Okay but this one is kinda way better...if you install the mod that lets you teleport to events instead of having to drive to them.
I'm sorry but driving in the open world is the most boring ass shit, there is nothing to do really, there's a few hidden races and that's it (you can just google em anyway).
But yeah with that mod this game keeps the same great pace of the first one where it's just event after event without much in between time. I do miss being able to select the difficulty for every event before starting it though.
After the hell that was Underground 1 on hard I just put this one on normal and it was...I mean rather easy truth be told but I didn't feel like risking it, few circuit races in the later stages that were a bit hard but outside of that only the drift events ever gave me any trouble and those only because I am oh so bad at drifting without hitting anything, seriously I hate that you just lose the whole drift if you touch anything.
Once I needed 60000 points to win an event and I got like 58k instantly in one awesome drift and it felt great AND THEN some stupid ass traffic car touched my car ever so slightly and then boom it was gone. Annoying.
Still at least it's not evil like the first. The customization was amazing and really in depth, I like that the game requires you customize your car to progress through the game. I think it's nice to force the player to use certain features to progress when y'know...those are part of the selling point.
The economy is much better than in Underground 1, there I had WAY too much money all the time and nothing to spend it on, here I ran out of money like...twice in 22 hours but still. I had just enough to get everything I needed.
Open world is nice, more tracks I feel than in Underground 1 though the shortcuts are absolutely a huge step down from those found in the first. Not that that's a huge issue but rather an annoyance given how great they were in the first one. Oh well.
The like...URL events, god damn those are out of place, so this is game about underground illegal street racing...but the main events are like profesional race tournaments or something. I don't get it, they got extremely boring in stages 4 and especially in 5 where you have like 9 of them to do and they never end.
Also the ugh...Street X events sucked at the start, disliked them until stages 4 and 5 actually, by then I had more speed and they become more than just...drive in the most boring ass circle 4 times to win.
The rubber banding isn't as bad, I didn't feel there was much actually, especially compared to Underground 1 where the enemies would rubber band all the way to some other dimension on easy lmao.
It is a huge step up but not in everything, still the game made improvements where it matters most and while not flawless and again, more fun WITH the fast travel mod. I still had a blast with it, took me only a bit longer to beat than Underground 1 (that one took 21 hours, this one 22).
A classic that def holds up, if not in pacing or structure, at least in the great handling and customization and honestly I feel that's enough to make this game still amazing almost 19 years later.
I'm sorry but driving in the open world is the most boring ass shit, there is nothing to do really, there's a few hidden races and that's it (you can just google em anyway).
But yeah with that mod this game keeps the same great pace of the first one where it's just event after event without much in between time. I do miss being able to select the difficulty for every event before starting it though.
After the hell that was Underground 1 on hard I just put this one on normal and it was...I mean rather easy truth be told but I didn't feel like risking it, few circuit races in the later stages that were a bit hard but outside of that only the drift events ever gave me any trouble and those only because I am oh so bad at drifting without hitting anything, seriously I hate that you just lose the whole drift if you touch anything.
Once I needed 60000 points to win an event and I got like 58k instantly in one awesome drift and it felt great AND THEN some stupid ass traffic car touched my car ever so slightly and then boom it was gone. Annoying.
Still at least it's not evil like the first. The customization was amazing and really in depth, I like that the game requires you customize your car to progress through the game. I think it's nice to force the player to use certain features to progress when y'know...those are part of the selling point.
The economy is much better than in Underground 1, there I had WAY too much money all the time and nothing to spend it on, here I ran out of money like...twice in 22 hours but still. I had just enough to get everything I needed.
Open world is nice, more tracks I feel than in Underground 1 though the shortcuts are absolutely a huge step down from those found in the first. Not that that's a huge issue but rather an annoyance given how great they were in the first one. Oh well.
The like...URL events, god damn those are out of place, so this is game about underground illegal street racing...but the main events are like profesional race tournaments or something. I don't get it, they got extremely boring in stages 4 and especially in 5 where you have like 9 of them to do and they never end.
Also the ugh...Street X events sucked at the start, disliked them until stages 4 and 5 actually, by then I had more speed and they become more than just...drive in the most boring ass circle 4 times to win.
The rubber banding isn't as bad, I didn't feel there was much actually, especially compared to Underground 1 where the enemies would rubber band all the way to some other dimension on easy lmao.
It is a huge step up but not in everything, still the game made improvements where it matters most and while not flawless and again, more fun WITH the fast travel mod. I still had a blast with it, took me only a bit longer to beat than Underground 1 (that one took 21 hours, this one 22).
A classic that def holds up, if not in pacing or structure, at least in the great handling and customization and honestly I feel that's enough to make this game still amazing almost 19 years later.