Need for Speed: Underground
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Need For Speed: Underground is the seventh game in the long running Need For Speed racing series.
The game revolves around illegal night time street racing with heavily modified import cars and has been greatly influenced by the movie the Fast And The Furious and its sequel. Players get the chance to build their own racing machine almost from the ground up, with hundreds of real licensed parts and lots of licensed cars, including the Mazda RX-7 and the Nissan Skyline GT-R. The game also features over 100 single player races and a hip hop/hard rock soundtrack including artists such as Mystikal, Rob Zombie, and the Crystal Method.
Spellings
- ζει£θ½¦οΌε°δΈθ½¦δΌ - Simplified Chinese spelling
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- Automobile: Ford Focus
- Automobile: Honda Civic
- Automobile: Honda Integra
- Automobile: Honda S2000
- Automobile: Mazda MX-5
- Automobile: Mazda RX-7
- Automobile: Mitsubishi Eclipse
- Automobile: Mitsubishi Lancer
- Automobile: Nissan 350Z
- Automobile: Nissan Skyline
- Automobile: Peugeot 206
- Automobile: Subaru Impreza
- Automobile: Toyota Celica
- Automobile: Volkswagen Golf
- EA Classics releases
- EA Hit-Parad releases
- EA Most Wanted releases
- EA Value Games releases
- Green Pepper releases
- Need for Speed series
- NFS Underground series
- Nintendo Player's Choice releases
- PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
- PlayStation 2 Platinum Range releases
- Technology: amBX
- Xbox Classics releases
- Xbox Platinum Hits releases
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Multiplayer
EA astonished the entire gaming world by supporting online gameplay in the Windows version of Need for Speed UndergroundNFSU, but leaving out LAN play. Often, games only get LAN play because developers don't want to deal with latency issues and different networks. EA on the other hand, developed a "Cross Platform Online Gaming" feature, which allows gamers to compete online on different platforms (e.g. PS2 vs PC), but there's a catch: no LAN play on PC. This means that players have go through an external network connection just to join a server sitting right next to them.
Soon after the game's release,a tool making LAN play possible appeared on various fansites. It also features an option to play over the Internet without using EA's server.
Server shutdown
As of 13th January 2006, The EA servers for the game are no longer in service. Of course this does not effect peer-to-peer games. The PS2 servers were closed on 1st November 2007.
Awards
- 4Players
- 2003 β Best PC Racing Game of the Year
- Computer Gaming World
- March 2004 (Issue #236) β Racing Game of the Year
- GameStar (Germany)
- February 13, 2004 - Best PC Sports Game in 2003 (Readers' Vote)
- PC Games (Germany)
- Issue 02/2004β Best Sports/Racing Game in 2003 (Readers' Vote)
- Shacknews
- 2003 - WTF!? Award (more details in "Multiplayer" section)
Information also contributed by Mr._Sefe.
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IGCD Internet Game Cars Database
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NFSGarage
NFS Fan Site. -
Official Site - EA Games
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Wikipedia: Need for Speed: Underground
Information about Need for Speed: Underground at Wikipedia
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- MobyGames ID: 11175
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Game added by Mattias Kreku.
PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox added by Corn Popper.
Additional contributors: Unicorn Lynx, Jeanne, tarmo888, Sciere, Aaron A., DreinIX, Cantillon, Patrick Bregger, Victor Vance.
Last modified March 12th, 2023.