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IT'S A MUST HAVE GAME BETTER THEN ANY OTHER RACING GAME OUT!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: November 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is tyteeeeee! better then any other racing game yet i persanaly love the cars in this game they look so shiny any good very good detailed well i hope they make this one a must have like last years it's avalible on the x-box ps2 and the gamecube they always make it different on the ps2 for some reason like more stuff thows jerks just because they made need for speed first doesent' mean they have too do that!

i hope i really hope they dont do that this year if i haD 50 BUCKS I WOULD GET THIS TITLE THE FIRST DAY IT COMES OUT MOE MONEY MOE MONEY MOE MONEY IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BAGAMINS PLAYA!!!

the first review from someone who HAS the game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i just picked this up at gamestop a few hours ago. i'm not going to launch into some insanely huge review, however i do want to say that the xbox version is just awesome. the graphics look amazing. the sounds are very realistic, and the cars handle very well. there are so many upgrades available for the cars, including turbos, nitrous, wheels, and A TON more. this game is so much better than older need for speed games! if you're at all interested in this sort of thing, absolutely get the game.

great game but......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

they said it was four players. i got it and its not... it should've have been, so for those people who wants this game because its 4-players dont buy it. i give it 4-1/2 stars

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: November 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game a couple of days ago. It it awesome! First of all, the graphics are top notch. The special effects when you start going faster that 100mph are really cool. Second of all, the handling is easy and responsive. Also, there are TONS of modifications you can do to your car, from neon to NOS, even body kits. The types of races that you can do are circuit, which is just 2-4 laps around in a circle, drag, which is a staight race over a mile of highway, drift, which is trying to score as many points as possible by moving your car side to side, sprint which is just a race from point A to point B, and tournaments, which is three races, and the person with the most points at the end of it win. The "Underground" mode is very deep, and you'll spend hours on end, speedin' through the ranks of top racers in the city. Even if your not really into the racing video games, this is a must buy. 5 stars.

Wonder why there's no Xbox live for this title

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: November 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Need for speed Underground has no Xbox live, but it's available for PS2 online. The reason to this is because of a marketing fight between Microsoft and EA games. EA games wanted Microsoft to advertise their games to be the number 1 online games for xbox live. Microsoft refused and EA games was too stuck up just to allow this to have Xbox Live. I mean, if it is really the best game out there, than there's no reason to advertise heavilly. Halo is the number one reason to get Xbox, but it's not advertised heavily, but many people love it, and it advertises itself word by mouth.

EA games are trying to overhype the game so you'll buy it, and later you noticed it's not much of a game. I believe EA games blows more of their company money on advertising than making a wonderful game. And also, they have like so many expansion packs out for the Sims because they are too lazy to make a new Sims and just look for cheap ways to squeeze the most money out of the people. Need for Speed Underground is probably the last game EA games that's coming out for Xbox unless if EA games compromises with Microsoft.

its asome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: November 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is off the hezi for shize but u will ned the strategy guide it helps a lot

Fatally flawed, shamefully weak offering

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I wanted so very much to like this game... and but for a couple of flaws it would be the amazing game that the fanboys have proclaimed it. But those flaws are show stoppers.

The ongoing feud with Microsoft over control of online play has kept EA from supporting XBOX Live with any of it's titles and the lack of online head to head is unforgivable. The lack of system link is baffling and no support for 480p HDTV shows a lack of respect for XBOX gamers.

The real killer though is the unoptimized port from the PS2 development design. All the eye candy and graphic panache is totaly negated when you corner and the frame rate stutters to a 5 FPS halt. The same problem killed the GameCube version of NFS2 Hot Pursuit. With a fast, twitchy control and physics engine a smooth, regular frame rate is a must and it's lack totally ruins the experience.

I had hoped it was only on a few tracks such as the starting Olympic square, but the frame rate problems pop up virtually everywhere except the ultra small Drift track.

The driving engine is neither arcade fun and easy nor a simulation ala Gran Turismo or Sega GT 2002. It falls into a kind of nether region inhabited only by the strange Auto Modellista. Neither fish nor fowl nor good red meat it fails to satisfy on either plane being too twitchy to be simple and fun like Burnout 2 or have the detail and feel of Sega GT.

The game design drips with quality and style in every other area. The people at Rock Star San Diego who made Midnight Club 2 have to be shaking their gourds in awe of this design. EA brought in a Hollywood cinematographer to help get the 'feel of Speed' into the game and they did that perfectly with a whole arsenal of field of view changes, motion blurs, and camera shaking. The effect is truly impressive and certainly groundbreaking. And it is totally wasted when the frame rate jerks and shakes it until it coughes up blood and dies. A sad, sad waste. I hope other developer take the good ideas here and put them to use.

I hope that the PS2 version at least runs smoothly enough to live up to the potential of this title. I am afraid to even rent the GameCube version. If the programmers on the XBOX conversion team couldn't manage making a 733mhz x086 machine run it smoothly one can't imagine the same muppets doing any better on the relatively slower Nintendo hardware.

For truly excellent racing try the nearly perfect Project Gotham Racing 2 instead. The folks at EA must have liked the PGR Kudo points idea since they saw fit to copy it and call it Style points. PGR2 supports Live! and runs at a silky smooth frame rate ALWAYS in HDTV resolution. If you are on a budget try the sleeper Ford Racing 2. For less than half what NFSU costs you will be very pleasantly surprised by the depth and quality.

So many great ideas and so much fabulous art and animation... but the RACING kills the fun for me. If you find more pleasure in NFSU than I did more power to you my friend. My copy is going to eBay.

EXCEPTIONALY GREAT RACING GAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THE LAST NSP TITLE HOT PURSUIT WASNT MY FAVORITE BUT IT WORKED FOR A RACING SIM BUT THIS TIME UNDERGROUND GOES THE EXTRA MILE.THIS TIME U ENTER THE NIGHTLIFE OF ILEAGAL STREET RACING VERY SIMILAR TO THE SMASH HIT MOVIE THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS AND FROM THERE YOU CAN DESIGN RACE TRADE IN OR JUST SIMPLY DRIVE AROUND THE STREETS AND ENJOY NITROUS FUELD RACE MACHINES ITS REALLY COOL WITH THE NITROUS OPTION I CANT SAY IF IT WILL DO ANY HARM TO THE MUCH ANTICIPATED GRAN TURISMO 4 BUT FOR NOW THERE ISNT A BETTER RACING GAME ON THE MARKET.THE HANDLING OF THE CARS IS AWESOME THE SCREECHING AND THE TACH ON THE SCREEN IS REALLY NICE ALSO DRIVING IN STICK SHIFT IS A GREAT TIME TO THE WAY U CAN BUILD YOUR CARS IS COOL U RACE FORMONEY AND WHEN U WIN U WIN BIG ALSO YOU CAN UNLOCK CARS BYU WINNING RACES AS WELL SO I MUST SAY THIS IS A GREAT GAME ABSOLUTLEY A BUY NOT A RENTAL.

The Best NFS Yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the first NFS that I have NOT bought for a PC. I have owned all the rest, and this one is the most fun by far. I am not into racing simulations, but lean much more toward arcade-style racers. This game starts off slow, but as you begin winning and upgrading, your ride gets exponentially better. For example, I am about halfway though the game (55/111 races) and have a Acura RSX Type-S taht will hit 210mph! Its nice that the computer AI will fight back -- so be carefull when you try to crash someone into oncoming traffic. I don't know if the cutscenes/dialouge are *suppossed* to be so funny, but they are. The only problem is that I have to remember when I'm driving on the road, for REAL, to NOT drive like this game!!

Da Best NFS game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i think this game is awsome. Xbox put a lot of work to make this game very popular. I played NFS for Xbox two days ago, and it was cool. Why cool because u can customize ur car like: the wheels, bumpers, and color. U can even put lights at the bottom of ur car. There are also cars like: Mitsubishi, Acura, and many more. The grahpics of the game is so much better than the PS2 NFS Underground. When u go over 100 mph the graphics chage and it makes it look so much cooler. The handling of the cars are so smooth. The levels are not that long (Im not trying to say that the people who made the game needed to make it a little bit longer) but fun. Who cares if the game is for 2 players only as long as if its not boring or a waste your money for nothing game. If ur at home and u have games that r to easy for u then u better challenge yourself with NFS to see if u got game. This is a must buy game, not a game to be rented.

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