Need for Speed: Underground 2

And I hadn't even listened to The Doors version of it.

It was on Need for Speed Underground 2.

I remember one time typing in the line where to get and then it was The Doors version.

I was like, is this in the Zoom?

He's just, like, 30 years later.

Well, yeah, growing up, like, my dad, he used to love playing, like, Need for Speed, especially, like, Need for Speed Underground 2 where you had to time the shifts as you're drag racing down the street.

He loved doing that stuff.

Now he doesn't.

We all needed things to do during that period of time.

And I remembered back when I was a little kid, I loved the need for speed games, especially Underground 2, Most Wanted.

My first one was Hot Pursuit 2.

That's where it really started, the very seed.

I went into my research for the game, I had just been going back to all my childhood games.

I had played a lot of Need for Speed Underground 2 and SSX Tricky.

And I'm sure there's other ones that I'm forgetting right now, but they were certainly there.

And I just tried to distill all of the vibes that I felt down into one kind of cohesive design language.

An arcade racer with a very friendly drift system before, I can't really think of a comparison off the top of my head.

I mean, the closest comparison I can say is maybe Underground 2's drift events, which were very different than the open world stuff.

Like the car feel was very different.

It's not necessarily like he was... balanced so you had drift events but you controlled the car the same way whether you were doing a circuit race or a drift event so this kind of has that underground to drift feel so it's very loose uh and then to initiate a drift you tap the brake which is my preference you tap the brake to initiate the drift the problem is um the the game will end a drift if you straighten the car out sometimes i don't understand so every race and every stage is procedurally generated so it's never going to be the same track again uh you know twice with that comes some other problems that i'll get into in a second but um when you there's a lot of s curves there's a lot of s curves so There's been many times, and if you watch this footage, you'll see, I will take a drift and try to whip it around to kind of get the other curve, and my car will just stick.

Melissa from Queens.

And she writes, my brother Chris was always playing this game Need for Speed Underground 2.

And this song was playing while he customized his cars.

I'd sit there watching him.

Need for Speed Most Wanted.

That has to be in there because it's probably, I think, apart from Underground 2 on the PS2, I think was one of the most or the most popular Need for Speed in the franchise.

Either that or

Carbon.

Yeah, yeah.

The other thing I was just going to mention quickly was it was a mate's birthday, so we went round and we played Need for Speed Underground 2.

It was amazing.

Oh,

Yeah, it

is.

I remember buying Need for Speed Underground 1 by mistake, thinking it was Need for Speed Underground 2 and thinking,

why can't I customise my car like I did at my mate's house? because they used to do

Underground 2.

Need for Speed Underground 2.

Yeah, solid.

All right.