to ''Most Wanted'' (2005), and during the event itself, you are chased by several police cars and a single Chevrolet Corvette Z06; Cross's car from ''Most Wanted'' (2005).
* CriticalExistenceFailure: In ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010), the damage modeling usually means that cars on the verge of being wrecked look the part - but they're still perfectly capable of driving like new until that last sliver of health is gone. In addition, it is possible to get caught in a pileup at a roadblock with other drivers, leading to some hilarious, spectacular moments as one watches cars suddenly become wrecked by a fender bender.
* CurbStompBattle: ''A lot'' of the Duel Events in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) can fall into this, particularly the "Power Trip", "Twin Turbo", "Racing Stripes" and "Title Fight" Duels.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory: You may have remembered some advice you got back in ''Most Wanted'' (2005) about slamming into the rear of a police car if you had to hit a roadblock as the cars were weighted towards the front. Do ''not'' do this in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010)...
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The racer-exclusive Turbo in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010). [[LampshadeHanging Like the game says]], "it's hard to evade spike strips when you're going at 200mph" (especially since, unlike your standard boost, once it's activated, it can't be stopped until it runs dry unless you brake hard enough). It doesn't help when you're out of Jammers and can't prevent the cops from dropping spike strips in front of you...
* DisproportionateRetribution: The premise of ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010). "Hey, that guy is speeding! Quickly, let's lay down spike strips, use electromagnetic pulses, call in the helicopters, and ram them off the road! Hopefully off the side of a cliff! That'll teach them a lesson about speeding!"
* FragileSpeedster: Most exotics and hypercars in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) are the fastest cars in the game, but are the most susceptible to getting totaled.
* InVehicleInvulnerability: If you knock out a car in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010), the most you might see the driver do inside is just shaking his head in disappointment. No fear. This happens even if the racer in question uses a Mercedes-Benz SLR [=McLaren=] Stirling Moss Edition, which has '''''no windshield or roof.''''' Averted in that if you wreck a cop, they sometimes request EMS.
* LimitBreak: ''Underground 2''[='s=] mechanic of refilling your nitrous with stunts returns in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010). In fact, it's about the only way to win in the Exotic or Hyper series when you're a Racer. The fact that the cops' cars are ''significantly better'' than yours doesn't help.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Most of the wrecks, takedowns, busts, and crashes in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) involve rolling the car multiple times, launching cars off of cliffs, brutal head-on collisions with traffic, and sending supercars into walls while going at speeds climbing over 240+ MPH. Especially in a Mercedes-Benz SLR [=McLaren=] Stirling Moss, a car that literally has no roof and no windshield! A roll-over in that car would clearly kill the driver.

* OneManArmy: You are always this in some of the installments that let you play as a cop, but you are especially this in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010)'s Cop mode. Unlike the Hot Pursuit events on the racer side, you are always the only cop after several racers in Hot Pursuit events, and your arrival to Interceptor events is often treated like Franchise/{{Superman}} just arrived on the scene.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010), listen to the woman who reads off each car's description in the vehicle selection menu. She frequently slips between an American accent and a British one, especially on words like "dollars" and "goggles" (for example: the SLR Stirling Moss).

* ATasteOfPower: {{Defied|Trope}}. A starter cop mission gives you a Lamborghini Reventon, and things ''don't'' get worse from there. Mind you, ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) absolutely ''loves'' this trope, heck, fairly early in the game (whichever side of the law you are on), you're gonna get a preview of a handful of cars you won't be driving for a while. The best examples include the [=McLaren=] F1, Pagani Zonda Cinque, Corvette [=ZR1=], and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. All of which can be unlocked after a few hours of playing. Another example occurs in the form of the following: More often than not, you'll unlock regular events that you have no eligible cars for (eg. Porsche Patrol, which unlocks much earlier than either of the 2 eligible cars you can use for that event). In such a case, you'll be loaned an eligible car just for that event. [[spoiler:Yes, the Veyron and the Koenigsegg CCXR are the last two cars you'll unlock]].
* WeaponizedCar: ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) allows Cops and Racers alike to shoot ranged-damage EMP blasts and drop tire-deflating spike strips at each other. Cops can even order helicopters to do the latter for them and call in roadblock units; Racers have Jammers that can interfere with police department equipment, preventing them from using the aforementioned weapons, as well as Turbo boosts for extreme bursts of speed.

[[caption-width-right:350:20 to County, in pursuit of a yellow Diablo.]]

''Hot Pursuit 2'' is the sixth installment in the ''Need for Speed'' series and the sequel to ''III: Hot Pursuit'', featuring more and bigger tracks, more cars, and more race types. It was developed for [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]], UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, and [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] by EA Seattle, and for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 by [[Creator/BlackBox EA Black Box]], who would become the new main ''Need for Speed'' developer for the next several years. ''Hot Pursuit 2'' was the last game in the series to focus on exotic cars for nearly a decade, and also the last game to have them (until 2005's ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted Most Wanted]]''), as following this game was ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground Underground]]'', which would basically serve as a reboot by radically shifting the games' focus on racing heavily-customized import tuners in urban environments, even. ''Hot Pursuit 2'' was also the first sixth-generation NFS game, and the only classic NFS game released on sixth-gen platforms.

Both games would eventually receive a reboot/SpiritualSuccessor in 2010, simply titled ''Hot Pursuit'',[[note]]generally known as "''Hot Pursuit'' (2010)" to distinguish it from the others,[[/note]] the sixteenth ''Need for Speed'' title and the first game in the series developed by Creator/CriterionGames,[[note]]with some help by EA DICE, the makers of ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' and ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'',[[/note]] the EA studio behind the ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'' franchise, and features some online-focused "race and chase" gameplay, either through multiplayer or the then-new "Autolog" system that continuously compares your best times to those of your friends and challenges you to beat your friends' times. It takes place in a not-exactly-open-world environment called Seacrest County, which is based on the American West Coast states of California, Oregon and Washington. This game in turn would receive a remastered version, titled ''Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered'', released on November 2020.

** The [=McLaren F1=], which first appeared in ''Need for Speed II'', missed two games (not counting the Porsche-exclusive ''Porsche Unleased'') until returning in ''Hot Pursuit 2''.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Or rather, Getting Arrested is a Slap on the Wrist: This seems to be the case in-universe for both ''III: Hot Pursuit'' and ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) where being stopped means a simple speeding ticket and fine. In ''III: Hot Pursuit'''s case, you get as many chances as there are laps in a Hot Pursuit Race and the first time being pulled over will have the cop simply urge you to watch your speed or "pretend your accelerator was stuck". In the latter case, it seems that completely trashing the carbotanium body of a Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster simply means that the racer was issued with a ticket, judging by the dialogue in SCPD events.

** Event 29 in ''Hot Pursuit 2'''s Ultimate Racer mode is an 8-race tournament, with 3 laps per race. Takes even longer. You have to finish first in the tournament to unlock the next event, but fortunately you can restart individual races without having to start the whole tournament over again.

* TheMostWanted: All the ''Hot Pursuit'' titles have the racers being chased by the police and having as objetive not just win the races, also avoid to get caught by the cops.

** Sure, the missions in the beginning of ''Hot Pursuit 2'' are easy, but watch out for some of the missions after halfway through. The opponents ''really'' stop going easy on you. The ''[[TitleDrop Hot Pursuit]]'' event branch [[FromBadToWorse adds traffic to the mix, alongside the police]]. At higher [[WantedMeter stars]], the AI will end up defaulting to spike strips first and roadblocks second - if at all. And in the [=PlayStation=] 2 port, you have to deal with both spike strips ''and'' a helicopter firing [[MoreDakka bombs, missiles]], and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs spike strip bombs]] at you ''at the same time''.

** The two cover cars for ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) title are the Lamborghini Reventon (total production: 20 cars, plus one for display in the Lamborghini Museum.) and the Pagani Zonda Cinque (total production: five cars, all going to an exotic car showroom in Hong Kong. [[DontExplainTheJoke "Cinque" is the Italian term for the number five, hence the production number and name.]]).

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The commercial trailers for ''Hot Pursuit 2'' include a Lamborghini Murciélago or a HSV Coupé GTS parking near a Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser, in which the driver and/or passenger [[GoingCommando show their ass to the officers]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R1Slb1aXQ4 using grafitti in a "speed limit" sign to]] [[RefugeInAudacity paint a 1 before the 65 to "increase" it]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDKW1f42cF0 ask them for directions to the nearest bank]] [[TooDumbToLive so they can rob it]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJYKSgakNxE taunting the police with donuts, and then]] [[DonutMessWithACop smugly eating those in front of them]].

* BrokenBridge: ''III: Hot Pursuit'' has a variation of this trope. The first four courses in the game have closed alternate routes that deviate from the main path and, in the [=PlayStation=] release at least, the ones with the alternate route as the main course can be unlocked by winning the tournament, albeit with a different weather or time of day.

* CrapsackWorld: Implied in ''III: Hot Pursuit'' with Empire City; the track narrator goes so far to say: "Metropolis gone bad..." when listening on the description in the menu.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Since just ''Creative Credits'' don't exist, ''III: Hot Pursuit'' on PC has them in the form of fake Seattle and Vancouver drivers licenses for the main developers, including role, birthplace, birthdate, driving style and vehicle. Aside from their role, it seems anything goes when they wrote their information, such as answering birthplace with "[[LiteralMinded A hospital, duh]]" and driving styles ranging from [[DrivesLikeCrazy "The road's mine!", "What speed limit?", to "Aggresively courteous"]].

* MarketBasedTitle: For an in-universe example, ''Hot Pursuit 2'' had "both" the Opel Speedster and the Vauxhall [=VX220=]. For those who don't know, "Vauxhall [=VX220=]" is simply the name the car is sold as the United Kingdom (Opel and Vauxhall are sister brands). The only difference in the game is the lack of roof on the [=VX220=] while the Speedster had a slightly higher acceleration.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Seacrest County Police Department has impossibly large fleets of interceptor vehicles made up almost entirely of high-end exotic sports cars and supercars, including Bugatti Veyrons, rare Aston Martin One-77s and even ''one-off concept cars''. In fact, the real life [[UsefulNotes/{{Dubai}} Dubai Police Force]] boasts a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Police_Force#Exotic_and_unusual_patrol_cars similarly lavish police fleet]] that, yes, really does field [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbv5AjX25E Veyrons]] and One-77s. [[AwesomeButImpractical Of course]], because of the high value of these "super patrol cars", they are [[ConspicuousConsumption mostly for show]] and only used for patrolling rich, low-risk tourist areas, and even Dubai's motorpool is still rather tame compared to the SCPD and RCPD's. Similarly, the Italian police have used a Gallardo 560-4 as an actual interceptor unit (which has since been retired and replaced with the Lamborghini Huracan). Unlike the Dubai exotic police fleet however, the Italian Lamborghini interceptors do serve a practical use in the form of emergency organ transport given how crucial it is for vital organs to be delivered to patients in dire need.
* AnachronismStew: A subtle but noticeable one in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) is an F-14 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-14_Tomcat Tomcat]] that likes to fly-by every now and then near Memorial Highway. [[RuleOfCool Though not a particular source of frustration,]] it still has some of the fans that are well-versed in aviation crying foul because the game more or less takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture and that the [[JustPlaneWrong plane in question has been out of service since 2006]]. It does serve as an [[ShoutOut homage]] to [[Film/TopGun the film that inspired the series' name]].
* ArtificialBrilliance: It's subtle, but while playing as a Racer in ''Hot Pursuit'' gamemodes in, well, ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010), the A.I. police does actually engage the A.I. Racers racing with you. It doesn't sound like a big deal, if it wasn't for the fact that they could have simply made the Police and Racer A.I. only engage you to save the trouble. They don't hold back either, the Police can be seen and heard ramming, administering EMP strikes, and Spike Striping your fellow Racers all around you. However, that doesn't stop...

* AWinnerIsYou: Appears when the player clears all of the offline missions for one side.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The racer-exclusive Turbo in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010). [[LampshadeHanging Like the game says]], "it's hard to evade spike strips when you're going at 200mph" (especially since, unlike your standard boost, once it's activated, it can't be stopped until it runs dry, unless you brake hard enough). It doesn't help when you're out of Jammers and can't prevent the cops from dropping spike strips in front of you...
* DisproportionateRetribution: The premise of ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010). "Hey, that guy is speeding! Quickly, lets lay down spike strips, use electromagnetic pulses, call in the helicopters, and ram them off the road! Hopefully off the side of a cliff! That'll teach them a lesson about speeding!"
* FragileSpeedster: Most exotics and hypercars in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) are the fastets cars in the game, but are the most susceptible to get totalled.
* InVehicleInvulnerability: If you knock out a car in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010), the most you might see the driver do inside is just shake his head in disappointment. No fear. This happens even if the racer in question uses a Mercedes-Benz SLR [=McLaren=] Stirling Moss Edition, which has '''''no windshield or roof.''''' Averted in that if you wreck a cop, they sometimes request EMS.
* LimitBreak: ''Underground 2''[='s=] mechanic of refilling your nitrous with stunts returns in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010). In fact, it's about the only way to win in Exotic or Hyper series when you're a Racer. The fact that the cops' cars are ''significantly better'' than yours doesn't help.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Most of the wrecks, takedowns, busts and crashes in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) that involve rolling the car multiple times, launching cars off of cliffs, brutal head-on collisions with traffic and sending supercars into walls while going at speeds climbing over 240+ MPH. Especially in a Mercedes-Benz SLR [=McLaren=] Stirling Moss, a car that literally has no roof and no windshield! A roll-over in that car would clearly kill the driver.

* OneManArmy: You are always this in some of the installments that lets you play as a cop, but you are especially this in ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010)'s Cop mode. Unlike the Hot Pursuit events on the racer side, you are always the only cop after several racers in Hot Pursuit events, and your arrival to Interceptor events is often treated like Franchise/{{Superman}} just arrived on scene.

*** Just so you know [[Creator/CriterionGames who made the game]], there's an achievement/trophy called "VideoGame/{{Burnout}}" that requires the player to fully charge up the NitroBoost and use it all in one go. To drive that point home, one of the routes in game is called "Point of Impact".

* StealthPun: During the final roadblock upgrade briefing for police, the game would helpfull notify you that "Porsche Cayenne Turbos are now deployed to add ''spice'' to your pursuit." Keep in mind that cayenne is also a type of chili.

* ATasteOfPower: {{Defied|Trope}}. A starter cop mission gives you a Lamborghini Reventon, and things ''don't'' get worse from there. Mind you, ''Hot Pursuit'' (2010) absolutely ''loves'' this trope, heck, fairly early in the game (whichever side of the law you are on), you're gonna get a preview of a handful of cars you won't be driving for a while. The best examples include the [=McLaren=] F1, Pagani Zonda Cinque, Corvette [=ZR1=] and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. All of which can be unlocked after a few hours of playing. Another example occurs in the form of the following: More often than not, you'll unlock regular events that you have no eligible cars for (eg. Porsche Patrol, which unlocks much earlier than either of the 2 eligible cars you can use for that event). In such a case, you'll be loaned an eligible car just for that event. [[spoiler:Yes, the Veyron and the Koenigsegg CCXR are the last two cars you'll unlock]].