Need for Speed Underground

Need for Speed Underground is an arcade racing video game developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts in late 2003. While paying respect to the success that the previous games managed to achieve on PC and home consoles, this seventh release in the Need for Speed franchise managed to completely reboot the gameplay and the style of the franchise. Instead of focusing only on dry racing challenges with a large variety of sport and exotic car, it introduced for the first time a fully custom made career mode that featured lavishly produced story campaign and a widely successful garage mode that allowed all gamers to collect the large car roster and dramatically customize them with the wide variety of performance and visual upgrades. To better facilitate the newly introduced story mode, the entire game was moved to Olympic City, a fictional night metropolis modeled on the features of  Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco where underground racing clubs and fast police chases have become a commonplace occurrence.

During the long and eventful singleplayer campaign, the players are tasked to complete in several gameplay modes, which include Circuit racing around loop tracks, Knockout mode where the last players are regularly removed from the circuit race, Sprint point-to-point racing, drifting challenges and Drag racing. The customization options present inside Need for Speed: Underground is extensive, and they cover both performance (engine, suspension, drivetrain, tires, ECU, car weight reduction, Nitrous oxide boosters and more) and visual aspects (color paint,  neon lights, custom bumpers, side skirts, spoilers, wide-body kits, and much more).

After its release to the market in late 2003, Need for Speed: Underground became one of the most critically praised and financially successful games in the entire franchise, spawning a direct sequel and many other sequels that tried to emulate the winning formula that Electronic Arts managed to find inside this game. Today, NFS Underground is regarded as one of the most important releases in the entire franchise and a title that many arcade racing fans are regularly coming back to.

As is expected from any NFS game on PC, the users have full freedom to customize rendering quality, resolution, enjoy the high framerate gameplay and customize their controls. Due to its age, Need for Speed: Underground can today be experienced in its full glory even on modest gaming PCs and laptops.

System Requirements - Can I Run Need For Speed Underground 

• CPU: Intel Pentium III (or compatible) CPU running at 700Mhz or higher
• RAM: 256MB of RAM
• GPU: 32MB DirectX 9 compatible video card (Geforce2 or higher) using a supported chipset
• DX: DirectX 9
• Storage: 450 MB free Hard Disk space, plus space for Direct X9 installation
• Sound: DirectX compatible Sound Card