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EA Classics: Need For Speed Underground 2 (PC)

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Discover the living, breathing world of tuner culture in Need for Speed Underground 2, the sequel to the best-selling racing game of 2003, and the latest blockbuster installment in the legendary Need for Speed franchise.

Taking place in a massive, free-roaming city featuring five distinct interconnected neighborhoods, Need for Speed Underground 2 delivers an immersive game world where the streets are your menus. As players explore the city, they'll encounter rival racers who will school them in the ways of the underground and tip them off to the hottest racing spots in town.

Deep new performance tuning allows gamers to fine-tune every aspect of their ride's handling and performance, while hundreds of new visual customizations guarantee players can create their own personalized, totally unique car.

All-new game modes join Circuit, Drift, and Drag events to add depth and variety, pushing car and driver to the limit, while more than a dozen new cars and hundreds of aftermarket parts from the biggest names in the business make Need for Speed Underground 2 the deepest, most authentic tuner experience ever.

Key Features

Free-Roaming City: Explore a massive city divided into five distinct, interconnected neighborhoods, ranging from serpentine suburban hills to an intense downtown grid. A complex series of drivable freeways connect the neighborhoods together.
Emergent Gameplay: Want to make a name for yourself in the underground? You'll need to find it first. Races can happen anywhere and at any time and as players encounter rivals on the street they'll be clued into where they can buy the hottest upgrades or enter the most elite events.
New Gameplay Modes: Three new gameplay modes are added to last year's circuit, drift and drag competitions, challenging gamers to hone their skills in a number of driving disciplines.
Performance Tuning: Tune every aspect of your car's performance with hundreds of licensed aftermarket performance upgrades and then fine-tune everything from the gear ratio to the suspension for the ultimate ride.
The Hottest Cars: More than thirty of the most sought-after tuner cars are available from the hottest manufacturers-from Nissan Motor Co., Toyota, and Mitsubishi Motors and more -- if they're hot on the street, they're in the game.
Visual Customization: With more than twice the visual customizations of last year's game, there are literally billions of car combinations available to gamers. Featuring audio upgrades, scissor doors, spoilers, headlights, side skirts, roof scoops, hoods, rims, wide body kits, neon and more, if you can trick it out in real life, you can trick it out in Need for Speed Underground 2.
Environmental Variety: Each of the five distinct neighborhoods in Need for Speed Underground 2 feature a unique look and feel, including varied driving conditions and track types. Road surfaces, real-time weather effects, and environmental hazards will keep gamers on their toes as they race from dusk till dawn.
Online: Gamers can put their reputation on the line, challenging the world's best racers online for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system.**.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, ME, 2000 Professional, XP Professional,
or XP Home operating system
Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) CPU running at 933MHz or higher
32MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (Geforce2 or higher) using a
supported chipset (see below)
256 MB RAM
DirectX compatible sound card
900 MB of HD space
8X CD-ROM

For Online play a Network card is required for broadband connectivity

This game requires DirectX 9.0c

VIDEO CARD SUPPORT
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Although Direct3D is supported, this support is only officially
extended to certain 3D accelerator devices. The following major D3D
chipsets are supported:

ATI Radeon 7500 or greater
NVIDIA geForce2 or greater

Product info

Categories: Driving, EA Classics

Barcode

6006416001673

Country

South Africa

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Electronic Arts

Product Reviews (3)

Russell Stevens

Perfect Combination of Simulation and Arcade physics. Excellent graphics, Sound and Effects, Good replay-ablility.

Frans van Niekerk Jr

Ok, someone please hold me back. . .
Im about to slap someone, just to get the last copy of this game. ;-p

I played the demo, and in the demo you can only preview the different shops - and only a select few. There is also 2 races in the demo: Drift Racing & Circuit Racing.

In the previous NFSU, in drift you had a track on which you could go wild. . . no traffic.
In this new and improved - slightly harder - version of the drift; u get a long ass road on which you can go wild, but you must be careful, cause the road is filled with traffic.

The detail, that went into this game - it is astonishing. The environments are great and the cars that will be available are gonna be awasome. . . I heard that there will be Hummers, SUV's and Muscle Cars to modify to your needs. . .

All I can say, is that I cant wait for the follow up to NFSU. . . One word of advice -
GO GET A COPY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE - I know Im gonna. . .

Waldo van Graan

Just looking at the demo - this game already promises to be far more difficult and far more addictive than the previous. Just to drive through the city getting to know the small part in free roam mode just shows how much possibilities there are of what is going to be. It looks like the game will keep you busy far longer than previous and that gameplay won't become predictive halfway through the game. It looks like long nights lying ahead...