Need for Speed: Underground 2

An outstanding sequel in all aspects. It offers a lot of new and fun features, yet the game doesn't move away from the core gameplay that made the first Underground so popular, which is pure adrenaline street racing.

Its immense thrills and spills through the open-ended city of Bayview is exhilarating, and the culture that is emerging is created in the game to great effect.

Electronic Arts really has turned the Need For Speed series into something very special. The series was starting to get old with rehash after rehash, now each Underground title seems to get better and better with every release.

Just about everything in this game is better, except for the cumbersome overworld. If you can overlook this one shortcoming, there is a lot to like in Underground 2, I just had a hard time getting over this one, rather large, hurdle. [Dec 2004, p.162]

If you don't mind searching the city for action, Need for Speed Underground 2 gives you a chance to become the best street racer out there.

Not a realistic racer, the details of physics aren’t there, and some of the reactions the car makes are not accurate to say the least. But we don’t think that matters, NFSU2 is a great, loveable game which, taken at face value – a fun-filled racing game – is great fun and enjoyable to play and progress through, if you’re in Career Mode.

Not as much much fun as EA's other recent speed merchant "Burnout 3," but if getting under the hood to tinker with motors is your thing, this could be the one for you.

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Need for Speed: Underground 2 was the pinnacle of racing games in its time, perfectly capturing the spirit of urban competition and delivering one of the best customization systems in the genre. However, the experience is severely hampered by an AI "slingshot" effect that borders on abusive, as well as bizarre bugs that stall the player's progress. To make matters worse, the end of the game becomes extremely massive and repetitive. It's a rival game like Burnout 3 where we notice a difference: although Underground 2 didn't fall short of the first, it suffers from pacing issues and fails to hold the player's attention for very long.

This is the first videogame I've ever played, it's the reason why I started playing videogames, and for its time it was an amazing game, but unfortunately it didn't age very well. I feel like I'm giving this game a lower score than what it normally deserves but it's because it's not as good as it used to be, however it's still is a pretty good game. One thing that was ahead of its time was the car customization for sure, you can pretty much customize everything. Lastly, the music was great, Riders on the Storm is a very iconic videogame song and it was always a pleasure to listen to it every time I booted up the game. Final Rating: "Good" ~ 7/10.

Firstly this game looks unnatural because of the oversaturated lighting and as a result of this there's a random bloom effect on cars or roads. this bloom effect looks off on this game's textures which looks like it came out of minecraft. I'm not ashamed of saying this to a 20 year old game because it looks worse even than the earlier games on the franchise. Modification options are detailed and cool but what's the point if I'm forced to put every single purchasable thing on my car and turn it into a clown van just to continue the game. And Underground 2 Isn't even bothering to tell you that you should burry your car under some random ass grafitti in order to continue so I almost ended up softlocking my save while trying to solve the problem. This game is so poor in the aspect of making you feel like you are progressing that while I was playing, I didn't even realize I am on the late game until the game is FINISHED. Races are far from being enjoyable due to this game making you play the same tracks like 10 times over and over again and the tracks you race aren't even that great because of the Openworld. The repetetiveness also a thing for the Underground 1 but you don't feel boredom on that because of the AI doing their best to race you. Meanwhile in this game you feel like pretty much you are driving your car on your own on every track. Also my car understeers like crazy in comparision to the AI. I literally bumped on every corner even tho I was going slower than other racers. I really tried to drive like a human but it didn't work so I came up with a new strategy which I drive close to the walls and bump into them with side of my car before the turns to do the cornering and it did the job perfectly lol. I had to raise my Most Wanted Review's point because of ts.

The game is complete garbage compared to part 1. It's simply overloaded with dubious upgrades and **** game conventions. It would seem that **** lasts a very long time then it is good, but not in this case. It is artificially stretched. Professional racing is annoying. They are long and should not be in a street racing game