Underground Mode
Racing games don't require a walk-through in the traditional sense, but this incarnation of Need for Speed presents the player with a veritable campaign in its Underground mode, requiring a huge number of choices to be made. To aid you in your quest to rise up the city rankings, we've primed this walk-through of sorts. In it, we'll detail the goal and composition of each of the 112 Underground challenges, give tips on how best to leave your opponents in the dust, and let you know what you'll receive upon completion of each stage.
Before we begin, we'd like to point out that if at any time you find yourself having difficulty with a particular challenge, you can remove upgrades from your car (say a speed/acceleration upgrade that is causing you to have trouble handling the course without crashing). This will downgrade your opponents as well, and will not cost you any money (you can re-upgrade after the race with no penalty). Between this fact and the ability to modify the game's difficulty level with each challenge, you should have no trouble advancing through the campaign with the help of this walk-through.
There are five kinds of challenges in Need For Speed: Underground.
Circuit
This is your standard multi-lap race. The first one to pass the finish line a set number of times wins!
Sprint
Sprint races are shorter versions of Circuit races. Instead of heading around a track multiple times, a Sprint race will see you traveling from one point of a course to another, generally across a section of the track that's somewhat longer than a single lap from any contemporaneous Circuit races. Since the computer won't have much of a chance to utilize their catch-up skills (if that option is enabled), you should take advantage of the middle section of the race to try and knock them into obstacles or rub them up against the track barriers.
Tip: If you spin out or otherwise lose control of your vehicle, your first task will obviously be to get your car headed in the right direction. If you're in the lead, however, you should also try to keep an eye on your opponents; if you can manage to swerve into their path, you'll be able to transfer some momentum from their vehicle to yours, giving you a bit of a boost as you begin your acceleration curve. This works best if you've already pointed yourself in the right direction, but even if you're still heading backwards, misery does love company, so try to make them wreck as well.
Knockout
In a Knockout race, there's no prize for second place, simply because there is no second place. While there are multiple cars on the track at the starting line, the car in last place will be eliminated from the race after each lap. Thus the name. Other than this little caveat, Knockout races play similarly to Circuit challenges.
Tip: Wall-grinding can be your friend. If you're alongside a car and can push them into the wall, you'll take a very moderate speed loss in comparison to them, so long as you ensure that you don't hit the wall yourself.
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