hi, I feel honored that all of you care so much about the engine sounds in NFSU2. We worked very hard on a new engine sound system this year which paid off as all reactions have been very favorable, so thank you for your support!. We're very proud of this new sound system. So here's some details for the readers of this discussion-thread:
- We recorded over 40+ cars for this game. Here's a link to pictures:
http://www.nfs-planet.de/pic.php?./imag ... d/0002.jpg The picture of this car is one of the cars you hear in the PC demo.
- The PC sound folder includes a lot of car engine sounds. The names have nothing to do with the actual car, or any car used in the game, so no need to think all these cars are in the game. They're not.
- Many of you have been renaming the sound-files in the PC demo to other names. This will only give you about 1/10th of the "sound" of that car. There are 25 parts to each car engine. When you rename the .gin file you only get 1 of those 25 parts. There is no way to hear the actual engine correct, except in the final game. So buy the game, you'll like it.
- We also incorporated a new system for some of the other sounds (crashes for example). Try it out, make the car tumble around. There's over 200 crash sounds in the game.
- your questions on V8's. You'll love the way it sounds. One of the V8's we recorded was a dragster mustang. Nice and powerful stuff. It's up to you to find out for which car and upgrade it's used

You'll hear V8 idles, rev limits, accels, decels, off/on throttle, exhaust sputters etc. etc. All the details you'd want in car engines, they're all there in NFSU2. There are in total around 1000 recorded sounds for the car engines in the game.
- Some of the cars we recorded were heavy tuned up ones, some were (almost) stock. Each major engine upgrade has a different "feel" of power to the engine which is very noticable IF it was very noticable on the original car. 350z's for example sound very good already as a stock car, so the differences between stock and "super upgraded" is noticable, but maybe not as much as some others.
Hope this helps answer some of the questions.
ps: this is an unofficial personal response, meant for those writing and reading in this tread only.
-Charles Deenen