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Worthless eye candy, designed by marketroids for morons

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 28
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wow, they can do wet asphalt at night! Hmmm, so what? There's so much that's wrong with this game, that I don't know where to start. Let's see a few of them:
1) all cars handle the same way.
2) all cars handle too well, they are too easy to drive.
3) having no challenge in driving the cars, they put traffic in, the bane of all racing games! Do they think Russian roulette with six bullets is fun? There are places where you are in mid-air when you are first able to see an intersection, there's no way to deviate from the cross-traffic, unless you drive slowly. Winning is *purely* luck, no skills at all are involved.
4) all tracks look the same, a city at night, it gets boring after a short time.
5) there are technical bugs. For instance, after a crash the force feedback doesn't reset when you abort.
6) there's no damage mode, the quickest way through a tight corner is crashing on purpose.
7) when you take-off in a bump the camera changes automatically to an off-track point of view.
8) the physical simulation is incorrect, you cannot do a 360 turn: after any crash the car always ends pointing the wrong way. There's no "four point" simulation, you cannot control oversteer/understeer with the pedals.
9) there's no difference among the AI drivers, the cars are always bundled together.
10) there are no sport or racing cars, only the cheap street cars they want to market for the morons who actually like this stupid game.
11) in drag mode the steering is changed to a very low sensitivity.
12) as you progress through the "underground" mode, the only difference in the more "advanced" races is that there is more traffic, always that stupid traffic. You don't need more *skills* as you progress through the game, only more luck.

I could go on for hours, but I think my point is clear: if you like car simulation games, just say no. This crap is designed for people who have never driven a car and have no idea at all how it's done. And it's a big disappointment, because EA *did* know how to design racing games in the past. Take the "Porsche 2000/Porsche Unleashed" game, for instance. For those of us who don't have the needed skills or patience to learn to handle the 1967 Formula One cars in "Grand Prix Legends", the "NFS Porsche" game was very close to perfection. You got a wide variety of cars, you could do a detailed *technical* customization, the physical simulation was very good, although a bit "arcade-ish", there was a good range of tracks... I was hoping this latest NFS would be an improvement. What a disappointment. It seems that EA dumped the engineers and hired a bunch of graphical designers instead. Worthless, I have bought bad racing games in the discount rack a few times before, but I never expected such a big disappointment from the NFS series.

EA and Racing don't mix

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: January 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a sad time for us online racers. After EA pulled the plug on Motor City Online (which I paid to play for a year and a half), their abilities as a game making company have drastically disinigrated, while their "bottom line" has done nothing but grow. This game is an obvious attempt to make money, not to let people race.
The gameplay is extremely lacking, as the game is as linear as the original Mario Brother's game. The driving is not half bad, but the challenge of real racing is not there. The claim that customization is unlimited is completely false, as the only variety available is with exterior peices. There are different manufacturers for every performance part, but they do absolutely nothing to change the dynamics of the cars.
And then there's the cars. Each car looks different, sure, but they all drive exactly the same. For instance, the "big" Nissan Skyline drives the same as the Mazda RX-7 drives the same as the VW Golf drives the same as... you get the picture.
The final nail in this game's coffin is its replay value, or rather, its complete lack thereof. I finished the game in a week and a half, and I'm no ace driver. I played online for about a day, but the interface is so frustrating I haven't touched it for two weeks now. I doubt I'll ever start it up again, that's how sad it is.
If EA had actually included a useable parts system (à la Motor City) this game would be a contender for my fav. racing game. As it stands, this was a waste of money. Catering to the Fast & Furious crowd has destroyed racing and turned it into a glamor show. This game is the beginning of the end of Need For Speed, because it stopped being about the racing long ago.

No Cockpit View No Replay No Damage Again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I would give this 0 stars if I could.

Everything is great about this one except for three things. And, unfortunately, these three things bring the complete sim downihll and make it NOT worth purchasing.

Even after the thousands of emails to EA about the loss of replays and cockpit view in the past Need For Speed titles, they still failed to ipmlement it in Underground. You can check futther reviews right here on Amazon to see the posts on previous titles about these very items missing. This title is missing such key parts of the sim that it will take a slow downfall in ratings until EA gets the act together. These were all available in Porsche Unleashed and previous version.

The sad thing is, everything is great, but no way to continue using the sim without these key, absolutely necessary, features.

Stupid

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like to fool around with boring games this is for you. The game sucks. It has horrible graphics and it is too hard to drive the slow goofy looking cars. It is a horrible game and it is not worth a penny.

so disappointing!! worst racing game, ever!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Apart from graphics and sound, this game is nothing. Why? First of all, as for a racing game, the control is so NOT real!! The cars handle like toys. Next, the game is the least close racing game of EA, ever! Computer players cheat all the time. God knows how they change lanes that fast and cut corners without slowing down! Last and the dumbest, some traffic is made for blocking your car only, believe me!!
I suggest EA either fire your current AI programmers or hire them some psychiatrists.

For those who still wanna buy this game after reading my comments, good luck!

Need for Speed is BORING!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I bought Need for Speed underground, I was quite suprised that it did not have a cockpit view, when you hit a car you don't get damaged, and why even give the view a slow motion when you hit a car and nothing really exiting happens. I would strongly urge you to buy Midtown Madness 1 or 2, or even Burn out, point of impact for the computar. They are a million times more fun then this game.

This isn't for a game system!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This product is made to be played on a computer!
I bought it, thinking my godson could play it in his Play Station II. He can't. He tried it in his computer, but at age 9 and with minimal computer skills, he's dissappointed.
Moral of this story: check really, really carefully when you buy these kinds of games. I'm a little older & wiser.

i paid $50 for nothing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: July 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is not even worthy of the need for speed title. this game sucks, the graphics are horrid compaired to hot pursuit, the best car is a 350z (35k bux) compair that to a mcclairen from nfshp,and the courses are all the same. let me break this game down. cars. in this game you start with a neon or a miata. i found this really stupid because a neon is worth 10k or less and the miata is worth 30k+. you work your way up by buying new cars and parts. what sucks about that is you can keep any begining car and have upgraded to the same level as the cars you later unlock. i used a lancer and stuck with it the whole time. this is a huge mistake because a neon will not out perform a 350z. all of the cars are the kind that are cheep and seen every where. this makes you aprutiate some these cars better (as i have with the lancer) but in nfshp2 you start off with an elise and work up to 300k cars. this game neede a viper an m5 a 67' gto, and a 65' mustang. these cars SUCK!!!!!!!!!! 1.5 of 5 drive the driving is just as bad the cars seem to be standing still as the track rolls past you. the back grounds are all the same so they cant even make that look good. having the cops would have been awesome because i live in dc i know that street racing is ilegel. this would have made the game alot more worth while.2 game the game does have a good thing or two though. the new modes drift and drag are cool because you actually feel the cars. the game has 100+ races so it lasts awhile but after 40 i started to dread playing this game. 2 ugghhhhh........

Flash crap for kids

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I agree with the review from Valter from brazil I can't beleive anyone but a child would think this game is good. NFS porsche unleashed is a great game and I bought this and the previous release hoping for an improvement on that game but ea. games has totally lost the point of what was a great series.I gave it 2 stars because the obvious target audience will love this nonsense, otherwise 1 star is more suitable.

Unfinished Game?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: May 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was excited when the game shipped to my front porch and quickly installed it on to my shiney new comp. I was very dissapointed to find out that this game is HALF done! First of all, There aren't many cars in this game, probably 20 max. And over half of them are old and ugly! Second, there are no police persuits. What kinda STREET RACING game is this?!

A lot of little kids find the graphics SO REAL, but if you've played other racing games like me, you'll notice how crappy the graphics are. This game also disables the crowds in the background if you don't have the RIGHT graphics card, which is totally STUPID. I have a GeForce 4, how is that not good enough for it?

The audio is ok. Pretty realistic, but the music is basically ALL HARDCORE ROCK. It doesn't match the game at all.

Worst part of all, this game lacks an important thing in racing games. MAPS!! I've been racing in the same maps over and over and over AND OVER again! Theres probably only 10 maps in this game, and they try to cheat us by reversing the maps (so it seems like there's 20 maps). Wow, they must think we're stupid...

I wouldn't recommend this game at all.

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