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Information Genre: Sports Developer: Black Box Games Ltd. Publisher: EA Games Release Date: November 18, 2003 Rank: 1639 (503 in PC) Rating: 6/10 (1 voter) Rate It: Cheats: 30 available Also For: Arcade (2007) / Game Boy Advance (2003) / GameCube (2003) / Playstation 2 (2003) / Xbox (2003) Demos Title Downloads Size Date Added Need for Speed: Underground Demo Filename: nfsu_demo_eagames_australia.exe Comments (0) 198 219.55 MB 5/22/2005 Reviews Write a review Need For Speed: Underground should have been left in the underground., October 16, 2005 Rating: 6.0/10 By Mitch Need For Speed: Underground is a big production with small words. After the Fast and the Furious, people have been becoming obsessed with turning import cars into racing machines. NFS: UG takes hold of this idea, and presents it nicely, but the game play doesn't live up to the idea. There isn't a story line in NFS: UG. The idea is to start with a cheap car, and build it up with style and speed. For car models, they're beautiful, and truly look and real. There are so many exterior car modifications, there's well over 1,000 varieties the look your car can take on. The body kits look good, and all stickers you have the option of putting on your car are actual brands. Modifying your cars power is less interesting. You search through a small list of packages, all filled with different well known brands of performance parts, but, it doesn't even make a difference. In the beginning, NFS: UG can be fun because you're driving reasonably fast stock cars down a city that looks like a futuristic Las Vegas. There are circuit tracks, drifts, or drag races through out the story mode. Things start to get annoying as you progress, because your car will become unrealistically fast, and you'll be flying all over the place smacking into every single object in your path. In the end, when your little Honda Civic starts going 270 MPH on a 1/8 mile street with the ability to do a 1/4 mile in less than 5 seconds, it starts to get a little hectic. As for graphics and sound, there are some things to look forward to. The city graphics run on a powerful engine, covered in bright lights so you'll easily navigate yourself around. The soundtrack is nothing more than roughly 26-track selection of rock and hip hop songs which will start to irritate you after a while. A downside to the graphics is when you go to drive your car in the actual game, it doesn't look right. No lights reflect off of the car in the PC version, and it truly looks like it doesn't belong there, as if it's just been added in. NFS: UG is a game worth renting, not buying, unless you're a huge fan of NFS or just a die hard racing game fan. Similar Games Midnight Club: Street Racing (2000) for PS2 Screenshot Not Available Midnight Club II (2003) for PC Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (2000) for PC Screenshot Not Available Street Fighter III: New Generation (1997) for Arcade Screenshot Not Available Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA (1998) for N64 Buy It From eBay: From Amazon