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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Trophy Guide

Editorial Team

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Trophy Guide. Difficulty: ***  A racing game and the sixteenth title in the Need for Speed series. The Platinum is more time consuming than difficult, with online trophies that can be challenging without boosting.

Game Name Difficulty Trophies Developer Country Bronze Silver Gold Online DLC
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit *** 51 Criterion Games U.K. 38 10 2 10 22

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is a racing video game, and the sixteenth title in the Need for Speed series. The game takes place in the fictional Seacrest County, where players compete in several types of races in an open world, featuring over 100 miles (60 km) of open road, and online multiplayer.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit received positive reviews, with an average score of 88%, praised for its graphics, beautiful setting, variety of gameplay, and overall fun.

With a boosting partner, this game's difficulty rating could be brought down to a 2-star, as you will need to play a total of 50 online games and meet all of the requirements. Given the game's age, this can be challenging to do without a partner.

The offline trophies can be tricky, such as getting gold medals in all the races. But for the most part, the game is more time consuming than challenging, particularly for players who are familiar with the Need for Speed series.

Overall, expect a minimum of 30 hours for the Platinum, and more if you don't have a boosting partner.

The first step is to select either a racer or cop, then play through the single player mode. It doesn't matter which you choose first, but we recommend completing everything you need to, including earning all the golds or distinctions, before switching to the other.

Once you've finished your playthroughs as both cop and racer, you can move on to the online trophies. There are 10 in total. These are possible to do on your own, though given the game's age, the challenging part is finding people to play with - and you'll need to complete a total of 50 races to earn all the trophies. If you're looking for a boosting partner, check out the forums under our Links tab.

Once you have all 10 online trophies unlocked, it's simply a matter of mopping-up any offline trophies you may still be missing. Check out the Need for Speed Hot Pursuit trophy guide links under our Links tab to see what you need to do for each.

First, a text-based Walkthrough by redapocalypse04:
http://www.gamesradar.com/cheats/19762/

Here's a detailed Trophy Guide by mritual:
http://ps3trophies.com/forums/showwiki.php?title=PS3-Trophy-Guides:Need-for-Speed:-Hot-Pursuit-Trophy-Guide

Godchild1020 has a great Trophy Guide here:
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit/guide/

Some useful Trophy Guide tips here:
http://psnprofiles.com/trophies/449-Need-for-Speed-Hot-Pursuit?guide

And an Achievement Guide (same as the trophies on PS3) by littlejay:
http://www.xboxachievements.com/game/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit/guide/

Here's a Boosting Forum on PlaystationTrophies:
http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit/78846-trophy-boosting-thread-read-first-post.html

And a Boosting Forum on PS3Trophies:
http://ps3trophies.com/forums/need-speed-hot-pursuit/2256-official-need-speed-hot-pursuit-boosting-thread.html

Finally, here's a basic Trophy List:
http://www.allps3trophies.com/retail-games/need-for-speed-hot-pursuit-trophies.html

Burnout Paradise Trophy Guide

Editorial Team

Burnout Paradise Trophy Guide. Difficulty: **  An open-world racing game taking place in the fictional Paradise City. With the exception of one online trophy which requires 8 players, the Platinum is not particularly difficult for an average player.

Game Name Difficulty Trophies Developer Country Bronze Silver Gold Online DLC
Burnout Paradise ** 51 Criterion Games U.K. 38 10 2 6 47

Burnout Paradise

Welcome to Paradise City! An open-world where you take place in races, stunt runs, smash up your car for points, take down opponents, drive through billboards, and leap over super jumps. Without needing a menu screen, just stop at any intersection and signal that you want to participate in one of these events. It's a smash-up derby racing game where the city is your playground.

Like Uncharted, Burnout Paradise is a popular platinum you see around. Other than the Wildcat's Stadium trophy, which can be rather frustrating in finding 8 people online to play with - and are willing to meet up at the stadium - most of the trophies you'll easily acquire by participating in a few online events, and doing enough offline events. This is also one of those games which can be cleared more easily if you've got a friend online to help you out.

NOTE: You will need a USB camera for the Send a Mugshot or Smugshot trophy.

For the most part, you'll be clearing event after event to upgrade your license, gathering trophies along the way. The game will award you with a few easy "blings" at the start, for getting a paint job or driving through an auto repair. Without too much time on your hands, you should gather all the offline trophies without any problems.

Visit the Links page for maps of Paradise City, which you'll need for the Find All The Events Around Paradise City trophy.

Many of the online trophies are easy to get. You'll probably find the majority of people (for some reason) just drive around without setting any Freeburn Challenges. If this happens for awhile, just exit out and try another party, or set one up yourself. it takes a bit of patience, but eventually you will find a party that's actually doing something. If you do, stay there! Try to complete as many Freeburn Challenges that you can.

The 8 Players Meet In The Wildcat's Baseball Stadium trophy is, by far, the most frustrating one in the game. You need a full party of eight people, and the host must select this particular Freeburn Challenge. We recommend jumping into a large party, and try sending a message to the host requesting the challenge. Once you have this trophy out of the way, the rest of the game is smooth driving!

First, here's an interactive Map of Paradise City, showing all the event locations:
http://www.senocular.com/burnout/

And another, simpler Map, which you can download and print in pdf, hosted by IGN:
http://faqs.ign.com/articles/847/847935p1.html

For a Trophy Guide, this one by Andrew Yoon we found to be the most useful:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/09/trophy-guide-burnout-paradise/

Here's a simpler Trophy Guide by olsen77 & JakeSS14:
http://www.ps3trophies.org/game/burnout-paradise/guide/

And another Trophy Guide, by Phoenix8387:
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2008/09/29/psls-trophy-guide-burnout-paradise/

Finally, here's a basic Trophy List, complete with the DLC trophies:
http://www.ps3trophies.org/game/burnout-paradise/trophies/