It wasn’t intended to be explored outside of racing – and the free roam mod that enables this reveals how deceptively small it actually is.īut sequels have to be bigger, so Olympic City was replaced with Bayview, which could be explored freely. Need for Speed: Underground’s setting of Olympic City had been designed so that the tracks would connect with each other in order to create a single, cohesive environment for the game.
The most obvious starting point was by going open world. So confident they were that the game would be a hit, they decided to give themselves a head start on improving where it fell short by being even more ambitious than the first time around. That same month, while preparation for Need for Speed: Underground’s release was still underway, EA began development on Need for Speed: Underground 2. It was not the best racing game of its generation, but it still smoked its rivals every time when it came to presentation. It was to be a watershed moment for racing games, putting just as much emphasis on driving cars as on customizing them with body kits and vinyls. In July 2003, as British gamers were playing Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, EyeToy: Play and Pokémon Ruby Version, EA Games were preparing for the launch of Need for Speed: Underground that November. In Carbon and Most Wanted there is a better script available that works automatically.Ħ.Need for Speed: Underground 2 (EA, PlayStation 2, 2004)
In the game's options menu you can easily customize it for yourself. IMPORTANT:ĭisable Light Glow or Light Trails to fix bright pixels.Īs for the controls, I thought it was stored in memcards, but it saves in the "save" directory. The game hangs on the black screen for about a minute, patiently wait. Add launch command: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”dinput8=n,b” %command% I recommend the latest ProtonGE, as there is a problem with anisotropic filtering on the regular one. In Steam Deck Gaming mode, find NFS_Underground 2.exe in the library under non-steam games. Add NFS_Underground 2.exe as non-steam game.