Need For Speed Underground 3

[thunderbug]

I dont know why EA Games wont make this game. 2 was the best selling and by many considered to be the best Need for Speed ever. This coupled with the mediocrity of Need for Speed games that have followed Underground 2 ( Shift is an exception ) surely points to the need for a 3rd installment of the Underground series.

I know NFSU 1/2 were cashing in on the whole Fast n Furious street racing boom craze around that time. But this wasnt what made the game great.

The scene for the game while not totally realistic is more believable than the latest ones in which the tuner/boy racer/ricer cars from Underground have been replaced with Ferrari and Lamborghini :O i mean im 23, can i afford a Lamborghini no, can i afford a Skyline yes i have one.

So firstly the premise of Underground is more believable than the later street racing NFS games.

2nd the amount of customization in Underground 2 was mind blowing, i raced online a lot and never once did i see a car that looked anything like mine even when it was the same car :O, this let people feel individual and unique as opposed to lining up on the start line with everyone in the identical car.

3rd the nice amount of race modes, drag being my fave. They gave a variety in the experience as opposed to laps of the same circuit over and over.

4th nice tuning options, i was surprised at how much setup you could do to your car, not Gran Turismo levels but enough to allow you to make your car behave differently. It was easy to do and effective. A more in depth version would be nice for the 3rd game but the options NFSU 2 has were nothing to laugh at.

To conlude, dont get me wrong something i would like added or changes, more car for example especially some muscle cars to give a faster/worse cornering vs slower but more agile slant. I would like more tuning options, the ammount of body mods in NFSU2 was fine and similar or more levels would be great.

Overall though i just think racing around a city in a super car is impossible to relate too, but having a race down the duel carriageway in a 200sx, Imprezza, Focus, 106, Tiburon etc etc is something i bet every NFS player has done. I mean u only have too look at the town center where i live to see that happening lol.

TLDR - Give us Need for Speed underground 3 or we will eat the pet turtle from the EA offices.

 

[TephlonPrice]

This whole thread is EXACTLY what I've wanted from EA for the longest. Plenty of cars, plenty of tuning, plenty of customization with a thumping soundtrack behind it. Allow for custom soundtracks on ALL platforms (cruising to some J Dilla shit? Fuck yea) with split-screen, LAN, & online MP & EA could actually regain some respect.

Racing games is a slow market these days; EA has the chance to take hold of it. And the best part is: it wouldn't even cost much for them to it, considering how much they'll put into BF4 (and wonder why no one bought it). And I know people will actually buy the damn thing!

And notice to EA here:

EA, quit using your Frostbite 3 engine to jack off your ability to make shit brown & gray in greater detail. Stop trying to compete with Call of Duty, knowing full well you can't. Quit trying to put garbage DRM & always-online bullshit into games that don't need it. Put some actual money into NFS: Underground 3, a game that I KNOW will actually sell instead of Battlefield: Toilet Bowl After 50 Suicide Wings Edition & you might actually have a chance here. I'd rather see a baby blue Nissan Skyline R34 model with a wide-body aero kit, GReddy mufflers & a Rainbow Dash vinyls all over against some Civics instead of Call of Battlefield: Medal of Warfare for the 9000th time.

 

[RaginDrage]

I agree.

Underground was a great series to pick up and play. If EA is the money grubbing evil monster everyone loves to portray them as, then they would at least continue one of their more profitable Need for Speed games (minus the addition of obligatory DLC of course).

I might be wrong for always assuming Underground was the most profitable of the bunch...but i'm yet to see a single NFS game announcement without a brigade of players crashing in and demanding another Underground and downplaying any additional features the newest one will have.

Heart pounding cinematic police chases are fun and all...but sometimes I rather create a ridiculous looking car and free roam the city at my heart's content.

 

[thunderbug]

This whole thread is EXACTLY what I've wanted from EA for the longest. Plenty of cars, plenty of tuning, plenty of customization with a thumping soundtrack behind it. Allow for custom soundtracks on ALL platforms (cruising to some J Dilla shit? Fuck yea) with split-screen, LAN, & online MP & EA could actually regain some respect.

Racing games is a slow market these days; EA has the chance to take hold of it. And the best part is: it wouldn't even cost much for them to it, considering how much they'll put into BF4 (and wonder why no one bought it). And I know people will actually buy the damn thing!

And notice to EA here:

EA, quit using your Frostbite 3 engine to jack off your ability to make shit brown & gray in greater detail. Stop trying to compete with Call of Duty, knowing full well you can't. Quit trying to put garbage DRM & always-online bullshit into games that don't need it. Put some actual money into NFS: Underground 3, a game that I KNOW will actually sell instead of Battlefield: Toilet Bowl After 50 Suicide Wings Edition & you might actually have a chance here. I'd rather see a baby blue Nissan Skyline R34 model with a wide-body aero kit, GReddy mufflers & a Rainbow Dash vinyls all over against some Civics instead of Call of Battlefield: Medal of Warfare for the 9000th time.

:O i cant believe i forgot the soundtrack, i feel ashamed.

 

[BrotherRool]

The Need for Speed franchise has been undergoing an identity crisis for a long time now (made worse by the Burnout developers taking everything over now) and this thread is just one fraction of that problem. You love Need for Speed: Underground, many other people love Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005). You liked shift, a ton more people were more confused by it.

We've got maybe 3-4 different types of people looking for radically different things in the franchise and it's been shifting bewildered between one and the other for years now and every time they change their mind it intensifies the problem. So they listen to this post and go back to an Underground style game, now all the new people who bought Most Wanted (2) don't understand why the game they liked isn't being made and write a post about how it should get back to it's glory days when Need for Speed was about battling it out with the cops.

They need to pick something and stick with it now. After Shift, Undercover and Most Wanted (2) all being reinventions there is absolutely no optimal solution for them anymore. They need to rebuild a brand identity that people understand and to do that they need to make more than one game of the same type in a row. The direction almost isn't important, whats important is that there is a direction

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I want a new Underground style game with the driving physics of the first Need for Speed Shift (The second one sucked handling wise). That would be the best racing game ever.

 

[SSJBlastoise]

I'm with you on this one. The customisation was the best in this game and I haven't really played any racing game that gets close (maybe Carbon just because you could create custom rims and stuff or Midnight club LA). I just don't like not being able to change the look of my car. By this I mean the Ferraris and Mercs can only have their rims changed which is pretty boring, I liked being able to put hood and roof scoops on my car. It's the main reason which I almost always use tuner cars in the newer games like Forza (i know it's not NFS but I'm not interest in the whole police thing) because they at least have some body customisation.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

The second game had Snoop Dog do a collaboration with The Doors. Who would have ever seen a Snoop Dog cover of Riders on the Storm?

I love the second game, especially the perpetual nighttime cityscape. Street racing on the freeway against other cars was a great addition.

 

[Weaver]

Underground and Underground 2 were fantastic games. I really enjoyed the detailed level of customization, it was really fun to modify your cars in that game.

I also really liked Most Wanted, but I was very disappointed in how trimmed down the customization options were. The police chases were fun though.

As an aside, I don't want to sound like an old man, but street racing is dangerous and having the NSF games inspire you to do it does nothing but support the "gaming is a dangerous influence on our youth" image that the media has. If you want to race, take it to a track.

 

[AD-Stu]

The original Most Wanted was my personal favourite in the series. If it had've had drift races as well it would've been perfect. But I'd absolutely play an Underground 3... if it were done right. And our biggest problem right now is that if they did it, EA would get Criterion to make the game, and Criterion don't know squat about making NFS games.

 

[devotedsniper]

The nfs undergrounds and the original Most Wanted were the best NFS games i've played, the others have all sort of been Meh, they aren't bad but they aren't good.

My biggest disappointment was Most Wanted 2, it just wasn't the same.

 

[Bertylicious]

The Most Wanted ones have the police chases, right?

Why can't they do a single game where you've got straight laced racing, complete with going to the tuning shop to spend 3 hours fiddling with the gear ratios and choosing tyres with a refreshing minty scent, and ones where you're trying to outrun a police lamborghini in a bugati whilst Mecha-Godzilla hovers overhead dropping spike traps?

If they did that I would give them all of the money, but you're all hardcore race fans. Would bundling it all together be a turnoff for you?

 

[Soxafloppin]

I just want customisation!!!! I NFS:U2 I spent more time creating cars than actually driving them! and with online now so prevalent we could showcase our creations to the rest of the community and even have some community run competitions PLUS being able to download other peoples creations and templates etc!

The only thing is with E.A and the current gaming industry there would be a lot of content cut out and sold as over priced "customisation packs" which would be endless!

Most Wanted is actually my personal favourite but U2 had the best customisation options even before autosculpt was added.