NFSU2: Hummer H2, Damage, Vids and Screenshots

[TheStig]

HUMMER H2:
Extra!!!! Extra!!!! Read all about it!!!!!
Mike's got News and he's gonna shout it!!!! =P

One of the ppl on the IGN boards posted a Game Guru interview with Brooke Burke, and, it looks like she let something slip! (Read the interview here)

I drive a Hummer in real life, so I'm kinda excited to see the Hummer in Need For Speed Underground 2.

Wahhhhh??????? More SUV's?????? Woah!!!!!!

DAMAGE:
NFS-Players.de interviewed the developers of NFSU2 and posted the interview on there site. They asked the develpors simple yes and no questions. Read the interview here

NfS-Players.de: Damage model?
Developers: Yes

Damage? Has EA finally listened to the ppl and added damage? This is too good to be true..........

VIDS:

IGN has posted some videos of NFS:U2. You can get them here.

GameSpot has posted a preview, some new videos and screenshots! Check them out here. Videos include a new trailer, an interview, and some gameplay footage from consoles.

Thanks to Seui and Skyline_man for the info.

NEWS

Gamespot received the NFSU2 demo and they have posted a description of the demo. Car Show mode looks to be one of the new modes. The proof that there is a Car show mode is:

"Our demo featured an orange marker for opponent cars that we could roll up on and challenge to a race, while purple markers represented circuit races, blue markers were included for Street X races, and a lovely yellow star was used for showcase areas."

Now we know what all those Stereos. Spinners, Closet hoods and Lambo Doors are gonna be used for. All i can say is:
SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!

NFSU2 Hands-On

Screenshots:

30 more screens have been added to the NFSU2 gallery. These screens have full FSAA enabled and they look absolutely beautiful.

View the screens here


Nfsunlimited News Reporter
~Mike
(mixed by TheStig)

[A-spec]

I have to be a IGN Insider to download the movies.

[nightrider]

You only have to be an insider to watch the video interview. The rest is FREE!!

[SuperRacer]

You can also watch the low quality windows media player versions of all the videos for free. You need to be an Insider to watch the high quality quicktime ones.

[A-spec]

I tried that, but I have to get some kind of plugin.

[nightrider]

Do you have Windows Media Player???? If not than you can get it Here

[^Sparco^]

Ok mates, joining info from different sources, now we know all the modes. Here is the list, remember it is no official and it is probably wrong!

Well-known modes:
1. Circuit
2. Drag
3. Drift

New modes
4. "Downhill" -> you have to down a hill. it is a quick event, which finish in a jump (not confirmed)
5. Outrun -> The goal is to get 300 meters ahead of the other driver. If you get 300 meters behind, you're out.
6. Showcase -> You show your racing machine to ppl. Imagine the rest (money, style...)
7. ???

Notes:
1, 2 and 3 are surely in nfsu2.
4 and 5 are taken from a Spanish site I found: Spanish version and English translation by Google
6 discovered by MikeFerr
Finally nightrider told us about the 7th game mode, but I dont remember. If he wants to tell us.....

[nightrider]

I believe the 7th one is called Streetcross mode. They mentioned it at gamespot's developer interview 2. click here
Gamespy also posted a hands-on preview here

Streetcross is a circuit match taked place in tiny closed arenas whick causes the gameplay to feel similiar to a kart racer. That's all I know about Streetcross mode right now. But there bound to give us more info soon!

[A-spec]

I got Windows Media Player 9 (I had it for a while). I also Downloaded a patch. But I show windows media player , but it won't let me play the movies.

[Skyline_man]

well, about the mode number 7, here is a quote from NFS-planet

( Additionally the present a new mode, the Street X Mode ("Street Cross" pronounced):

"The Street X mode is an entirely different beast with cars racing along tiny tracks with 30-40 second lap times. Strongly reminiscent of go kart racing and the drift racks from the original game, these races feature lots of tight turns and u-turns. The AI on these tracks have been tuned to be increasingly aggressive so that instead of cars following a line through the turns, they instead bash off of each other for a much more violent experience.)

wish this could help

[KekumRulez]

huh? what does these pics have to do with it? and three (3!) posts on a row is considered spam. Prolly a mod will delete/merge these. (with a warning)

Topics???? I don't see any useless topics!
..... Deleted.....

tnx Kekum

-TheStig

[Death Ranger]

can't wait to see that game... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

[nightrider]

That would be cool!!! Driving into indoor stadiums and circuit/drift race against others!!

[MikeFarrar]

I've added some new info. Its about damage.......I know all u ppl will be lovin it.......

Nfsunlimited News Reporter
~Mike

[Abrams]

if theres damage model i think ill not buy this game.
like i said before...imagine car hit a wall on 200mph(300km\h)...it will look like a pancake....and im sure EA will do something like they did in NFS5....car hit a wall at 300+ km/h and getting like 50-60%of hood damage.....normal car will look like cake even at 100mph.

So i really hope there will be OFF function...

[PowerSandro]

Yeahhh damage!!! finaly a realy good news! ppl, do you think it will be next to need porsche? or a better damage performance?

[Simon600]

I think damage would be great for online because there is so many panzys out there that when they come to a sharp turn they just run into it instead of slowing down and its faster to do this, by have damage any lamo that tries to do this with have his steering totaled.

PS. I perfer to slow down at turns like it would be in a real race

[nightrider]

I still hope damage will effect your cars performance to make it more realistic!

[^Sparco^]

I havent played nfs 5 Porsche. But I have to say that damage in Hot pursuit 2 was ridiculous. You hit 40 times your car and the front bumper gets like 5-10%damage lol.
Now in Underground there are so many bumpers, will EA design reallistic damages for all that?? I doubt it. The damage is only interesting if it is like real-life. If not, forgot it.

[cluchmaster]

i don't realy like haveing damage all that much, but i also don't hate games that have it, i totaly agree with Abrams, and wish that there would be an On\Off function!!!

[Abrams]

theres always a way to cheat on sharp turns.
i remeber old days when i played NFS5 and was "wall riding" on Monte Carlo 1 and 2 curcuits.
Get your car to reach high speed and before turn just hit hand brake and pull left\right....youll hit wall with your side and get max bright yellow wich means 20-30% DMG

[nightrider]

This may be a stupid question but in the interview they ask if there will be collision on/off???

[ZeroB@NG]

would be good for laggers in Multiplayer...
hate to get crashed because the lagger in front of me colides with me and than *lags* a mile forward as nothing would happend... etc

[UrQuattro]

So there's also Infiti G35 Coupe... So the car list seems to be:

Pug 206
Nissan Skyline
Nissan Sentra
Nissan 350Z
Mistubishi Evo 8
Mitshibishi GTO
Mazda RX7
Mazda RX8
Toyota Corolla (old)
Toyota Supra
Subaru Impreza WRX Sti
Honda S2000
Lexus IS300
Infinity G35 Coupe (same car as 350Z basically)
Cadillac Escalade SUV bling bling mazafaka

So there is like 16 more... I'd say there will be a Civic, Golf and Focus as well. So that's 10. Since they kept even Sentra, don't rule out the Dodge Neon SRT-4, Nissan 240SX and may be Acura Integra. Now down to 6 cars or so...
Why can't they release the stupid car list, what's the point of keeping it out? as if they are going to include a ferrari or smth and blow everybody away...

[nightrider]

I still don't see any BMW's!