

However, during the celebration, you are ambushed on the road in a hit-and-run accident by a rival gang. Need for Speed: Underground 2 immediately continues the story established in the first game, Need For Speed: Underground, with your character being crowned the best driver in Olympic City. If you want to survive in the demanding tuner racing scene, you'll have to become the very best driver in Bayview! Main Game Features Like previous games in the franchise, Need for Speed: Underground 2 makes you feel the acceleration unlike any other, featuring ultra-fast racing and brutal collisions. Burying the speedometer and blowing past other racers as you explore Bayview city is a treat in this arcade-style racer. Need for Speed: Underground 2 takes the franchise into the realm of open-world racing with a thrilling focus on tuner cars. "We're trying to anticipate where the tuner scene might be in a couple of years, not just follow what's already out there," claims Chuck. More licensed cars will be on offer, but the selection of car types has also been broadened far beyond the traditional Hondas and Toyotas. This time, the number of potential car modifications has been massively expanded, and now embraces performance tuning as well as visual changes. The core aim of the game is to grow and develop your reputation as a street racer, earning new parts and upgrades along the way to hot up your ride and hopefully impress some chicks. "We're making sure this is a proper sequel and not just a kind of 'Underground 1.5'," says Chuck. NFSU2's go-anywhere urban sprawl is three times the size of the original, with five distinct neighbourhoods to unlock and a much wider variety of race types. This is a significant shift from the original Underground, which presented the illusion of a coherent city but was really just a series of interconnecting tracks.

"You have to explore the city to find out where the races are, how to get the best cars, how to find the best races and how to get all the best parts for your car." "The game is all about discovering the tuner culture," says executive producer Chuck Osieja.
