These "Customize Your Ride" options take center stage of the gameplay. The flexible car customization mode offers up 20 different vehicles, not a huge number, but with all the different options the variety of personalized cars you can create is in the billions, according to EA. It seems its goal was to create a racer that provided more vehicle customization than anything ever seen before, and to this extent it succeeded brilliantly.
Companies like AEM, Enkei, Jackson Racing, HKS, and StreetGlow provide lines of custom upgrades for otherwise everyday cars - like the Impreza - so you can deck them out and turn them into your personalized street machine.īlack Box and EA have gone to great measures to capture this gritty, sometimes seedy underworld, partnering with the biggest product lines and major car manufacturers. The underground scene of backstreet, nighttime racers has evolved into a whole new industry. The days when Dodge Neons, VW Golfs, Subaru Imprezas and Mazda Miatas were just reminders you couldn't have a flashy sports car are gone in the ever-growing circle of elite street racers, dedicated auto fanatics are turning the mid-range class of almost-sports-cars into decked out, eye-catching street rockets. Gameplay Need for Speed Underground borrows, instead of simulating, from the increasingly popular custom kit and import car scene. Yes, we'd be crazy not to like it - and so would you.
It's a world of gorgeous girls, rocket-fast racing, stunning graphics, and some of the most impressive vehicle customization ever created. More than anything, it features a robust customization mode that is intricately sewn into a lengthy franchise-style single-player experience. It broadens the NFS franchise, bringing a number of things to the starting line that other arcade racers have not. So, it is a definite departure from the world of exotic cars and over-the-top police chases that the series was founded on. It is most commonly, and certainly not unfairly, compared to the theme featured in the popular The Fast and the Furious movies. Since developer Black Box was responsible for the slick PS2 iteration, EA recruited them to develop the next in the franchise.Īptly titled Need for Speed Underground, it focuses on the custom kit and import car circuit. Last year the publisher released Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, a fantastic racer on the PlayStation 2, but one not quite as polished on other platforms. Only a year gone and Electronic Arts is already burning rubber with another Need for Speed title.
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