Jacob St-Amour from Link-Cable Writes: "Rewinding all the way back, fourteen years ago in 2004, my life was far simpler than it is now. At 11 years of age, my worries and hobbies were just to play as much street hockey with my friends that the days would allow, playing and trading Yu-Gi-Oh cards, watching Dragon Ball Z and of course, playing video games. Between playing World of Warcraft, Runescape, Super Smash Bros. Melee and even NHL Hitz 2003, there is one game that I and my friends spent more time on than any other and that would be with Need for Speed: Underground 2. Looking back at the racing game and what came out afterwards, it is easy to say that its 2004 title races past any other and was the best in the series."
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Doing these Retro Runback pieces on GameCube games always makes me feel old. I mean, at this point, it’s been over 20 years since its release. So, it counts as retro — it just hurts to acknowledge it. This time around, it’s one of my favourite racing games of all time: Need for Speed Underground 2.
There may be racing games that have surpassed this one over the years, but I never had more fun with a racing game than I did with Underground 2.
underground 1 and 2 were the best racer games bk then
unfortunately we havent had any really good ones, that isnt mario kart, since.
Once the king of street racing games, has the Need for Speed franchise finally run out of gas?
Yes, but good news! Tokyo Xtreme racer is coming back! Early access release January 20th and full release later in the year.
The hours I've spent on TXR Zero back in the day. Literally played that game for about 3-4 YEARS.
Nfs has been giving us the same mechanics over and over again. They have recently been leaning more into street racing because of popular demand from the fans, but they aren't quite there yet.
I would suggest they simply remake the NFS underground series, and in 2005, most wanted and go from there after getting the baseline of what the fans want.
"Need for Speed has always been too ahead of its time." An in-depth development team interview, covering 30 years of NfS.
Truth. Loved Midnight Club.
I wouldn't be mad at another proper Underground or Most Wanted (PS2/X360) entry though.
Replies(1)Out of 30 years Ea Canada made all PS1 versions they were New and Exciting then Blackbox Studio took over all were Fantastic.
Criterion Games took over Every last title is and was Junk including Unbound.
The first NFS underground had an amazing Soundtrack with some good gameplay but my favorite NFS game is easily NFS Hot Pursuit 2. That game is legendary!
The Need for Speed series definitely has some highs, but my favorites were Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit ('98), NFS: Underground ('03, even though that ending was almost infuriating), Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 ('02), and then finally Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit ('10), which was undoubtedly because of the magic of Criterion Games.
And now that I look at my list I'm beginning to see a trend.
It was a highlight but I'm not sure anything made it so special I think it was released when open world games where really taking off and was the first NFS not stuck on linear tracks. It had a great soundtrack to boot but sacrificed graphics for a bigger world (nfsu1) looked way better.
I remember at that time every game under the sun just went open world from Spiderman 2 to nfsu2 it was just popular and it worked if you could design an open world right
Been replaying this recently with a widescreen fix on my PC and it's still just as fun as when I first played it on PS2. Does anyone else remember the hydraulics glitch? My brother and I used to drive our cars against walls and spam the hydraulics button 'til our cars launched in the year, I personally prefer the original Most Wanted (2005) over Underground 2 but it's a close second for me.
I actually didn't like UG2 as much as I liked NFSU, I know you all may slaughter me on the boards but seriously NFSU was special to me. NFSMW (ORIGINAL) was the next best NFS that came out after NFSU IMO