Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 has a lot of licensed rock music along with techno music composed by contract artists. The game consists of eight vocal rock songs, seven instrumental songs, and electronic songs, all fast paced with elements of grunge, hip hop and rap. In Be The Cop and Hot Pursuit modes, instrumental songs replace the vocal ones, which avoids obscuring police radio messages by the song lyrics. The PlayStation 2 version allows you to have the option to change whether or not certain songs can be played in normal races, hot pursuit races and the game menus, or to be not played at all. The Xbox version allows custom soundtracks to be played in main menus and race sequences.