Underground 2 Demo Review

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Underground 2 Demo Review

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I have recently recieved the PS2 demo for NFS: Underground 2. I have posted somewhat of a review in the general discussion forum. Or you can click here. Here is a peek at it:
Oh gosh I forget to tell you about the car you drive! Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 8. The guages they have are much more realistic looking than in Underground 1. Unfortunately you are fairly limited as to what you can do with the car in the demo. You drive to a body shop and pick between 2 premade cars, at the paint shop you have about 5 gloss and 3 metallic paints, and at the car dealership you can trade in for two other Evo's. The mechanic shop is closed in the demo. However, I found the Evo to be an awsome car in the game. The sounds are a bit more realistic, you even get a rev limiter(which is fun to mess with). The camera angles/views are the same as Underground 1, except they have an added roof camera! This obviously just allows you to see the hood of your car and what not.
It is rather lengthy but I tried to describe as much as possible. I'm also answering any questions that people might have. Please read the entire review first before asking a question. So far 4 questions have been asked about things I didn't initially include. There are two edited spots at the bottom of the review with the questions as well as brief paragraphs that hopefully answer the users questions.

We will be posting more information as it becomes available.
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great news Speak, but can u tell me about the evo, its performance.
is the nitrous rechargable?
driving style: is it better than NFSU1 or the same?
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Same demo should get to me sometime soon and I'm going to publish a few videos from the game, so hang on tight!
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iam waitin for that Bobyx, by the way the new look of the site is gr8, and the most important thing i like now that iam Turbo Charged :)
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Post by Abrams »

Ok. Only 1 question
DAMAGE?
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Sp3aK wrote:Hmmm, I guess one of the big things that people already knew was about damage mode. Unfortunately that option was greyed out so I didn't have a chance to see what that was all about
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so that meens we will not have damage in demo mode... but in full game.... oh why are they doing so.... i cant wait to get full game...
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thats weird exonn, i think the damge model will be stupid and because of this they didnt put in the demo, maybe they r afraid people may not buy the full game :), or maybe the damage model is great and they dont want to show it in the demo to make us buy the full product.
anyway, i dont like this...((DAMAGE IS OPTIONAL))...
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like in nfsug1 demo there was no blur efect and crowd... but they are cool so i gess damage will be cool and the dont wana show us all what they have to push as to buy nfsug2 ;)
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Yep that's EA save the best for last.
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It sounds cool, can't wait for the public release of the pc demo, Maybe they could have atleast one race for each mode though, or for most of the modes, to keep us yearning for the full game, again it sounds very cool.
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I think the demo for the pc is coming out sometime in early september while the ps2's is coming out in late august! I heard it in one interview but I guess im just too lazy to go searching for the right one!
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Well with a November release scheduled, my "contact" at EA said that it should follow the same schedule as with Underground one with a PC demo release about a month before game release. So it could be as late as October.
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Damm, awell then i'll have to play the PS2 demo first for awile.
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sp3ak, what about soundtrack in game? is the stile similar to nfsug1?

Booya! As far as I know the soundtrack will be a similar styling. Rock/Rap mix of sorts. I drive with music OFF, so I didn't even listen to the 3 tracks they had in the demo. -Sp3aK
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is this game for PC and PS2? Because from the screenies i've seen it looks to be only PS2...
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The game will come out for all platforms. This demo is for PS2 only right now.
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Yeah that sux i rather had the PC demo. So you guys can upload it for everybody to test.
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i think the EA will give us demo for pc too but the quastion is when?
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I think somewhere near fall or so that the demo for the PC will come out
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I am bored of this shiznit, why dont they announce the demo of the pc right now?,why we must wait until fall if we can get it now in summer?
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Post by ^Sparco^ »

The game is not finished yet!! LOL. They have to decide the 4 last cars, and finish the game map.
We all want to travel in time, but it is no possible. Enjoy the summer ;)
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ok :) , ill try :wink:
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I said this in another thread but I forget where.

My contact at EA said that Underground2 should follow the same schedule as the first game. Thus the PC demo will be out about a month before the game itself is released. If they have a November release planned, then we should see it at the end of September or the beginning of October.

But it's all speculation at this point.
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I'm seriously excited about UG2. The GFX look nice and i like the how they actually make it so that you ARE driving a street with option of spinners, closet hoods, and scissor doors(which my aunt is putting on my civic for me:) ). But most of all i like for its Free Roam Driving...
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