As I expected...This is what EA delivered.
User Rating: 5.4 | Need for Speed Underground 2 XBOX
Patience is a virtue. THis saying is true. The video game industry should take this into consideration. All developers including Peter I can't spell his lastname, EA(especially these bastards) Bunjie(kudos on Halo 2 but it wasn't the 10 I expected) and reflections, for killing what I expected to be the GTA killer, Driv3r. Buying this game was a mistake. It's not broken in many ways, well on XBOX Live it is, I can't seem to invite my friends into a race with me. While the lackluster online system is their, it's solid to play. It has it's moments. The games sound is fairly decent. THe soundtrack is a drag and the sound effects are semi decent. The graphics looks nice too, but with the Burnout 3 Demo on the disk, NFSU2 just looks like a turd. The blur effect is decent but doesn't happen as often as it should, the game lacks the true sense of speed. As far the games gameplay goes, it's still rather tedious in most areas. It features that annoying drift mode, and introduces a new mode called Street X. That sucks ass too. The drag mode is their, and well that is why I bought the game, to do that online. Circuit racing is a drag as usual, it feels to organised to call it street racing. All in all NFSU 2 is a decent game. It could've been better, but it's pretty much last years edition with a face lift. The only thing that should be considered new is the online play with XBOX Live.
