This game is a mix of ups and downs; but anyway it keeps enjoyable to the end, but no farther.
The game is very choppy, a bad port; it doesn't make the game unenjoyable, but it certainly makes it not cool to show it to your friends; even the videos are messed up, since you can watch the different verticals lines that were made to make better the video compression.
The game has a story; you start the game watching some videos that introduce you to the game. You're new to a gang, and you have to take control of the city; but as you're doing this, there are a lot of other racers that are doing the same.
*Possible Spoilers*
How do you do this?, you can go to any "event" by choosing it in the world map menu. The world map menu will show you what areas are conquered by your team, and what areas are owned by other teams. You have to battle (in races of course) to gain control of portions of the city.
*End of Possible Spoilers*
There's also a garage, or how it is called in the game, a "safe house"; where you do what you usually do in a Need For Seep game; tuning up your car, improving your engine, tires and other stuff. Sincerely this part of the game seems not well finished; because I don't see as many upgrades as I used to see in the first Need For Speed Underground.
Now let's see the graphics department. Graphics are nice but not crisp; cars look good but not great, and I don't think are limitations of the Game Cube because there are better looking games that push farther the Game Cube (like True Crime Streets of LA).
The game also gets choppy when you're racing, it's nothing of other worlds, but you'll notice it often, and you won't like to show it to your friends, cause it won't be the best piece to show.
Anyway the game style is great, it looks great, the videos are great and the cameras do their job very good. Even the actors for the first time in a Need For Speed game make well their jobs. Even being choppy, this game won't dissapoint YOU in the graphics department.
The Sounds department also fails; just look the punctuation I gave it. It makes the job, but there's something... the sound is not as inmersive (again I take the first Need For Speed Underground), the sound of the cars are not that strong and powerfuls as they used to be, now they sound like a car of a video game, not like if you're driving the real thing. And the music is a really bad selection, that won't make you enjoy the races more than the normal thing.
Controls are nice, as they use to be.
The game, with all of its flaws keeps being enjoyable, it's a good average game that you can pick up now (at the moment I'm writing) at 20 bucks. 20 dollars is a good price for this game, and if you don't have a Wii yet, you could try this game, it won't let you down for spending 20 dollars.