NFS Underground - Best Racer currently

After the rather weak NFS Hot Pursuit 2, now appeared the next part of the most famous racing simulation series Need for Speed. Not as usual, you go here with Ferraris, Jaguars and such luxury cars around, but with highly-tuned cars from Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc
As mentioned several times in other reviews, the play leans heavily on the films "The Fast & the Furious" and "2 Fast 2 Furious".
This is certainly a very good concept that EA has devised, since the boom in illegal street racing thanks to the two above-mentioned films so full is currently in trend and thus good sales are guaranteed.
Graphics: *****
The graphics of NFS Underground is truly a masterpiece
become. The cars are shown great and the towns through which they are heated very well gaudy billboards and lights
decorated. What at the beginning of probably the most striking are the super successful mirror effects, which can be a really hot every time to be s'Herz.
Gameplay: ****
The gameplay is also very well done. The cars can all be well controlled. Logically, affecting upgrades and various tuning options drivability of different cars. So it shows the difference between a highly-tuned Toyota Supra and a well tuned VW Golf GTI. The controls are easy to beherschen, so you can enter the same in the career mode. I play NFSU with a Microsoft SideWinder game pad, and am thrilled with the ease of control. With the keyboard I have not yet gambled, so all I can assume any position.
But probably the best thing about the gameplay is the never-before-seen sense of speed. Besipiel: your rest with a highly-tuned Toyota Supra through Chinatown ... front you see a bridge crossing which joins up ... your presses fully on the gas and ignites the nitrous oxide ... The control of the vehicle is becoming increasingly difficult due the increasing speed. The picture starts to wiggle, and from the
Boxes on your PC only come fast wind noise from the next pass Häsuern. For example, one can imagine the sense of speed. Simply incredible what EA has conjured up since.
Another big plus is the very good to NFSU guessed Underground mode. At the beginning you can buy a car factory of the existing manufacturers. By the race to drive and win, you get style points with which you bonuses such as new wheels, Auspüffe, Motorens
Such eventual available places and can unlock. So you can tune up with the time his car until it is at the forefront of the illegal street racing table.
Thanks to the many upgrades that you can unlock the mode makes absolutely addictive and fessellt a long time to hemischen PC.
However, I give the gameplay only 4 stars because my traffic has very annoyed at some Strasssen. So you go for example at 250 km / h through a district and is just ahead of his pursuers. Now no more errors may happen, otherwise the lead and the victory related would forgive ... But suddenly a car comes from the right
Heri driven, I can not avoid and make an accident. Since the victory has now become virtually impossible, I have to race again to restart -> Frustrating
What I found even more as a negative is that the cars do not have damage models. So I can unrestrained race with 250 things in a wall and had then not the smallest scratch on my car ... This is of course to each his own, but I would have liked to definitely damage model such as in NFS Porsche ...! Because this also encouraged to more cautious driving and in my opinion is also what contemporary Racing As ...
Sound: *****
At the sound, there is absolutely nothing to worry. The cars all sound awesome and get depending on the strength of tuning a better and rougher tone. Logically, sounds a works car of Honda in the game very differently
as a hochgetunter Honda.
The soundtrack has been donated to the game is also a class of its own ... While you get thundered at the races Nu Metal and rock around the ears, run while you are in the menu is well selected hip hop beats of famous performers. Among others the following bands and artists are represented in the game: Static-X, Asian Dub
Foundation, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, Mystikal, Nate Dogg. All in all, the sound is so tied together and contributes to a further big plus for the game at.
Menu: *****
Unlike FIFA 2004 in which the menu system has come so absolutely lost, EA presents at NFSU a sophisticated menu, which is really very good and easy to use. Together with the begeleitenden music and good car presentation in the selection screen receives the menu from me all 5 stars.
Finally, I can only advise you to still dringenst to buy this great game, because you otherwise really missed something great racing games in the field. The purchase is worth way also fully for people who "The Fast and the Furious" and "2Fast 2 Furious" is not so much liked and all others to define this game anyway ...
Have fun with it ... you will have guaranteed him ...