Edgar writes: "Fasten your seatbelts because we ignore the many failures that came after it and take a look at fast cars and spicy senoritas in Underground 2."
VICE:
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.
