Need For Speed Underground 2

[Anthraxxx]

Official Site link: http://www.eagames.com/official/nfs/underground2/us/home.jsp

Many of you played NFSU, and we even had plenty of 'Post your car' threads. I throughly enjoyed NFSU and still do. I plan on buying NFSU 2 when it is released. Based on your experience with NFSU, will you buy NFSU 2 when it comes out?

Here's a list of 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.*.

 

[crabcakes66]

Im not big on rice mobiles....so i doubt it.

 

[x84D80Yx]

if its any better than the first, ill get it. so addictive ;x

 

[Pitbul]

since it now has free roam cities like Midnight Club 2 but bigger, of course. i cant wait till this game comes out.

 

[Anthraxxx]

since it now has free roam cities like Midnight Club 2 but bigger, of course. i cant wait till this game comes out.

Yes. The free roaming city certainly caught my attention. If you go to the site and look at the pics that they have up, the cars look sweet and I also think that it's cool that you can have a system in your car. That'll definitely add to the rep points!

Of course there are also things that I'd like to see implemented in this sequel too. I'd like to see Cops that try and chase you down, a decent storyline/voice acting, old skool american muscle cars(like the old mustang mach 1, GTO, '67 Trans Am...), old skool japanese cars( like the Trueno AE-86 *Initial D anyone?* also known as the Corolla GT-S in the US and was supposedly a great car for drifting), Trucks and Low Riders that you can pimp out....

 

[nw909]

Yes. The free roaming city certainly caught my attention. If you go to the site and look at the pics that they have up, the cars look sweet and I also think that it's cool that you can have a system in your car. That'll definitely add to the rep points!

Of course there are also things that I'd like to see implemented in this sequel too. I'd like to see Cops that try and chase you down, a decent storyline/voice acting, old skool american muscle cars(like the old mustang mach 1, GTO, '67 Trans Am...), old skool japanese cars( like the Trueno AE-86 *Initial D anyone?* also known as the Corolla GT-S in the US and was supposedly a great car for drifting), Trucks and Low Riders that you can pimp out....

Heh, I would love to see a AE-86 in NFSU2, I doubt that would happen though, ah well, there's still GT4

 

[AmishSlayer]

One thing they definitely need (all racing games should have it) :

REPLAYS

I did some really badass stuff in NFSU and I would've loved to see a replay and save it. That was something that was missing out of the PC version at least.

I'll check out NFSU2 when it comes out. I may just borrow it from a friend I know that will surely buy it.

 

[B_MAN]

this is going to be the same as the first... with a few new features

EA are such a bunch of quick-cash wh*res

prolly still play it though

 

[blahblahblah]

Im not big on rice mobiles....so i doubt it.

I am the same way, but I bought NFSU because I needed an arcade racing game for the PC. (Though it was alot of fun customizing my ride )

I hated how NFSU reused race maps. It gets really annoying when you have a race on a track you have done 20 times before, but its now fliped and reversed. They should actually make new race maps instead of trying to reuse them.

Plus, NFSU really annoyed me. I couldn't get past the 96th race (or something really close to finishing the game) so I couldn't get all of the upgrades or beat the game. :angry:

But that motion blur was sweet. I wish more games would use motion blur.

 

[burnzie]

ill probably buy it, but they should include some more cars, different ones like older classics, or maybe Fords and holdens from down under, plenty of people mod them up.

 

[Direwolf]

this is going to be the same as the first... with a few new features
EA are such a bunch of quick-cash wh*res

EA is the largest publisher of videogames in the world. To think that every game any developer under them makes is simply a cash-in is silly. Plenty of good games have come out under their name.
I'll look into buying it when it comes out. If it has something that really grabs my interest I may look into it, but I would like to see the idea fleshed out beyond what was in the first game with deeper performance customization. It was essentially set up like a ladder that you had to climb and never really gave you any options. I'll always have GT4 anyway though.

 

[IchI]

This game should be very addictive and fun. Hopfully it will have xbox live this time and lets just not bring it out on the ps2 at all because its a bag of shite. Did you ever compare the 2 versions? oh dear.... lol

 

[burnzie]

the ps2 version looked good i thought, and it had online play, i dont recall it having that on xbox

 

[Bad^Hat]

I did some really badass stuff in NFSU and I would've loved to see a replay and save it. That was something that was missing out of the PC version at least.

PS2 version had no replay either. Me and a mate did some hilarious shit on drag and couldn't review it. IMO NFS:U was BS, LOL.

Seriously though, it was aiight, but as a fan of the NFS series I thought it was a disappointment and a real deviation from the normal quality of the series. Really typical of EA, but I won't complain about the obvious marketing towards youths because they'd have probably ****ed it up anyway ^_^

 

[lePobz]

I don't think i'll buy NFS:U2 but I might buy SRS (Street Racing Syndicate) which is similar in style but has had a lot more time spent on it, so it'll be more of a perfect game instead of something that was slapped together in a few months.

I'm not sure if its out on PC but I prefer my racing games on Xbox anyway

http://www.srsgame.com/

 

[Anthraxxx]

There is likely going to be an online version for the Xbox because EA just made a deal with MS to bring their franchise to Xbox Live!

 

[Dedalus]

i didn't rate NFS:U that much. my mate bought it for PS2. all we did was sit 10cm away from his 42" plasma and drag race all day. good fun for a while.