High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is a 2002 racing video game, serving as the debut Need for Speed (NFS) title from EA Black Box, and the first Need for Speed for the sixth generation of consoles as well as the final of the first generation Need for Speed Games. It is the sequel to the 1998 racing game Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit. In 2002, the game was awarded Console Racing Game of the Year at the 6th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. Like Porsche Unleashed before it, Hot Pursuit 2 was not released in Japan. This is also the first game in the series (until Shift) not to have a cockpit-view in the cars.