Game Overview
When you start Need for Speed Underground 2 you are thrown right in too it, there is no learning levels or options screens, you are thrown straight in! Just what we like, no hanging about just pure gaming from start to finish. And you are immediately hit with the first major improvement to an already outstanding game, Free Roaming! It's great; you can go anywhere you want! Locate races, performance shops, body shops and other "racers"! The shops can be incredibly difficult to find and you will probably spend more time looking for a new shop than you will actually racing but as all the shops have different mods, its well worth it!

When we say "racers" we actually mean other people who have modified cars, they are indicated on the radar as small orange arrows, cruise up to one of the fellow racers, tap up on the directional pad and away you go, a proper street race, the object is to get a certain distance away from your opponent, once you have got a certain distance from him/her you win some money! Easy! Not! This is not as easy as it sounds, and if they catch up with you then you have to catch them, it can go on for ages!

That's not all though, you still get the usual races to blow away your competitors, get your gear changes spot on for the drag races, keep alert for the sprints and now make sure you hug that racing line for the all new Street X, get in the lead, stay in the lead and you are sure to be rewarded with new mods, graphics, cold hard cash and the all important sponsorship deal! Your new sponsors might even let you have a car of your choice on them! The more races you win the more respect and money you will get and we all know that you need an awful lot of money to really "Pimp your Ride".

The game isn't really a giant step forward in terms of the playability, the ride is still the same and the feel of speed still blows you away, but you do get a even larger range of Rims, Body Kits and Graphics and now you can also get hold of Spinners for your new rims, Carbon Fibre mods, and even per-fect your acceleration and top speed by tweaking almost everything from gear ratio's too suspension setup, get that ride ripping up the streets of Bayview!

Our Conclusions
Don't expect anything to different in Need for Speed Underground 2 from the first one but do expect hours of entertainment and motor modding. It has to be good if it offers every bloke their dream car!! The only thing that we miss from the first one is the awesome soundtrack; it puts the new one to shame. However, if pimpin rides is your thang, you have to buy this game! It is a must have!! With Need for Speed Underground 2 being everything and more than the first edition, it has to be better! Definately beats it for us!

Instead of driving cars around on your PS2 all day, would you rather drive a real Ferrari? What about a Lamborghini? Rather than dreaming about that fantasy car, actually jump in one and see what they go like around real circuits! Click here to see what we are on about, you wont regret it!

Overall Score: 9/10

Thanks to Chris Swanson (BlokesOnly.com's King of Games) and Zac Schwarz at Shine for making this review possible.