Features

• 20 fully customizable, licensed cars from Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru, Toyota, and more
• Perfect skills by nailing the perfect shift in drag racing and by putting you street cred on the line
• For up to four players
• Features urban street racing and high performance tuner cars
• Build the ultimate street machine by earning cash to pay for custom body kits

Reviews (231)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!The game for racing freakz!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Need for speed underground is a good racing game as well as a creative game because you can customize certain cars and you can unlock cars that already have been customized to be unlocked. I am a absolute complete racing freak and I looooooooooooove racing games but they have to look good and realistic for me to buy it or play it. I like racing movies aswell like the fast and the furious, 2 fast 2 furious and torque. The best racing games to get are need for speed games,gran turismo games, auto modellista,burnout 2 & 3 and juiced. my name is jordan josiah nicholson samuel,i'm 9 years of age but i look like i'm 12 years old,i live in london,herne hill with my mum simone and my 4-year old sister sapphire and i like rap music and mc's.
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BY JORDAN JOSIAH NICHOLSON SAMUEL

P.S:READ THIS REVIEW 5 TIMES AND MEMORISE IT IN YOUR HEAD!

Get your Need for Speed with this great title!!!!!!!!!!
Gameplay = 10
There is nothing more important than gameplay, and this games hits the mark. I found myself feeling like a street racer, and the intense gameplay added to this.This game was masterful in the gameplay department.
Graphics = 10
There was a sense of speed in the game, and the cars and the city looked great. Every track was fun and the look was credible. Graphics rate a 10.
Fun Factor = 10
This was just a fun game. Serious at times because I love to win!It was a super fun game.
Storyline = 10
The storyline was just enough, and not over done.It let you start out with a no nothing car, trying to build you car and your street cred.You got reputation points, and with every win you gained in add ons for your ride.
Replay value =10
You could go on and onabout this title. Replay value is solid for you money.

Editorial Review

Reviews (4)

A good start for a good franchise.
In my eyes, this (as well as NFS2) is one of the best racing games ever made. At least, one that kept me playing for a long time. Graphics are only so-so by today's standards, but very well acceptable, still. Also, it will probably not run on your Pentium 4/Windows XP system, so dig out an old Pentium to play. DosBox might work too (dosbox.sf.net), but I haven't tested it (yet).

Anyway, bottom line - a classic racing game, everyone who loves NFS (or racing games in general) should play this.

Still one of the best...
While the Gran Turismo series is the best racing game/sim out there, Need For Speed(the first one only) still has the best inside car view.Most other games, graphically speaking, are much more refined than NFS, but only NFS has a display of the car's dashboard when playing in first person view.Each car's dashboard and instrument binnacle is accurately depicted, including speedometers and tachometers that display according to the functions of the car the player is driving.Amazing, how have game manufacturers not been able to recreate this since NFS first appeared?I lost my copy of this game and am now trying to find it, since all my other games don't have the accurate dash display.I miss this game...The driving dynamics and physics of this game are still one of the best, rating close to, if not equal to the Gran Turismo series.While the graphics may be crude (I haven't played this game in about ten years, but can only imagine what they would look like now), the gameplay is excellent.Too bad there aren't more cars (I can only recall about 5 or 6) and there is only one European car (Porsche 911).I wish someone would recreate the element of a realistic dashboard in games now.I can't think of any, can anyone else?Hopefully Gran Turismo 4 will have this element.This game is still one of my favorites, due to this feature.

Features

• High-performance cars and open-road racing
• Beautifully rendered scenery
• Choose from a variety of high-performance machines
• Six unique tracks
• Split-screen two-player racing

Reviews (5)

Someone was drunk while designing this one....
As Need For Speed games go, I must say....this is the poorest installment.
I'm a racing game fanatic, and have always been a fan of the Need For Speed series, but this one is mightily flawed.
The graphics are average at best, but the videos and information on each of the cars was superb. The graphics and frame rate take a major hit when you go really fast, and actually, the cars at times don't even feel like they're on the ground when driving.
The cars control just okay....but on the more difficult tracks, it is really hard to keep up with the leaders of the pack because it isn't really that easy to take hard turns and hairpins all perfectly like the computer always does.
Being able to drive a Ford GT90 and my dream car, the Jaguar XJ220, is what made me buy this game, but then being able to use them in the game made me really wonder if they should even be dream cars.
Look to Gran Turismo 2 if you want a better selection of excotic cars that are actually controllable.
The sounds of the game are just so-so....all the cars seemingly sound alike when accelerating....and you'll get used to the grating metal sound of nailing walls at high speeds....
The best aspect of this game is the music, quite possibly the best of the NFS series, but when you buy a racing game for the music....that's pretty pathetic.

If you're a fan of the NFS series and HAVE to have every NFS out there, sure, pick this one up for a very cheap price. It's not worth more than 4 or 5 bucks nowadays, so don't pay any more than that.

Die-hard racing fans? Look elsewhere.

Overall, 5 out of 10.

one of the best PS1 games
the graphics used to look great but now I've played PS2 and I think they look kind of bad but this is one of the best playstation games out there use the code to get the ford indigo its the best car

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Reviews (10)

Most fun I had in a racing game
At first there was High Stakes, which I loved, but now I beated all the tournaments and special events with gold trophies, I was a little bored out. When I first bought V-Rally 2, it was just a waste of time and money, I was playing High Stakes instead and V-Rally 2 was just collecting dust. Then I tried it again, this time it was much different, it was much more fun than I thought. I tried all modes, arcade, championship,etc. and when I was racing with a friend, it was the most fun I had in a racing game! The game is pretty tight! Recommend to all you racing fans out there. EA does a wonderful job with it's racing sims!

Now this is cool racing !
When I first started playing this, I was bothered by the tendancy of the car to flip whenever hitting angled terrain. Once I learned to drivehowever, this game hit the spot for my racing hunger. I love racing, Ican't get enough of it on PC or PSX, and this is #1 for PSX for me (TreadMarks is my PC fave right now). With the wide selection of cars and tracks,this can't be beat for a wide flavor of racing. On top of the racingvariety, there are the types of gameplay. You can go arcade for that"I just need a racing fix" feeling, or play Tournament,head-to-head, or World Champion. World Championship has the best depth asyou actually have to perform repairs on your car, and you pay for thoserepairs with racing minutes, which effect your world ranking.

This gameis what PSX is all about.

So close to what's-his-name it's uncanny
If you're looking for a rally racing experience on PSX, you've got many choices, but the top 2 are definitely Colin McRae Rally (from Sony) andthis, V-Rally 2 from EA.My advice, don't get both, as it is absolutelybizarre how many similarities there are between the titles.I won't gointo detail, but it's obvious that the 2 titles knew of each other'sexistence.

The graphics are bigger and bolder in VR2, and the action isfaster.You will actually see other cars on the track and race them rim torim, unlike CMR where racing is done strictly by stage, without ever seeingother cars on the road.VR2 is more difficult, though not impossible.AndVR2 has one feature that seperates it from CRM: a track creator.Gettingbored with the same old tracks?Just make your own.Sorta takes one backto Excitebike on 8-bit NES.CRM seems to be more of a simulation, anddeeper than VR2, with many things to learn, in addition to someGran-Turismo-esque "license tests".

Editorial Review

Few racing games for the PlayStation can approach Need forSpeed III: Hot Pursuit in terms of car selection, track layout, andsheer fun. Combine the game's quality with the fact that it was addedto the PlayStation's bargain Greatest Hits collection, and youhave a title that deserves to be in the library of any racing fan.

Hot Pursuit gets its name from our favorite mode of gameplay, inwhich players try to exceed the reach of the long arm of the law bygreatly exceeding the speed limit. The ultimate goal is to beat youropponent to the finish line, but usually it's hard enough just dodgingoncoming traffic, swerving around police roadblocks (complete withspike strips), and trying to keep pursuit vehicles from slamming youoff the road. It's nearly as fun to watch replays as it is to race, andwe've only discussed one of the game's five types of play. Thisdiverse, fast-paced racer is definitely a keeper. --T. ByrlBaker

Pros:

• Nearly perfect arcade racing action
• Nice graphics, special effects, and sounds

• Some modes of play are incredibly difficult
• Can't play as the police

Editorial Review

The Need for Speed series is already established as oneof the best racing game series on the PlayStation. Need for Speed:High Stakes continues the tradition in fine style by adding severalnew elements to the gameplay, and offering a wide variety of tracks andcars.

Where the previous game in the series had you running from the law,this one has you racing for pink slips. Sure, you can still playcops and robbers (this time even playing the role of John Q. Law),but the real fun in this game comes from racing to win so that you canbuy a better car. Once equipped with faster wheels, you can hook upwith a friend to race for titles in the two-player mode.

High Stakes boasts the best graphics in the series, but theycome at a price: slowdown. All too frequently, we found ourselveshitting a wall or an opponent's vehicle because the game stuttered aswe drove into a graphics-intensive portion of the track. Good visualsare nice, but they should never come at the expense of gameplay. Still,when else will you get a chance to blow away a buddy's shiny newMcLaren F1 in your "lowly" Corvette? --T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

• Fun tracks and a variety of high-performance vehicles
• Playing as the cops can be fun
• Excellent sound effects

• Suffers from slowdown too often

Editorial Review

It's obvious that the developers of Need for Speed: PorscheUnleashed put a lot of research into their creation. There's enoughinformation about the legendary series of Porsche automobiles to satisfyany car aficionado, and this game contains tons of models--from late1940s cars to recent 2000 models--from this marquee brand.

Despite concerns that the presence of a single car brand would result ina lack of variety among racing options, Need for Speed: PorscheUnleashed does offer an impressive amount of diversity. Not allPorches are created alike, and the old 356 handles much differently thana newer 911.Thus, there is much potential in this all-Porscheoffering.

Unfortunately, while this game has received strong critical acclaim inits PC incarnation, the PlayStation conversion contains some problems.For example, the track graphics are a bit muddy, and the cars appearfuzzier in this game. Worse still, the physics model for driving is wayoff. Surprisingly, older titles in the Need for Speed series lookand play better than this. Unless you are a Porsche nut, steer clear ofthis one. --T. Byrl Baker

Pros:

• Great collection of Porche facts and memorabilia
• Models tons of Porches, from 1948 models to modern supercars

• Bland graphics, especially on the tracks
• Edges of the tracks are ill defined