BEST Need for Speed Ever Made! NFSU2 Review

Need for Speed Unbound is Good, but will NEVER Be as GREAT as NFS Underground 2! Midnight Club 3 is still better tho, Not Soz. RIDERS OF THE STORM...UHH, I forget the rest. But you know what I never forget? HOUSE REAL BIG. CARS REAL BIG, BELLY REAL BIG, EVERYTHING REAL BIG, RIMS REAL BIG, POCKETS REAL BIG, RINGS REAL BIG, LEMME TELL YA HOW TO LIVE. LIKE THAT, BUY THAT, 24's RIDE THAT, LADIES, GENTLEMEN, GANGASTAS, PIMPS, SNITCHES, HOES, STUNNAS, SHINERS, I'M RICH BIATCH, I'M A REAL BIG TIMER.

By the way, I'm not googling that each time I meme that song. I genuinely have it permanently etched into my soul and know it's lyrics in it's entirety at all times, always accessible, at the front of my mind.

0:00 - HOUSE REAL BIG...ERR I MEAN RIDERS OF THE STORM
0:45 - Story
1:40 - Map
7:00 - Cars & Handling
12:38 - Progression & Gameplay
15:17 - PLZ FORGIVE ME FOR I HAVE SINNED
22:28 - MORD FUSTANG
24:00 - Difficulty
28:00 - SINGING TO THE SKY!
30:00 - Just watch the rest plz ok thx bye.

Music Used
Singing to The Sky! - Sora Ni Utaeba Cover

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[zaczane]

The thing that dates this game the most.
The Cingular Wireless Symbol

[gunman]

One underappreciated feature in UG2 is the colored atmosphere. Different places have different lighting so that you can immediately know where you are when you come back to the game after a while.

[tudorvoicu]

One thing that I personally really miss in NFS games are shortcuts, they used to be in older games but EA decided to not make them anymore, and they are one of the things that made the races so great.

[Pacxx]

The fact that after you've finished the campaign, you were rewarded with ONE bodykit for ONE car only, made that bodykit feel so special. Same thing goes for 5 car slots. I'm pretty sure though, if we had these things in today's NFS games, people would probably hate it

[fiercelypolygons]

Good to see more people appreciating U2. Alot the fans just say: "mOSt wAntEd 2005" yeah that's a great game and all, but U2's vibes were just something else with the great alive city and the import culture.

[UNSCPilot]

This was one of the reasons the 350z was my favorite car. Getting into Rachel's Z for the first time and thinking a car could look that cool made me want it more than DK's Toyko Drift car. And when I finally got mine in 2021, the first thing I did as I drove off in it was paired my bluetooth to it and played Riders on the Storm on the ferry trip back over Puget Sound. Cruising through the Emerald City at night makes me feel like I'm just in irl NFSUG2. To this day, this game is one I still revisit occasionally just for the atmosphere of Bayview and fun it is to play.

[NeonR]

Baded became a poet playing through ug2 with all these rhymes.

[gawkzilla]

2000s kids will never know the feeling of your cousin or friend challenging you to a race in NFSU2 and showing up to your house with a memory card. I remember the race being so even and intense, i choked and hit incoming traffic meters away from the finish line. I can never forget this moment because even though i lost, it will probably be the closest thing to living that experience again in any Racing game.

[lonelydriver]

This is definitely one of the most influential games of our generation.

[diablow]

Objectively, this was the pinnacle of NFS series. Back in 2005, I used to spam-play that game on my PS2 (and later on PC)... this was the game which not only encouraged you to rice the hell out of your vehicle, but even to this day, is very much enjoyable thanks to unique mods that no other installment got it. Trunk audio, for one! 7-year-old me would definitely spam it with those LCD screens back then 😂

[RSans]

I think something that we didn't understand about this game, the first NFS Underground, Most Wanted and Carbon is that the career mode isn't meant to make your dream car or trade cars, the car modifier in the main menu is meant for that. Also RIP Cingular Wireless

[xzraiderzx]

4:02 Shakespeare would be proud with bars like this
edit: the entire video is filled with slick rhymes lol

[markvicferrer]

My favourite were the long races in the Underground Racing League. It felt like a pure race as far as an arcade racer is concerned. I managed to tune my Skyline's drag racing setup to be 20kph faster than any other car & would never overheat.
Once you hit level 10 for visual upgrades, you can revert back to make your car look normal.

[lordsomniferous]

This video is poetic. Thank you for this great rhyme about my favorite racing game. There is still no other racing game mechanics that i like as much as NFS Underground 2.

[Mr.Midnight]

You should rank all of the classic NFS games. From The Need for Speed to Undercover.

[apophisstr]

U2 is the prime example of great aesthetics is way more important than having more polygons and pixels on your screen.

[rikhil]

Just finished the game myself, loved most of it (apart from the suv parts). Beautiful environment and the way that it is always night makes it perfect.

[tomedwards]

The drag races in that game were some of my favorite races in any game. Hitting a perfect shift and sling shotting your opponent at the very end was the most satisfying thing ever.

[therealwetwizard]

Jesus, 20:30 those new NFS' really got you stuck in " I'd rather break my back, then break at a corner, drift to win lets goo baby. Mode"

I really enjoyed this review video (a lot more then the list videos too bad they get all the views) the rhyming was really funny. You should have quickly shown the pc version because they did a great job with the lighting.

I remember playing as a kid with absolutely no style sense, just picking the cosmetic with the biggest number, and I was blown away with my family and uncles about how much better there cars looked. funnily enough I think it changed the way I looked at cars, and I started to appreciate the art gone into them.

[JackStavris]

I always had an SUV as my second car which was my rice mule as well as it also covered the extra SUV-only events that show up on the map for 100% completion. Killed two birds with one stone and once I started playing like that I never got stuck with zero races on the map.