Need for Speed Underground

 Xbox
User Score
8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 61 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 61
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 61
  3. Negative: 9 out of 61
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  1. Richard
    Dec 16, 2003
    4
    What happened here!!!!! DONT BELIEVE THIS CRUD, the game runs crap on the xbox, on a pc it is fantastic but somehow they managed to really screw this up forgetting to use any of the xbox features to keep it looking good over the porting from PS2. So what you get are points in the game where the frame rate drops to 4-5 FPS, and extremely poor jagged edges. Don't believe me? Waste your What happened here!!!!! DONT BELIEVE THIS CRUD, the game runs crap on the xbox, on a pc it is fantastic but somehow they managed to really screw this up forgetting to use any of the xbox features to keep it looking good over the porting from PS2. So what you get are points in the game where the frame rate drops to 4-5 FPS, and extremely poor jagged edges. Don't believe me? Waste your money then. Or better still buy a PS2 or PC to play it on to at lest do this game the justice it deserves. You have been warned!… Expand
  2. Broyax
    May 21, 2020
    0
    Need For Speed sombre dans la jackouillerie avec ce virage délibérément pris vers le public des Jackys et Kévins à tendance Jacky (touch) et qui se complaît dans le caniveau du tuning à gogols et des jajas bling-bling en-veux-tu, en-voilà : alors, profite, c'est les soldes sur les cerveaux à moins de 10 neurones pour tout faire (acheter un néon, faire un donut et finir dans le mur ...!).Need For Speed sombre dans la jackouillerie avec ce virage délibérément pris vers le public des Jackys et Kévins à tendance Jacky (touch) et qui se complaît dans le caniveau du tuning à gogols et des jajas bling-bling en-veux-tu, en-voilà : alors, profite, c'est les soldes sur les cerveaux à moins de 10 neurones pour tout faire (acheter un néon, faire un donut et finir dans le mur ...!).

    Dans ce sous-sol très néfaste et fastidieux du jeu de bagnoles résolument ridicule (et avec un aplomb sidérant dans la beauferie de tous les instants) Machin Underground reste aussi au ras des pâquerettes côté "con-duite" (plus con que duite et en plus très enduite d'erreurs) avec un con-portement aberrant, des collisions hallucinées et une imprécision permanente faite de temps de latence répétés.

    A ce merdier déjà peu ragoutant, on doit ajouter que tout cela est servi dans une soupe aux pixels assez épouvantable (j'ai cru devenir aveugle) saupoudrée de saccades et/ou de nombreux ralentissements ! et pourtant, ce sont des courses avec seulement... 4 voitures ! putain, EA, sans déconner...

    Difficile et délicat dans ces conditions exécrables de finir premier... alors il faut recommencer et recommencer encore... on préfère néttement nourrir la poubelle qui a faim d'étrons vidéo-pas-ludiques dans ce genre-là !    … Expand
  3. Devil'sAdvocate
    Dec 4, 2003
    2
    I don't know what drugs you guys are all on rating this game so high. I've seen playstation 1 games with higher res textures and less jagged edges. Add the choppy frame rates, boring tracks, and crap physics and this rates as the worst so far in the Need 4 Speed series. Get Midnight Club 2 or Burnout 2 instead. Better yet but PGR 2 and see what the XBOX can really do.
  4. GlennL.
    Nov 20, 2003
    0
    N00B game! PGRII is far the best street racers on xbox.
  5. DarinM.
    Apr 25, 2004
    1
    I have to agree with Richard and Devils Advocate, this game on xbox at least is a bloody disgrace. The frame rate is absolutely shocking with glitches all over the place and makes the game totally unplayable.I challenge anybody to dispute otherwise.Do not buy this game, you have been warned!!!!
  6. DumbestFknGame
    May 29, 2017
    0
    Dumbest **** game ever. I play EASY mode for a reason because I want to **** WIN! Easy mode is so **** hard to win like wtf is easy mode an option for!?

Awards & Rankings

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#35 Best Xbox Game of 2003
14
#14 Most Discussed Xbox Game of 2003
43
#43 Most Shared Xbox Game of 2003

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Xbox Nation Magazine
    90
    The game's incredible sense of speed, seat-of-your-soild-trousers physics, and overall production polish is second to none on Xbox. [Dec/Jan 2004, p.81]
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  2. GMR Magazine
    90
    Combining the reckless, breakneck speed and high-impact collisions of Burnout with the neon-tipped street culture of Fast and the Furious (and, more specifically, Midnight Club II), Underground is the new definition of white-knuckle.
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  3. Gamestyle
    80
    A competent racer with stacks of available customisation and stacks of replay value, even without any online features. The multiplayer is solid, there’s a lot to do in single player, and you'll feel totally fashionable playing it.
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