@@xcrzephyr3976 That's becaue blackbox devs knew what they were doing.Every new need for speed games or even any street racing games in general are still trying to catch up to the old underground-1,2 and most wanted standard.Alot 20 year old fps games aren't much good compared to today or 2010-2012 timeline but 20 year old nfs are better than most racing games of today's generation.
I have a clear memory from my childhood of looking up at the leaderboard in the corner of the screen and seeing the guy behind me being clocked in at 287 mph to catch up to me 😑…in a 1980 something Corolla 🙄I wanted to choke the developers.
There's just two things, actually THREE things I hate in this game. 1. Catch-up 2. Drag races 3. 111 career races. Still love this game to bits though.
@@flame_101 Both games are fun in my opinion.Even though I was always a more fps gamer.I still somehow had the mindset to complete both games.Newer racing games are what I will call boring and you don't get any motivation to complete them.
It's incredible how well this game holds up graphically. It's probably the number 1 racing game I'd recommend for a low-spec PC or laptop. Recently I got it running on my kid's old-ass laptop. It runs at 1080p, medium settings, at 60 fps... It's great.
this reminded me of the same struggle i had playing this when i was 7. im 24 now and able to finish this game in a few hours and it never gets old and the rubberbanding still makes me wanna punch the monitor. You earned my sub sir.
i finished this game so many times i lost count. I finished it most times all game on hard difficulty. But the drag race with the 3 RX7s. Or the 7 lap race, Pain.
Fr sometimes i forget how good i am at this game bcuz i can finish story mode in 1 or 2 days, but maybe thats bcuz i prob have 100 or 1000+ hours into this game
@@antwanvaughn6920 Eddie's GF, Melissa, raced Player (You) in 112, yes. Albeit, I am unsure if its canon if Player and Melissa had a Relationship prior when Caleb cracked your Car.
@@amonus69420haha No, downgrading in Underground 1 also downgraded your enemies. The best thing to do on the events with extreme rubberband imo is to disable nos, cause the AI literally cheats with it (unlimited uses)
If I recall correctly from back in 2003, in hard you only get to go "good shift" for 2 times max (some times only 1 depending on the map length), the rest of them need to be perfect shits. We did this quite easily back in the day. Also if you get all the shifts on perfect you wont have to worry about traffic because the timing will be so that the traffic almost hit you but just missed, granted you will have to figure out the best path that offers the near missing timings.
I love the old NFS, in fact I’ve just got Underground 1 & 2, Most Wanted, Carbon & Pro Street all running on my gaming laptop & I couldn’t be happier right now laying in bed & playing through them all at night
You were leaving a lot of nitrous on the table in that first drag race, but I'm glad to see you still stuck it out. Underground 1 is a great game, it's just also got some very 2003 aspects to it 💀💀💀
Now that is what we call Need For Speed! Compare this to unbound.. Unbound makes me sick, the driving, stupid passes, etc. Everything is so bad in the newest nfs.. only graphics are good. But look at this legend of a game, the feel, the adrenaline, the hardness... Sometimes you really had to try a lot to win a race, and that's freaking fun! Drag races, omg, motion, the speed, everything is OG. Why they can't create something like this, or NFSU2 or NFMW...
Old favorite. Me and my brother used to do drag races in split screen a lot, and the rx7 was unbeatable. If I remember right it could be pushed to 240mph or beyond.
That Rotary drag is the most annoying of all the races in this game. I'm 49 and I still replay this game. There's something so addictive and equally frustrating about it; I blame my son for introducing me to it back in 2003 😅
Always pick the RX-7. Its the best car. Switch to manual shifting, its not that hard and your can use the full potential of the redline up to 10k rpm mainly using 4th and 5th gear.
I was playing this game the other day on my PS2, this is such a great game, but very difficult I've noticed. I swear nowadays imo modern videogame's are way too easy, these older game's are more of a challenge I've noticed.
I really love swerving with the heavy traffic. I'm actually using just a Miata till the end till I tried the RX-7. So as drifting like man, Mazdas are such the beasts of drifting.
"Most Wanted levels of rubberband" My bro, this game invented the most brutal rubberband. Btw, in drifting you're supposed to tap hand break in order to change the direction your car is facing and continue the drifting. Also, apt title!
One thing I wish was in this game is having more than one car in the garage so that I don’t have to keep trading my vehicles every time I want a specific car for a specific race.
use the nitro fast at the beginning leave just a bit for unforeseen circumstances. You want to get to top speed as soon as possible, it might not be max speed but you are looking for the best average speed to win.
the key to winning drag races on hard is using rear camera to block ai otherwise they are just faster and win every time even with perfect gear shifts drift is super easy but using wrong car might be the issue either of two mazdas are the best for drift (or anything aside for drag actually)
older nfs are still awesome and better than new ones...now playing nfs 3, just downloaded like 70 tracks and 600 cars, it's crazy how good looks with modern patches and hd textures
dude get your shifts and perfect starts right use all nos in third gear and thats all. also try other cars, the rsx or the rx-7 are great for all specs I dont remember the last time I used the gt-r
Both drag racing and drift racing are arguably the most frustrating race modes of all time, but I prefer drag racing more than drift racing cuz I mastered it. Drifting is so much of a drag (no pun intended).
Skill issue doesn't make a game bad. It's a great game, I recommend emulating it on a stronger android phone if you can't get the console and/or the physical game itself.
Is it underground 1 or 2? Drifting in these game was special. You had to do Ss in straights and if you could link it with the corners, that's when you made mad point. Now if you could do so from start to finish, 💯 gg
Underground was always better than underground 2 imo. While the customization and the open world was cool, I have always found these races more fun and challenging which made the game more fun for me.
He plays the pc version. I use the pcsx2 emulator. But if you want, play the pc version with patches, upgrades and mods. There are great mods for the older games.
This game is way easier if you never upgrade your cars because it breaks the game’s rubberbanding AI People who’ve played through that one race towards the end of the game understand how ridiculously hard it is with all your upgrades and even more so when you see how much they’re forced to hold back because you are too. After that one race, though? Smooth sailing 👍🏽
The drag races are always painfully unfair. Traffic cars appearing out of the nowhere because yes. The car doesn't Switch lanes even when you're trying to force it. The AI goes way beyond faster than you, or they even make you crash, when sometimes it doesn't even happen. Yeah, unfair lmao.
I, unfortunately or not, got used playing soft body racing games. I would have been very careful and efficient in every corner. Finally, U1 is truly one of the most unforgiving to bad players racing game out there and GrogTV finished it with a Peugot 206 from start to finish.
When I replayed this game. It’s ass. The blind traffic turns and driving uphill into a car you can’t even see until you get to the top. Pain in the ass. Everything about this game is solid af. It’s that traffic that puts this game low on my list of favorite NFS titles.
This game actually makes me more nervous than MW, to those who never played this but played MW, you better get ready if you though MW was a close call game.
Damn, these old games still be hitting the spot even in 2024💀💀
Yeah how the hell is this game still pretty decent despite being about 20 years old now😂🤣
@@xcrzephyr3976that’s what happens when you make a good game
I'm gonna hell by saying this but... Unbound is not so bad. Music=Beer fart, but other sides of game is good.
@@МодЭсович It is bad even compared to modern need for speed.
@@xcrzephyr3976 That's becaue blackbox devs knew what they were doing.Every new need for speed games or even any street racing games in general are still trying to catch up to the old underground-1,2 and most wanted standard.Alot 20 year old fps games aren't much good compared to today or 2010-2012 timeline but 20 year old nfs are better than most racing games of today's generation.
That drag race with the 3 RX7s was always a pain bro 💀
You know why because building different that why
@@antwanvaughn6920yooo he kinda sounds like YBN Cordae this my first time seeing this channel
THE WORST PART OF THIS GAME IS struggling to beat the bosses then winning their cars only to discover there slower than your car
Facts
You can make their car because their vinyls is available to use
The rubberbanding in this game is really menace 💀
Diabolical
@@Threelapz i berely had any rubberbanding in the whole game I only had it once
Turn off the catch up option (idr if it was an option on this one tbh).
@@darieklove5752 Nothing different, they still can catch me fast as hell 🙃
I have a clear memory from my childhood of looking up at the leaderboard in the corner of the screen and seeing the guy behind me being clocked in at 287 mph to catch up to me 😑…in a 1980 something Corolla 🙄I wanted to choke the developers.
There's just two things, actually THREE things I hate in this game.
1. Catch-up
2. Drag races
3. 111 career races.
Still love this game to bits though.
111 races is insane lol
At least the career races isn't as boring as UG2, imo
@@flame_101 Both games are fun in my opinion.Even though I was always a more fps gamer.I still somehow had the mindset to complete both games.Newer racing games are what I will call boring and you don't get any motivation to complete them.
13:58 Never noticed this before. Samantha was mad the player was all about racing and didn't want a piece of her 😂
It's incredible how well this game holds up graphically. It's probably the number 1 racing game I'd recommend for a low-spec PC or laptop. Recently I got it running on my kid's old-ass laptop. It runs at 1080p, medium settings, at 60 fps... It's great.
this reminded me of the same struggle i had playing this when i was 7. im 24 now and able to finish this game in a few hours and it never gets old and the rubberbanding still makes me wanna punch the monitor.
You earned my sub sir.
21:18 Bruhhhhhhhh... That SPEED🤯🤯
Melissa ain't joking💀
i finished this game so many times i lost count. I finished it most times all game on hard difficulty. But the drag race with the 3 RX7s. Or the 7 lap race, Pain.
I finished them all on hard 😂 that last race though😅
This is likely the most difficult of the OG NFS games.
hot pursuit 2 on ps2 is wayyyyy more brutal. AI rubberbands to catchup but wont rubberband to fall back when they in the lead.
Fr sometimes i forget how good i am at this game bcuz i can finish story mode in 1 or 2 days, but maybe thats bcuz i prob have 100 or 1000+ hours into this game
The last girl you raced was Eddie's girl, she was in the very first cutscene
What eiddle girl? Are you real I did play this game 20 years when I was 6 years old
@@antwanvaughn6920 Eddie's GF, Melissa, raced Player (You) in 112, yes. Albeit, I am unsure if its canon if Player and Melissa had a Relationship prior when Caleb cracked your Car.
I remember back then the rubberbanding was hard on the later stage so you just downgrade your car to make the enemy a bit slower
Im pretty sure underground 2 and most wanted replicate your performances but underground 1 never had randomized opponents so they would be the same
@@amonus69420haha No, downgrading in Underground 1 also downgraded your enemies. The best thing to do on the events with extreme rubberband imo is to disable nos, cause the AI literally cheats with it (unlimited uses)
This is crazy. Literally a few weeks ago I started playing it again since a long time
If I recall correctly from back in 2003, in hard you only get to go "good shift" for 2 times max (some times only 1 depending on the map length), the rest of them need to be perfect shits. We did this quite easily back in the day. Also if you get all the shifts on perfect you wont have to worry about traffic because the timing will be so that the traffic almost hit you but just missed, granted you will have to figure out the best path that offers the near missing timings.
I love the old NFS, in fact I’ve just got Underground 1 & 2, Most Wanted, Carbon & Pro Street all running on my gaming laptop & I couldn’t be happier right now laying in bed & playing through them all at night
You were leaving a lot of nitrous on the table in that first drag race, but I'm glad to see you still stuck it out. Underground 1 is a great game, it's just also got some very 2003 aspects to it 💀💀💀
secret to this nfs was keeping the performance parts stock as possible made the drag races allot easier
Now that is what we call Need For Speed! Compare this to unbound.. Unbound makes me sick, the driving, stupid passes, etc. Everything is so bad in the newest nfs.. only graphics are good. But look at this legend of a game, the feel, the adrenaline, the hardness... Sometimes you really had to try a lot to win a race, and that's freaking fun! Drag races, omg, motion, the speed, everything is OG. Why they can't create something like this, or NFSU2 or NFMW...
i can feel this homie pain in drag races :,)
2:02 That is the most outrageous thing I’ve ever seen 💀💀💀.
Old favorite. Me and my brother used to do drag races in split screen a lot, and the rx7 was unbeatable. If I remember right it could be pushed to 240mph or beyond.
Drag & 5-6 Laps of Circuit Races made me rage alot in this Game 💀
you forget the stupid trafic
Underground 2 is my personal all time favorite i have the CD still of it in good working condition
Hey man !
Thank you so much for made this video !
I enjoyed every second of it and i also know the frustration what that game can cause ! Cheers !
14:40 THE M3 GTR?!?! 😂😂
That Rotary drag is the most annoying of all the races in this game. I'm 49 and I still replay this game. There's something so addictive and equally frustrating about it; I blame my son for introducing me to it back in 2003 😅
the drag race was killing me, could not stop laughing xd
Always pick the RX-7. Its the best car. Switch to manual shifting, its not that hard and your can use the full potential of the redline up to 10k rpm mainly using 4th and 5th gear.
Them RX7 are to op in this game but they sound nice with the extreme package 😂😂😂😂
I was playing this game the other day on my PS2, this is such a great game, but very difficult I've noticed. I swear nowadays imo modern videogame's are way too easy, these older game's are more of a challenge I've noticed.
NFS with best soundtrack.
I really love swerving with the heavy traffic. I'm actually using just a Miata till the end till I tried the RX-7. So as drifting like man, Mazdas are such the beasts of drifting.
I just beat this game last week haha it was such a nightmare.. Playing Underground 2 now haha.. Both on original hardware PS2
This game was an absolute gem
"Most Wanted levels of rubberband" My bro, this game invented the most brutal rubberband.
Btw, in drifting you're supposed to tap hand break in order to change the direction your car is facing and continue the drifting. Also, apt title!
You Tap the Handbreak to turn better? I'mma test this later.
@@SMEARGLEX75 It worked just like that for me, I'm not sure if it was some other mechanic and I was confusing it for the handbreak the whole time.
This game took me years to beat I miss my PS2 because this game and Smackdown vs Raw 2006 made me break controllers like a menace
One thing I wish was in this game is having more than one car in the garage so that I don’t have to keep trading my vehicles every time I want a specific car for a specific race.
Told you Matt was a pain in the s2000 😂😂😂😂
Yeah especially in the 7 laps race😂😂😂... Well bro was a former Number 1 in Sprint...
It's always Matt and Brett who hurt you, and sometimes that 350z guy
Loving watching yall struggle knowing us OGs are clearing everything (except Drag) on hard difficulty 😂 can easily piece a 300k+ drift run
5:49 If the opponent slow down for you in racing games. Then that a red flag that this game has some of the worst rubber banding imaginable.
bro for as hard as this game was i'm about to pick up a copy and play. i got a $2500 pc sitting on my desk but this is where it's at fr
Yo. Where is that outro animation of the Nissan from?
Also, this video hit me right in the nostalgia. I remember Melissa...
Excellent video bro you gave me jontron vibes
Ow I remember this fkn track!
Holy fkn sht, THE CLEANEST end game sprint race, wow!
on drag races, use all nos starting from 3rd gear. top speed is not important, acceleration is key to win drag race even on hardest difficulty
any patches/mods you recommend installing before a playthrough ?
TO THE WIIIINDOOOOOOW!
use the nitro fast at the beginning leave just a bit for unforeseen circumstances. You want to get to top speed as soon as possible, it might not be max speed but you are looking for the best average speed to win.
this is my fav racing game ever. the soundtrack is the best there has ever been although other nfs games have good soundtracks too
Fastest car build I've done on this is the ITR with all ugrades EXCEPT the final transmission.
the key to winning drag races on hard is using rear camera to block ai
otherwise they are just faster and win every time even with perfect gear shifts
drift is super easy but using wrong car might be the issue
either of two mazdas are the best for drift (or anything aside for drag actually)
older nfs are still awesome and better than new ones...now playing nfs 3, just downloaded like 70 tracks and 600 cars, it's crazy how good looks with modern patches and hd textures
Rx7 is the best car in that game, skyline lowkey sucks
I beat this game as a kid using the FD RX7 I literally thought I was Dom Toretto when driving the RX7
MATT sends his regards.
drags are always trash for me in all of those... u1 u2 and mw as well. the struggle to change lane is insane
On a hard level you can't just beat all the races on one car. You need several cars or change the handling settings drastically.
dude get your shifts and perfect starts right use all nos in third gear and thats all. also try other cars, the rsx or the rx-7 are great for all specs I dont remember the last time I used the gt-r
Need for speed UG 1 was the most brutal on the hard difficulty. back in the day was so much fun but damn she got the nerves to kick your ass.
i had this on PC and PS2. finished both versions with one car - the RSX
Its almost impossible to beat this game without getting A RX7, I was struggling SO HARD to win
Both drag racing and drift racing are arguably the most frustrating race modes of all time, but I prefer drag racing more than drift racing cuz I mastered it. Drifting is so much of a drag (no pun intended).
I remember beating this game but I don't remember anything about the difficulty settings.
Skill issue doesn't make a game bad. It's a great game, I recommend emulating it on a stronger android phone if you can't get the console and/or the physical game itself.
cant wait for 2015, its pretty much underground 3 lol so maybe play it after underground 2
Underground 3 is wild lol
Loved this vid bro
I never finished the last race so i could go back and customise my underground car lol
The drag racing is different as hell I finally got passed them after a while there still a challenge
Man youre good. Subbed
It’s only right that you use the R-34 🔥🔥🔥.
These games are still untouchable
Thank the lord, finally the good need for speed
That's the game of my childhood, 30yo. Finished first at hard diff all possible races.
Nfs ug1 rubberbanding is crazy
Is it underground 1 or 2? Drifting in these game was special. You had to do Ss in straights and if you could link it with the corners, that's when you made mad point. Now if you could do so from start to finish, 💯 gg
loved the video
What a great game, ea needs to start making games like Underground again
Gran Turismo music🔥🔥🔥
Underground was always better than underground 2 imo. While the customization and the open world was cool, I have always found these races more fun and challenging which made the game more fun for me.
Playing Manually makes this game way easier in my op
Finished this game about 20times 😊
on the last circuit why u take the first left when u already going thru the short cut if u took the right u could just go straight in the shortcut
W video, big fan of u
i love NFSU but like i refuse to ever play through it again lol
How does your game look so clean compared to my ps2 with the hdmi converter
He plays the pc version. I use the pcsx2 emulator. But if you want, play the pc version with patches, upgrades and mods. There are great mods for the older games.
This game is way easier if you never upgrade your cars because it breaks the game’s rubberbanding AI
People who’ve played through that one race towards the end of the game understand how ridiculously hard it is with all your upgrades and even more so when you see how much they’re forced to hold back because you are too.
After that one race, though? Smooth sailing 👍🏽
How can I make it look smooth. I started playing nfsu2 on ps2 last month and the graphics are sauce cheeks
The graphics and gameplay is still better than today's nfs 😭
If only the first Underground had open world and better customizations. Overall, Underground 1 is better than UG2.
What are you playing this on?
My first and favourite nfs game i played glad that I got it back😍
man the fucking rubberbanding pissed me off the most when i was streaming it lmao!
Drag races in NFS have always been janky af but UG1 had the worst 😂
Played mostly all the need for speed games never tried hard difficulty
The drag races are always painfully unfair.
Traffic cars appearing out of the nowhere because yes.
The car doesn't Switch lanes even when you're trying to force it.
The AI goes way beyond faster than you, or they even make you crash, when sometimes it doesn't even happen.
Yeah, unfair lmao.
I, unfortunately or not, got used playing soft body racing games. I would have been very careful and efficient in every corner. Finally, U1 is truly one of the most unforgiving to bad players racing game out there and GrogTV finished it with a Peugot 206 from start to finish.
When I replayed this game. It’s ass. The blind traffic turns and driving uphill into a car you can’t even see until you get to the top. Pain in the ass. Everything about this game is solid af. It’s that traffic that puts this game low on my list of favorite NFS titles.
19:07 no fuckin way you played the entire game without using that shortcut
This game actually makes me more nervous than MW, to those who never played this but played MW, you better get ready if you though MW was a close call game.
UG and UG 2 has the best drag races.