The Need for Speed racing game series has a shining star, and its name is Underground 1 & 2. Here's why we loved these games. Subscribe for more: / gameranxtv
gameranx Beating the time trails with a lower timer and get better and reaching number one on all of the leaderboards! Mine you I've played this game lots of times
You just cant be more right its all true btw am 18 and I was 8 when i played underground 2 and I still remember Snoop Dog song Riders on the storm that get low, i am rock ,Vaaaa song whwre he screams ea just make NFS Underground 3 with frosbite wnginw and no microtrasations and VOLA game of the Century simple as that
I wish they'd just put some Old NFS games and even midnight club on the PS2 to PS4 PSN store if buy them with a whole trophies list that would be dope!
@Blake Belladonna dude literally half the cars of nfsu2 are in NFS Heat. They didn't make it bc another company is doing it and pride comes in the way -
My uncle used to save his cars on his memory card and then he’d bring them over at thanksgiving and I’d transfer them to my memory card. And the guy knows his cars and what looked awesome. Fun times when I was younger
ohhh yeah! I feel like this applies to alot of games! when my friend brought over his memory card of granturismo and seeing all the unlocked cars and playing them awh those were the days
Ya back then game was complete before they sell them since we couldn't download content online. But now all game are incomplete so they can add dlc for 9.99 for a damn car
I remember waking up EARLY just so I could play NFS U2 on my Gamecube for an hour before the school bus came! I agree, Pro street and Carbon were great but nothing really live up to Underground 2... it really was perfection...
The good old times when the absolute Supercars where Skyline R34 GTR and Mustang 5.0, stuff that real underground Racers actually could afford, but back that time, mentioned F&F was the same way, driving S2000, Skyline, RX-7, Supras... and not its 10mil$ Concept Car crap
I. LOVED. THIS. GAME. The feel, the soundtrack, the everything. I wish there were more games like this. No fancy story, no paid stuff, just a nice, solid experience all round. Games in the series since haven't given me that same satisfaction, particularly payback. I don't want the blockbuster experience, and I'm not a massive fan of how the cars feel. Anyways, just my two cents. Imagine the budget and time that could be saved if the game was just a VERY good racer with a simple story, as simple as the 'warring crews' of Carbon/MW era - as against a meh racer with a meh story, etc.
Leanify TV Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3? Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2? I mean these games have a story, they're rather simple but some of the opponents in TXR3 in particular have a unique traits of their own, like there's that one guy for example if you facing him during the raining weather, the rain pours coming from the wheels turned out to a fucking blood
Leanify TV these days are dead. Solid good games. Are gone. Final Fantasy 8 look at it. Legend of Dragoon. Many many more games. Young bucks know nothing about.
Brings back good memories. I was an Art Director on the game and I designed a lot of the visual looks for the cars. I designed the graphics for many of the hero cars including the orange R-34 Skyline :) Also helped with some of the track designs for drift mode etc
Olivier Malenfant Thanks! I appreciate it! I worked at EA for 16 years and they laid me off back in 2010. They pretty much laid our entire team off that I was on after NFS. It was a bummer! But life goes on. I make costumes and props for collectors and film and TV now, so it’s all good :)
Some cool stories for @CDwag23 who asked about the R34 Skyline. I designed the body kit and the graphics. I chose a griffin as a graphic because griffins guarded treasure. To me the treasure was “owning the streets” which was the goal of the game. To be the ruler and best in the Underground. I chose the parts for the car carefully and created model sheets for the licensed parts and the sponsors for the car. Craig Lieberman who was the consultant on the Fast and the Furious visited the studio. I spent time with him reviewing the different parts as he was going to help build a real world R-34 that was based on my design! I created the graphics for the vinyl graphics on the real car. The car was used in various car shows and promo shoots. It was featured in one of the tuner magazines (I forget which one) and I think it was given away in an MTV contest. Before Craig Lieberman left the studio, he suggested I leave EA and offered me a job to create body kits with him. “These are really good. You should quit and come work for me”. It was a pretty cool compliment :) I later resurrected the Eastsiders griffin graphic on a team of cars I designed for Need for Speed Carbon.
My 13-year old self used to stay up till 2 am trying to beat those freaking drifts. I loved how much I was addicted to this game and watching this brought it all back.
EA Games ᴍᴏɴᴇᴛɪᴢᴇ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ TWICE they recently "remastered" Hot pursuit i don't see much difference from original as it was relatively new game. Why don't they remaster something older like Underground MW 2005 or Carbon? I have better remastered Underground 1 by using 2021 widescreen fix, maxing out texture filtering, applying max tesselation limit(not sure if it did much), supersampling 4xEQ and Image sharpening in my GPU software. With this tweaks game looks better than it should for a 18yr old game;) took me 6 days to beat it on hard and it was an awesome experience.@@jettamk6161
@@benq994 Now hold on bud. They can’t remaster UnderGround and Most Wanted because of licensing issues. There was Toyota cars at the time but because of Toyota’s no street racing promotion policy, they can’t do that. Even if they were to make a remaster, Toyota wouldn’t be in the game.
I remember asking Santa (my Dad) for Xmas for this game "Dad can you tell Santa to get Underground for me on the playstation?" "Santa's asking, do you mean Need for Speed Underground?" I had no idea as a kid at the time, but I just said yes that's the one. Extremely vivid memories with this game. Truly a classic
lol I asked my mom and wasn't clear. got nfshp2 spent the next 6 months racing thru the jungle before I could race thru the night with flashy underglow.
NFS1+2 , Most Wanted were amazing , Carbon felt pretty alright too , any installation beyond that just doesn't have the same fire into it. Would absolutely love to see good remasters where they dont touch the mechanics at all , they just update the visuals and graphics and perhaps throw in a bunch of extra stages/cars for us. Come on EA , we know you're hungry for money , atleast steal from our pockets in a way that we both benefit from it
I loved pro street but it just didn't have what I wanted. Carbon was a great omage and I loved most wanted. But nothing will top the rush I felt in nfs underground.
Words cannot describe how amazed I was when I first experienced this game's phenomenal graphics back in 2004. Even till this day the entire night scene still gives me chills whenever I play it, hearing those 2000s rock songs almost brought a tear to my eye. Back when life was fulfilling and meaningful I guess
i just redownloaded the emu specifically for this game. EA really missing out on some money here. as mush as i hate them. if they remasterd not REDID this game id spend $70
I remember when my entire family was playing this game, we each played through the career mode and ended up with very different cars. I think that's why I like watching other people playing video games sometimes.
just buy the game and pop it in the disc tray. no updates, no micro transaction, no patches, no dlc packs and stuff just pure gameplay edit : thanks for the likes ^_^
@@metmylan tbh games made at that time were better without DLC than games which have DLC nowadays. These days devs are practically selling you a 1/4 of the game and the 3/4 left over would be in DLC form. If arcade racing games perfected for the consumers was a thing it would be the 2 underground games.
Me and my mates would go over to eachothers houses after school just to show off our riced up cars on UG1/2. Early 2000's hiphop and the fast and furious movies was life at the time lol. Then came San Andreas and suddenly 80's/90's hiphop, low riders and LA gang culture was all we knew. Ah, kids.
Underground changed the face of racing games at the time. All my friends were into GT which i didnt really dig and then Underground came out and i was hooked as tuner culture was huge at the time
+Jose Serenil That's your opinion. I don't think for game like Payback is anything close to be good due to grinding & gambling 4 gears and cringy terrible storyline with no advanced cops as in MW 2005.
@Jose Serenil totally agree, never played another nfs since original mw and I jumped on it this month and i got completly addicted and did story mode 2x.
Personally Need for Speed underground was one of my favourite game as a kid, I used to aspire to modify and personalise a car the way I wanted to and I’m so happy that i’m in that position to do it now and it’s one of the best feeling ever.
oh my fucking god i completely forgot all the time juiced entertained me when i was younger, this comment section is bringing me memories i might download some isos and replay my childhood on a emulator
I used to be so addicted to the drag race mode when I was like 8-9 years old. Man, watching this video brings back memories. Games back then had quality. Everything now is just a money grab I feel.
I remember buying this game back in 2003, installing the game at 7pm... and the next thing is my mom yelling at me at 2am because I wasn't in bed yet. Underground was a monumental racing game for it's time. I couldn't get enough of it. Even now I can play it for hours and not get bored.
nfs u1&2... most wanted... medal of honor... yeah they made good games... now all they do is... sims xD they bringuuing nfs back to life with 2015 and heat releases... and tbh they doing ok but as great as before...
It was a game exactly representing the spirit of time. The time was so optimistic and fun those days. The music was full of energy with hip hop or rock, hollywood with fast and furious pushed it and many 30 year olds those days tuned their cars. Everyone was living the life those days. People where motivated and did their best effort! I am happy to be in my 20s that decade and got all of it. No cancel culture, no hate those days even basketball was "bigger" in germany those days and even we played video games, we still did many things outside the internet. Everyone knew that lil jon song and first we game and then in the club we sang that song. Good times! Today the music gets boring or "too stoned" hip hop and artists, movies and games only care about the money anymore! The games and movies like the new fast furious only show 1% super and hyper cars noone can relate to.
Same for me. I actually played Underground before watching The Fast and The Furious and the Eclipse was my fave. Mostly because I had an affinity towards Mitsubishis and the 2nd Gen DSM was a beautifully designed machine from the 90s
@@nick4paokara F&F made me think it was a cool car, but NFS Underground made me actually wan't to own a Eclipse or Honda ... and some years later, i currently have both. 😂
You know what, the motion blur makes a HUGE difference, it looks cool, stylish and gives the cars a sense of speed. No idea why they don't do it to this extent in modern games.
There are lots of graphical artifacts that emerge depending on the type of motion blur used. You also need a high fps to make the best out of motion blur.
Because it was a revolution that's why. It literally came along at the perfect time with the whole JDM seen in media, plus the game was genuinely great. Underground 1 & 2, + most wanted were the best games of the entire franchise
I loved NFSUG 1 & 2 (2 especially), they're the OG's but let's give NFSMW the respect it deserves. That game was a marvel when it came out and it still holds up today
I just completed it for the 4th time yesterday. Those challenge series tollbooth races were insanely hard. Gotta say the graphics were 💩 even when it first came out (compare to GT3 which came out 4 years earlier) but its a testament to game design and perfect gameplay that I keep coming back to it.
@NEARMUSICBEATS lmao MW graphics are clearly better then underground 2 ... Did u even play that game ?? That's y it was a huge hit in 2000s also the story was awesome ... Underground and mw are the classics .
Let's not forget Carbon,World,Undercover,Hot Pursuit,Rivals even Pro street but i never liked a NFS without freeroam after freeroam in racing games started to be a thing.
engine magmraa 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️oooooommmgggg the years when nfs released them at the perfect time when everything was right at the time. Music, movies and cars etc. I can’t blame you not once bro. Nothing like 2000s
I'll tell you: 1. The premise, night time and illegal street racing. Even today, it's all I like. I don't care for day time legal racing. 2. Car selection and modifications. An amazing selection of cars. Not too many and not too little. The modifications were easy to understand, but also in depth...and still not convoluted. 3. The physics/feel of how fast the cars moved or felt that they moved. I loved how the control of the vehicles felt, the turning, drifting. 4. Music.
there was one old game...street legal racing-redline...short SLR Redline...it was game that went into depth in customization...like you could just buy wrecked car chassis and work on engine..buying engine block,pistons rods etc and then install them in correct order...setting the compression of the engine etc etc etc...but the game never went to make another part...there are some that still paly it and make mods for it...its like today the mechanic simulator...but with underground 2 theme..in the day you build cars,test them and evade cops..at night you race and evade cops...it was great great game...but shame it never lived on...
Need for speed is a game that is liked by different generation . Older generations would like the older NFS because they grew up with it. If you ask me, NFS Most Wanted is the best game as I remember myself enjoying it as a child. The newer ones are still good but Most Wanted will always have a place in my heart.
My play style is pretty casual, so every racing game with that awful catch-up system is a no-go for me. I just hate being 10 seconds ahead of the competition, only to be taken over by most of the field just because I hit a trashcan. I only completed UG once, and only completed MW because I found a trainer for it. UG2 on the other hand, I played for months on end.
The reason why Underground worked so well is because it came at the right time, when tuning and street racing were pretty big in pop culture. But the trend went away eventually. That's why every attempt to bring that back didn't really work anymore. I think if you want to make a game about underground street racing it's probably best to have it set in the early 2000's.
Yeah you could have it set at that time. But I think of they emphasized the street racing culture even in a modern setting it would do really well. They could easily tailor the street racing model to modern day and have it be dope asf. The problem isn’t the timeframe , the problem is the lack of commitment to the culture in general. If they remade underground 1&2 RIGHT NOW but set them in 2023 the shit would POP!! Give us our crazy ass customization and banger soundtracks back with modern graphics. They could literally upscale underground 1 with the same soundtrack and an online mode for circuit, drag and drift and the shit would sell like fucking gang busters . Game design was simply better back then
There was such a street car tuning hype going on in those days that was worldwide. NFSU felt like a game sequal to F&F. I think it was also during that time that pimp my ride was hot and maybe just in general a time when mainstream aftermarket parts for popular car brands and models started flooding the market. I was a teenager so I didn't have a car. Instead I had a scooter which I tuned and pimped. Engine upgrades, style changes, spray painting complete with NFSU sticker sets lol, it was such a blast.
Yeah, they had just the right type and amount of hype build up! And you actually played the game, it didn't drive for you... And the freedom you had to mod your cars was amazing for the time! You took real pride in your cars, which made the gameplay so much more immersive and fun all around... I miss the weekends with the boys, just talking about cars while modding them in NFS:U2 and playing the career mode together.
Recently restarted playing Underground 1. So much of my elementary school days were playing that game-as well as Hot Pursuit 2. To this day, I regard them as some of the best games ever made.
Me too i even made it look better with 2021 widescreen fix and these settings in my GPU software: maxing out texture filtering, setting 4xEQ supersampling, Image sharpening and max tesselation limit(not sure if the last one changed much). The results are awesome the game looks better than it should but true to the original. It took me 6 days to beat the game on hard and i had a great time.
I remember drag racing my big brother in Underground 2 with a Lancer against his Pontiac GTO and feeling so excited when I won. I also remember playing the Burnout 3 Demo included in Underground 2 and it's how I fell in love with Burnout.
@@eosobande Underground 2 was the better of the two. More cars, waaay more customizations and just an engaging concept. Now EA is just a money machine fresh outta ideas.
I remember always playing drag race with friends with the map that had that train. So many glitches we pulled off with that train. One I remember the most, my friend smashed into the train and I clipped my back end on it, flipped the car on the roof and slide all the way to the finish line. Good times
omg those are some of my first memories playing this and vice city with my older brother, he used to set a timer for 20 minutes each and he’d stop it on his turns and i didn’t know lil
definitly my all time favourite too. I played this so much in the mid 2000's, it's like a part of my childhood is build on that game and also Flatout 2.
Yeah Carbon is actualy the last okay one,i never got why they droped the whole underground racing with 3727272 car costumizations that look straight outta Tokyo drift...Ug Ug2 most wanted and carbon only need a multyplayer where u can race with your friends with the cars you have in the singleplayer and the game would be 30/10 :o would die to play that in 2020.I hope we get a game like that i miss the whole vibe they give with the 80s,90s,2000s cars :/
If EA wants to bring their game back, all they have to do is remaster underground 2 (as in graphics and mechanics). If they add anything into the game (Like dlcs) it will ruin it completely, just remaster the game and the whope world will quit fortnite, expect for the young kiddos.
I thought about that not so long ago. I gladdly would pay 60$ for an NFSU + NFSU2 bundle remade in 4k with the frostbite engine (but same handling and physics as in 04 and 05) might even pay 100 if the OG Most Wanted is included but this will most likely never happen just because of the licencing not only for the music but also for tuning part decals music and so on.
ruben hernandez lol you didn't play the game lootboxes give you tire smoke and neons and horns only and if you are talking about the gambling upgrade system there is shops in the game where you can buy upgrades
The Import and Tuner scene was massive and at a peak during 2000 and was the likely cause for it's popularity. Now everyone that plays this stuff want story line, and RPG plus racing doesn't really fit well together. I own both NFSU2 and NFS 2016 and I must say, I often consider resetting up my PS2 just to play that game (as well as Ace Combat 4)!
Kyle Morrison got that right. My all time favorite NFS game is Pro Street. Just because I was so tired of driving super cars and wanted street cars again to be built. Ace Combat on the other hand. AC5 unsung war is my FAV.
I feel like the the tuner scene is making a resurgence but in the grand scheme of things, the majority of us (millennial as they call us) are not into cars. Meh.
I started a ritual where every time EA puts out a new game, i have to replay one of the Underground games. Kind of like a silent protest in hopes that games will get good again.
+MM-528_HZ PS2, I wish i had a PC disk because it honestly runs like garbage on PS2, but hey, i'll take a better game over better graphics. Early 2000's EA is the only EA.
