Thanks for the feedback, guys. I think I'm going to go with Hot Pursuit, seeing as my friends list isn't huge into racing and I can get the open world feel with Burnout Paradise if I'm feeling like cruising.
I've had an itch to play a new racing game lately - last one I played was Burnout Paradise. Keeping in the vein of Criterion, I'm stuck between their two NFS outlets: Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted.
Loved Hot Pursuit 2 when I played it on my GameCube way back when and the same can be said about...
If I could pick up a copy of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem for cheap, I'd definitely go for it. I'm not sure how well it's aged, but I loved that game so much back in the day.
More recent games I might pick up include: Fable 2, Scribblenauts, COD 4: Modern Warfare, and Skate.