Since Underground was still cool: 2004 Need for Speed ??Underground 2 came on the market. It continued the theme of illegal street racing from its predecessor, but was able to score with the freely navigable City Bayview.
Mentor Rachel
Mentor Rachel [Source: See picture gallery]
Since the predecessors Need for Speed ??Hot Pursuit 2 and Underground, the series of the pure racing simulation to the then relatively unused underground setting was switched. Instead of concentrating on closed race to race to race, it was about illegal street racing at full road. Since Underground then it was possible to match his car by tuning to their own needs, both visually and technically. Here, new racing modes such as drift and drag have been introduced to the players in the racing scene, away from FIA or DTM
Nissan with neon: a 350 Z makes her a lot.
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Nissan Neons: a 350 Z makes her a lot.
offset. Even if given the recent representatives of the genre that are only groomed to cool and evil, no longer like to believe it, this new issue at that time was quite refreshing and varied. Why? There was never a question of being evil in any form is at least in the Underground games. Sure, the street racing is illegal, but it is never mentioned, nor of the police, which was used later in Most Wanted and Carbon again. Honestly, what does this senseless Broken ramming a predetermined number of police cars still to be done in a certain time with racing?
Cool yes, evil no - this credo has also Need for Speed ??Underground 2 internalized. The game focuses completely on the fun. The story, which will be spun in cool comic sequences is, however, a little on very flat. The characters, especially Rachel and mentor the long unknown villain, are rather irrelevant for the course of history, but also do not interfere. Six months after his disappearance lands the protagonist, a nameless racer in Bayview, to shake up the racing scene there. He is accompanied by Rachel, who is a friend of Samantha's the first part. However, not all see his return as benevolent, because his success gets more and more envious of the plan ...
Move on Bayviews streets.
Move on Bayviews streets. [Source: See picture gallery]
In the game, there are roughly two venues: The streets of Bayview and the race track. The Explore Mode, where you can drive all the streets of the fictional town is completely reimplemented. On the extensive road network of the typical American city with Up and Down Town, Hispano-District, Harbor, Airport and amusements you are spending hours on the road before it was twice in one place. In addition to extensive exploratory trips you go to the start of the race, moves into their boxes with NPCs to race or looking for shops. Here, depending on the type of shops the look of the car, equipment, engine parts or equal to the entire bolide can be changed. Everything for money course, that you then have to earn in the race.
Of course, this is the core of the game: In the countless race tracks with the specially tricked-carts to earn money so beef up even more in order then to make more money and so on. Thanks to the varied game modes that will never be boring. In addition to the fairly normal races like round course or Sprint for example, when it comes to drift on as long as possible slides, drag the other hand, precise switching is required. Especially car enthusiasts will get their costs, but also gamers who just do not feel like consuming simulations or strategies. Who won enough races, the Underground Racing League will be invited in the URL. Here there are the best in their class on a racetrack a la DTM to the bet. And over again your own truck is even printed on hip magazines.
Rice bowl after tuning. Looks even better.
Rice bowl after tuning. Looks even better. [Source: See picture gallery]
The more victories you retract the more options to offer to tune their own car. This begins with new aprons and spoilers and ends with hi-fi systems, hydraulic systems and self-created Amaturenblättern. Job offers for each model hundreds of different ways to customize the car. Anyone At length a new car in the course of his career, this gets easy way the production car from the car dealer and then have to reinstall all new extras. On the other hand, the difficulty is most compel eventually switch to a new vehicle, because the metal bowls from the start of the game even tuned far from being activated as soon as later. In other words, an Audi TT from the bar proposes a Aufmotz Corsa with certainty.
The graph provides a zweispältiges image. See the car models, as well as the houses on the roadside, handsomely from. The textures of the streets, however, would hinbekommen a fever sick four year old on MS Paint better and also more likely to produce the videos in a negative sense goosebumps. The sound is much better off: One of the strengths of Need for Speed ??Underground 1 and 2 is certainly the choice of music was. Again, cool, not evil. The songs from hip-hop and various rock genres bring quite a cool racing feeling with it, gangster rap, for example, one hears degegen never. be found in the artist list on one hand the likes of Snoop Dogg or Xzibit, but also the band Queens of the Stone Age, Skindred or Rise Against, which provide in tight race for adrenaline. In addition to the pounding engines, of course.
The most important thing
on the way Bayviews streets.
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Move on Bayviews streets.
however, is that Need for Speed ??Underground 2 contains what the front says on the box: Speed. No matter if you do not feel attracted to cars and no matter what one thinks of illegal street racing and tuning, this game is guaranteed not for Sunday drivers, for middle lane Schleicher or Ököjunkies. Gasoline vapor, burnt rubber and the roar of the engines determine this need for speed and who can not handle it comes from the first to the last minute, which is in the wrong place. Of course, it takes a good pilot to run through the gasammte long career, nevertheless Underground 2 is definitely not a race simulation, but Acarde pure, only designed for speed and adrenaline.
Luckily runs Underground 2 also on modern computers, running Windows 7, it is (almost) never crashes.
Friend is to Need for Speed ??Underground 2 to anyone who wants fast action and can dispense with complicated physics and outstanding graphics.
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