Need For Speed Underground

[Jordan]

So I got ahold of an unreleased beta demo. Thought you all might want my take on the game.

First off, and most importantly, the game is very similar to the original F&F. The drag mode is a one off of the scene with paul walker, draging vin diesel with some other cars. You know the one, where his 100th shot of NOS blows the welds on his intake manifold

The racing mode is alot more demanding from the user, and its alot more fun! You can powerslide/drift, knock opponents into oncoming traffic, and ride the booooooost till you get a bloody nose. The sounds in the game, the engine, tires, turbo whine, blowoff valve etc are all VERY well done, and believable as hell.

In drag mode the "handling" sucks, i kept trying to dart in and out and around cars, and all i did was crash into things. It took me awhile to realize the drag mode steers for you, all you have to do is tap left, and it finds its way 1 lane over provided nothing obstucts you. The drag mode lets you focus on shifting perfectly, and using up the ever precious N2O.

In curcuit racing mode, the handings is great. Much more like NFSPU and less like NFSHP2.

The graphics are outstanding, and acctually serve to make the ricy cars look decent. In this beta demo only several versions of a riced out 350Z were available to race with.

I took some screenshots for you guys, seen below.

All were taken on a P4 2.0GHz 512MB ram GeForce4 Ti4200. At 1024x768 max all details and quaility.

[BrianF 88iS]

The graphics these days are just getting better and better, and more and more life like. That means that the rice cars just look worse and worse as techonolgy progress. :down:
I like the racing game that I have, Need for Speed 2 Hot Pursuit. It accually has real cars, not like thoes Hondas in the movie. But hey, if the game is fun, play it ;)

[MattM20]

i just got NFS Porsche Unleashed last week, and i am blown away with the improvements over NFS High Stakes (i know i'm a little behind on the new releases). to me it doesnt get any better than NFS:PU for semi serious racing, i played hot pursuit2 and it didnt seem any better except for different cars and tracks. Porsche unleashed pretty much requires you to know how to powerslide and drift through turns to keep up, in other words mega understeer, which is my only complaint on it, every thing else kicks ass like evolution mode, test driver, auto-x, and the advanced telemetry settings all the way down to sway bar adjustments, tire pressure, exact gear ratios, damper settings, intercooler size, etc.

[808BMW]

in the 5th pic there is a girl in lowrider jeans with a thong on... how realistic is that? :P

[James Crivellone]

Graphics are not THAT bad, although lots of jaggies.

Other then needing a good dose of FSAA and Ansiostrophic filtering it does not look that bad.

sounds like I will have to look around and obtain a copy of it.

[modifiede30]

Graphics are not THAT bad, although lots of jaggies.

I think that jaggie from the first picture is actually a nipple

[James Crivellone]

Graphics are not THAT bad, although lots of jaggies.

I think that jaggie from the first picture is actually a nipple

hahaha that is true, that is true. :)

[BrianF 88iS]

I like how that in the 5th picture that their is really like 4 people, and the rest look the same.

[Jordan]

Graphics are not THAT bad, although lots of jaggies.

Other then needing a good dose of FSAA and Ansiostrophic filtering it does not look that bad.

The beta demo I have has no support for anything over 1024x768, nor does it support FSAA. I'm sure it will, its far from finished.

I like how that in the 5th picture that their is really like 4 people, and the rest look the same.

Seeing as the people are only seen when the race is over (showing the placing in that picture) and on the side of the road as you get ready to launch from the starting line, I dont see that as something to fuss about.

[CobraKai]

I got it...Its pretty fun...at first it was hard as hell to control on the drag but then I got use to it...All in all, I might "get" it when it comes out. :shock:

[James Crivellone]

Graphics are not THAT bad, although lots of jaggies.

Other then needing a good dose of FSAA and Ansiostrophic filtering it does not look that bad.

The beta demo I have has no support for anything over 1024x768, nor does it support FSAA. I'm sure it will, its far from finished.

I like how that in the 5th picture that their is really like 4 people, and the rest look the same.

Seeing as the people are only seen when the race is over (showing the placing in that picture) and on the side of the road as you get ready to launch from the starting line, I dont see that as something to fuss about.

most games don't support FSAA/ansio in the game itself, I am sure you could prolly force AA on the game, at least with my radeon

[Bill 84 318i]

You liked Burnout (2?) though, didn't you? That game sucks.

Porsche Unleashed was decent until I played GT3.

[Jordan]

Yeah, O own Burnout2 for PS2, its a awsome acrade style racer. It wasnt meant to be lifelike physics. Once in awhile its nice to play a game with arcade physics.

[Bill 84 318i]

Fair enough. It's just not my bag.

[Inspar8r]

Yeah, O own Burnout2 for PS2, its a awsome acrade style racer. It wasnt meant to be lifelike physics. Once in awhile its nice to play a game with arcade physics.

What other game is out there giving points for mass carnage, i love that freakin game.

I'm just waiting for the 500 cars and 50 tracks worth of GRAN TURISMO 4 about 14 months away.

Until then, I'll just have to buy True Crime: Streets of LA to hold me over.

Whats the word of GTA4 (not vice city)?