Need for Speed: Underground review - ColourShed

I know i am late but the acura in the intro is integra type r not rsx.

This game is extremely broken on modern systems 💀

Who remembers getting Petey Pablo car

Need for speed traffic has always been and will always be bullshit let me just throw that out there for all my real fans

in drift, pretty much any car that isnt stock will do well, you just need good handbrake control.

I just got this game for PS2 last week, love the old need for speed

Noooo you are not allowed to play NFSU2 unless you complete underground

It’s a story! 😂

my first NFS game proper, absolutely love it!

hot take: i prefer NFSU over NFSU2, while 2 improves upon 1 in every way, the way the game plays out kinda bored me since you have to drive to EVERY event and FIND all the custom shops around the city to unlock stuff, while really cool in concept just kinda rubbed me the wrong way

how coud you not talk about "to the windooooowww to the walll!!" that song automatically gives the game an extra point lol.

Ah my mazda Rx 7 my baby how I miss it

when the only from static x started playing you knew you were going to race like your life was on the line

Goddamn i love Underground 1. I used to adore 2 a lot more but the fucking URL races ruined it heh, and as i grew older i just found Underground 1 better, but 2 still does a lot of things so much better

Your whining about this GOAT car racing game is driving me insane. It seems like you missed the reason why this game is the legend that it is. The traffic and limited start of upgrades are all the reason that made for the players who truly loved this game -- it made for the best of us that now, leaves a nostalgic sense of feeling that very few games could ever do. If you could beat Need For Speed : Underground, you could beat any other car racing game. Often imitated, never duplicated.

The game that simultaneously made and killed nfs at the same time.

I hate this game. The first NFS on my life is the Underground 2. On PC the graphics not so good, but the PS2 version looks better. The AI... The AI is the biggest problem on this game. The PS2 HP2 is scipted, but i love the game. Here the AI fustrating me, i always restart the races 10-15 times...

I love seeing Need for Speed II Special Edition (NFSIISE)... my Childhood game.
Played it yesterday (People made an installer for 64-Bit PCs) and I want a current version of it.

The old NFS may be really basic and small. In the case of NFSIISE.
YOu have about:
- 8 Cars
- 6 Tracks (12 if you count Reverse)

But what it makes insane. There are Audio CLips (Not only english, also in german, and I think other languages), where all Cars get explained and also the Tracks. Sometimes they also offer Tips for racing on the Track.
it is small, but packed with lots of ssmall details. I don't know any other Game that does this. There is a market for a Game like this, as an Indie Game... Hopefully someday someone do it.
I guess the Problem is, you need licensed Cars for it.

i like this over the second because i dont need a freeroam map to enjoy the journey, and having only one car you can develop a sense of knowledge about how to drive it, and take care of your possesion

The first game that got me into Need for speed and cars, yet it's my second favorite behind Need for speed Most wanted.

This game kicked off a new genre of racing games fueled by the popularity of Fast and furious and its some of the best fun ive had in my life ive even played the arcade version at dave n busters which is just as good

that's not true you can't avoid traffic in this game, most of this is just example of bad driving

I remember playing this game with my brother, starting a circuit race, turning around and both of us would just race the opposite way endlessly, lap after lap. Good times.

It's not trafic or physics, it's just that you're a bad driver.

This is an awful game. So stupid, everything about it is bad and sh*tty. Thank goodness I uninstalled it on time, before I broke my laptop in half.

I remember vividly seeing an Underground ad on TV, and for the first time (and IIRC for the only time) my dad asked me if we should go and pick it up tomorrow. Such a good game apart from the rubberbanding but I guess that's part of the charm
Then later on getting Underground 2 was a no brainer, and I remember telling my dad that I wanted it and that was the first time anyone in my family ordered something online, as it was much cheaper there. Funny to think how online orders were considered pretty scary not that long ago

You keep complaining about the traffic but in every example you shown you were the one goin in the opposite lane, u could have avoided it.

I started playing that game again using PCSX2 and it actually looks better than it did on native hardware. I used to play that game religiously as a kid

can you play this on xbox 360

True story: I had this game bundled with a couple of games when I had a Gamecube for Christmas when I was a kid. Then, when I got a memory card for my Gamecube, on it, was a save file for Underground with very far progress.

The game is great, but the rubber banding (catchup), some drag races and the traffic are frustrating as hell, just completed it the first time and I gotta say it aged worse compared to U2, MW and Carbon.

You basically review my childhood lol.

Hot Pursuit 2.....😌

The Fast and Furious movies made an entire generation of guys into total dipshit posers

The good Ole days when you bought a game , popped it into your disc drive and we’re ready too play instantly !!

Its not completely true that NFS UG was the first of this series with somekind of an story.
NFS Porsche had an Factory Driver Mode where you step into the shoes of an aspiring Rookie driver who climbs up the career ladder. Its not a very deep story but its a story..

Please tell me what game is better than nfsu2

Quick PSA for anyone deciding to play a new career in this game: You start with $10,000, if you for instance want the Civic, don't buy it straight away,buy the Miata for $8,500 first and trade in for a Civic right away.
You see, the game takes into account the vehicle stats when trading in so if you trade your ride for a technically more powerful one it'll cost you, but if you trade it for a technically less powerful car you get
A price rebate. In such case you save $1,5k since the Miata is cheaper and weirdly enough it is better stats wise than the Civic when stock so you also get more money from the trade. Cheers CSP great review of a great game.

Samantha looks like knock-off Reiko Nagase from Wish. xD

NFSU is my introduction to NFS series, & after play previous & newest instalment of the series, still NFSU is the best

They need to remaster this!

WHAT'S UNDERGROUND ABOUT RACING OVER THE GROUND THIS GAME'S A SCAM!!

Brrrrrrrrrum Dum Dum Da Darum Dara rum.

The only thing I don't like about this game is the repetitive levels.

HOLD ON MATE BEFORE I WATCH ANOTHER SECOND HOW COULD YOU CALL AN ACURA INTEGRA AN ACURA RSX? AN RSX CAN BE CALLED AN INTEGRA BUT AN INTEGRA CANNOT BE AN RSX CMONNN

Need for Speed: Underground was one of my first racing games on the Playstation 2, with Burnout 3: Takedown, Juiced, and Enthusia Professional Racing. I just loved the street racing aspect of the entire game, the soundtrack was fire, and just the tracks were so memorable with remebering pretty much every turn, shortcut, and straightaways. I unfortunately sold my PS2 along with all the games I had, but it was amazing memories from the late 2000s and early 2010s for me with this game.

This game was so well recieved.. why no remake? Had an amazing time playing this game

This game went perfectly well with fast and furious. Everyone wanted to drag race and have that sweet ride..

Did you really call it "AKURA RSX"? 🤦🏻‍♂️

This game still looks great today

I was 6 years old and 2Fast 2Furious had come out on DVD and got me into cars. About a month later I saw the commercial for Need For Speed Underground and begged my parents to get it for Christmas. I still remember hooking up the Xbox in my grandmothers bedroom during that time. 1 year later my parents had the TV on (MTV I think) and they played a promo for Need for speed underground 2 and to say I was exited would be an understatement. I'm tearing up as I type this.

There is an incomplete warez which ends on buying the first car.