Need for Speed Underground 2 is pretty good, but unfortunately most of the stuff you do in between races keeps you away from the game's best moments.
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Brooke Burke as the no-guff-takin', street-slang-slingin' queen of an underground racing circuit? Eh, whatever, nobody plays a racing game for the story...or the stilted dialogue.
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Sure, the cars are fast, the streets are wet, and the night is aglow with neon streaks—but if you think Underground 2 is a formulaic rehash of the street-racing games you've already seen this year, think again. The game's new approach, opening up all of fictitious Bayview City for you to explore, is innovative enough that less ambitious racers in the future will feel stale by comparison. Since the journey from one race to the next is nearly as important as the official events themselves, Underground 2 takes on vague role-playing game undertones with its random encounters (with rival night kids) and a car that literally "levels up" in stages of performance.
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Making a sequel to one of the biggest hits of the last decade can't be easy, so we checked in with EA's Scott Nielsen to have him share his experiences working on the sequel for a small set of developer diaries. The first of these -- where Nielsen discusses the process of putting the GPS system into the game, amongst other behind-the-scenes details -- can be found below.
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Aside from some vaguely-similar cars on display,
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