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Need for Speed: Underground is a 2003 racing video game and the seventh installment in the Need for Speed series. It rebooted the franchise, ignoring previous Need for Speed games that featured sports cars and exotics. Underground is the first game in the series to offer a career mode that features a comprehensive storyline, as well as a garage mode that allows players to fully customize their cars with a large variety of brand-name performance and visual upgrades.
- Released
- 2003
- Genres
- Racing
- Platforms
- Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
- Engine
- EAGL
- Franchise
- Need for Speed
- Developer
- EA Black Box
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
Key facts
- Developers
- EA Black Box , Pocketeers (GBA)
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Series
- Need for Speed
- Platforms
- GameCube PlayStation 2 Windows Xbox Game Boy Advance Arcade
- Genre
- Racing
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
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Encyclopedic overview
Need for Speed: Underground is a 2003 racing video game and the seventh installment in the Need for Speed series following Hot Pursuit 2 (2002). It was developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. Three different versions of the game were produced: one for consoles and Microsoft Windows, and another for the Game Boy Advance. An arcade version developed and published by Global VR came out two years later.
Unlike previous Need for Speed games, which featured sports cars and exotics, Underground featured vehicles associated with the import scene. It was the first game in the series to offer a career mode that features a comprehensive storyline, and a garage mode that allowed players to fully customize their cars with a large variety of brand-name performance and visual upgrades. All races take place in the fictional Olympic City.
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