Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2634 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2004-11-19
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: PlayStation2

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

I've actually played it...... WARP SPEED MR SULU!!!
yup..this is defo better than the first NFS underground. The introduction of the free roaming is cool. You can now pull up next to any other racers you meet on the road when you are going to events and challenge them to a one on one...no set route, just get in front and they have to chase you.. get far enough in front and you win..simple. The music is good, the upgrades are just silly, soooo many. A couple of new races modes like street X and the underground racing league... its all good. Its one of the few racing games where you actually feel like you are in control of the car... like in GTA.. its good but didnt it take you all a while to get used to the fact the cars wont go round corners and the brakes only seem to work in straight lines? NFS cars stick to the road and this makes the game much better than the rest. Im not interested in all that technical mumbo jumbo about graphics and AI engines.. whatever. This games looks good, plays good and sounds good. Sure there are one or two funny little bugs but come on.. who really cares about that. Im just waiting for the train-spotters out there to start bangin on about the faults in the games... well this game is excellent.. Works for me....as we all know this is basically the game version of the fast and the furious.. in the opening sequence there is even a bald geezer that bears a striking resemblance to Vin Diesel..Coincidence???..naaa. Bottom line: If you like street racing games.. get this...nuff said!

pretty good
I recently played a demo of this game. It is basically the same as need for speed 1, and if like me you enjoyed number 1...this game will not be a dissapointment. There are more cars, more body parts and you can even customise the interior of your chosen vehicle. The city is free roaming so you can drive anywhere and even race at any time. This is achieved by driving up alongside another racer and tapping up or down on the dpad. This activates the race and your objective is to get ahead of the opponent, and then drive anywhere you like, as long as you lose the guy whos racing you. Drag, circuit and Drift all return. I didnt give this a 5 because it is basically the same as the original, and the free roaming city doesn't really work. However if your looking for more of the same then this game deserves a 5 and your attention. an excelent purchase!

NFSU2
NFSU2 is simply a brilliant and outstanding street racing game, I have the first one, that was good, but this, bigger, better and FASTER!

EA Games have made a brilliant product to be both enjoyed and embraced by all NFSU fans, the cars are great and fast and the challenges are possibly medium hard and challenging.

The features are as follows, these are all fun and some fans will want to know,

-Free Roaming City (It's massive and you can explore all of it whilst driving to a race).

-Emergent Gameplay (Make a name for yourself in the underground, sign racing contracts, I, right now, have signed a deal with SPARCO, still coolio!)

-New gameplay Modes (URL and Street X are both fast and furious challenges, drift and drag competitions are very well crafted by the makers of this game).

-Performance Tuning (Go there regulary to check out your car's speed, endurance and ability. No complaints, of course, this is a classic).

-The Hottest Cars (All the best tuner cars from Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan and Toyota to Ford and Volkswagen, if they're hot on the road, they're in!)

Unlimited Visual Customisation (Lets your car look like a car of the future for sure!)

Online (play other racers online with the new and untarnished ETHERNET connection for the PLAYSTAION 2).

Brilliant features, amazing challenges, fanastic street racing, NFSU2 will go down as one of the most stunning, enthralling and most of all fastest street racing EA games of the millenium, and BUY THIS NOW or be a stupid, ignorant and boring video gamer, BUY THIS! £££

~Calum Fairweather (NFSU FAN)