Need for Speed Underground 2

**Razor Blade** · April 23rd, 2004

Seems like the first one just came out yesterday

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Electronic Arts has today announced that it will release Need for Speed Underground 2 for all current-generation consoles and the Game Boy Advance this fall. Currently in development at EA Canada, the street racing sequel will boast a number of new features, including a free-roaming city environment composed of five distinct neighborhoods.

As they explore the city, players will encounter rival racers who can initiate contests, point them in the direction of racing hotspots, and show them where to buy the most sought-after, licensed aftermarket parts for their cars. The game will feature 30 licensed vehicles and more than double the number of visual customization upgrades than were present in Need for Speed Underground--thus making for an impressive 70 billion possible car combinations.

Heres the first released screen. I'll post more when I get more.

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**kairi00** · April 23rd, 2004

Looks like this will be similar to Tokyo Extreme Racer.. excellent

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Syed Fawad · April 24th, 2004

April 23, 2004 - Last year, EA's Need For Speed Underground was the Madden of racers, selling five million copies worldwide across all platforms. It comes as no surprise that EA has announced a sequel, developed by EA Canada and cleverly titled Need For Speed Underground 2, which is set to ship for PC, Xbox, PS2, GameCube, and GBA this fall.

Underground 2 features one giant city with five distinct neighborhoods (think, boroughs of New York), where rival racers challenge gamers to races, offer tips on the hot racing spots and places to buy car upgrades. New game modes are promised, along with deeper performance and visual customization on over 30 licensed cars. How many new decals and paint jobs can there really be? Enough to create over 70 billion different car combinations. We'll have more on NFSU 2 soon, like say at E3.

You beat me to it Razor.

But I feel sad. I mean, they should add cop pursuit in it. Without cops, it isn't just fun.

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Frostmourne · April 24th, 2004

awesome simply awesome. thats the news i was talking about

i love the first game. just can't wait for the second one to come out. hey, isn't there gonna be a PC version?

orysyz · April 24th, 2004

Cop pursuit...... sounds great.

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**Razor Blade** · April 24th, 2004

>>Without cops, it isn't just fun.

Thats true. I mean Illegal Street racing without cops? What the hell?

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Ali · April 24th, 2004

Hmmm, Midnight Club2 was pretty much the same, I loved that Game. But Underground sort of increased the Street racing Game's standard, Underground 2 will be awesome.

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**Razor Blade** · April 24th, 2004

Indeed. Those graphics on the PS2 amazed me. Still gotta play the PC version.

I bet this game will look really nice, judging from that sreenshot.

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Vahid · April 24th, 2004

very nice, im looking forward to it

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Frostmourne · April 24th, 2004

BTW Razor. the Underground 2 pic posted by you is my current desktop wallpaper. thanks

tonyyeb · April 24th, 2004

Hope they get rid of the boring drag mode!

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Raiden1803 · April 24th, 2004

i am going to be REALLY dissapointed if the game turns out to be as eaisy as the first one was, that reall made me mad. Beating a 350 Z with a honda Civic

Why dont they have preluedes in their??!

i can burn a civic any day of the week with my car.

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**fivefeet8** · April 24th, 2004

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Hope they get rid of the boring drag mode!

I love the drag race mode. It's quite fun drag racing online.

I hope they add more to it.

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April 24th, 2004

I hope they get rid of the rap music.

I also kinda miss the ferrari's and lamborghini's, but I guess that's life

shadow89 · April 24th, 2004

That's cool that they make nfsu 2, but I hope it has more cars than NFSU because I would the game to be more like Gran turismo in that style.

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Syed Fawad · April 25th, 2004

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I hope they get rid of the rap music.

I also kinda miss the ferrari's and lamborghini's, but I guess that's life

Damn right man. If you recall, I seriously dissed NGS Underground and my hot favourite on the PS2 is still Hot Pursuit 2.

NFS Underground + HP2 like cops + Ferraries/Lambis/Mercs/BMWs + Burnout like damage models + GT like graphics = B E S T thing ever.

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Frostmourne · April 25th, 2004

the very aspect of street racing is to race with stock cars pumped to the max with Nitrus Oxide

Having Ferraris and Lambs on the street circuit is just plain stupid and unrealistic. these cars don't need upgrades as they are way too fast in the first place.

Sayed, dude you should have played HP 2 on PC. man that was the worst NFS game i have ever played (i have played all of them BTW). the framerate was so slow i could barely notice the difference between driving a Merc CLK GTR and a Lotus Elise. Also the controls sucked Big time.

As for the soundtrack, i really liked it. sure the hip-hop stuff kinda got annoying after a while but songs like "Born too slow" by "The Crystal Method" and "Two lane black-top" by "Rob Zombie" were just awesome.

Syed Fawad · April 25th, 2004

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Originally Posted by Frostmourne

the very aspect of street racing is to race with stock cars pumped to the max with Nitrus Oxide

Having Ferraris and Lambs on the street circuit is just plain stupid and unrealistic. these cars don't need upgrades as they are way too fast in the first place.

Sayed, dude you should have played HP 2 on PC. man that was the worst NFS game i have ever played (i have played all of them BTW). the framerate was so slow i could barely notice the difference between driving a Merc CLK GTR and a Lotus Elise. Also the controls sucked Big time.

As for the soundtrack, i really liked it. sure the hip-hop stuff kinda got annoying after a while but songs like "Born too slow" by "The Crystal Method" and "Two lane black-top" by "Rob Zombie" were just awesome.

- Its not stupid or unrealistic. Think about it. Are we seeking realism?! It is about doing things in games that you can't otherwise and I wanna pump up a ferrari and zap at 400Mi/hr. Why? Because I have The Need For Speed

- On PC, XBOX and GC it (courtesy of Kane) sucked giant gorilla balls. You should've tried the PS2 version.

- Soundtrack. Hmm. Was there "Fever of The Flava" and "Raise your cages" in the PC version?

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**kairi00** · April 25th, 2004

Well, NFSU 2 will be developed by EA Canada, not by any other EA subsidiaries, so this will be interesting. I wonder if they'll redo the game engines and physics or not. Supposedly a while back they were bringing in a bunch of cars into the studio and doing motion capture.

Oh, and if my sources are correct, we might be seeing an AE86 in this game

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Sampah · April 25th, 2004

I hope nfs underground 2 also release on PS2, the graphics are amazing...

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April 23rd, 2004	#2 (permalink)
kairi00 Puchiko-nyu! Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: 49° 11' N 123° 10' W Posts: 2,854	Looks like this will be similar to Tokyo Extreme Racer.. excellent __________________ "Not every ejaculation deserves a name." --- George Carlin

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Syed Fawad -PM to advertise here- Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: In an average country of an average planet of the solar system of an average star of an average galaxy of an average cluster. Still not average... Posts: 8,260	April 23, 2004 - Last year, EA's Need For Speed Underground was the Madden of racers, selling five million copies worldwide across all platforms. It comes as no surprise that EA has announced a sequel, developed by EA Canada and cleverly titled Need For Speed Underground 2, which is set to ship for PC, Xbox, PS2, GameCube, and GBA this fall. Underground 2 features one giant city with five distinct neighborhoods (think, boroughs of New York), where rival racers challenge gamers to races, offer tips on the hot racing spots and places to buy car upgrades. New game modes are promised, along with deeper performance and visual customization on over 30 licensed cars. How many new decals and paint jobs can there really be? Enough to create over 70 billion different car combinations. We'll have more on NFSU 2 soon, like say at E3. You beat me to it Razor. But I feel sad. I mean, they should add cop pursuit in it. Without cops, it isn't just fun. __________________ Asus K8N (nForce3) AMD64 3000+ (754) 768MB DDR 400MHz (PC 3200) nVidia Geforce 6600GT 128MB (AGP) Aquamark3 - 53,000 "Good friends mustn't always be together. It is the feeling of oneness when distant that proves a lasting friendship"

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Frostmourne ^_^ Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: India Posts: 621	awesome simply awesome. thats the news i was talking about i love the first game. just can't wait for the second one to come out. hey, isn't there gonna be a PC version?

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orysyz Shooting star Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Malaysia Posts: 774	Cop pursuit...... sounds great. __________________ Acer Aspire 5500, Centrino 1.73, 768Mb Ram, 80Gb HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon X700 Its Vista's voice 'wreck'gniton: Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all

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Razor Blade Locked and Loaded Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I AM CANADIAN! Posts: 12,032	>>Without cops, it isn't just fun. Thats true. I mean Illegal Street racing without cops? What the hell? __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz ● NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS ● 2GB DDR2 RAM Hitachi 120GB HD ● Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive ● Windows Vista Home Premium ● Dell 2007WFP LCD ● Dell XPS M1330 Laptop ● 1TB Western Digital MyBook External HD ● Logitech Z10 Speakers ● PLAYSTATION 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Ali CoLD InSiDE Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 2,615	Hmmm, Midnight Club2 was pretty much the same, I loved that Game. But Underground sort of increased the Street racing Game's standard, Underground 2 will be awesome. __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2100 @ 1.75 Ghz Gigabyte GA-7VA.XP VIA K400 1.25GB PC3200 System Ram ChainTech GeForCe4 TI 4200 128MB Creative SB Live! 5.1 2x WD Caviar 120GBs and -Rom1 Maxtor 40GB LiteON 16x DVD-Rw WindowsXP Professional-SP2 & Mandrake Linux

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Vahid Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere , where your not there Posts: 233	very nice, im looking forward to it __________________ P4 2.8ghz (HT), Nvidia Geforce FX 5950 256MB(Core 550mhz, memory at 1.05ghz and running cool) , 1024MB DDR PC3200 ram,160gig HDD, DvD 16x & 52x CD-RW, Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2

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Raiden1803 ..... Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 2,535	i am going to be REALLY dissapointed if the game turns out to be as eaisy as the first one was, that reall made me mad. Beating a 350 Z with a honda Civic Why dont they have preluedes in their??! i can burn a civic any day of the week with my car. __________________ OS: WinXP (Sp2 Build) CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.39GHz GFX: ATi Radeon X850 PRO 256MB SOUND: SB Audigy 2 ZS Speakers : Creative Inspire T7700 CD/CD-RW: Lite-On DVDRW SOH1213S / Sony CRX 230ED RAM: 1gig DDR HD: 160gig Seagate

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Frostmourne ^_^ Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: India Posts: 621	the very aspect of street racing is to race with stock cars pumped to the max with Nitrus Oxide Having Ferraris and Lambs on the street circuit is just plain stupid and unrealistic. these cars don't need upgrades as they are way too fast in the first place. Sayed, dude you should have played HP 2 on PC. man that was the worst NFS game i have ever played (i have played all of them BTW). the framerate was so slow i could barely notice the difference between driving a Merc CLK GTR and a Lotus Elise. Also the controls sucked Big time. As for the soundtrack, i really liked it. sure the hip-hop stuff kinda got annoying after a while but songs like "Born too slow" by "The Crystal Method" and "Two lane black-top" by "Rob Zombie" were just awesome.

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kairi00 Puchiko-nyu! Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: 49° 11' N 123° 10' W Posts: 2,854	Well, NFSU 2 will be developed by EA Canada, not by any other EA subsidiaries, so this will be interesting. I wonder if they'll redo the game engines and physics or not. Supposedly a while back they were bringing in a bunch of cars into the studio and doing motion capture. Oh, and if my sources are correct, we might be seeing an AE86 in this game __________________ "Not every ejaculation deserves a name." --- George Carlin

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