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You Must cop this game!!! | | Yaagayow from Annandale , Virginia, U.S.A says (2/Dec/2003): | This is a game you must get if you love racing or driving games.This is a game you must get if you want to erase the bad memory and wasted money on games like Midnight Club racing 2. Why? Why ask Why? I'll tell you why, Customization, tracks, cars, sound, graphics, cutscenes, music, online gameplay ( not downloading times and calling it online gamelplay). Or let me put it simply, to restore the faith of how good a racing game could be after you play loser games like Burnout, Midnight Racing Club 2 and its ilk (Dont worry, I was fooled by Rockstars flashy commercials too).Whether you like simulation or arcade type playing styles, this game will satisfy your Need For Speed.I have played a few racing games in my time from Pole Position to the totally overhyped Midnight Racing Club 2. Need For Speed Underground has raised the bar. This is the game that Burnout, Midnight racing Club and all those other subpar racing games should take an look at an wish they could produce a game this good. Anyone that plays this game will have to admit this is the best racing game out there right now. I love the Tokyo Extreme Racer and Gran Turismo Series but this game has got me by the nuts. I bought this game yesterday and I played it from 6:oopm to 12:30am. I am hooked.
Lets start with the presentation. The only driving game before NFSU to impress me with the opening and get me into the whole feel of the game is the first Gran Turismo. User interface is cool, the background music that is played while you handle your business helps you to forget all the loading screens in the game.
The story line told in the cutscenes are well presented, no talking heads or cheesy childish characters, it feels like you are playing 2Fast 2Furious. The very first race in the Underground mode will let you know that EA put some serious thought and time into the story, make no mistake it aint no world class stuff but it is way better than anything I have seen in a driving game so far.
The tracks are well done, they lack variety but they look good, very good. Its is all done in the night and mostly on city streets.There are lots of straights and highspeed turns to help quench your need for speed. In the older need for speed games the tracks were beautiful but were more challenging than racing the cars. So far I have not encountered any invisible corners or really sharp gear 2 corners so you have ample time to hit triple digit speeds. There arent to many things to crash into and get stuck on, most things you hit will slow you down but keep you on the track, you wont come to a complete stop if you hit most objects. It is also very easy to discern where you are suppose to turn on the track. There are big blinking arrows that direct you around corners and you are givin good warning about corners. I hated Midnight Club 2 for making it so difficult to tell where you where suppose to go.
The game also contains traffic in the form of trucks, trolleys, cars and pickups. In some modes of the game you can chose the amount of traffic you want to have on the tracks. The traffic adds a lot to the game especially in the drag race mode.
The controls in the game are intuiative and well layed out. One of the reasons I hated Midnight Club 2 was the fact that I had was not given choice of using the analog pad to steer with, this game gives you multiple configurations for control. You can tell when the cars are bout to lose control so that helps a lot with really getting a 100% out of the game. Just tap the brakes hit x and you are back in control. It is easy to start a slide and a joy to control them.
The customizing aspects of the game are some of the best reasons to get this game but alas, you have limited control in customizing the perfomance aspects of the car. I love the fact that you can customize the hoods, wheels, wings, front and rear bumpers, paint, decals vinyl, tint, neon, headlights, rear lights among other things. You actually have a chance of creating a unique car that would be one of a kind when you put your ride online
The cars, Hmm. There is a good variety of tasty cars to spank your opponents with. From the Skyline to a Peugot, (I love the Peugot, dont see that car in games to often). The models look good and the cars are shiny and well articulated, when they crash you see the wheels bend at crazy angles. I love seeing the suspension compress when landing jumps or taking a crazy corner. The crash animations are also hot. You get a kind of slowmotion effect when there is a big crash. The sensitivity for the slowmotion camera is adjustable so you could turn it off of make it go slowmo for any little event that looks hot.
The sound, very well done, from the tire squeals to the sound of cars whooshing by, to the turbo spooling up and town to the nitrous kicking in, the sounds are some of the best in a racing game thus far. It totally immerses you in the game and helps you focus when you hit the nitros and the screen goes blurry and other background sounds get a little quiter, that was a good one EA pat yourselves on the bumper for that one. I am going to cop a surround sound system so that I can fully enjoy the sound of hearing the turbo spool up on the RX-7 while I layeth the smack down on candy a#$ drivers online.
There is a good mix of music from the Dirty south to Brooklyn, great rock music and great techno type stuff. I love the soundtrack. You can also customize the play list.
There are many types races that you can race by yourself, splitscreen and online. ONLINE ahhhhhhhh!!. Could you hear that sound? That is the sound of you throwing your pad kicking your dog and blaming everyone but yourself for the beatdown I gave you online. You can race Drift, Knockoff, Circuit, Drag, and a few other modes.
I dont want to spoil the suprise by saying too much else. Take the time I saved you by not telling you all the goods on the game and go cop the game, do your self a favor let NEED FOR SPEED UNDERGROUND help you waste the next year of your life.Let NFSU help you wash the bad taste of Midnight Club Racing 2 or what ever they call that crap out of your mouth.
| Excellent, but frustrating at times | | Big Daddy Zach from Rocky Mountain High... Colorado says (6/Dec/2003): | Let me start by saying I was eagerly anticipating the release of this game. I marched down to Best Buy and dropped $50 to pick it up. As soon as I got home, the disc was in my PS2 and my home theater system was booming! Right from the start, I was very impressed with intro animation. I did what I expect most of us did, I skipped the races and began customixing a car. The visual customization options (fairings, spoilers, paint, vinyl, etc.) are plentiful and the performance options (turbo, nitrous oxide, brakes, etc.) will give you an almost endless number of configurations.
After customizing a car and fooling around on the Quick Races for a little while, I jumped into the Underground mode. As expected, you are given a limted number of vehicles and customization options to choose from. Although the custom options are still more than ample, they don't compare to the options you can choose from after unlocking them. I spent a few days running through the different levels, unlocking more tracks, cars, and custom options and really enjoyed it. The gameplay is great and the graphics are excellent. The controls are easy and can be adjusted to your liking. But then I noticed something that started to bug me a little at first, then more as I continued to play. What I found was that I seemed to be the only racer that will have a wreck and lose several seconds.
When I'm running a race, I will be cruising along when a motorist pulls out in front of me. When we collide, I will always end up either rolling the car, facing the wrong way, or some other dramatic collision that costs me several seconds. Before you know it, you're seven or eight seconds behind, when you had a 4 or 5 second lead. But when a computer-controlled vehicle crashes, they never seem to lose any momentum. First, they rarely wreck. Second, if they do wreck, they are on your tail before you know it. The PS2-controlled racers will run a near-perfect lap every time. It gets really frustrating when you're near the end of the final lap on a circuit, only to lose because a car pulls out in front of you, or you caught air coming down a hill and there's a car in your way, but it was hidden by the hill. On some races, you'll find yourself restarting the race because of some bull$< remove me > at #! like a CPU-racer will bump you and cause you to spin out of control, but as expected, you can't do it to them. My personal most-hated event is when you're following another racer and you take the exact same line that they do, but they'll make the curve perfectly while you either spin out, or catch air on some mysterious bump and wreck.
Overall, NFSU is an excellent game with incredible graphics and gameplay. Just expect some really frustraing moments that may cause you to slam your controller... and jump on it repeatedly before throwing it at the wall.
| Need For Speed Undercategory | | Brad Felizardo from Luanda, Angola says (13/Feb/2004): | My God, this is one of the worst recent attempts to make a new version of a very known game! Shame for EA, and shame for the very sucessfull Need For Speed series. I'll be simply clear:
THIS GAME SUCKS!
I tell you why, just to start, NFS Underground has stolen features and other stuff from other great games, EA made a critical attempt to launch a version of NFS wich can match with games like Burnout 2, the recent Gran Turismo series of PS2 and Midnight Club 2. It's easy to notice about that, c'mon, just look around! Does this game has anything "wich looks like NFS"? It's the most different version of a game i ever saw, and, just in case you think they didn't steal any other games features you can think about the sense at all, c'mon, isn't this a too "unstable" version of NFS? It's already a shame changin a game too much like that, what's NFS project then? A car game today and plane game tomorrow? I'm sh'ure it sounds like that.
And the game is bad itself, i mean, bad "for itself". Gameplay is very very poor, and EA tryied hard to make the game interactive with that, etc, but it just sucks. I think the only thing they thinked about are those features when edditing a car, they are cool, but, c'mon, if the Underground Mode sucks, all the games sucks too! What can we do with the cars then? And to make the shame bigger, no Pursuit Mode in here! and poor soundtrack quality even compared to NFS Hot Pursuit 2!
_ Stolen _
From Burnout:
- Near misses (Did you ever saw this on other NFS titles? Ha, we have Burnout 2 givin a lot of succes so, right now, this appears on NFS...)
- Attempt to create accident results or animations (cut-scenes) for that (Wich is critical!)
- Attempt to create "Burn/Nitro" (Ha... and Need for Speed allways needs more speed! lol)
- And other things i don't remember now, wich are critical too.
From MidnightClub:
- The graphics at all (Never saw a NFS title with such "kind" of graphics, it isn't better, just different, well, maybe better, but not even on PSONE, PC, i never saw this! C'mon, just look at those 3D guys and girls, even my young brother asked if i bought MidnightClub 2 when he saw them. And remember, EA never attempted to create any kind of guys and girls around the game when it comes to NFS).
Still not shure? Just go around, buy or rent NFS HotPursuit 2 and MidnightClub 2, and play it with this poor game, you'll see where is NFS and where is MC2, and, if you want a lesson you can rent Burnout 2 too...
| why so somewhat complicated | | A gamer from somewhere in codoville lol says (30/Mar/2004): | I understand and am in loce with the game in a good way not a marriage way but i like graphics and effects and all but after race number 90 its just to hard for me so i gave up and just tuned my cars up and test drove them but honestly it needs to be a bit easier!ive even tried taking all extras off so the race would be easier but it was horible i came in 3rd cause of a last 2nd wreck i was in the lead with 1 turn to go and i ****ed it up on a **** wall so i give gameplay and over all score of 6/10 but therefore as for the cars there a hole nother story they just need more exotic cars im 1 of those people who get bored after a while and need mroe cars more upgrades i enjoy the skylines and rx7's and stuff like that but they need atleast 1 5 more cars and they all be either classical hotrods or exotic cars andmaybe 1 of them a futuristic high speedster so i give cars an overall score of 9/10 Then you gt road cars the most lethal weapon of the opponet or how ever you spell it any ways opponents like to somtimes dodge aroudn them quikly almost liek 1 of your strategies on toehr games ruunning fromthe cops but when they do so you are going to fast to either brake or move out of the way in my opinion the traffic is both ****ed up and *** because 1 its all tentid windows and 2 the road cars recieve no damage for ur fatalitie costing you the race cause the **** ice cream trucks or wat ever they are wont move cause if ur not expremly stealthy upgrades or non your opponents after race 90 tend to be a pain in the < remove me > at ** so i give opponents an overall of 1/10 but before race 90 10/10 and traffic at any level gets a 0/10 i appreciate it but they need damage for your sacrafice of the race to rear end them and kill those Sonava *****'s if you know wat i mean. as for the rest i give ranking 5-10/10 to but wheres toe cops if tis gunna be based on a FnF movie you need cops!by that i mean the cars! so i give this games total rating a 35/60 which is a D- on my terms cause its only 5 over half and sinc eim in highschool any thing half and below ='s an F!
| Behind the glory of street racing | | Richie-kun from Van Nuys, CA, USA says (25/May/2004): | When it comes to what sucks and what's cool in street racing,car enthusiasts all over will collide to a big argument. But, as once a street racer said in the underground video clips in TXR zero, "everyone thinks they're the best". Some people out there say that NFS Underground is the best and some may not agree. In my opinion, it is great in its own way, which is how it represents the culture of Western street racing. Let's face it, all the cars featured in the game are among the favorites of American street racers; all that craze about nitrous and who's the badass in the street attitude thrown into the game came from what the producers thought was street racing was all about, and it came from movies and dozens of meetings with street racers here in America.
Now let's take another popular street racing game: The Tokyo Extreme Racer series. This game is the perfect representation of the culture of street racing in Japan. In TXR Zero, the gamer experiences a different form of tuning based on lightening the car and raising the horsepower without the use of nitrous (because most Japanese racers prefer racing without the nitrous, although this opinion may have recently changed). The gamer is also taken into highway battles, where impromptu races are initiated, and the winner takes the dinero. It introduced street racing teams.
Two games focused on street race tuning, but the concepts behind these games that made them so popular are completely different. My whole point in this comparison is that racing games are unique from one to another and to say one sucks from the other is an unacceptable opinion, because behind racing games is the influence of culture. There are people out there who are in for the muscles, there are the European car enthusiasts, then the JDM-crazed fans.
NFS has been long known to represent European exotics and American sports-cars, and their move for representing Japanese sportscars is a remarkable addition for car lovers that also play racing games out there.
| NFS undergraound is one of the best games out there!!! | | Jereth from wyoming, USA says (21/May/2004): | NFS Underground is truly one of the best games out on the market right now. You have probably read some of the other reviews by now and some of them put this game down. But A game is made according to what people are looking for in a game. You can't just go in and play a game with high expectations right off the bat. Comeing from a true gamer here This game is great if you are looking for that street raceing experience. I owne alot of so called raceing games such as Midnight club 2 and Gran Turismo 3 but they do not add up to the quality of this game in the street style experience. it just all depends on what you are looking for. If you want motorcycles then this game is not for you play midnight club 2. and if you are looking for a wider variety of vehicles then play gran turismo. But if you are some one who knows anything about the actual street racing scene then this is the game for you. There are no motorcycles in street racing they are more for show then actual racing against one of these cars. And as for those of you who like muscle cars they are cool i will give you that but they are not made for high speeds, they are made for power. but for those of you who like high speeds and wanting to deck out the ultimate street mobile then this would be your game. I will admit that they could have done more with the enviornments. that is something that they should have so called "stole" from some other games. They could have used a bigger enviornment like the midnight club games. there in lies the one problem with this game. there is a cruise mode on this game but you can only cruise the tracks not the city like you can in midnight club and midnight club 2. But that is the only thing that has stopped this game from being the best STREET racing game out there. but like i said it all depends on what you want.
| The Best Racing/Draggin GAME! | | Iván del Rosario from Santo Domingo, DO says (8/Apr/2004): | I would like to say that NFSU rocks. In graphics, music,(despite i dont like too much rap), performance. Playing Online is very fast, even though u're on Dial up. I finished the game in hard mode, it's no that hard as it may seems. (I haven't driven a car on real life).
Tips for those that said the game is frustrating:
When u start Underdroung mode, choose Miata car, play all the track with that car till' u get Skyline or RX-7. In drag races choose either, RX-7 or Skyline (i makes better times with RX-7 21 sec.). In Circuit or Sprint Choose Skyline or some car with good Acceleration and Handling (if u are bad driftet). Also, learn and practice how to Use your NOS!! at the Drags, say you have to make perfect shifts at 1st and 2nd, then tap NOS 2 times at 3rd, on 4th shift Purge NOS all the way and make perfect to get 5th, then press NOS for a sec to get perfect to 6th shift, and keep quick-pressing NOS in 6th to get at 216-218 mph. use a the rest of NOS for the final, this way, U dont blow your engine.
In Drift races use the ECLIPSE CAR!!, believe me.. you will love this car for great drifts.
In addition, learn and practice how to take curves on circuit and sprint race.. in some case u can use your e-brake to get a well drift and dont lose too much speed.
Lancer has good acceleration with all level's 3 installed (12 bars). but you will have to do devise yourself how to take curves, because of his poor handling.
The last stuff u will want to get (i'm sure u will) is to get lowest times in drag races for beating dudes when playing Online mode. My best is 21 secs for now. i've just played the game for a week. But, on Internet there are guys that get 19 sec. as well as 17.5 sec... that's an amazing time!, and it has to feel pretty exciting. ;).
| good game, could have been better for some people | | Matt Meyer from Chicago says (19/Nov/2003): | Well, I played the demo first and you only got one car to race and couldn't tune the car in any way in the demo and that was fine. The car handled well, the game looked great with all the real-time reflextions and lights in the environment, and little details like the sound of the blow -off valve when you shift with a turbo -charged car is sweet!! I even thought that the menus for the modifications you can do in the real game are good. But, I got the impression that you would be able to pick and choose parts individually by name brand, not just choose exhaust package and have it show you what name brands comprise the package. I know they wanted to simplify it for younger gamers, but what about me? I want to pick a GReddy turbo for my car with brembo brakes, a Jackson Racing Header w/ Borla Catback exhaust, AEM cold air intake, Yokohamo tires with my Yokohama wheels, aluminum radiator, limited slip differential, aluminum flywheel, different brand clutches, drive shafts, and so on. It would have been really cool for them to allow you to dress up your engine too, like to add different colored hoses, and wires. Plus the option for a supercharger instead of a turbo would be nice too. I just wanted more detail in the game for the streetracing fanatics. I haven't unlocked all the cars yet, but if their isn't a Mini Cooper S and Lancer Evolution in this game then I will be seriously disappointed!! I know it would have made for more work and a later release date because I am in the game industry myself, but I still feel it is nesessary for older, more hard core racers. Late!!!
-Matt Meyer, 3D Artist/Animator, Chicago
| Excellent Game Recommended for all Car Lunatics.Not for True Aussies | | Bucky from Lithgow, NSW, Australia says (19/Jul/2004): | The other day my brother brought Need for Speed Underground. It wasn`t for another week that i got to play it and now I can see why. I started with a Honda Civic. I havent gotten far because bro rarely lets me play. So anyway im up to 39th race. I am going to keep the Honda Civic for a while. Don`t cheat people whatever you do because it will all pay off at the end if you don`t. And cheating is for Pussy`s who can`t play. My car is a Black Gloss Honda civic, Its visual is a Snyper front Bumper and Back Bumper and the side is an Ace. Engine, Drivetrain, Tyres, ECU systems, Brake and Turbo systems are Pro perfomance. Nitrous, Suspension and Weight loss systems are Street Performance.TIP: Don`t use the Pro performance Drivetrain Untill you unlock Pro ECU as your Drivetrains depend on this. My Civic also has Lime Neon, Tri slot Hood, Flyte Spoiler, AEM manifacturer Vynel with Tear 17 And My decals are Kenwood on both windsheilds and three on the first three slots for both side doors are Kenwood, StreetGlow and Racinghart.
When you drift everyone i have seen doesnt use E-brake. You should use it instead of Handbrake. Tap it for 2 secs to slide with a great drift.(don`t use E-brake in drags as it causes you to spin out badly unless your going around a corner that is more than 110 degrees).
But for all you aussies like me This is probably not the game for you Try V8 super cars instead of this game with a whole heap of Poxxy Japanese cars that go like CRAP. Well thats it for me
| Fast and Furious Style | | Misbah from Monmouth, Wales says (28/Nov/2003): | This new need for speed underground is great in many aspects suchs as great music which helps the person driving the car going. The graphics are wonderfully done espically when u hit it to nitrus Blurs. The cars which are included in this game are top class with the most popular cars which can be wonderfully be done up are in this game. There are many tracks on. This game has up to 4 differnt types of races such as drifts, circuits, drag, sprint this makes it better cause if u have m8s ova ur house u dont need to play the same type of race.
The customize section is unbleaveable it has a wide varity up stuff to choose from with reall company names, someone who likes street racing or just liks to do up cars will enjoy this game. This game has alot of depth like magazines which take a picture of your car and place it on the front cover. I have noticed that the movie at the very begging when there is a race it reminds me of 2fast 2furious, i think the desingers got thsi idea from this great film. The online mode on need for speed underground is good compete with others across the world and test ur street racing skills to be the best. This game is top class, its has nitus which is sweet as i dont know how to change anything about it cause its that good.
| The music/multiplayer is awful | | Louer Adun from Tampa, Florida says (20/Dec/2003): | The single player gameplay is good, and the customization adds an interesting twist to the game. But no one else has seemed to comment about the fact that the soundtrack (which consists of only 20 something songs) is really awful... You will find you know the words to all the awful music by the time your a third through the game. The game does not allow you to import music from mp3 or anything like that.
As far as for the multiplayer... On a 1.5mbit/256kbit adsl internet connection, I find cars wrecking in front of me, causing me to spin out, but then, all of a sudden, they never really wrecked. So their wrecked car zooms about a 1/4 mile in front of you... Very often do you see opponents cars bounce of walls, and make you lose control of your car, when they never even crashed. The multiplayer for this game is no where close to playable unless you have an old 2.88 sitting in your closet. With that im sure you would own, because it would be your car making everyone else wreck.
I bought this game for the multiplayer and for that reason was very dissapointed, and as for single player, I'd just as much want to just play need for speed hot pursuit 2. I think EA could of done alot better.
| a must play for racing fans | | T-Bone from Montreal, Kanadia says (20/Nov/2003): | i have played the PC demo as well as the final PS2 game. grafically the PC version is much beter, althought the PS2 doesnt disapoint. the motion blur is used really well and makes the game seem much faster than it actually is.
its insane how much you can customize your car. posibilities are seemingly endless. anyone who is a fan of street racing and tuning cars will love this aspect of the game. all parts are based on real manufacturer parts.
anyone who compares this game to gran turismo is a moron. they are nothing alike. the only similarity is that both are racing games which allow you to mod your car.
the games biggest downfall is the fact that most of the street races are very repetetive. even though there are 20 different tracks in the games they all seem eerily similar and don't provide you with much diversity. the best part of the game is the drag racing. driving in a straight line might seem boring, but trust me it isnt. your surroundings wiz by you as the camera shakes to give you the best feeling of speed ive ever experienced in a racing. hit the nitrous and the feeling is amplified 5 times over. online play is also good and will give this game hours of replay value
| MADDNESS/ how to do circuits | | Michael Tat from Bowling Green, KY, U.S.A. says (8/Jan/2004): | Hey everyone. It is I again from KY. We this time I will give it a 8. But really I give it between 6-9. Well, I've been playing N.F.S.U. since Christmas and I'm on 103/111. I'm suprised, but I've been playing the hole game on hard.(except on the long circuit races from 4-7 laps) Those get me so mad. This is why I'm stuck on 103, the races are just getting stupider, and stupider. I tried medium and I can't beat it. Then I tried easy... I CAN'T BEAT IT! Well on races like this !! I RECOMMEND !! that you less then half of the acceleration away from what you got. It gives you better handling. You will need that because after awhile it gets harder and yourself starts thinking {}¯_I hope I don't crash. I'm almost to the finish._¯{}Then you think way to much and a cpu car comes by, and all the sudden ¡¡¡BOOOOM!!! or whatever. Then you got to restart. I bought a new X-BOX controller couple days a go because this situation happened to me and I finally threw my controller so hard I broke the controller and almost went and punch my X-box to dust. I can't quit N.F.S.U. yet because I'm almost 111.
Please don't get mad just because at me. Good luck with the cars and races.
| Tricked out Cars!... | | Justin from Minnasota says (24/Dec/2003): | This is the game people been waiting for finally a game where its going to be fun i mean custimizing you're very own car with nos,neon glow,spoilers,decals,mufflers and more!! thats a game i mean the graphics are awsome the sounds is awsome its all around a good game i mean sure if you dont like cool import cars then this is definetly not the game for you but if you do you ROCK beacuse games like grand Trismo series and test drive and midnight club were all crappy finally a game with the freedom of the player to do with the car as he/she wishes is the bomb people say this game sucks its all rice burner cars and crap like that sure the cars may be imports but there betta than american cars! i recomend this to any one who like fast cars fast paced tricked out racing games like i do. ask for this for x-mas like i did! NOTE: all the other modes like drag underground circut and others are all good too :) the only put down i think this game has is that they make you unlock lots of the better cars and parts I think underground mode should have been jest tons of races for money so you can upgrade youre car more like Fast and the furious is going to be in Jan. 2004!
| Hard to miss.... | | Qadir, U from U.A.E says (31/Dec/2003): | This is one spectacular game by far. I had heard a lot about the game but experiencing it first hand was awesome. NFS Underground brings to life the true aspects of street racing, from mod kits to alloys, disc brakes to turbo packages and last but not least NOS are all well defined. The game graphics itself are amazing with a lot of depth in details of streets such as lighting and roads. The learning curve for the game is not very high and it does not require greater motivation than to keep trying to win. There were some low points however, the people on screen except the main characters could be better defined and the cut scenes at the end of a race is always the same. These could have been made differing from each other. Secondly traffic on the roads could be better defined also, but for all that how many street racing games are there in the market that have all certified brands sporting in the content of the game itself. ANSWER NONE!!!! Therefore even if your not a racing games' fan this game can take away a helpful number of hours out of your daily boredom... Keep racing keep winning upgrades and ROCK ON AMIGOS
| Just bloody brilliant | | robert from Redditch,England says (22/May/2004): | Need for speed:Underground has been one of the most anticipated games that has came out on to the ps2 and it has lived up to its expectations beyond anyone's standard. The graphics are most impressive and the gameplay is superb. Basically, it starts with you as a new racer and working your way towards the top to face the street champ. There also is a wide range of music that varies from R n B and Heavy Metal, featuring the likes of Lost Prophets, Rob Zombie, Lil Jon and plenty more. The cars are the main genuality with some of the best cars ever made from the Mazda RX7 and the traditional favourite Nissan Skyline and also the wide range of rims, paints, vinyls and loads of others lets you modify your car and build up its reputation as a mean machine. The gamebase of the game now include brand new race types, drag and drift. The amount of hours you could play this is ranging over weeks upon weeks because it is so enjoyable. Lastly the value is a suberb aspect at a range of £20 to £30.
Graphics: 10 out of 10
Gameplay: 10 out of 10
Lifespan: 9 out of 10
Total rating:10 out of 10
Review by Robert Cox
| Great | | Mike from Mathews, Virgina, U.S. says (20/Jun/2004): | I love the game. If you love the need for speed series your going to love this. Although right when you pick up the pace you wreck and have to start the race all over again its still in awesome game. The reason i give this game a 9 is because some of the graphics can get a little iffy but its really close to a 10. Anyone who gives the game a 5 or below must not like games very much.The people who say this game sucks well u got a whole lot to learn.It has awesome options you can do to the cars. But making the car nice and suped up takes a whole lot longer than actually racing. I got mad at the PS2 magazine for giving this game a low rating. That shows that those guys dont know what there talking about.But most video games magazines have a bunch of people writing who doesnt know much about games anyway. Well back to the subject. Its a great game. It will keep you playing for hours and has awesome things you can do. Even though i gave it a 9 i highly recomend it. Hey and its a great game the whole family can enjoy. If you want to contact me email me at PGAfan790< remove me > at aol.com
| Next Best Thing Next To GT3 | | Nick Filipas from Beaverton, Oregon says (15/May/2004): | NFSU has really improved with the last few other NFS. Instead of racing around forests, and beaches, and downtown LA, NFSU has taken it's "Night Club" spin off, and I thank EA for trying something new. NFSU once your in the main menu, you can tell it's hard core. The music fits the game well, and the story mode. It's a almost clone of "2 Fast 2 Furious" with some new stuff of it's own. Like most NFS, NFSU has (has always) a customization. Your able to unlock neon lights, body kits, vinyal kits, and change your car into a mix of club color. For the spot for the racing, you race in a late night downtown, that looked like it has poured rain on it. I thought it was neat because it reflects the light from your car, and makes you go faster. New on NFSU, you can Drift, Drag, and go Online as well. But the thing you won't like on NFSU, is working the cheats. What I mean is, when you press a button for a cheat, all of the cheats want you to press the Up button. Guess what? It doesn't work. Well, it's more fun to play the game itself, and not race though it using cheats.
| It's the best game I have and it's so cool! | | Damo from Australia says (12/Jul/2004): | Sometimes I feel like playing a game with speed, I play this whenever I can, I saw the fast and the furious and 2 fast 2 furious and after that I just started to love cars. The first time I tried it was when my brother had a friend sleep over, I saw him play it and I was waiting for ages to get a shot. I've finished the game 3 or 4 times and I'm up to the 104th race and for some reason I keep losing, I use the Nissan skyline, I have all performance upgrades including NOS, but for some reason if either the 350z or the s2000 get in front of me, i've lost. I don't see how anyone can't like it! The first time I played it, I was already attracted to it, the graphics are sick, the muzic's cool and the cars can look so good if you want them to. I'm surprised it wasn't $100 or over, I got it for just $96.85. Some of the races really piss me off like the one i'm stuck on now. The other bad thing is, I have to do drag races with a PS1 controller because R2 on my PS2 controller is stuck, so I can't shift unless I use a controller that I can use R2 on.
| It's alright...... | | Super Gaijin from Charlottetown, PE, Canada says (12/Feb/2004): | I wouldn't buy it, but it's definitely worth checking out.
The graphics are exceptionally well-done, the controls and game-physics are useable, but the game itself is too short. Personally, I still think that the series including Metropolis Street Racer and Project Gotham made the best product.
The nitros are once again piss-poor and unrealistic, the handling can unexpectedly surprise you from time to time with glitches, and the point-scoring method is quite.....well....retarded. Power sliding feels like you're on ice half the time (real street racing cars are usually fitted with racing slicks which wouldn't lose grip that easily), making it almost a lost art in that game, and the courses are either not challenging enough or just plain stupid.
Their version of modifying your vehicle(s) still is a shadow in comparison to the second Tokyo Extreme Racer, and I personally found the gameplay to be standard Electronic Arts stuff. It's not that GREAT, but it's not that BAD.
It's playable, that's about it.
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