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lame

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This racing game is not really fun. Burn OUt is much better.

this game is terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 20
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I first played this game i felt like killing my self.If i could I would burn all the copies of this in the world to save
all innocent people playing it.I would rather play barbarian and barbie horce adventures and jump off a cliff than play this.The graphics,playability,controls,and sound were atrocious and loathsome (disgusting).On a scale of 1-10 i would give it a
-10000000000000000000000000000000000000000.I would highly recommend to throw this game in a fireplace and watch it burn into ashes and laugh at its stupidness

This game is driving me crazy!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: June 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is driving me crazy! My name is Dominic James DeVetis and I am 7 years old. This game is hard and your car get's out of control sometimes. When you just started, there are dumb cars. The cars are slow. This game is the 3rd worst Gamecube game in my house. My big brother says not!

Surpassed The Finish Line

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It just surprises me when it comes to video games these days. Especially with all the hype and feel coming toward them, and then when you've played them out, you have nothing else to play with. That comes within the case of racing games these days, they all seem to be just the exact same thing. That does come with the case for Need For Speed. They have made quite a handful of great racing games, and made its way into one of the most popular racing series games of all time. Although the quality is great, the feeling can become quite overdubbed these days. Largely, because all racing games need to be exactly the same ideas of fast cars and killer tracks, not music though.

Need For Speed: Underground is considered a remake of the Midnight Club series for the Sony Playstation 2. Although it never made it into the Gamecube as much as Need For Speed, the game in itself feels like it. This game deals with all of its courses into one big city, which offers all different kinds of street raving games and courses. Although each course gets repetitive, largely because the game takes place in one location, rather a whole set of locations the previous Need For Speed games considered. Still, the game offers a lot of great automobiles to drive in, including the Ford Focus, the Mazda RX-7, the Toyota Celica, and Nissan's longtime automobile, the Sentra R edition. Another downside is that the music really is more of a downside as well, with too many performers in the fields of Rap. Hip Hop, and Hard Rock, there is no sense in actual feels for decent music. That is more annoying than the game itself. All in all, this is a pretty challenging racing game, and is worth the wait for die hard racers.

It just really surprises me about how much these racing games are in detail, like Need For Speed: Underground. I strongly suggest you get this game, only if you're a die hard racer. If you've played Midnight Club 2 for Playstation 2, don't buy this one, you will only be wasting your money.

i hate this game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

NFS Underground is not a challange for experienced drivers but in this game there's a huge factor called "traffic". As I soon realised while playing the game, your chances of crossing the finish line first depends mostly on the traffic conditions than on your driving skills. This can be really nervewrecking while on your last lap and especially when you can almost see the finish line and suddenly a car appears. After you've finished the whole game, you'll either become a great driver or end up in a madhouse. Dispite the graphics, having fun with "pimping your ride" and the selection of music, I won't be playing this game again.

Overall, fun but....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, don't get me wrong. It could fun and enjoyable but it could also make you mad and want to throw your controller at your TV screen.

Here are the two major issues I found :

1. relative computer car speed
- The problem is, the computer races in a speed that's relative to yours. So, it has no absolute speed and if it gets behind it speeds up and if it gets in front of all others, it slows down a bit. This sounds cool, alright? You think this would make the game more challenging and fun? Well, the answer is no. If you're a noob, (no offense what-so-ever) this could make the game more suitable and easy to learn, but if you have experience in racing games, you would find this annoying. For an example, you could be in first place for 3/4 of the game and then the computer suddenly speeds up, and you lose. I found that the computer sometimes races faster than my car's top speed, and sometimes strangely slow...This isn't right. It's easier to win a game when you're amatuar just as long as you don't crash a 'major one' in the game. You could turn off the catching up option to prevent this from happening, but still the computer has no absolute speed and has somewhat relative speed. And, the underground mode doesn't even give you that option. It's always on, so it's possible to finish the race in 1 min and still lose, or finish it in 1 min 30 sec and still win. (really happens)

2. graphic
- Again, don't get me wrong. This game has fantastic graphic. But, if your GC isn't connected to your TV in progressive scan mode or S-video A/V, you might find it hard to see what's what in the game screen. For a guy like me who has a cheap 28 inch TV, this fantastic graphic could turn into an ugly view...(just try to set all the graphic effects and resolution into low in a 3D computer game, you'll see what I mean...)

You could ignore 2 if you got a flat screen plasma TV =)
But you probably couldn't ignore 1.

I recommend you get Hot Pursuit 2 instead of this. It only costs half of this game and is more fun.(just my opinion)

But again, you are the one who's playing, so you make a decision.

It's Aite..?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok, considering this is probably the first true "racing" game for the Gamecube, it's great! Trust me, when it comes to imports, no one's better. Ok, let's see.. The cars are great.. the graphics are crisp and sharp.. problems were that there were WAY TOO many races just to get parts.. It gets pretty frustrating, considering that you might have to win 10 races just to get some parts. The racing is ok, but what really annoys me is the fact that there are so many friggin' pedestrian vehicles! you can be doing great one second, almoist winning, but then a car appears in froont of you, and bam, you lose automatically! you just simply can't get enough speed to win.. and it is very crappy when this happens on your final lap.. grr.. and all those sing le things.. like friggin' trees.. you cant run them over, and it just messes up your whole game.. darn trees..

As for customization, ther's none better! So many rims, and so many parts (after you unlock them all). it's so nice to see the variety of parts and cars.. still, i think the neon should've been replace with something better. maybe a mustang, as in the imports vs. high-power american muscle.. just my 2 cents.. 4
stars.. but 3 cuz of the flaws..

Great game, with somewhat major flaws.. Get it if you really wanted a racing game to play with.. Gamecube owners finally got their prayers answered! Now onto Auto-Modellista..

(8.0 out of 10) fun, but flawed.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Okay, so everyone is nuts about this game. and when i finally played it, i understood why. the cutomization options are such a fun gimmick- i had a lot of fun turning an ugly yellow VW GTI into a drag racing monster with beautifully tinted windows, custom decals, and rims of my choosing. It's what everyone wants when they play a racing game- the ability to craft a car that suits their taste, right down to the type of exhaust. And i have no problem with the fact that this feature was implemented. i think it was a good idea. The problem I have is with the way that it was implemented.
Why am i still unlocking decals and vinyl at level 100? who cares that i finally unlocked the nitrous express decal; dont i deserve more than that at level 100? and why dont i get the wide body kit until the 3rd to last race? great! i can throw this wide body kit on my car, which does absolutely nothing for performance, so that i look good for the final competition.

Money is never a problem in this game. You always have more than enough to unlock anything you want, because you get money after every race. So, a better way to do this would have been to make everything availible from the start of the game, with higher prices on the performance parts and consistent lower prices on the things you dont need (like decals and vinyl). That way, the player can see what they could potentially be unlocking and work for it, instead of just having it blindly handed to them when they can most definately afford it. But because of the way the customization system was implemented, theres really no point in having money in this game.

My other complaint is with the AI. its not like you're actually racing to gain distance on other cars, ever. its more like you're racing against other cars that will always either be ahead of you, or slightly behind you, and catching up fast. This is especially true in later races, where even if you set the difficulty to easy, cars will catch up quickly, and most likely, pass you. I did an experiment to see how the AI worked, and what i found was kind of dissapointing. In later races, when i would perform almost flawlessly (because i'd had to do the same race about 50 times over and over), another car would always be right behind me, or in front of me. But when i slowed down to the pace of the rest of the group, the AI was more lenient, and waited for me. An advantage to this is that the gameplay always provides tension. But the disadvantage is far greater: having to do a six or seven lap race over and over, possibly doing a single circuit a hundred times, just because you crashed once.

Of course, these are technical flaws, and the game appeals to people at an aesthetically pleasing and fun level, rather than a technical one. its an arcade racer, and it doesn't dissapoint at it's arcadiness. You customize your car because it makes it look better. You race against difficult AI becase nothing beats the thrill of seeing the screen blur all those downtown lights into a complete euphoric mass when you use your nitrous to barely pass up another car, just before the finish line. The graphics are amazing, and are a complete evolution from previous nfs games.

This game has conquered it's niche, with cutscenes and music straight outta the fast & the furious (the drawbridge jumps are a complete rip-off of the second movie's drawbridge scene). And the cars are awesome in that they're actually licensed, and you treat em' like your babies as they go from crap to demi-god machines. And i guess thats what matters most with this game- fun. And you'll have quite a great deal of that, as long as you're willing to put up with a slightly less amount of frustration.

cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

cool game!I like this game because when you play this game it feels like your your actually are in the game.

best gamecube racer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

sipley put -this game rocks. Since the Gamecube dosen't have Gran Turismo it has to put up with crappy racing games like NFS hot pursuit 1 and 2. But this games delivers were others fail- the speedis awsomley fast and simulates it well even though if hit things you don't crash

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