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
That’s actually what made Underground worse. Besides the Lack of Cop chases, and out of place rap music, the Game felt really slow compared to Hot Pursuit 2, and Most Wanted.
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...
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 -
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
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.
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 agree. I remember one of the last drift matches you essentially needed to chain drift like 7 or 8 times to get the multiplier high enough to win. Man it took me and my brother like 100 tries!
@@kyranblack5162just picked up the game after almost 20 years of not playing it , did the first drift match in the starter Honda civic and dropped 25k on they heads lol. I still got it baby!!!
This and the Midnight Club series are still one of the best arcade-style racing games I've ever played. I would LOVE to see a new game with the 2000s style street racing feel with customizable cars and nitrous with hip-hop songs playing in the background. Rewatching the Fast and Furious series only makes me want those games more.
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
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.
The development cost of a modern copy of NFSU 3 will take more than 3 years and EA don't develop projects like these no more, maybe a very good studio could make a similar street Racing - tunning customize - good list of car Game one day but ... it's just a dream, I live with that hope (and the hope to could see HL3)
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
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
top things that made nfsu1&2 the best street racing games: 1. the soundtrack 2. the cars 3. the sounds of the cars 4. the insane customization 5. the handling(more on the realistic side than a complete arcade like the current nfs which is a complete joke) 6. fast & furious...
@Julio Alvarez BeamNG is not realistic aswell ... bruh, did you ever drive a car? Just because it had built in destruction physics doesnt make it realistic. kepp it real. Sim Racers are pretty much the only realistic car games.
We absolutely need a new Underground version. With all the same race modes and cars that were tune-able instead of supercars. (Back to the roots just like F&F back in the day)
NFS underground 1&2 were the best games for a bunch of reasons. First, it was all about taking average cars regular people can afford and making them into custom race cars with legit bodykits and brands. Second was the sound, the engine revving sounded really legit and the crashes sounded brutal. I'm not into games that every time the final car is a Bugatti veyron and you can almost start with it. I like the weak car to race car progression.
I agree , I got as much fun customising & tuning average daily cars like the Civic , Golf and a Dodge / Chrysler Neon as I did actually racing them . Great fun. Then I got into Juiced ,which I was also mad about for a long time.
This is exactly the reason I like the underground series, the 2nd especially(although the first was great, that was the one to get me hooked) In UG2 you could go and get your Peugeot 206(which is the car i own in real life) and you start with a bone stock ride, race a couple of races, and get a fuel pressure reg and atop speed remover. Then you take your car to the dyno, see the change, remap the car to gain some extra topend and a horsepower or two, race again and redo it. After a while you race some guys on the streets, get a special part like a turbo or ecu, and you'd notice that you can get a little extra boost from if you take your car to the dyno again. I had a 240SX with the boost gauge hitting like 35 psi deep in the red and beyond. No game racing game has given me that before and not after either. If you didn't tune the car right in dragrace you were more prone to blow it up too! The detail in that game is were it shines, togheter with the sounds of the cars which is miles ahead of everything else in that era. And belive me when i say it's important!
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.
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.
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.
It made my childhood. I've finished this game like 17 times & I can now still play all day long. Favorite car was the acura RSX. Never gets old :') Thank you Underground for making my childhood the best
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.
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.
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
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.
Underground and Most Wanted are my most favorite games 😍 Both had amazing soundtracks and very fun! Miss em I would play with my brother a lot and I’m not sure if it was 2005 or what. But definitely had tons of great memories. And tons of times I got super pissed lol. I replay it from time to time. And the game still challenges me
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.
Marcio Vinicius Dropping a huge speaker system in an SUV and lowering the suspension. All black tinted windows. They dont make customization like that anymore
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.
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.
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.
I remember I was the first in my school class to have this game and the last to complete it as I was that bad at it, loved the car customising, underground 2 was a great game aswell.
+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.
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. 😂
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.
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 :/
They would ruin it with microtransactions, always-online, multiplayer-based gameplay and other bullshit, so there's no point. Actually hoping for some indie developer to start making games like this, even if it was technically outdated, all you need is basic enjoyable gameplay, good music and no cash-grabbing. Heck, 10-year old games still look great in my book! And they run flawlessly on modern machines. Companies like EA or Microsoft will never make good products again, because they are only focused on milking the most money out of people and forcing them unnecessary crap just because they can.
They shouldn't make a new but re make underground 2 like make the exact same game with new graphics and stuff. It would sell well because the older people will play for nostalgia and the game is so old now 16 year olds of today mostly wouldn't have played it so there is a new audience for the same game.
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.
If I remember correctly, Riders on the Storm was from UG2. :) Some of the greatest songs featured in a NFS game however (in my humble oppinion) are The Buzzhorn - Ordinary ( czcams.com/video/xLEjlhyRTb0/video.html ) and Hot Action Cop - Going Down On It ( czcams.com/video/hvn5x5oAs-g/video.html ) from NFS Hot Pursuit 2. Luckily for me, the soundtrack is easy to rip directly from the game cd. :)
I remember Need For Speed Underground. The ultimate love letter to modified cars with loads of customization. As for my favorite racing game it's probably Sonic Riders. My main is always Jet The Hawk.
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.
The car customization was my favourite part. When I finally unlocked everything I was so proud to have my gold Skyline with wide body and gold underglow. Badass!
my dad gave me his ps2 when i was little and i would play nemo this game and toy story and i remember always hearing that song everytime i got on it it’d be like TO THE WINDOWSSSSSSS TO THE WALLLS one of my first games ever and it’s so nostalgic to hear that song
We've been wanting to make a quick video about this game for a long time. Thanks for indulging us.
Has one of the best sequels ever. Snoop Dog and The Doors resonates in my mind.
Still got this game on my desk. The good stuff.
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
My favorite racing game is Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix
The good old days when u r customizing your car in NFS Underground 2 and listening to Riders On The Storm
*Instant Flashbacks*
Lean Back>>>riders on the storm
Random Guy nah
Nostalgic .... good..good times
Ayan Maghrabi good thing i still have nfsug2 on my pc after my ps2 stop working
Remaster these games (DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING BUT THE VISUALS), sell these as a bundle, and I will be happy
Will never happen
Do it yourself.
@@x2c.diamundz And leave them Soundtracks untouched!
And Add some more JDM
More cars, vinyls, races and customization options, but only if they're from the 2000s. Lol
If we could play it on the newer consoles it would be a hit
Part of the GREATNESS of the underground series is that there were NOT any supecars.
you made your own supercar that was the thing back thern
@@arkarosh7043 NFSU2 gave you the ability to max the shit out of your shitty corolla and smoke a Lamborghini rich boy. THATS street racing.
@@aries666dc no Lambos in Underground 2 though
that really didn't have anything to do with it
That’s actually what made Underground worse. Besides the Lack of Cop chases, and out of place rap music, the Game felt really slow compared to Hot Pursuit 2, and Most Wanted.
When he said *BAARUM DUM DUM, DUM DA DA DADUM DUM*
I felt that.
First song.
damn
You disgust me.
Lool maan the ti and lil jon tracks made this game fun!!!
I loved that opening.
I love how the EA slogan was “Challenge everything” but now it’s more like “pay for everything”
Someone should rerender that intro and meme it xD
How about ''Challenge everything.... even your patience''
EA games - "Early Access" games
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 soooo true
They're challenging your wallet.
It really hurts watching you butcher the drifting mode
It pains me deeply
The Civic isn't ideal for drifting lmao
@@Tunerdude94 terrible excuse, the game mode makes any car easy enough to drift
My favorite mode. I could kill it back in the day.
I came here to say that too! Wow, yeah.
Drifting isn't about slow jerky yanking on the wheel XD
I still listen to The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm” re-work with Snoop Dogg. Beautiful
That's underground 2
Same
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...
I'm late but I did the exact same thing but with PS2
Riders on the Storm ft Snoop Dog Underground 2 is probably the best memory I have from playing that game
So true 🔥
I think about it all the time
iOutPlayz YES!!! 😂
🔥🔥🔥🔥
i was listening that song before i played this video
im kinda surprised of all the games getting a "HD Remaster" that neither Underground or Underground2 were redone.
Zephairein nfsug2 might get a remaster for next year but only maybe
@@lol_dope But this time, all the customizations will be microtransactions! Yay!
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!
It’s mental innit
@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 -
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
The F&F Supra costs as much as a supercar now.
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.
Yeah I remember sneakin downstairs to play it with the steering wheel for the ps2
They should make a remake. I'm sure there are some Need For Speed Veterans out there who'd definitely want to play.
Man that would be awesome!
I wouldn't ming getting a mw remaster
That's what NFS 2015 was supposed to be.
Fizzi Soda 2015 was a game with that formula maybe. But I want a straight graphical remaster
I would love that but don't forget that EA changed for the worst this recent years and you can expect micro transactions and dlc on a modern remake
Underground,San Andreas etc,damn..what an era..
best games ever!
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
@@fakedazzleful true^
Midnight club also
Glen W you’re the man,cheers
The difficulty level of this game was perfect!
I remember playing with friends and everyone would pass me the controller on the drift matches. Those were awesome.
I agree. I remember one of the last drift matches you essentially needed to chain drift like 7 or 8 times to get the multiplier high enough to win. Man it took me and my brother like 100 tries!
ultimate difficulties with stability control turn off
@@kyranblack5162just picked up the game after almost 20 years of not playing it , did the first drift match in the starter Honda civic and dropped 25k on they heads lol. I still got it baby!!!
This and the Midnight Club series are still one of the best arcade-style racing games I've ever played. I would LOVE to see a new game with the 2000s style street racing feel with customizable cars and nitrous with hip-hop songs playing in the background. Rewatching the Fast and Furious series only makes me want those games more.
I got both
I got midnight club 2 and midnight club three dubbed version i got need for speed underground and need for speed carbon
can’t play underground 2 without thinking of riders on the storm with snoop
That and Black Betty.
Goin' off of this, goin' off of that
With the lizard king bumpin' in the back
How boat that.
don't forget "Give it all" by rise against
Can't play Underground 1 without singing along.. "To the windoooooow"
Always when i turned the game on (btw still playing it) i just heard "riders on the storm"
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
Dang, wish I had a uncle like that. 😅
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
I also played this game with my uncle!!! Good memories
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
Which game were you originally thinking about?
This didnt happen and your just making things up.
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.
@@lifeofcorn894 lol
NFS Heat brought some of the nostalgia back, but the soundtrack in Heat could have been waaaaay better
Protip: Play the Underground soundtracks through Spotify while you're playing.
Worst part about heat is being forced to listen to mexican music I can't understand.
@@AChunkyDog the music in nfs heat soundtrack is not mexican
also try learning other languages, its nice
@@vcostaval
You goober...
Also heat looks ugly af. I bought it. The game is fun. But meh
Ahh the good old ps2 days
Gaming with Abdul Ahad xbox!
GameCube my dude what y'all talking about?
6th gen was the goat generation.
Bobcom1 u know what; android.
Retro Soul good*
Hey EA you want to make 250 million $ just drop underground 3 and leave out micro transaction please.
If there's an EA sticker on a box in a store you're buying half what you think you're buying.
The development cost of a modern copy of NFSU 3 will take more than 3 years and EA don't develop projects like these no more, maybe a very good studio could make a similar street Racing - tunning customize - good list of car Game one day but ... it's just a dream, I live with that hope (and the hope to could see HL3)
You really expecting EA to not add micro transactions?
250million is not even enough to build 50% of a game AAA in 2018
@@lostsoul9518 Outsourcers, do u know them?
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
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
This game is literally better than recent NFS titles in terms of fun factor.
Sun Levi yup like the payback its fast and furios not sure about fun thats like a fast and furios movie
The '15 NFS got at least close to it, though. It felt like UG2 remastered, in terms of gameplay.
That it its....fun factor...key element
rose glasses
Time to play on my ps2
top things that made nfsu1&2 the best street racing games:
1. the soundtrack
2. the cars
3. the sounds of the cars
4. the insane customization
5. the handling(more on the realistic side than a complete arcade like the current nfs which is a complete joke)
6. fast & furious...
Martin Ivanov more realistic handling? No, not really. It was just different.
And the graphics. At the time, that motion blur effect that you got when you activated the nitrous boost, was insane.
@Julio Alvarez BeamNG is not realistic aswell ... bruh, did you ever drive a car? Just because it had built in destruction physics doesnt make it realistic. kepp it real. Sim Racers are pretty much the only realistic car games.
and for nfsu2 : open world (i love open worlds.)
Going into this video I was like, "If they don't mention the soundtrack then why are we even here?" Then 0:45, and I was like, "OK, we're good."
We absolutely need a new Underground version. With all the same race modes and cars that were tune-able instead of supercars. (Back to the roots just like F&F back in the day)
Probably won't happen unfortunately with how EA is nowadays, closest we got was NFS 2015
NFS underground 1&2 were the best games for a bunch of reasons. First, it was all about taking average cars regular people can afford and making them into custom race cars with legit bodykits and brands. Second was the sound, the engine revving sounded really legit and the crashes sounded brutal. I'm not into games that every time the final car is a Bugatti veyron and you can almost start with it. I like the weak car to race car progression.
I agree , I got as much fun customising & tuning average daily cars like the Civic , Golf and a Dodge / Chrysler Neon as I did actually racing them . Great fun. Then I got into Juiced ,which I was also mad about for a long time.
This is exactly the reason I like the underground series, the 2nd especially(although the first was great, that was the one to get me hooked)
In UG2 you could go and get your Peugeot 206(which is the car i own in real life) and you start with a bone stock ride, race a couple of races, and get a fuel pressure reg and atop speed remover. Then you take your car to the dyno, see the change, remap the car to gain some extra topend and a horsepower or two, race again and redo it.
After a while you race some guys on the streets, get a special part like a turbo or ecu, and you'd notice that you can get a little extra boost from if you take your car to the dyno again.
I had a 240SX with the boost gauge hitting like 35 psi deep in the red and beyond.
No game racing game has given me that before and not after either.
If you didn't tune the car right in dragrace you were more prone to blow it up too! The detail in that game is were it shines, togheter with the sounds of the cars which is miles ahead of everything else in that era.
And belive me when i say it's important!
Shane Hubert I agree 😬😬😬😬✊🏽I’m a tuner guy my self
I actually finished the game with the honda civic.
I never get to start with a veyron
Woah.... hearing "EA games. Challenge everything" instantly transported me back in time 15 years
Same
Nows its "EA games. Charge for everything"
Good old EA
It’s 15 years already?
Yup
Need for Speed: Most wanted 2005 was my all time favorite. I just bought the 360 version the other day to replay that masterpiece
Me too. That game is a true masterpiece. I bought it on pc. The wierd part is i played it on 2015.😂10 years later
yup, why can't they make games like this now a days🤣🤣🤣
Gotta love sitting on top of that platform in the bus station while seeing the cops do crazy shit trying to get me.
Hell yeah that's what's up!👌🔥🔥
The construction site in a few of the races always made us feel like rebels when racing through and knocking over the fences and cones.
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
Its all about the money mane
I know, I know. But still, my poor old heart.
Leanify TV
I feel you
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.
A remastered Need for Speed Underground 2 would break the internet
Literally, because it would be "Always online"
One and two are my favorites
@juanisabastard if you dont think so. You just wrong
Yes, the present sucks. I need my childhood, my past back!!
No midnight club deserves it more the nfs
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.
Damn that intro was nostalgic itself gave me chills!!
God this game was amazing, thank you for this lookback!!
thanks for watching!
also i appreciate that Get Low intro (0:45) definitely was a key aspect of the 1st NFS Underground game
Underground 2 and Burnout3 takedown we're the racing games of my childhood
Underground 1 & 2 were absolute masterpieces!! Such great memories playing them when they first came out!
NFS SOUNDTRACK WAS LIT MAN 🤙
A wise man once said “If you scream 'To the windows!' and she doesn’t reply with 'To the wall' then she is too young for you.”
Probably something to use so you wont catch a case
Very well said.
@@Heyxtre I mean, smart
yo.... i listening this song right now and when i read your coment... lol
I go with "DUCK TAILS!" and a "WOOHOO!" for an answer to check that. (Yeah, I stole this one..)
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
Panda Props & Costumes they needa hire you right the fuck back!
you played a big part in my childhood by just working on this game ❤ that orange r34 was everything to me
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 :)
cdwag23 That’s awesome! Glad you liked it! I’ll share a story in a new comment so people can see it. :)
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.
0:46 as soon as the song kicked in I was back in time 😍
It made my childhood. I've finished this game like 17 times & I can now still play all day long. Favorite car was the acura RSX. Never gets old :')
Thank you Underground for making my childhood the best
Then: *Challenge everything*
Now: *_Charge everything_*
Underrated
EA Games
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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 can hear that thumbnail
PianoKing64 I heard it too
mission accomplished
Am i hearing paul van dyk nothing but you? Lol
TO THE WINDOOOOOOOOOOOW
PianoKing64 same haha. Awesome
Thank you for putting literally every little thing I feel about the nfs underground series into a video. All of it couldn’t of been said better
I got so good at the drifting in this game I managed to chain a drift around like 90% of the big track and got to max rep level in like 2 races.
Woah nice.
all i remember was it being one big blurr,,due to the constant abuse of the mos button
Hawk Eyes nos not mos
I never used nos at the right times. Saved it all for when a badass song came on 👌🏼
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
HellFox well except HP 2010 that was bomb.
yeah, most wanted lived up to underground. I dont know why they said otherwise :/
you mean payback ?
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.
For me they killed the franchise with carbon.
This is the greatest game I ever played! Thank you for the review, reminded me awesome memories ...
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
😂😂😂😂😂 my older brother used to do similar to me, I'd never get a look in and just have to sit there 🤣
Underground series, HP2, Most Wanted 2005, and Carbon....
ah, those memories!
NFS Beast And ProStreet :v
Most wanted was the best in my opinion. they tarnished its name with the shitty 2012 game or whenever it was
NFS Porsche ist a Classic to!
I found NFS Shift 1 and 2 and NFS Proshift very fun; though NFS MW (05) will always be my number one fav
That moment you hear "get low" after ages and nostalgia hits you like a truck
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.
Underground and Most Wanted are my most favorite games 😍 Both had amazing soundtracks and very fun! Miss em
I would play with my brother a lot and I’m not sure if it was 2005 or what. But definitely had tons of great memories. And tons of times I got super pissed lol. I replay it from time to time. And the game still challenges me
Back when a company intro gave you chills. “Ea games. Challenge everything” shivers!
Now it's EA games, ~buy our loot boxes~
these days that intro is a sign of a bad game
darkracer125
Stfu!
Now it's more like "EA Games. Ruin everything"
@@alexthelegoguy4504 why you triggered man? They did mess up my favorite series mass effect and crysis too. And unfortunately, my only love, C&C! 😭
BRR DUM DUM DUM
gives me the chills every time.
One of the best games ever
And while I'm at it, im going to play it again.
R3MIX MODZ It's been "The Celebration Song" in UG2 for me.
I ordered NFSU2 for my PC. Can't wait to play it
“Riders on the storm” just too nostalgic
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.
Need for speed underground 2 was my childhood
Marcio Vinicius Dropping a huge speaker system in an SUV and lowering the suspension. All black tinted windows. They dont make customization like that anymore
Yes. Just yes.
*Take me on a rocket ride*
For me kind of, because i never played this game on my own, i just watched my Brother playing it
Marcio Vinicius same
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.
You're just saying the words of everyone who had that game! 🧡 So much nostalgia 💜 great job bud.
I bought the Logitech Momo Force Feedback wheel specifically to play this game.
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.
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.
I remember I was the first in my school class to have this game and the last to complete it as I was that bad at it, loved the car customising, underground 2 was a great game aswell.
I loved playing this and HP2. I still remember my little white Mazda Miata with orange green and blue stripes.
NFS Underground 1, 2 and MW 2005 kept people playing.
Payback, 2015, MW 2012 were dropped deeply into the sea.
MW 2012 was a hit . And it is a decent game .
+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.
YOTHISISYO Wut?That game is complete garbage, decent?Haha hell no, that game ruined nfs...I guess you are joking, not funny man. Not funny at all.
@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.
@@pascalcorriveau1418 kid youre trying way too hard
TO THE WINDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!
392Muscle TO THE WALL
to the sweat drop down my balls
TO THE GROUND!
GJP GAMES Guillermo Pena Bitches* RATED M FOR MATURE
GJP GAMES Guillermo Pena it was clean, just played it last week.
I played this for hours and hours. That into and music really brings back memories. I remember the day I picked up this game. Fantastic!
Man me and my dad used to play this game for hours, the intro music is so nostalgic
Underground is the reason the 96 Mitsubishi Eclipse is one of my favorite cars.
not the Fast and the Furious?
Cole Edwards same for me haha
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. 😂
samee
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.
This game,midnight club and juiced were class wish they’d bring something like this out again
Yeeeees!
Juiced was my intro into Street Racing games. It truly was a class act.
that beginning/startup cutscene is so nostalgic my god it’s as magical as it used to be
Every time i hear get low i think of speed underground
Riders on the storm
e_din underground 2 #iconic
Throw this dog a bone
Nostalgia
Nostalgia just hit me in the face so hard
There's a killer on the road.
0:46 giving the gift of nostalgia
I played ug and ug 2 as well, but my favorite was most wanted. Everything after mw was bullshit.
I would say after Carbon.
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 :/
I agree with Most Wanted, but im thoroughly enjoying Heat
Carbon was the last game to be the best that EA had to offer. Starting from ProStreet to present day, it started to get worse
@@AgateEditing Naw, Heat has restored the greatness of NFS franchise. Plus games like NFS Undercover or Hot Pursuit were also pretty good
Best nfs game ever for me
DDG for me it was nfs most wanted original
MEKX Same
To the windowwwwwwwwweee to the waaallllllllllllll
Sdddude123 me too, me too
*best game ever
The fact that they haven't made another Underground game shows the incompetence of EA.
They would ruin it with microtransactions, always-online, multiplayer-based gameplay and other bullshit, so there's no point. Actually hoping for some indie developer to start making games like this, even if it was technically outdated, all you need is basic enjoyable gameplay, good music and no cash-grabbing. Heck, 10-year old games still look great in my book! And they run flawlessly on modern machines. Companies like EA or Microsoft will never make good products again, because they are only focused on milking the most money out of people and forcing them unnecessary crap just because they can.
With the way they make games now, I’d prefer if they didn’t make another underground game
As much as I love NFSU I'd rather buy another midnight club from rockstar
The reason some old games still look good now is because of HD. Most ppl didnt have hdtv at that time, but games usually supported it.
They shouldn't make a new but re make underground 2 like make the exact same game with new graphics and stuff. It would sell well because the older people will play for nostalgia and the game is so old now 16 year olds of today mostly wouldn't have played it so there is a new audience for the same game.
This game is such a big part of my childhood and the intro gives me chills
Tbh Underground 1 and 2, Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition and Juiced took up a lot of my childhood
JUICED! YES!
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
Yep those games were the best especially juiced
holy shit juiced!!!
YESSS MC3 DUB EDITION REMIX - THE BEST VEHICLE RACING GAME!!!!
🎵Riders on the storm 🎵
tenaciousjoe24 wow i thought everyone forgot that song, its the best
That and lean back 🔥🔥 they were my shit in UG2
My crew is all fired up! Wait, wrong NFS.
Lol i hated that song 😂😂😂😂
My. Jam.
I remember being a 6 year old kid playing this for hours everyday. I used to love this game so much
I didnt even know there was an underground 2 until a couple years ago. But as a kid, i played so much of Underground and Mario Kart Double Dash.
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.
NOSTALGIA
dude your right ditch the console keep the memories and play the real game life. the dream was short but good
And look at you and me now...Driving a car with 3 pedals using 2 feet.
IT HIT ME WHEN HE SAID *BRRRUM DUM DUM DA DA DA DA DUM*
100
What is the Song called:((
I_ARE_ GROOTBOY Nate dogg keep it coming
I_ARE_ GROOTBOY wait that’s wrong it’s get low by lil Jon but listen to the other one too real talk
What if you
Wanted to go to heaven
But God said
*BRRRUM DUM DUM DA DA DA DA DUM*
One of my favorite things from this game was the wide body kits you could put on your car. No other game had these at the time.
Thanks for uploading this nostalgia!!
Well I remember It having more pixels! The nostalgia is real.
Riders of the storm, Get Low, Nobody Top 3 songs of all time!
If I remember correctly, Riders on the Storm was from UG2. :)
Some of the greatest songs featured in a NFS game however (in my humble oppinion) are The Buzzhorn - Ordinary ( czcams.com/video/xLEjlhyRTb0/video.html ) and Hot Action Cop - Going Down On It ( czcams.com/video/hvn5x5oAs-g/video.html ) from NFS Hot Pursuit 2.
Luckily for me, the soundtrack is easy to rip directly from the game cd. :)
What's crazy is they never seemed to get old while playing even though you heard them hundreds of times.
Yeah same here man, NFSU2 was very sharp and detailed in my memorys....
That game WAS my whole childhood.
One of the Best childhood memories was playing that game with friends ... what good times ...
I remember Need For Speed Underground. The ultimate love letter to modified cars with loads of customization. As for my favorite racing game it's probably Sonic Riders. My main is always Jet The Hawk.
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 ^_^
wonderful, miss the good old days..
N4Zz Z hell yes. Those were the Good times...
how is no updates or no dlcs a good thing
@@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.
tortoise8199 Because it was sold “complete”.
When I got this game on Christmas day back in 2003..... I …….I...…oh god someone get me a tissue.
😂😂😂🤧
Me too!
Same! Along with 2F2F on DVD!
lol, you need piratebay mate
Same! I remember ripping a bit of the wrapping paper pre-christmas. Ruined the surprise but I was so happy Haha
The car customization was my favourite part. When I finally unlocked everything I was so proud to have my gold Skyline with wide body and gold underglow. Badass!
my dad gave me his ps2 when i was little and i would play nemo this game and toy story and i remember always hearing that song everytime i got on it it’d be like TO THE WINDOWSSSSSSS TO THE WALLLS one of my first games ever and it’s so nostalgic to hear that song
I miss the old EA "Challenge everything" slogan. Was cool.
Looking my older game collection ps2 even 360 ea is the majority of my games. Current gen I think the only ea game I have is unravled.
It isnt that anymore it's"EA GAMES, MONITIZE EVERYTHING"
I miss the old EA all together lol