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Need for speed III: Hot Pursuit - release info?

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First post, by Shadzilla

Posted on 2024-02-10, 19:42

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I'm looking into releases of Need for speed III: Hot Pursuit to try and figure out which one I want to buy. So far I've found 3 different versions (excluding any re-releases, like Sold Out). I'm not sure if these are region specific, or just different versions of the official release. Does anyone either have the game from new and can verify what it looks like for your region, or have any insights to these please?

Option A

Option B

Option C

I'm slightly suspicious of Option C due to the Dice branding - possibly a kind of re-release?

Reply 1 of 5, by MadMac_5

Posted on 2024-02-10, 19:47

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I bought mine within a week of its release in Canada in October 1998, and mine looks like the pics you've labelled Option B.

Reply 2 of 5, by Shadzilla

Posted on 2024-02-10, 19:54

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Awesome, thank you, so that's potentially the North American release then. That tracks - I have the NA release of The Need for Speed SE and it has a similar command reference on the back of the jewel case.

Maybe Option A is the UK big box release of the same point in time...

Reply 3 of 5, by Sombrero

Posted on 2024-02-11, 18:49

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Your option A has the jewel case from the european big box release of NFS3, it's identical to mine. Don't know did the central european countries (germany/france/italy) have localized editions but they should be easy to spot while shopping.

Option C is definitely some later rerelease, DVD case PC games weren't a thing in 1998 and started slowly appearing around 2000.

Reply 4 of 5, by Shadzilla

Posted on 2024-02-11, 20:15

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Perfect! Thank you for confirming 😀

Reply 5 of 5, by chinny22

Posted on 2024-02-11, 23:55

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The 3 main copies I'm aware of are:
"Standard" version which I suspect all 3 of these are here.
"Walmart" version which included the Corvette Indy 500 Pace Car
"Australian" version which included Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon.

Apart from the different cars only other difference is in Walmart had an additional opponent setting giving everyone the Pace car.

You can download all the official cars (including the official EA DLC cars) from here

http://nfsa.ca/c5010

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