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Description
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.
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Alternate Titles
- "极品飞车:地下车会" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
- "NFSU1" -- Common abbreviation
- "Jipin Feiche: Dixia Chehui" -- Simplified Chinese title
Part of the Following Groups
- 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
User Reviews
Beautiful cars and beautiful women. | Horny-Bullant (59) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Critic Reviews
Official UK Playstation 2 Magazine | Dec, 2003 | 9 out of 10 | 90 |
Fragland.net | Feb 18, 2004 | 89.5 out of 100 | 90 |
Yahoo! Games | Dec 03, 2003 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
90 |
GameSpy | Nov 20, 2003 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
90 |
IGN | Nov 14, 2003 | 8.9 out of 10 | 89 |
GameZone | Dec 01, 2003 | 8.5 out of 10 | 85 |
Gamesmania.de | Nov 08, 2003 | 84 out of 100 | 84 |
Gaming Target | Jan 22, 2004 | 8.1 out of 10 | 81 |
G4 TV: X-Play | Mar 28, 2006 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
80 |
Joypad | Dec, 2003 | 7 out of 10 | 70 |
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Trivia
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 – Best PC Racing Game of the Year
- Computer Gaming World
- March 2004 (Issue #236) – Racing Game of the Year
- GameStar (Germany)
- February 13, 2004 - Best PC Sports Game in 2003 (Readers' Vote)
- PC Games (Germany)
- Issue 02/2004– Best Sports/Racing Game in 2003 (Readers' Vote)
- Shacknews
- 2003 - WTF!? Award (more details in "Multiplayer" section)
Related Web Sites
- IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)
- NFSGarage (NFS Fan Site.)
- Official Site - EA Games (Features, Screenshots, Demo, Buy)
- Wikipedia: Need for Speed: Underground (Information about Need for Speed: Underground at Wikipedia)
Corn Popper (68945) added Need for Speed: Underground (PlayStation 2) on Dec 03, 2003
Other platforms contributed by Corn Popper (68945) and Mattias Kreku (439)
Credits (508 people)
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Programming Team:
Arn, Andy Bakken, Ryan Bedard, Mike Vlad Cora, Spencer Craske, Daniel Chitan, James Grieve, Euan Forrester, Robinson Huff, Philip Ibis, Jeff Johnston, Cliff Kondratiuk, David Lam, David Merriman, John Newton, Scott Patterson, Chris Robertson, Wes Santee, Martin Sikes, Stewart Sockett, Lawrence Sparling, Tom Spencer‑Smith, Steve Tolin, John Twigg