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Need for Speed Underground 1 for PC full version with system requirements

Review:
Need for Speed Underground borrows, instead of simulating, from the increasingly popular custom kit and import car scene. The days when Dodge Neons, VW Golfs, Subaru Imprezas and Mazda Miatas were just reminders you couldnt have a flashy sports car are gone; in the ever-growing circle of elite street racers, dedicated auto fanatics are turning the mid-range class of almost-sports-cars into decked out, eye-catching street rockets. The underground scene of backstreet, nighttime racers has evolved into a whole new industry. Companies like AEM, Enkei, Jackson Racing, HKS, and StreetGlow provide lines of custom upgrades for otherwise everyday cars -- like the Impreza -- so you can deck them out and turn them into your personalized street machine.


Black Box and EA have gone to great measures to capture this gritty, sometimes seedy underworld, partnering with the biggest product lines and major car manufacturers. It seems its goal was to create a racer that provided more vehicle customization than anything ever seen before, and to this extent it succeeded brilliantly. The flexible car customization mode offers up 20 different vehicles, not a huge number, but with all the different options the variety of personalized cars you can create is in the billions, according to EA. These "Customize Your Ride" options take center stage of the gameplay. Undergrounds single-player mode is intimately tied into unlocking new parts for your car -- both of the performance increasing and aesthetic variety.

The total gameplay experience is tuned into the 111-objective "Underground" mode. Like a story, it unfolds as your challengers message you via your in-car video display. There are a few FMV sequences now and then, but mostly it is just audio clips and animated heads that deliver your objectives. It works perfectly, however, and is presented seamlessly. To diversify gameplay from just being regular racing as weve seen it before, Black Box crafted a number of different race types -- essentially you have Race, Drift, and Drag. Race is actually broken up into a number of styles, including point-to-point (one long stretch of a track), circuit (multi-lap), and knockout (cars in last place are booted each lap; last car across the line wins). So, theres a respectable variety to mix up Undergrounds story mode. Read more

System requirements:
MINIMUM PC REQUIREMENTS
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium III or AMD Athlon 700MHz Processor
128MB RAM (256MB for 2000/XP)
8X CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive
2.0GB Hard Disk Space
32MB Direct3D compatible Video Card
DirectX 9.0
Keyboard
Mouse
MULTIPLAYER SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Broadband Internet Connection
256MB RAM

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