Need for Speed Underground
Jeremy A. KaplanElectronic Arts, per its usual fashion of somehow managing to nail everything exactly right, has done it again with Need for Speed Underground. The company has freshened up its long-standing street-racing series with Japanese, European, and domestic hatchbacks and compacts, signed deals with every after-market mod company you could possibly imagine, and thrown it all into a game that may well be the most impressive-looking PS2 release so far. We��re not kidding. The screenshots here really don��t do it justice. With all of the races set at night, there��s lots of potential for even more gorgeous lighting effects and reflective surfaces. Imagine the nighttime road race in Gran Turismo 3 dialed up to 11. This rocks.
Publisher: EA Games
Developer: EA Black Box
Release Date: November
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