The Debut of "The Need For Speed" in 1996 really impacted all the hardcore racers in the world. For its time it really was a great arcade style racing sim. EA continued to release more games and they have created the "Need for Speed Franchise". In 2003 EA released Need For Speed : Underground which brought the world into a new type of racing genre, Street Racing. Need For Speed : Underground was the biggest of the NFS series and EA is gonna keep them comin' by releasing Need For Speed : Underground 2!!
Derek dela Fuente Spoke with Need For Speed : Underground 2 Associate Producer - Scott Neilson. Scott has let more info out of the bag on this upcoming game and, from what i'm hearing it appears to be an awesome game!
Free Roam: As you all know, the main part of NFSU2 is Free Roaming. You drive around looking for races instead of plain old "selecting them from the menu" you get to choose what you want to do and you get to choose it in style!!
Scott has metioned that there will be a lot of stuff in NFSU2 that will keep you wanting to explore the "open" environment.
He has not told us yet but we all know if they keep it secret, it must be good!!
Cops: Sadly there will be no cops in NFSU2. Scott has said that Police is the the main focus of the Hot Pursuit Farnchise, not the Underground Franchise.The Underground Franchise is more about exploration, tuning, racing and customisation of your car.
Visual Efects: The visual effects in NFSU blew us all away. Options such as "Motion Blur" and 'Light Trails" gave us an awesome sensation of speed. In NFSU2 they will be adding specials feels/moods for each different area of the world. So if you decide to race in a industrial type zone you'll get the feel of being in an industrial type zone.
Game Modes: NFSU Feature 4 modes that you could race in. Dift, Drag, Sprint and Circuit. NFSU2 features 7. We only know of three, Drift, Drag and Circuit. This leaves 4 "unknown" race types that won't be shown to the public. Also, there will be much more freedom so racers can finish the game without doing several of the game types even once!
More In-Depth Tuning: Players can now modfy specific parts on there car so that the car fits them. EA have done this to the point that, a hardcore racer can play the game and be able to squeeze that little bit of extra juice out of each part, and that a playere who has never played a racing game in his life can just pick up the game, add the parts and race!
What Cars? : EA has not told us the car list for NFSU2 but they have mentioned something very interesting. Quote:"We’ll be going back in time to bring back a couple of older models and we’ll also be looking into the future for a few cars we think will be big on the scene in the next year or so." Does this mean they will have muscle cars for all those "muscle fans" or future cars that haven't even been released yet? Only time will tell.....
NFSU 2 looks to be a good game. NFSU was one of the best games in 2003 and NFSU2 promises to dominate over all in 2004!!
Nfsunlimited News Reporter
~Mike
Source : TotalVideoGames
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Hmm, its starting too sound like EA's suit's have finaly pulled their proverbial 'head out of their butt' and letting their developers finaly have the freedom of not only think of new idea's but actualy imploment them. The real question is can they do all this in time without it looking and feeling slapped together... Their release deadline yet again has me expecting the usual 'EA flaws'.
Only time will tell if NFSU2 is doomed to become 'patch bait'.
Only time will tell if NFSU2 is doomed to become 'patch bait'.
