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| Need for Speed: Underground 2 | |
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| Developer(s) | EA Black Box |
| Publisher(s) | EA Games |
| Series | Need for Speed |
| Platform(s) | Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA, NDS, Mobile |
| Release |  November 15, 2004 November 18, 2004 |
| Genre(s) | Racing |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
Need for Speed: Underground 2 (NFSU2) is a multiplatform racing video game published and developed by Electronic Arts. Released in 2004, it is the sequel to Need for Speed: Underground, and is part of the Need for Speed series, available on GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and Windows. It was developed by EA Black Box.
The game is based around tuning cars for street races, resuming the Need for Speed: Underground storyline. Need for Speed: Underground 2 provides several new features, such as a broader customization, new methods of selecting races, the "explore" mode (just driving around freely, similar to Grand Theft Auto, in a large city known as "Bayview", which heavily resembles Los Angeles) with a hint of San Francisco and Las Vegas locations like the Casinos and Red and White radio tower on the mountain. Underground 2 also introduces several SUVs, which could be customized as extensively as other Underground 2 vehicles and used to race against other SUV racers. Brooke Burke is the voice of Rachel Teller, the person who guides you through the story.
On the Nintendo DS installment, users are able to design custom decals to adorn any vehicle in the game.
The PSP equivalent is Need for Speed: Underground Rivals.
Plot
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Characters
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Racing modes
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Online Multiplayer
See section 9
Cars
As in Need for Speed: Underground, Underground 2 continues to offer similar vehicles for purchase and modification, most of which consist of Asian models, with a sizable number of European and American models. In addition, Underground 2 is the only game in the Need for Speed series to date to offer three SUVs as racing vehicles, which may be modified more extensively than their compact counterparts. A total of 29 vehicle models are available for both versions of the game plus 2 unique for each of them, the PAL version of the game offers an additional two cars that the NTSC version doesn't have and vice versa.
Missing Features
Although the game tips suggest that these features are useable, EA employees have decided to drop them. One feature is the ability to swap cars, which has been removed in the final edition. The second feature is Megalow Performance Shops. If you find specific performance shops, they are named Megalow Performance Shops, but their prices do not differ from regular performance shops.
Soundtrack
- Snoop Dogg featuring The Doors - "Riders On The Storm" (Fredwreck Remix)
- Capone - "I Need Speed"
- Chingy - "I Do"
- Sly Boogy - "That'z My Name"
- Xzibit - "LAX"
- Terror Squad - "Lean Back"
- Fluke - "Switch/Twitch"
- Christopher Lawrence - "Rush Hour"
- Felix da Housecat - "Rocket Ride" (Soulwax Remix)
- Sin - "Hard EBM"
- FREELAND - "Mind Killer" (Jagz Kooner Remix)
- Paul Van Dyk - "Nothing But You (Cirrus Remix)"
- Sonic Animation - "E-Ville"
- Killing Joke - "The Death & Resurrection Show"
- Rise Against - "Give it All"
- Killradio - "Scavenger"
- The Bronx - "Notice of Eviction"
- Ministry - "No W"
- Queens of the Stone Age - "In My Head"
- Mudvayne - "Determined"
- Septembre - "I am Weightless"
- Helmet - "Crashing Foreign Cars"
- Cirrus - "Back on a Mission"
- Spiderbait - "Black Betty"
- Skindred - "Nobody"
- Snapcase - "Skeptic"
- Unwritten Law - "The Celebration Song"
- Rob Zombie - "Demon Speeding"
Reception and criticism
The game sold 9 million copies, and entering the "best-sellers" of each console (PS2's Greatest Hits, Xbox's Platinum Hits and GameCube's Player's Choice).
Reviews were positive, but many elements were criticized, such as having to drive excessive amounts to get to specific races, bland voice acting and strong product placement for companies with no connection to auto racing, such as integrating the logo for Cingular, an American wireless communications company, into the game's messaging system and displaying it on-screen for much of the gameplay. The GameCube version was also bashed for its unstable frame rate. The hip-hop slang used by the characters (such as calling the money "bank") and the comic book cut scenes were also criticized.
The sound systems, for example, could be put in the trunk of cars, but made the car slower.
carbon-fiber parts are will make the car slower, bodykits that serve no aerodynamic value, roof scoops, spinners, custom mirrors, head and taillight changes, and rear wing choices, which make the car slower.
Glitches
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Online
As of March 2008, online is now down for this title.
References
- EA Community Day: The Godfather Game Editorial, Video Game Media
- Need for Speed: Underground 2 at Game Rankings
- Review at GameSpot
- Review at IGN
- GameSpot Best and Worst of 2004: Most Despicable Product Placement
- Review at GameSpy
- http://underground2.multiply.com/
- http://underground2.multiply.com/journal/item/1/Need_for_Speed_Underground_2_Glitches
- http://www.ea.com/information.jsp
External links
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