

In short, Most Wanted offers less visual flavor, customizability and Initial D-ness but offers. Sure they gave lots of luxury cars this time like the BMW (yeh!), Lamborghinis, Porsches and a Dodge Viper but their just that, friggin pogi cars not streetracing cars - but then again that's just me. No more hydraulics (no more watching the car jump) and speakers systems (you don't feel like a pimp no mo') and less variety on vinyls - overlaying multiple vinyls to create unique and wicked, messed up vinyl designs.

NFS UNDERGROUND 2 HIDDEN RACES FREE
Frankly, Free Roam is useless now, since all the shops are the same and you can simply jump to races and initiate police chases straight from the Safehouse. In Quick race section you have an option for 'Free Roam' and there. No more hidden races, shops and random challenges in the Free Roam mode. Once you beat the underground mode everything is unlocked in 'Quick Race' section. No more drift races, rally and the downhill drift races. No more advanced performance tune ups - I liked how Underground 2 allowed me to dabble in being a "mechanic" performance testing and analyzing car performance graphs but sadly, in Most Wanted you get this simple tuner slider bar. Don't get me wrong, smashing through mobile roadblocks and dissing cops (cops on friggin' Corvettes) is cool - but I'm not looking for Grand Theft Auto, I'm looking for NFS. While the police chases in Most Wanted are certainly exciting, it simply took too much of the game I became used to (note: I never really liked NFS: Hot Pursuit). In terms of gameplay though, much of what drew me to Underground is no longer around in Most Wanted. The lighting's just beautiful especially on sunsets, although it can blind you on horizons (but that's what's cool about! It actually blinds you!). Although NFS Most Wanted is much the same with NFS Underground 2 graphics-wise (car models, environment, weather effects and motion blurs), Most Wanted does outclass the previous NFS games with the lighting effects. I like this game, but not as much as NFS: Underground 2. you need to race and win against all the other driving cars until theres none left in EACH stage to. Need for Speed: Underground 1 & 2 have made a part of my personality and greatly influenced the kinds of cars I love.

Undergound 3 was ever to be released, I would buy a copy for myself, and a copy for every single person I know. Here's my favorite car, the Mitsubishi Eclipse that won me all my races and the next car I'm going to upgrade, the RX7 (which I intentionally made to look like Kyoko's RX7 from Initial D 4th Stage). A lot of races, hidden races and all kinds of races (Drift, drag, sprint, circuit, URL). Just select race options screen (where you can change traffic level, curcuit number etc.), minimize game and set values in trainer. I've been playing a lot of Need For Speed: Most Wanted lately, and I've recently beaten Blacklist #9 to finally unlock the Mazda RX7. So trainer can only SET values not FREEZE them.
