Fasten your seatbelt and get ready to drive like your life depends on it. Perilous mountains, arid deserts and thick forests threaten your safety at every turn as you speed through the extreme Seacrest County landscape — but the biggest hazard is hot on your tail. A cop chases you in reckless pursuit — a friend of yours until you turned away from the law. You feel the bullets from his high-powered weapons shattering your glass and whizzing past your ear, but you just stare at the course ahead, twist the steering wheel and throttle forward. It's a heart-stopping Hot Pursuit and your life's in danger at every moment. But you can't slow down now — freedom is just a few maneuvers away, and you have just one concern: the Need for Speed.You've raced before, but you've never been in a chase like Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. This time, you can experience both the thrill of the chase and the rush of the escape all in one day as you get behind the wheel as both a cop and a law-breaking racer. All your races can be real-life competitions when you connect with your friends for online multiplayer action and compare performance and stats to up the stakes. Who will come out on top? In this Hot Pursuit, you have to prove you have the ability, guts and the Need for Speed.