1/31/2024 0 Comments Need for speed underground pc![]() ![]() Just like eating at Burger King, in fact.įor all the general gaudiness, there are some visually appealing moments, if you like night-time cityscapes. The main things that do catch the eye are adverts for real-life brands, which isn’t unusual in itself, although some of the choices are a little bizarre: Burger King, Old Spice and Campbell’s Soup don’t seem like great matches for a street racing game, but they’re particularly prominent here, so much so that when one of your racer buddies calls you up to give you a vague clue about the location of a so-called ‘secret’ race (“yo, I heard they’re by the hotel plaza!”) you sort of wish he’d say it’s near the Burger King, because at least you’d know where that is. ![]() Other incentives for exploring the city include discovering the locations of the various garages and shops you’ll need to visit in order to purchase cars and upgrades, and also finding secret races which aren’t shown on the map.īayview isn’t really the sort of place you want to look around: it’s a kind of hideous conglomeration of a number of US cities, and notable landmarks are in short supply. This free-roaming element kind of reminds me of Tokyo Xtreme Racer on the PS2, although here it’s very much an optional sideshow rather than the meat of the game. Victory brings a small cash reward, and stringing enough together brings the opportunity to secure visual and performance upgrades that wouldn’t otherwise be available. What you can do, though, is encounter AI street racers and challenge them to a one-off ‘Outrun’ race (later seen in 2008’s Undercover), in which victory is attained by putting a significant distance between you and your opponent. It’s mildly tedious, to say the least: although the handling is satisfying enough and encourages some irresponsible twatting around with liberal use of the handbrake, you won’t find yourself enjoying a drive from A to B in the way you might in, say, Test Drive Unlimited, while the absence of police means that you won’t initiate any chase-based hi-jinks either.ĭrifting, old-school, in Mum’s Ford Focus. Unlike in later offerings, which wisely offered the option of doing this or simply skipping to the race by clicking on the map, here you’ll have to drive yourself each and every time. Where in UG, you simply chose the next race from a menu, in UG2, you’ll need to look at the map and drive to it. The major development since Underground is the introduction of a free-drive element: the city of Bayview, which you can roam around at your leisure. As for this one, I’m not quite sure why I ignored it up until now, beyond a sense that it was simply more of the same – a placeholder before new elements were added for Most Wanted – and, given that one of the drawbacks of the original Underground was an element of repetitiveness, the prospect of ploughing through another 100+ races didn’t really appeal. Beyond being simply the shot in the arm that the series desperately needed, and a building block towards the one of the best NFS games, Most Wanted, it was also a rather fine racer in its own right. ![]() Although it might not have been immediately obvious from my rather glib write-up, I rather liked Need for Speed: Underground. ![]()
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