But once you’ve done so, the racing is fun and the cars handle well.
You’ll start out in some pretty slow cars, so the racing isn’t very exciting until you earn enough for a full set of upgraded performance parts. There’s a menu in the garage that lets you jump to a handful of different events, but most races don’t show up here, and none of the shops do, either, making it completely useless. The game also rarely takes advantage of the open city for racing purposes, staging a majority of its events on preset tracks, rather than attempting to go for a Midnight Club-like “get there however you can” feel. In fact, let’s even make it so that different sections of the city are locked away until you progress to a certain point in the career mode.” In practice, driving around the city is a real drag that keeps you out of the action longer than you’d like. Someone probably sat down and said, “Well, everyone likes Grand Theft Auto, and it has an open city, so our game has to have an open city as well. On paper, this whole open-city thing sounds like an interesting idea. The game gives you an onscreen map, but shops don’t show up until you’ve found them, and some races don’t actually appear on the map, either. You’ll also have to drive to different parts shops to customize your ride–in fact, you’ll have to find most of the game’s shops by cruising around the city, looking for the right type of colored lights. You’re given free rein to drive around wherever you want, and you’ll have to drive to races to drive in them. The biggest change made by this year’s game is that the action now takes place in one large city. Dopey story short, you’re sent off to a new town after getting ambushed by a rival racing crew, and you’ll have to start from scratch with one car and a handful of races to get you going. The effect is similar to what the Max Payne series does with its noninteractive sequences, though that game pulls it off much better than Need for Speed Underground 2 does. Need for Speed Underground 3 tries to inject a story into your career mode using static-image cutscenes that pop up before some races. Underground 03.gives you a whole city to drive around, but there’s not much to do in it.
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