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Game Information
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- 20 fully customizable, licensed cars
- Unique racing events
- Hundreds of ways to customize your ride
- Diverse urban nighttime environments
- High-octane music
- Online-compatible
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Product Description
GamesMaster Magazine
"Arcade racing taken to the extreme with bags of variety, modes and upgrades."
Product Description
Enter the world of urban street racing and high-performance tuner cars in Need for Speed Underground,. Take on today's most popular tuner cars from Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru, Toyota and many more, building the ultimate street machine by earning cash to pay for custom body kits and a host of licensed car performance modes. But just creating a custom street-racing machine will not get you to the top; it takes a certain amount of attitude and razor sharp driving skills to compete in the tough world of urban racing.
A number of diverse events set in gritty, night time environments make up the heart of street competition. Players become complete street racers by perfecting skills in each event by nailing the perfect shift in drag racing and by putting their street cred on the line, racing through the city streets at all hours of the night.
Prove you belong in the elite street racing circles, work your way up the underground rankings and take on the best of the best in each discipline.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Need for Speed- Underground PC,
By Iain Birch (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Need for Speed Underground (PC) (Video Game)
Definately a vast improvement on previous need for speed titles. Underground blends arcade and simulation perfectly. The driving experience is realistic (handling, acceleration, limitations and drive physics etc) and 20 fully licensed vehicles with authentic car parts and upgrades including the likes of Greddy, HKS USA, NOS etc. (look closely and you'll see such parts stickers on the cars in the fast and the furious films) Then comes the wonderful blend- no seriously the HUD looks really arcadey but works very well.Graphically the game is unchallenged in its field. (on the PC anyway, view the latest update preview videos for Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2 and you'll see what i mean) The cars look gorgeous and on higher end machines able to support higher frame update rates then the reflection deatils on car surfaces are cool. Gameplay other than the driving experience is also cracking fun. Not only can you race your personally customized beast machine head to head with people around the world on the net (Personally i run a godlike nissan skyline) but the single player is great too! You begin with a pretty s**t ride by street race standards and the idea is you have to work your way up the ranks gaining better prestige, engine upgrades, body parts for your car and unique bits and bobs (probably the funnest part of the game customizing your ride) I was already impressed with this game when i completed it but the fun doesn't stop there. In order to unlock all magazines (you will frequently appear on magazine covers in sinlge player mode complete with hot chicks!) you will also need to gain the maximum ammount of style points (obtained in lots of ways) in order to unlock all the different variations of the cars. The best driving game i've played in a long time. Beats all the competition out there atm, nuff said.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
NFS Underground PC,
This review is from: Need for Speed Underground (PC) (Video Game)
If you enjoy the Fast and the Furious movies, or even the real thing by driving around Asda car parks at 1am carving the tarmac, then you should enjoy this game. A very fast paced driving sim that takes the best of Project Gotham (x-box) and Burnout with a splash of Gran Tourismo and rolls them all into this excellent package. I'm not sure if the console versions will suffer from a few framerate dropouts, because trying to do all of this at once will push anything to its limits. Fortunately my PC spec doesnt suffer from any problems therefore the game isn't spoilt. Only couple of minor downsides would be that the game lacks a damage system, therefore you can plough into a brick wall at 180mph and not feel a thing, but hey, it can give you an advantage in the game. Other minor problem being that the tracks are all set in the same city and all at night, although they do deviate it can get a little repetitive. The car physics are very good, which makes this game as much of a sim as a balls-out racer. And the ability to up-spec your car with a whole bundle of bells and whistles will bring out the boy-racer in everybody. Overall I love this game, been playing it for two weeks almost non-stop, and i'm about three quarters of the way through. Hard to put it down!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Speedy,
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This review is from: Need for Speed Underground (PC) (Video Game)
The concept of this game is that you are an underground illegal racer who performs races in the dead of night in order to earn style points. Style points will gain you respect and allow you to unlock visual upgrades to your car. This car upgrade piece is unique to this game. As you win races, you unlock new upgrades for your car (visual and performance). The performance upgrades effect the car handling and speed and its pretty staple console port race game stuff. The cool bit is that you can unlock visual upgrades such as alloy wheels, spoilers and body kits. These visual upgrades do not affect the driving ability of the game but you can spend hours getting those funky hardware items to look “just right”. Its not just hardware, you get to unlock stickers to put on the car and paint jobs etc etc. Cool.There is a good range of cars, mostly Japanese, but there are a few European models to tinker with and paint purple with 20” rims. Race wise, there are three basic themes: Now for a game like this, with such an emphasis on the car looking good, obviously the game engine needs to be up to the job. I am happy to say that the graphics are excellent. Little details on the cars stand out (e.g. painted brake callipers) and since its all done at night time the neon lights in the city look fab reflecting off the shiny bodywork. There are lots other details such as tyre marks that stay around and dust coming off the car when you “catch some air”. Sound effects are pretty standard engines, tyre squeals, crashes, but the game’s sound track really comes into its own. Underground racers obviously have to have their stereo cranked up, the sound track on this game is great. Hip-hop and rock tracks are used to good effect. The game does have its downsides, for those used to the GTA freeform there is none of that, each circuit is fixed (though there are a few shortcuts) and if you take a wrong turning you get the car reset back in the right place. The circuits are all based on the same city, so different streets are reused in different races and it can get a bit samey. There is no damage modelling and the physics make the cars seem a bit light, but this is an arcade game so you can’t mark it down for that. For a pure arcade racer, this game rocks! If you are after a realistic driving game then you ought to try something else.
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