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Wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing need ofr speed underground 1 since ast christmas and I can tell ou that this game is a HUGE!! leap from the first game.I am waiting to play the ps2 or xbox version but since this is the pc version i will stick to the pc.
The Graphics-
4.5 stars-the graphics are amazing,the reflections,the speakers in the car,the rims,the disk brakes,the detail is breathtaking.The reasn I give the graphics 4.5 stars is because of DOOM 3.Nfsu 2 graphics cant compete with doom 3.
THE SOUND-4 stars
from the revving engines,turbo(the turbo sounds more realistic now) the nos,the MUSIC soundtrack is great.
THE GAMEPLAY-3.5 stars
the cars dont hadle as well as gran turismo 3 but what can i say they still handle great.
Overall-buy this game you wont regret it
some of the cars i remember are
mazda rx8
mazda rx7
300zx
350Z
nissan skyline
mazda mx5
206.
Thanks for reading!!

P.S.
if you dont have a good graphics card,dont bother,this uses directx 9.0c

The prodigal game is here...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

For racing fans (such as me), this game will blow your mind away.

I, too, have been playing NFSU since last christmas, but this game is even better! This game's graphics (if set correctly with the right video cards and drivers, etc.) are absolutely amazing and triumph even over what the GameCube has to offer. By far, the XBox's version of NFSU2 has the best graphics, but then again, this game is about $10 cheaper and just about as good, except for the fact that it's not on Xbox.
**** 1/2 (four and a half stars) for graphics.

The sound effects on this game are good, but some songs get old after a little while, and some don't. EA has greatly improved the car sound effects, like the skidding, turbo, NOS, and burnouts, and all of them are astonishing, sounding like it would in real life. Songs are 'meh'. Not that bad, but not that great either.

**** (four stars) for songs and sound effects.

The gameplay- WHOA! This game is packed full of races and challenges that you can compete in, as well as a garage full of parts and modding materials. The city is too big for it's own good, and after awhile, the random challenges get pretty annoying while you're trying to get to your race. So, for this purpose, EA created World Mode, a mode where you have a list of races and a map of the city so that you can jump to race to race, avoiding those pesky popups. It's rad. :)

**** 3/4 (four and three-quarter stars) for gameplay.

Replay Value: as with most NFS replay values, these are really not that great. Once you're done, you're done, and that's pretty much all there is. Well, that's not entirely true in this game. You can customize your car in thousands of different ways. It's absolutely amazing--if you can find it on the street, you can find it here. One of the little things that I love are the split hoods. Silly, I know, but'cha gotta love 'em. :P

*** 1/2 (three and a half stars) replay value.

Overall, this is a great game for racing fans- highly reccomend it to all of you teens and middle-schoolers out there. And yes, the rumors are true, there are SUVs in here. Escalades. And just like in real life, the turning radius and base acceleration on these cars are absolutely horrible. (^-^)

Buy this game.

Best Racing Game since.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wow...this is one of the best Need for Speeds to date.
This game brings back many of the things we know and love from the previous games. There are also more cars included in this than any of the other Need for Speeds, besides Porsche Unleashed.

Story- 4 out of 5
This is the first NFS to include a REAL story. While the first Underground game was the first to unclude a story, it wasn't much of a story.

Graphics- 5 out of 5
The effects in this game are mind blowing. While many of the effects from the previous game are included there are also many new pixel shader effects, as well as other effects. From the lighting effects in the various shops, to the motion blur when you're speeding past oppenents at over 200 miles per hour.

Sound- 5 out of 5
The sound in this game, like the previous game, is awesome. This game includes a great sound track, realistic engine sounds, as well as many other great sounds. The engine sounds from the car are extremely realistic. It's fun to mute everything but the engine volume and jsut drive like that. The music includes lots of rap and boomy music for the menus and fast techno like music for the races.

Gameplay- 5 out of 5
The free roam in this game makes it fun to just sit around and cruise around the city. The outrun races that you encounter are also very fun. In the outrun mode you cruise around until you find an opponent in which he will challenge you to a race, and then everything goes from there. No cutscenes or loading, the race is on. There are also a few other new modes, such as Street X (pronounced

Significant Improvement

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been in the NFS series since Porsche Unleashed so i've seen a few games. I orignally purchased NFSU in the first month of its release and I played the Undergroudn mode on hard and it acctually was a challenge. The legacy continues today through this game. I got it the first day and immediate set it to Hard.

This career mode offers a challenge allbeit a surmountable one. Im working through career as fast as i can. One of the best changes in this mode is the addition of a garage which allows you to have multiple cars for multiple race modes, something that annoyed me in NFSU 1. I was at first annoyed by the free roaming city idea but it turns out its alot of fun. The map is huge.

The actual gameplay and handling are very well done, and each car handles dramaticly diffrent (very good thing). I am a personal fan of the Miata but thats neither here nor there.

The modes of racing are now even more plentiful and each mode is done quite well. I personaly am not as big a fan og drag as everyone else, i prefer the long drawn out high speed high cornering races of which there are plenty of as well as the new outrun challenge which is sometimes a joy.

Graphics and Sound are done well. I don't know anything about the ingame music as i have it turned off lol. I run a Nvdia 6800 GT OC @1600x1200 with max details all around and it runs very well. The addition of 1600x1200 made me happy b/c it was left off the first NFSU. The effects and detail are amazing if you can crank them up high enough.

If you enojyed the first you will love hte 2nd and if your new you won't be dissapointed in one of hte best racing games in a good while.

EVERYTHING a sequel should be.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

One of the FEW games actually worth the money.

I have been following the NFS series since "Need for Speed" hit the PC oh-so many long years ago. So I've seen MORE than enough racing games. The good, and the bad. Right now, you're looking at the best.

EA took a lot of criticism for straying from the exotic muscle car genre they created... but now that we're up to the sequel of one the most succesful racing games ever published, it's safe to say they they made a good move. To say the least. THIS is what "Need for Speed" has become.

There's not a whole lot to say that hasn't already been said by so many people... if you've made it this far, then you already know that. And, I agree with them all. If you're looking for an unreal racing game, this is it.

It's been my experience that one of the better changes made from the first Underground is the ability to choose for yourself what event you want to race... they're not picked FOR you. As you drive around Bayview, you can pick and choose your event, and if you don't like drifting for example, then you don't have to drift.

Other new additions are the "Outrun" mode where while driving in free roam mode to say, an event, you come upon other racers who will challenge you to an "outrun" race immediately on the fly, where you're thrust into a quick race against that other racer... the first to lose the other person by 500 feet wins. DEFINITELY breaks up those long drives from one side of Bayview to the other.

Numerous exterior (carbon fiber mirrors, and spinners) and INTERIOR (custom instrument panels and trunk audio layouts) have been added.

As for graphics, and sound, everyone else has already praised them enough... and if you have a choice as to which system you want this for... if you know you're stuff then you already know you want it for PC. I'm not here to offend any XBox or PS2 fans, but it's just simple tech. Neither XBox nor PS2 can do what even a medium-range PC can. NO console ever will. The day they roll off the assembly line technology passes them by. However, a PC just isn't fit for everyone, but then, you probably already know that too.

If you enjoyed the first one, there's only more to love in this one baby. ;)

This game suck.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: November 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Max Payne like cutscenes + GTA style gameplay = NFS:U2 suck big time. You'll be spending a lot of time cruising the city before getting on the actual race. It's such a drag. I literally fell asleep whileplaying it. I wonder why the developers don't keep the mechanics of the game like the first one. My advice to them: If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

Fun, fun, fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: November 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I don't know what it is about EA Games or whoever writes the Need for Speed series. Others have said that every other Need for Speed release is great and the other half stinks. Anyway, the last Need for Speed Underground (1) was a big disappointment, too much bling, bling, "you go girl" stuff, in addition to the software creators locking you out of tracks and cars until you complete certain tracks, very annoying... Once again, this game is a major improvement to the first of this series. Obviously the creators have listened and have opened up most of the cars and tracks and allow you to just cruise the city in whatever car you want. You can also upgrade the cars with mods to see if they help the performance. The graphics are excellent but at 1600 x 1200, they start to slow down my 3.06 GHZ, ATI 9800pro system. I find the graphics totally acceptable at 1280 x 1024 with max details. I really enjoy the game and find the physics to be very good. I'd say tat they could work on the feedback in the force feedback steering wheels to be more representative of oversteer/understeer, etc. I'd have to say that this game is an equal to Porsche Unlimited and I'm happy I bought it..

kindergarten driving

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Actually - "spending a lot of time cruising the city before getting on the actual race." is not so bad. You just have to figure out how to use GPS to eliminate needless cruising. The actual race really sucks. The same "kindergarten driving" we used to drive in previus versions of NFS. No matter how many accidents you've made just keep mantain your speed and you'll be first. Graphics are pretty good thou. All of the races except drag race are ridiculously simple and in the same time you could spend whole night just to win one of the drag races. It seems a little bit inconsistent with whole idea of this game. In drag race you rely mostly on your luck instead of skill. I mean you should avoid bumping into incoming cars to avoid become totaled (after that race is over). When you use oxygen to boost speed (the only chance to win the drag race) the steering wheel seems to be unresponsive and it means you 100% dead because of numerous obstacles you should avoid during this time. So you have either lose the race because of crash or lose it because of insufficient speed. In the same time all others races as simple as "the french fries", you can complete them in five min with no competition at all, just keep it floored. Another fact - It's absolutely no matter for your car, in terms of handling, what speed it got when you trying to make a sharp turn. It could be 20 miles per hour or 150 if you don't use brakes you will bump into some wall anyway. Something wrong with AI.

What a LAME Brooke Burke...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: December 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Before my rant, let me make this disclaimer: I love the game. The driving is fun, the environment is detailed, and overall driving experience is excellent, and great fun.

THAT SAID...
Brooke Burke is, for some unknown reason, being pushed throughout every image or mention of this game in any forum (including television) that I've seen. She doesn't do anything but detract from the quality of the game; or, rather, the way that she was included in this game is such a joke that it only serves to lower your impression of it. I have to force myself around looking at these cartoon, still, pseudo-realistic images of her to get to my enjoyment of all other facets of the game. Thank God I have this skill. I'm sure we'll all be fine without seeing her animated in the game (even though the girls starting each game are animated smoothly-enough), but it's an insult to our collective intelligence by having the game marketed one way, and presented in another.

I would be surprised if Brooke Burke or any of the programmers at EA Games can actually say they are pleased or proud of the result, as it pertains to Brooke Burke "starring" in this game.

With that, I'll get back to playing the game.

Better Graphics

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: December 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Than PlayStation 2, Nice price, Very customizied controller, But wait! you must have a high quality Video Card, I have MSI 9700 256 MB and no use, looks like the game graphics is bad not video card.

Any way better than PlayStation 2.

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