![]() ![]() Blamed for Being Railroaded: The first game makes you race Samantha midway through the game for her pink slip as Eddie requested, which ends up costing you your friendship with her.Bag of Spilling: Justified in Underground 2: the player's car is totaled in the opening cutscene, forcing them to move to Bayview and start all over again.Art Shift: Underground 2 features retouched photos blended with comic book images for the cutscenes, which were dominated by still images and graphic novel shots with minimal movement.Sometimes in Underground 2 it brightens up a bit and turns to dawn, but it quickly skips to dusk, then back to night again. Always Night: Justified given that the street racing depicted in both games is entirely and explicitly illegal.These Need for Speed games contain examples of the following tropes: Underground Rivals has no plot, and thus does not connect to the above stories. Infuriated by your constant winning, Caleb eventually challenges you to one last race against him in his 2004 Pontiac GTO. Later on, after you win a series of URL (Underground Racing League) races, a female Wraith member named Nikki Morris defects from them and joins your crew. It's also revealed that he knows something about the accident you suffered in Olympic City. Eventually, you cross paths with The Wraiths, led by Caleb Reece, and as you win races against them, you hear more about their shady work in their attempt to control Bayview's racing scene, such as manipulating sponsorships against both you and Rachel. ![]() From there, you race around the city, winning events and collecting sponsorships. After arriving at the airport, you drive Rachel's green Nissan 350Z (the car on this game's cover) to get your first car from Bayview for free as insurance payment for the totaled Skyline (although you do have the option to race in three events in her car, though she won't like it). En route to a celebratory party, you are rammed in your blue Skyline GT-R R34 by a black Hummer H2 driven by a man with a scythe tattoo on his hand, calling someone to say that he "took care of a problem." Six months later, you take a flight to Bayview with Samantha recommending in a note that you meet her friend, Rachel Teller. In Underground 2, set no long after the first game, a mysterious bald man calls you to try to force you into joining his crew, but you hang up on him. Eddie will try to get rid of you to no avail, including forcing the player to take a drastic choice by picking a particular opponent for them, as the player has to contend with Eddie's crew and a foul-tempered mechanic, all while being watched by a mysterious silver Nissan 350Z. ![]() Eddie is the best racer in the city, and also is the leader of The Eastsiders who drives a customized orange Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 (the car seen on the game's cover). You race around the city and beat competitors left and right until you could come up to Eddie. After being awoken from a daydream by Samantha, she shows you the ropes around the city's underground street racing scene. In Underground, you are an unnamed racer in Olympic City with your friend, Samantha. In addition, Underground introduced an actual plot to the series for the first time. Consisting of the titular first game in 2003, the open world Underground 2 in 2004, and the portable Underground Rivals in 2005, these games drastically changed the focus and identity of NFS from racing exotic cars in various scenic tracks while being chased by the cops to racing heavily-customized import tuners in urban environments at night when there are no cops around. Need for Speed: Underground is a sub-series of Electronic Arts's Need for Speed franchise developed by EA Black Box. The ones where NFS becomes The Fast and the Furious. To the window, to the wall! | Riders on the storm. ![]()
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