• Take on 20 racing machines from Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru, Toyota and many more
• Build the ultimate street machine by earning cash to pay for body kits and performance mods
• Hundreds of ways to customize your ride. Pick from major aftermarket parts manufacturers
• Over 100 unique events give racers the opportunity to earn cash, buy more upgrades, and unlock cars and tracks while increasing their street reputation
• Racing events including - Drag Racing - Explode off of the line with three other racers, on the brink of control, as you race for the finish line. Street Racing - Heat up the cold city streets with some high octane and high speed racing.

In Need For Speed: Underground, you'll enter the world of urban street racing and workyour way up the underground rankings! 4-player action for faster, wilder racing thrills!

Pretty late I am for making a review on this game but I had to considering the Last Three NFS games that dropped. Where Pro-Street Wanted and Carbon Lacked was the excitement and the few game modes that made this game a classic. I still find people who are willing to pop in a good car game and throw this on for nostalgia's sake. Its a great competitive game to have a nice time with a friend. Straight forward and to the point. EA took the core issues of what the Tuning scene dealt with and that was Beauty of Cars, Drag Racing, Drifting, and Circuiting.

Graphics in this game where and still are incredible for a PS2 game. I think alot of us didnt get this game with open endedness because EA was trying this new concept of a racer with graphical flair being on top. The way the tracks look with water, to the overall beauty and realism of these basic machines is what hogged up alot of that DVD disc the game came in. But it was well worth it for a title with the street racing scene to it. You had a beautiful city with scenery zipping by and furious competitive racing. The cars shining and glistening all the way through to the finish line.

Gameplay was huge for this and I believe the best Racing option was Drag Racing. This tried to simulate the perfect timing you had to have in shifting, the speed and danger of driving so fast with a shaking screen, and the perfectionista control you had to have in swerving through traffic. This was hugely missed in the last 3 NFS games. Circuiting and drifting were well created modes with alot of fun to them also. Circuiting gave you the same tracks you would go through the game and then it would be fed back to you so you had to do it in reverse. A bit repetitive but bearable. Drifting was a challenge on its own, if you knew how to speed up in the right way and pull the E-Brake the right way around corners, you could rack up massive points. Underground hit all three modes in the right way.

Customization was enormous for this game. Rims, body kits, lights, hoods, scoops, Paint, Vinlys, performance parts. Pearlescent colors were incredible looking, when you wanted chrome colored wheels they looked chrome and shined. Whatever shaped wing you wanted it was there. Considered this was a very deep customization for the time compared todays games. Rotation, skew, placement of vinyls evident in NFS Carbon was great and could have added so much originality to NFSU making it so much more engrossing. Vinyl placement was no option and were slapped on your car. Issues with Body kits I find annoying in todays games. Midnight Club LA has very limited styles of Body Kits for a game created on a NXT Generation Platform and Carbon did the same. If you really wanted an In-depth customization system, I think body kits are a big issue that needs to be tackled in the Next street racing inspired games. They need to include more and more original designed body kits from the minds of creators and to work closely with Body Kit manufacturers to make some very unique stuff for every car they feature. Deep customization like this would have had many fans going nuts.

Online was my biggest gripe with this game. A HUGE HUGE AMOUNT OF LAG CHEATERS. I found myself practicing on these tracks so bad so I could beat the lag cheaters littered online. I was impeccable with driving through these tracks just so i could make sure I didnt crash into them. Nonetheless it was intense and very great to play online.

Overall a great game. Those who get their hands into this can enjoy a great racing game.

Amazing graphics...better than some of their newer titles. Fast gameplay at breakneck speeds and great car handling. This game is a classic.

This game is still the best street racer even 5 years later. After this one they all get cliche and less artistic in style. This one also has the best car customization engine. The sequel, Underground 2, and others use an open city, which is not competitive. This one has sweet closed circuit which is personalized for real high speed racing, swerving between pillars, and secrets. The road graphics are rendered by the guy who did the episode one pod-race so you know its fast. The cars like the RX-7 are totally fun to customize and drive/upgrade. As far as I know this is the only NFS Underground which has drag race mode. The only downside now, is that stupid EA turned off the server a year or two ago, and I know people were still playing it at the time...so screw EA for that point. Overall this game is still worth playing in single player or two player mode. Its just fun as hell. I consider all the NFS games after this one as pieces of crap. I also highly recommend NFS: Hot Pursuit 2, which has ferraris/porsche, and is more of a highway style racer which is also comparable in quality to this game. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 I like it also. Just don't get Prostreet or some of the other maddening sequels. This one is the best! The original street racer!

Other good games from this time period in history are SSX: 3 and SSX Tricky. If you like NFS you will certainly enjoy these two SSX 3 and SSX Tricky

a lot of fun esp if you have the steering wheel and peddle. I love it and the kids love it too.

Excellent soundtrack, excellent graphics, excellent cars, excellent tracks! This is a game to put in your collection, one of the best racing games ever made for the PS2.