Product Description

Discover the living, breathing world of Need for Speed Underground 2. Taking place in a massive, free-roaming city featuring five distinct interconnected neighborhoods, Need for Speed Underground 2 delivers an immersive game world where reputation is everything. As you explore the city, you'll encounter rivall racers who will school you in ways of the underground and tip you off to the hottest racing spots in town. With the most comprehensive tuning options, all new game modes and the industry's most sought-after cars.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4177 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 14633148459
• Released on: 2006-09-08
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: GameCube
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.75" w x 7.75" l, .30 pounds

Features

• Explore a free-roaming city divided into five distinct neighborhoods, from suburban hills to an intense downtown grid -- all connected by freeways you can race
• Drive over 30 of the hottest Tuner cars on the market, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, and Toyota to Ford and Volkswagen
• Tune every aspect of your car's performance with hundreds of licensed upgrades, for the ultimate ride
• Customize your machine to a whole new level - Add scissor doors, spoilers, headlights, side skirts, roof scoops, hoods, rims, wide body kits, neon and more -- for a truly unique ride
• Realistic racing challenges - Deal with Real-time weather effects, environmental hazards, multiple track types and more

From the Manufacturer
The deepest, most authentic tuner experience ever. Discover the living, breathing world of tuner culture in Need for Speed Underground 2, the sequel to the best-selling racing game of 2003, and the latest blockbuster installment in the legendary Need for Speed franchise.

Features

• Free-Roaming City: Explore a massive city divided into five distinct, interconnected neighborhoods, ranging from serpentine suburban hills to an intense downtown grid. A complex series of drivable freeways connect the neighborhoods together.
• Emergent Gameplay: Want to make a name for yourself in the underground? You'll need to find it first. Races can happen anywhere and at any time and as players encounter rivals on the street they'll be clued into where they can buy the hottest upgrades or enter the most elite events.
• New Gameplay Modes: Three new gameplay modes are added to last year's circuit, drift and drag competitions, challenging gamers to hone their skills in a number of driving disciplines.
• Performance Tuning: Tune every aspect of your car's performance with hundreds of licensed aftermarket performance upgrades and then fine-tune everything from the gear ratio to the suspension for the ultimate ride.
• The Hottest Cars: More than thirty of the most sought-after tuner cars are available from the hottest manufacturers - from Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, and Toyota to Ford and Volkswagen, if they're hot on the street, they're in the game.
• Visual Customization: With more than twice the visual customizations of last year's game, there are literally billions of car combinations available to gamers. Featuring audio upgrades, scissor doors, spoilers, headlights, side skirts, roof scoops, hoods, rims, wide body kits, neon and more, if you can trick it out in real life, you can trick it out in Need for Speed Underground 2.
• Environmental Variety: Each of the five distinct neighborhoods in Need for Speed Underground 2 feature a unique look and feel, including varied driving conditions and track types. Road surfaces, real-time weather effects, and environmental hazards will keep gamers on their toes as they race from dusk till dawn.
• Online: Gamers can put their reputation on the line, challenging the world's best racers online for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system (An Internet connection, Network Adaptor and Memory Card for the PlayStation 2 are required for online game play.).

Customer Reviews

Great Game. Better than the first.
This game is a great game. You can customize your car in many different ways (custom gauges, engine and trunk neon, hydralics, doors, split hoods, spinning rims, new bumpers and lights, you can change your car's light color, new cars, new vinyl, SUVs [Escalades, Navigators, and Hummers H2], etc.). It's a free roaming city and you discover hidden shops to get secret parts. Also there are new modes. In Street X, you go on a drift track but you race on it so corners are real tight. In URL, you go in a race track with no traffic and the reward is high (depending on your sponsor/contract). In outrun, you find a race car roaming around and challenge him to an outrun. You must get 1000 feet away from your opponent (it's really not that far. it's like 2-4 blocks). Also, you choose what races you want to race (unless you are required to in your sponsorship contract and you must do so many races in your contract.) And there are many chances to get on a magazine or DVD cover. Also, you take your own picture for the cover (most of the time). This game has improved greatly from the first and there is new music from: Snoop Dogg, The Doors, Chingy, Terror Squad, Spider Bait, Queens of the Stone Age, Ministry, and a lot more. I would definately get this game. It's worth the $50 and it will keep you busy for a long time with all the new features. If your not sure about getting the game, rent it first (I did at gamefly.com and it was worth it. I thought it would be like the first game but it was REALLY different).

Not What I Expected
First off don't believe the reviews IGN and Gamespot have given it because I bought the game today and it is so far 100 times better then the first. You can customize pretty much everything from car audio, to hydraulics,neon lights inside the car,trunk and under the vehicle. The paint jobs are now triple of what they were before with hundreds of diffrent paint jobs. You now have a very well setup city with tons of races at all times and there is shops, garages, bonus races and lots more at all times. There are also alot more cars now which make everything more fun and again EA gives us a awsome soundtrack like Terror Squad with Lean Back, and Chingy with I Do, even another bonus exclusive track just for the Need For Speed series. The graphics are not improved but there not terrible with the frame rate running at around 60 and no choppiness it's awsome. The textures are very bad but besides that the car models are amazing. The sound is another really sweet adition with everything having a great sound to it. Every race has been tweaked along with controls, camera angles and much more making everything more fun and exciting to do. Overall I would reccomend Need For Speed Underground 2 over any other racing game and even some other top games of the holidays it was that good. Try it out you'll see just what I mean about being better then what the reviews say.

Even better than the first!
Crazy new cars will be in this sequel to NFSU. More than 30 licensed cars appear in this game. Mittsubishi FTO and EVO VIII, Honda Accord, Mazda RX8, Lexuz Calibra and IS200, Honda NSX...and many more. The game has new game modes. Included is a free-roaming city divided into five neighborhoods. This will be the best racing game of the year. It is scheduled to come out in the fall of 2004. I know ill be getting it. With new cars, new types of performance and visual tune ups, better graphics...this game is expected to be great!