Eventually, the player draws the attention of The Eastsiders, after racing their members Chad, Kurt and Todd to climb up the racing ranking boards. Eddie, the leader of the gang and his girlfriend Melissa take notice of the player. Eddie is the current best underground racer in Olympic City - unimpressed by the player, he insults them for their racing skills, going as far as demanding they "take a taxi home so that he can get home faster" while throwing cash in front, and signaling for a taxi cab to pick up the player in an event.

Eddie then challenges the player to a sprint race and loses; before the player's crew are able to celebrate, an unidentified racer in a grey Nissan 350Z challenges the player to a final 6-lap circuit race. The player accepts their challenge and wins, solidifying their status as the best underground racer in Olympic City. As the player's crew celebrates their victory, the driver of the 350Z is revealed to be Melissa.

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Bonuses are awarded for players who drift in the outer borders of the track, drift vertically, or perform chained-drifting (continuous drifting by constantly steering the vehicle during drifts to maintain speed); if the player succeeds in ending a drift without collisions onto the sides of the track, the collected points are added into the score, otherwise, the collected points are cancelled.

Drag racing is the second most technical form of race in the game. It involves racing against one or three cars on typically straight tracks and attempting to obtain top positions to win. In order to master Drag mode, players must employ good timing and reflexes for gear shifting, redlining, overtaking, and the use of nitrous oxide boosts. Since players must use manual transmission, drag races place particular emphasis in monitoring the tachometer and the engine temperature during races, which is enlarged and displayed on the left side of the screen. Steering in this mode is simplified to simply allow for lane changes, while the computer handles the steering along the lanes, and the player focuses more on maintaining an optimum speed for the car.

In the UK, Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine gave the PS2 version a score of nine out of ten and made much of the illegal nature of the gameplay. They praised the speed, but called the title as another driving game with Hollywood sparkle.[46] In Japan, Famitsu gave the GameCube and PS2 versions a score of two eights and two nines, bringing it to a score of 34 out of 40.[47]

The goal of the career mode isn't just to win races and buy cars. Players need to draw attention to themselves and catch the eyes of sponsors. The most unique aspect of NFSU2 is the idea that your car's appearance actually affects the game. Your car gets a visual rating based on the amount of bodywork and aesthetic changes made, and this in turn opens up for more fun distractions and chances to earn money and respect. After getting at least a one star visual rating, there will be opportunities to be on DVD and magazine covers - you can even take the picture yourself. This is pretty fun if you're proud of your car and can do the suspension-of-disbelief thing for just a few minutes and enjoy your fictional street-racing fame.

NFSU2 may not look as good as SRS (it's choppy), have any semblance of car damage or a bizarre way to accumulate girlfriends, but infinitely better customization and other events like drag and drift competitions easily make it better. The racing events in Career mode (which are also available in Quick race mode) include typical circuit and sprint modes, but there are also some closed-course races without civilian traffic, much to the delight of Gran Turismo nerds. One of the most fun competitions is the Drift event - racers are judged by the speed, distance, and quantity of their drifts. Drag events are also very "different"; the tachometer, nitrous, etc., are displayed very largely on screen and become the main focus. Steering in this mode is mostly automatic; a direction only needs to be tapped once and the car moves into the next lane and automatically centers itself. It's strange at first, but after a few seconds of freaking out about being unable to steer properly, it becomes fun and interesting.

Bear in mind that the most tricky part is that working on bugs requires multiple teams to require access to the software for different phases (triage, debug, development), and not always they are done in the same location/country that is why we need to procure access to the affected app.

I agree, I think this game is really going to need a demo. Yes, modified Veyrons and Aventadors were half of the problem but the other half was the poor physics and handling, maps and general gameplay.

Almost ten years ago, my dad came bursting into our living room like a deep-space marine in Berserk mode. He entered at such speed that there may well have been nitrous leaving his rear end. "Ronan," he said in a voice nothing like Mario's, "It's time you learned how to drive!"

By now, we all know that current advocates of the racing genre tend to fall into two camps - the car lovers, and the thrill-seekers. The car lovers will often accept frustrating gameplay issues and tedium so long as the chassis is classy, much like Pro Evo fans accept its pinball effect in the face of the game's overall brilliance. The thrill-seekers, meanwhile, don't really care what the mode of transportation is, so long as the game excites them on some level, be it through speed, or decent AI, or weapons.

You can safely guess, for example, that the 'engine' upgrade will affect top speed and acceleration, but options like 'drivetrain' or 'intake and exhaust' can take a little more experimentation. Thankfully, with only three basic car attributes to consider (acceleration, top speed and handling) that isn't too much of a problem.

Also available under Circuit Race mode is Lap Knockout, where the driver in last place at the end of every lap is eliminated, and the novel Rally Relay, where you race two laps in two separate cars from your garage. Both these options add some much-needed edge to the modes available, especially for people who want five minutes of excitement on the bus when their partner isn't around to oblige.

Even better for that is Quick Play Battle, which doesn't really involve a battle at all. Instead, it offers four modes of play that focus less on racing and more on precision and skill. Drift Attack, for instance, challenges you to 'slide' through a succession of semi-circular grids on the track within a time limit, with points awarded for speed and a lack of errors. This is based on the game's 'e-brake' system, which is the equivalent of drifting in Ridge Racer or Burnout, and is executed by tapping the R Trigger. It's only as enjoyable as it sounds. Not very, then.

A little better is the Drag mode, which is reminiscent of the racing mini-game in Knights of the Old Republic [this link once descended into a "mind-tricked out" gag, which has been cut for obvious reasons. - The Management]. Drag mode is all about maintaining speed on a straight-line track, shifting up a gear when an indicator turns green and avoiding the odd obstacle or two. This is actually pretty compelling, but the outcome is usually a dead cert after the first five seconds or so - you either get off to the right start and win, or you'll never catch up.

Nitrous Run, meanwhile, involves 'boosting' from point to point using the nitrous feature, with the nitrous being refilled each time you reach the checkpoints. This, too, is extremely straightforward, but fairly enjoyable when you have ten or fifteen minutes to spare, though you'll need a nitrous system installed on a car in order to access it.

The best of the four Quick Play Battle modes is probably the Street Cross option, where you race on tight, short tracks with a plethora of twists and difficult turns to take. In fact, this mode is perhaps preferable to the Circuit Races, because you never reach very high speeds, which makes precision turning a little easier with the nub.

In fact, in the end, how much you'll enjoy Rivals may well depend on that particular issue. If you haven't played the likes of WipEout Pure or Ridge Racer on the PSP, then maybe the nub of the issue won't be an issue at all. Translation: maybe the shoddy controls won't even bother you. Alternatively, if you're willing to use the d-pad, Rivals is a decent game that has an interesting mix of car customisation, skill-based driving and reasonable speed. If you can look past the jaggy car models and now traditional EA Trax music selection, it might be the ideal travelling companion for fans of the series.

Strip the game of its modes, however, place it next to Ridge Racer for a one-lap test drive and it soon becomes clear that Namco's effort gets the fundamentals almost perfectly right, while Rivals just doesn't feel as comfortable or as satisfying. Even WipEout Pure, an entirely different game at heart, gets those basics down better. For the record, I still can't drive real cars. I never sat behind the wheel of a car again (cough except for that one time in America cough) and my father never spoke to me about further lessons after that initial attempt. Still, when it comes to the PSP, I know exactly what route I'd prefer to take: I'll stick to the ridges, and leave the underground to its fans.

Unlike past Need for Speed games which has exotic cars, Underground features JDM cars as the game centers around the import racing/tuning scenes. It is also the first game in the series to have a career mode that have a comprehensive storyline, and a garage mode that allowed players to fully customize their cars with a large variety of performance and visual upgrades. The career mode's story takes place in the fictional Olympic City and focus on an unnamed racer as races to become the best underground racer in the city. The story continues in Need for Speed: Underground 2.

Besides the joy that comes from building and racingridiculous cars at speeds the manufacturer never intended, the world ofUnderground 2 that EA created is a beautiful place that deserves to be brought up to speed. 0852c4b9a8

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