Need for Speed Underground
In Need For Speed: Underground, you'll enter the world of urban street racing and workyour way up the underground rankings! 4-player action for faster, wilder racing thrills!
Need for Speed Underground Accessories
 Need for Speed Underground 2
Gran Turismo 3 A-spec
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2
PlayStation 2 Memory Card (8MB)
Need for Speed Carbon
Gran Turismo 4
Need for Speed: Prostreet
Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition
PlayStation 2 Dualshock Controller Black
ATV Offroad Fury, Greatest Hits
Need for Speed Underground Reviews
Gameplay was huge for this and I believe the best Racing option was Drag Racing. I was impeccable with driving through these tracks just so i could make sure I didnt crash into them. Underground hit all three modes in the right way. Whatever shaped wing you wanted it was there. This was hugely missed in the last 3 NFS games. Drifting was a challenge on its own, if you knew how to speed up in the right way and pull the E-Brake the right way around corners, you could rack up massive points. I still find people who are willing to pop in a good car game and throw this on for nostalgia's sake.
Graphics in this game where and still are incredible for a PS2 game. Pearlescent colors were incredible looking, when you wanted chrome colored wheels they looked chrome and shined. A HUGE HUGE AMOUNT OF LAG CHEATERS. Those who get their hands into this can enjoy a great racing game. If you really wanted an In-depth customization system, I think body kits are a big issue that needs to be tackled in the Next street racing inspired games.
Rotation, skew, placement of vinyls evident in NFS Carbon was great and could have added so much originality to NFSU making it so much more engrossing. Issues with Body kits I find annoying in todays games. Overall a great game. I found myself practicing on these tracks so bad so I could beat the lag cheaters littered online.
Customization was enormous for this game. The way the tracks look with water, to the overall beauty and realism of these basic machines is what hogged up alot of that DVD disc the game came in. EA took the core issues of what the Tuning scene dealt with and that was Beauty of Cars, Drag Racing, Drifting, and Circuiting. Straight forward and to the point. Deep customization like this would have had many fans going nuts. Its a great competitive game to have a nice time with a friend. Vinyl placement was no option and were slapped on your car. Pretty late I am for making a review on this game but I had to considering the Last Three NFS games that dropped.
Nonetheless it was intense and very great to play online. But it was well worth it for a title with the street racing scene to it. You had a beautiful city with scenery zipping by and furious competitive racing. This tried to simulate the perfect timing you had to have in shifting, the speed and danger of driving so fast with a shaking screen, and the perfectionista control you had to have in swerving through traffic. I think alot of us didnt get this game with open endedness because EA was trying this new concept of a racer with graphical flair being on top. The cars shining and glistening all the way through to the finish line. Online was my biggest gripe with this game.
Circuiting gave you the same tracks you would go through the game and then it would be fed back to you so you had to do it in reverse. Where Pro-Street Wanted and Carbon Lacked was the excitement and the few game modes that made this game a classic. Circuiting and drifting were well created modes with alot of fun to them also. Midnight Club LA has very limited styles of Body Kits for a game created on a NXT Generation Platform and Carbon did the same. They need to include more and more original designed body kits from the minds of creators and to work closely with Body Kit manufacturers to make some very unique stuff for every car they feature. A bit repetitive but bearable. Considered this was a very deep customization for the time compared todays games.
Rims, body kits, lights, hoods, scoops, Paint, Vinlys, performance parts.
Amazing graphics.better than some of their newer titles. Fast gameplay at breakneck speeds and great car handling. This game is a classic.
I consider all the NFS games after this one as pieces of crap. The road graphics are rendered by the guy who did the episode one pod-race so you know its fast. Other good games from this time period in history are SSX: 3 and SSX Tricky. As far as I know this is the only NFS Underground which has drag race mode. Its just fun as hell.
This one has sweet closed circuit which is personalized for real high speed racing, swerving between pillars, and secrets. The original street racer. This one is the best. This game is still the best street racer even 5 years later. After this one they all get cliche and less artistic in style. Just don't get Prostreet or some of the other maddening sequels. This one also has the best car customization engine. The sequel, Underground 2, and others use an open city, which is not competitive.
If you like NFS you will certainly enjoy these two SSX 3 and SSX Tricky Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 I like it also. The only downside now, is that stupid EA turned off the server a year or two ago, and I know people were still playing it at the time.so screw EA for that point. I also highly recommend NFS: Hot Pursuit 2, which has ferraris/porsche, and is more of a highway style racer which is also comparable in quality to this game. Overall this game is still worth playing in single player or two player mode. The cars like the RX-7 are totally fun to customize and drive/upgrade.
I love it and the kids love it too. a lot of fun esp if you have the steering wheel and peddle.
This is a game to put in your collection, one of the best racing games ever made for the PS2. Excellent soundtrack, excellent graphics, excellent cars, excellent tracks.
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