| Need
for speed Underground (PS2, X-Box and Gamecube)
Reviewed
by Javaid Ravi on the 18/02/04
It's
hard to talk about an import car racing game without mentioning
the movie `The Fast and the Furious’. The game is quite
easy to pick up and play, though some parts require a little
more skill than others. Driving with skill earns you style
points in a way similar to the one in the Project Gotham Racing
series, though this one is much more lenient and awards points
for the simple acts of powersliding, drafting, and catching
air. The game includes twenty of the world’s hottest
tuner cars – Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Peugeot,
Ford and more. Style points build up regardless of the mode
you'replaying in, and you can unlock rewards each time the
style points meter is filled. The car upgrades are broken
down into visual and performance upgrades. Performance upgrades
come in 3 levels and must be unlocked before you can purchase
them.
There are hundreds of authentic aftermarket part upgrades
including turbocharge, better engines, weight reduction, enhanced
braking, computer-chip tuning, nitrous oxide boosts, and etc.
The visual upgrades also have a positive effect on your car.
Choose from dozens of styles for spoilers, body kits, replacement
hoods, neons, headlights, taillights, or window tinting for
your car, or making other major changes to your car's appearance,
increases your reputation rating.
Need for Speed Underground contains a good variety of different
races that help keep the action varied. There are Circuit
races, Sprints, drags and drift races where time means absolutely
nothing. The career mode is called “go underground”
and it lets you progress through 111 races. But unfortunately
the game does not have 111 different tracks so you will be
spending lots of time going backwards and forwards on the
same roads. Each race comes in three different difficulty
settings, and you'll earn different amounts of money depending
on which difficulty you select. Being able to select this
from race to race is nice, because it lets you make the difficult
races easier, so that you progress steadily. Also while playing
the game you are bombarded with Hot EA GAMES™ TRAX including
Mystikal, Crystal Method, Rancid, Static-X, Petey Pablo and
Rob Zombie.
Pure games rate this
games at 8 out of 10
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