Need For Speed Underground 2 (Xbox)

First off, the game is no longer menu driven as racers can now drive around a fictional city picking up races to fulfill a contract or races just to gain money.

The money can then be spent at a variety of places including Graphics shops (Paint / Vinyl / Decals etc), Specialists shops (Nydraulics / Neons), Body Shops (Spoilers / Roof Scoops / Rims etc) and at performance shops (Engine / Suspension / Turbo etc)

Then you are ready to race more and there are plenty of races to compete in, including StreetX (best described as racing on the drift tracks and its no holds barred), Drag Racing, circuit racing, sprint racing and also the previously mentioned drift races. There is also the new URL (underground racing league) races which consist of a number of circuit races.

Other racers can also be raced by driving close to them and pressing up on the D-Pad (much like flashing your light in midnight club 2). These races reward you with small cash but can sometimes help in getting unique parts for your car.

Overall - N4S-UG2 is a huge overhaul from the first Underground and isnt your typical sequal.

Only good thing is you can go fast and cool jumps!!!!!!!

Overall an amazing game which should be in every collection

While I really have enjoyed playing with the huge amounts of car parts, vinyls and paints I really don't want to encourage EA to make games the way they are. It's more than cheeky the way they use NOS in a similar way to burnout and the attempt at free roaming.

It's all nice this on paper being underground and stuff but It's incredibly mainstream stuff.
It's more Chav culture than tuner culture.It has no cops, product placement and a playlist desperately trying to appeal to everyone with snoop dog remixing a song with need for speed obviousely mentioned. It's really annoying, especially with burger king even having an unlockable decal. I also don't apreciate being called "dawg" all the time by certain characters.

I'm sounding realy negative here aren't I? I shoudn't be, the choice of cars is fantastic, you start with a focus, early 90's corrola, 106, etc and move onto hardcore jap imports like supras and skylines. The new 350Z is there too. There's also A H2 Hummer and other OTT 4X4's to mod.

The racing is a little touch and go as the game engine doesn't have a solid feel and cars feel realy light especially during bumps with other racers round corners.

Still the game isn't bad, Out of the need for speeds it's not the worst (It's better than no.2) it's just the equivilant to swearing in a song so more people will buy it. There's also online play so you can show off your all rulling 1.8 corsa and listening to players wtf when you cream their beefed up evos and rx7's.

I'd defiantly recommend you to at least try this game and maybe cheat a little as the fun is in making ordinary cars look awesome.

I miss the good old days with beautifull supercars, country roads and cops with texan accents yelling "dewnt let mah caytch ya Speeeeedung agayen!"