Need For Speed: Underground 2 review:5 stars (best racing game i ever played) - just one blemish,difficult to unlock the parts and and courses.4 stars (Challenging and fun) - Need for speed undergrond 2 is a great game. Though at times it can become hard and frustratig. You can modify all your cars after unlocking the visual and performance upgrades. You can also get sponsers like street glow and nos. Sponsers will pay you when you sign with them, for every race you win, and will give you a free car after completing their contract. Races start out easy and start to get hard to the point were you get frustrated, then i suggest you turn on easy mode. Races will continue to get harder and harder even in easy mode. The races are different kinds and they are: Circut, Drift, Sprint, and Street X. This game is challenging and fu at the same time i would reccomed buying it. Driving round the city helps your skills. This is a great game, so buy it whe you can.1 stars (Too much trick out, not enough soup up!) - Let me start by saying that this game had the potential of being the GTA of all street racing games, Unfortunately this potential could not be realized due to some stupid restrictions that EA had to throw in.

The idea of racing though a detailed city environment with un-lockable locations, hidden shops with hidden parts and "out run" races at every turn may sound fun, and it is, for a few hours. Eventually it becomes clear that this game, at least the PC version, suffers form "game progress lock syndrome" this is to say that one can get into a situation in the game were one cant make any progress, its more then just being stuck, in terms of moving though the levels and so on. There are several reasons for this which are as follows:

1.The main reason has to do with the AI. when you start, it seems ok in terms of difficulty, how ever it suddenly becomes almost impossible beat latter on.

2. Performance upgrades are limited and hard to unlock. The limited amount of upgrades available seems to be the main problem with this game in general. To keep up with the competition/AI, which as I said earlier is almost impossible, one must be able to upgrade the performance of his or her car. The lack of performance upgrades available in this game coupled with the difficulty in un-locking them, due to locating hard to find shops as well as tying to win enough races with what performance you have, make the game difficult to play.

3. You cant buy a car, you must unlock a place to put it in your garage. No matter how much money you make, you cannot buy a car, you must unlock it buy completing a bunch of races with sponsors. This, at least as far as Im concerned, destroys the idea of owning your car and satisfaction in how you tricked it out. Also, having the ability to earn the money to go out and buy a really cool ride when ever you want. Here you must first get the sponsor, win the races and get the car or, give up one of your highly tricked out rides to get another car. You won't see a penny of the money you put into the car period.

On top of this, like this games predecessor, there is no damage at all. Nor is there anything to fix on the older cars offered in this game, like the 1985 Toyota corolla. In fact, its shown as if this was the latest model of that car! In fact, the game dose not even give us the years of any of the cars, come on!

Finally. to much trick out. Yes it is cool to put huge subwoofers into your car or a big 21 inch screen in your trunk but, these will not get you to the finish line any faster. Infarct, in really life at least, they add weight to the car. there are some parts in the game were these come in handy, and they are cool, i just with that EA would have put more time into the performance upgrades instead.

In the end, its frustrating to see a game like this go the way it did. it could have been one of the greatest game available if EA had not gotten so wrapped up in the mess of the trick-out culture and put more emphases on buying and tuning
Need For Speed: Underground 2 Features:
Computer Games
Mechanized action
Auto car automobile race racing
DVD-Video
Realistic racing challenges - Deal with real-time weather effects, environmental hazards, multiple track types and more
Explore a free-roaming city divided into five distinct neighborhoods, from suburban hills to an intense downtown grid -- all connected by freeways you can race
Drive over 30 of the hottest tuner cars on the market, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, and Toyota to Ford and Volkswagen
Tune every aspect of your car?s performance with hundreds of licensed upgrades, for the ultimate ride
Customize your machine to a whole new level - Add scissor doors, spoilers, headlights, side skirts, roof scoops, hoods, rims, wide body kits, neon and more -- for a truly unique ride

Need For Speed- Underground 2 is the Software version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 28.99USD.