My FAVOURITE Classic NFS Game - Porsche Unleashed! | KuruHS 

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This is too nostalgic for me, I'm only 24 but it has been almost 20 years since I played this game.

NFS Porsche always stood out from the rest for me, the graphics and music gave it a specific style/vibe that I dig as a child and to this day. Still play it too! By far my favourite was Factory Driver and the licence images they gave you. Using your own photo was also a fun little feature.

If Kuru's parents got him to karting, Leclerc wouldn't need to ask who he is.

Need For Speed Porsche 2000 is period the best NFS in the whole franchise. While I enjoyed Carbon and Most Wanted a lot, it's Porsche that gave me the most joy. I think it was a combination of revolutionary graphics for it's time (just compare High Stakes with Porsche), driving physics, music, brand and gameplay modes which weren't a simple "race and progress" modes but a story of a whole (almost) brand line-up with possibility to tune the cars and drive as a factory driver with many challenges. And with steering wheel it's completely different experience I am deeply saddened we will not see any sort of a remake of this awesome game, perhaps fan made mods to Assetto Corsa but still it won't be the same.

This was my first NFS I owned. And after that, a month ago I finally managed to buy an actual Porsche. This game gave me good vibes and prepared me for this

29:34 RUF is more of its own manufacturer now. While they did use the shells of Porsches along with their engines, they use so much original parts for their cars specifically built by them that they aren't simply tuned Porsches but their own vehicles now with their own VINs.

Back in 2000 i was into this game & i was also involved in the modding community specifically importing / exporting car meshes to modify & reinsert into the game. While experimenting with files conversions i created a frankenstein Porsche that kinda looked like a dune buggy but really was a Porsche missing body pieces. While testing the vehicle i discovered that the car could drive through walls of a track and drive on a plane without graphics and friction so it was like driving on ice. I could drive by watching the map and just drive to the finish line and drop out of the sky and cross the finish line in a time that would be like just over a minute or less on any track. The online servers were very competitive and accusations of cheating daily ... i posted on the EA forums that i could break any track record by over 2 minutes and a EA Dev from the forums dared me to it that night while he claimed their servers were unhackable. That night i executed my drive thru wall glitch and beat a world record by over 2 minutes. Well the next morning i woke to see the forums were lit up with 1000s of posts about myself hacking EA's servers and my online account was deleted and EA sent me an email threatening to have me arrested & sued for hacking if i didnt tell them how i did it. I had logged the dare from the EA Dev which gave me permission to use my 'hack'. Nothing happened and i ended up using that incident on my resume to actually land a consulting gig to secure EA software in 2004 ... so the moral of the story is hacking does pay off.

This is the game that started my lifelong obsession with Porsche. My very first Porsche was a 996 Cabriolet, like the ones featured in this game. I still play this game to this very day. Thank you Kuru for continuing to showcase this amazing classic!

I'd love to see someone remake this game in a newer game engine

This game really should have got a PS2 port

I remember playing this game on console... and later i booted it on pc and it was an entirely different game. I was surprised :D

Modern racing game developers in general need to play older racing games. I'm surprised that game developers in modern criterion haven't played older need for speed games

Kuru is the best nfs youtuber. Hes personality brings a flair into the already good nfs classic games

19:20 "that alone makes it harder" This quote scares me if out of context.

For the PSone version, you can beat the tournament with the 928 GTS against the 930 Turbo.

I remember the cab from 1950 having way better resale later on. While the coupe barely appreciates. The 1973 Carrera RS is also an easy money maker. That said the used car sales are the easiest.

I couldn't get thru one of the gymkhana style factory driver missions. Great game for the time. I learn a lot about Porsche playing it.

I just watched your old nfs porsche vids and now i see a 30 min video of this game! Awesome!

my very first nfs game i owned, it was the ps1 version me and my brother used to love just driving around with the classic cars.

Childhood memory unlocked!!!!!

In my wildest dreams I see Porsche Unleashed remade in modern graphics 😥

God, this game brings back memories

Played the PS1 version and actually liked it a lot apart from the physics being a bit janky. The music and the fact the track's background change depending on the era is really cool in the PS1 version, it even had a small free roam mode with cops and npc traffic to try out cars. A lot of the features in the PS1 version are similar to TDU because it was made by the same studio, Eden games. I tried to play the PC version but I couldn't get it to launch, it kept crashing instantly after showing the loading screen.

11 year old Kuru has already started showing signs of being a menace to society, that would manifest later in his life when he would spin out Sharl Lechair in the F1 virtual tournament.

Sometimes I feel like this was the last legendary NFS game.

This game deserve a remaster with the newer Porsche cars and modern landscapes

Bringing back the NFS nostalgia , Kuru lets gooo!!!

Loooved this game when it came out. used to drive back and forth on Cote d'Azur like it was a forza horizon map

The thing that I hated about Porsche Unleashed was how slow the cars were in the beginning compared to the length of the tracks. The races were too long and boring, and the AI was dumb and unforgiving at the same time. It was easy to overtake them in the beginning, but if they overtook you at any point, they'd blitz ahead and you'd never catch them. You were money starved in the evolution game mode in the beginning, and then suddenly you had more money than what you knew to do with. But what I loved about the game was the modding community. A lot of 3d artists had their start modding this game

the menu music brings me back mann, was my first game ever. i was 5 and grew into it

Porsche Unleashed is definitely one of the best Classic NFS Games, really hope to find somewhere to download the PC version, and about that tournament you participated years ago, when did the tournament happened? Even if I don't find anything about'it, it could be a great start for the search and maybe someone else could find something

I cannot get this game to run on modern hardware, but it was the 1st NFS i played and I want to revisit it...

2023 here again, almost 4 months after Nijigasaki NEXT SKY SEASON 3 OVA. NFS PORSCHE UNLEASHED for me is still one of the best NFS GAMES EVER!

Big thanks to _Silent for me no longer having to play switchboard with the USB ports to get controllers to work. Among other fixes throughout classic NFS.

Somebody pleeeeeaase...get this game a remake

This is not only my favorite NFS, it is my favorite game of all time

just wanna say thank you kuru for being who you are, without you nfs wouldnt feel the same. Hope you stick around for many years to come 🎉

This was also my favorite classic Need for speed. So much replay-ability and beat the game a few times with just the keyboard controls. Good to see you giving this one the credit it deserves and I'm definitely going to revisit this one soon with an emulator.

Kuru dropping a Porsche Unleashed video, WE EATIN GOOD TODAY LADS!

I'd like to see an Evolution-style mode come back in another racing game.

Now we just gotta play the Gameboy version of this

I still have the Porsche unleashed, but I have been unable to run it since I switched to windows xp. I am surprised that you can run it today.

some other timeline "WHO IS KURO" as he flies over leclerc

how did you get the game up and running ? Virtual Machine ? because i tried many tutorials but could not run it on windows 10

It would have been really cool if Kuru became an F1 driver, but still did NFS/Racing Game stuff in the off season. And it would have made the Charles spin out even more hilarious 😂

And fater that EA had the Porsche license forever but never used it to that extend again :) Iam too young for this game ( started with Underground 1 :), but I can see the appeal. No way Porsche would allow cars to be damaged this way today, that said driving clean is necessary to not get crushed by repair bills...

Perfect NFS great career mode great game

First NFS I played

Some say in the year 2000 All of EA were wearing cargo shorts

You forgot about the blinkers! :D

NFS PORSCHE UNLEASHED deserved to be one of the most amazing NFS games ever made.

is there a widescreen option for this game, tried to run it a while ago and it didnt go that well, screen and handling was f'd

*always classic & golden age. :-)

Someone knows how I can drive the bonus cars (959,928) in Evolution mode? Has always bugged me that you can buy them but not use for the races

Less go a new video 🎉🎉

dylan, the fastest npc in that game

I'd love to play this version of the game but haven't been able to figure it out. Where should I look to get this running on my Win 10 device??

MY FAVOURITE NFS!

Is there a way to get a modern controller to work with nfs Porsche unleashed pc

This game is 2y older than me lol

Now I wish kuru was in f1...

What mod did he use to get the 959 in Evolution mode?

If I've got a copy of Porsche laying around, what's the current way to go to get it running? I tried installing it like 2 years ago but it instantly failed. 😅

I wish EA would make servers availabe for Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed. Community let us voice our selves and potition that we want need for speed porsche unleashed back

Hi all! Please I need help! Can we buy and upgrade the bonus cars like: 959, GTS, GT2, GT3??? Can I please have the full pc version of this game?

Yes, the best NFS.

what mod is it to have the 959 in career mode?

please show us how we can run this game on modern systems.

Im curios how he manages to download this master piece, like how? I've tried but didnt succeed

Nice

I can't get this game running at all on my computer

How did he make it run on his pc, for me it always dies

I played the PSX version. It was better than the PC version.

Today nfs just make everything speed up and jump this porsche gives driving experience as the engine and tires struggle to maintain high speed

Wait… you’ve played this game for 23 years?? What was your handle back on the NFS servers?

"How did i get this game running", I forgot typical gamer

I need to find a way to make this game work on Win 11

I wish they had 1940s era Porsches

This was my first video game ever, and 20 years later, still my favourite racing game.

I remember playing this game back in 2003. My garbo videocard somehow was not loading textures on half of the tracks (excl. Pyrenees, Industrial Zone and all Monte-Carlos), but I beat it just driving on the center using minimap (Auvergne almost gave me PTSD). This game made me absolute fan of the classic Porsches, and I hate EA for that ridiculous exclusive rights deal. Because of this, there is no Porsches in non-NFS games in 20 years (God praise the Ruf has manufacturer status), and in the NFS titles is almost always the same s%#tty set of entry level (Cayman or Boxster), last generation of 911 and hypercar (Carrera GT or 918 Spyder). I mean, where were lovely front-engine cars like 944 or 928, air-cooled 930 or 964, or classic hypercar 959?!😡 And now I'm missing the Rufs, that almost disappeared from games after exclusive rights were expired. It will be great to see the Yellowbird or some RK or RGT on same track with its Porsche counterparts...

Nfs porsche for ps1 is v-rally with porsches...

Loved the game but the sense of speed ruined it for me, no matter how fast you'd go it always felt like you were crawling. Going 250 felt like you were going 100

Its just not starting on my PC ffs :'(

I loved how you could flip cars like crazy in Career Mode. It was a very easy way to get money if you knew how to cheese the system.

Honestly speaking as someone who is more mature now in terms of age, I really appreciate simcades more, like in the last 6 years I finished (100% completion) the 1st 4 Forza Motorsport games, 1st 4 Gran Turismo games and recently the NFS Shift games and Porsche Unleashed. Porsche Unleashed is one of the best NFS games ever made, the reward system in this game is great as it encourages you to drive perfectly clean for more cash and the further you progress in the career mode and you get reward cars it feels satisfying. Love the amount of content and cars in this game, it was great cornering at amazing speeds with the 911 GT1. That said MS paid EA to use Porsche for FM3 and FM4 (Porsche cars were a Dlc in the latter).

We need a game like this, except with more brands! I wish i could play this but since my laptop is garbo and i don't know how to install it, and i don't know if this is on console, i can't.

Never played Porsche Unleashed. My OG NFS would be NFS II. In my opinion, NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 has the best handling of all NFS games

No Tiger Tanks? Bad game

We prefer more episodes than one longer from one game. Last year there were episodes from every NFS game starting from NFS 1! This is my 3rd NFS marathon I think

The finest classic era NFS as far as I'm concerned, too. I wish we'd get a modern game in this vein again, focused on car culture and historic locations. There's definitely still an audience for this type of game out there, but considering NFS still has an identity crisis up to this day, that's probably not happening anytime soon, or ever. And perhaps for the better, honestly at this point I'd much rather have the franchise retired to its grave for good, tired of seeing it becoming more and more of a meme and irrelevant with each new entry. The cool kids these days don't care for this kind of stuff anyway.

I also quite liked this NFS but the handling has some weirdness similar to input lag. Early game is playable but with faster cars when you need quicker and more precise response it becomes so bad the game stops being fun for me.

the game that made me fall in love with porsche's , not my favorite , 2nd favorite, my oldest brother (44) loves this game , am just sad that you skipped NFS 4 so me and the boys had an amazing night last week , we set this game on my laptop and we just race on monte 3 , everyone was trying to set a lap record, we took turns, old school style

PSX version is rubbish based on V-rally engine.

My first need for speed and my first game on my computer when I was a kid. Good memories