@@prestonwilliams7229 as someone who has always thought that prostreet is one of the best games of all time I can't deny that the handling model is straight up dog shit. it got everything else perfect but driving in that game is very stiff, twitchy, and any time you got any air time your car was going to flip and get totaled unless you tuned your suspension just right.
You forgot to mention one thing. Sometimes, during career free roam, some patrolling cop cars end up going kamikaze, driving at top speed and even hitting traffic and other cop cars without even having their lights and sirens on. They may also total their car in the process. They won’t turn on you, either. They don’t even care if you are speeding as well. However, they sometimes hit you by mistake, which DOES start a pursuit as if they are on the receiving end of a hit and run, even though they caused the collision.
The last part of hitting you and start a chase is basically the police in GTA games. You can kill people np. But you nudge that Police car... Oh boy its over. And many times they go after you after THEY hit YOU
@@pedrosilvaproductions Not quite. Even in GTA, they never go all out speeding while patrolling without their lights on. Even if they are over the limit, the ones in this game are WAY faster. Sometimes they accelerate even quicker than the Porsche 911 GT2 interceptors normally can. And they exceed the top speed of most cars. Seriously, I’m talkin bout 200 MPH in the marked and unmarked civic cruisers. 200+ MPH CROWN VICS. In fact, sometimes they even appear during a pursuit and they still just speed by without their lights on and still IGNORE you! It’s like they’ve gone *ROUGE!*
Back in the day I had a PS2 with modchip and a local game shop sold pirated copies of games for around 2 USD per game (I was very young and didn't know how to burn my own games yet). So I purchased a copy of Undercover for 2 dollars and still brought it back, because I thought that the owner of the shop tricked me saying this was a NFS.
Are you from eastern Europe by chance? I am and there was a copy center that did that exact thing just across the road from my school. It still says it does console modding on the door but I bet they stopped a long time ago.
I remember with some cars when u reversed and pressed throttle at the same time, the car went to some kind of super reverse mode and went easily over 520kmh or +300mph
Burnout Paradise and Midnight Club LA came out the same year, and those games look light years more advanced than even the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of NFS Undercover.
The PS2 Version was my first exposure to Undercover as well. However at the time I had no clue it was a copy paste of Most Wanted til I got older. But if I am being honest I've played the PC version and I find the PS2 one more bearable idk if its just because I played that version first or what. Or because of the simlar map layout to Most Wanted. I know I hated the UI on the PS3 and PC versions much more than the PS2 version.
Same here when I was a kid I first got myself exposed to the PS2 version of need for speed undercover in fact I still play it to this day and I'm actually playing it right now 😂
This is a similar story to me, I grew up with PS2 before I got the game on 360 later on. I prefer playing the Wii/PS2 only because the amount of Bloom the HD version had was unbearable and hurted my eyes if I play the game longer than 20 minutes
It looked really good on the 360, still one of my favorite racing games to this day, the story was hella cool, and the way they incorporated cut scenes with real actors was sick. The car customization was also really intricate for the time which was really fun to play with.
@@Niko-qv5vq yeah but in MW the Green Screen styling was completely different. MW looked like a bad game in the cut scenes, and Undercover looked like a movie in comparison
the early 2000s were just so weird when you compare console and PC releases, I never had any idea they just made a completely "new game" Like early Harry Potter games, PS2 versions of those are COMPLETELY different it's mindblowing
Not exactly the early 2000s, but PS1 ports could be wildly different than the PC version during the end of the PS1's lifespan. For example, the PS1 version of Need for Speed 4 had fewer tracks and a cut-down career mode, and the PS1 version of Need For Speed 5 was an entirely different game, and by that I mean not a single track was the same, career mode was different, quick race modes were different, music was different, only some cars were shared. Funny thing is the PS1 version had better handling.
@@BlooTeg Imagine trying to fit a game made for the Xbox 360's 512MB of unified memory to the PS2's 32MB main memory (plus 4MB video memory), and having to deal with the PS2's "emotion engine" running at a blazing speed of 300MHz at the same time. It's easier to have a B-team produce an entirely separate game or license some no-name game and dress it up as a Harry Potter game. Don't know which route they took however.
@@user-yg4kj2mf1p Yes, these two nfs games are a good example. But it gets more complicated. Nfs HS was basically a EA Canada product, and the PS version was the original as developed by EA Canada. EA Seattle, the original developers of the nfs series, ported it to the PC. But they didn't use the graphically more advanced engine from EA Canada's NFS HS, but a improved version of their own NFS 3 engine (which served nfs 2 and tnfs before. Which made more sense, looking at the average specs of a PC that day, NFS HS still supported software rendering. So when EA Seattle ported HS to the PC they included all the tracks of 3 and an enhanced career mode. At some point HS was also just planned as an add-on for 3, but EA figured out, it would earn more, selling it as stand alone. NFS Porsche for PC was then solely developed by EA Canada, as EA Seattle was busy with motor city online. MCO then used a modified PC NFS HS engine, NFS Porsche the PS NFS HS engine, ported to PC. If you play NFS HS on PS and then Porsche on PC, you'll notice the graphical effects and the handling of the cars is quite similar. Also, apparently the handling of the Porsches was too realistic for an NFS game, they increased the size of the tracks and played with the FOV, to make the handling more bearable, especially with a keyboard.
This game's PC version is better than many other NFS titles. there is wheel to wheel racing which many other NFS dont offer. you overtake all your opponents at the very beginning and it turns into a checkpoint chase. Cop chases are difficult unlike many modern titles such as payback. the map acts as a good racing map with sharp and twisty turns. great number of cars to choose from especially at the time of release and could've had one of the best story if most of it's elements weren't deleted making it. And the difficult handling can be put to great use with an aggressive driving style. And apart from sunset hills with the yellow filter, Tri city bay and the mountainous areas look decent and provide fun races.
I only ever played the PC version and always wondered why there was so much scrutiny aimed at the game, I always thought the story was subpar (pretty normal) but the gameplay was good.
Underground 1,2, Most Wanted and Carbon were still multiple tiers above this pitiful attempt at a NFS title. The bad, not necessarily difficult, handling just means the whole game is rendered useless and unfun.
Congrats on hitting the algorithm. Great video. I had this on Wii back in the day and really enjoyed it. One time all the traffic just glitched and disappeared so I could do free top speed runs on the long highways. Good times
Something that's important to keep in mind, especially when reviewing shovelware/shitty backports, is that no dev sets out to make a bad game. If a game sucks, you can attribute that to a lack of budget, or hardware constraints, not just devs "being lazy" or "not caring" (management is responsible for creating the work environment and pay for workers to start caring). Otherwise, great video! The spongebob bit was well edited in particular.
Yes and no. When i give in to the pressure of capitalism and take up employment at a shovelware or mobile gaming studio, im going there 100% aware i am not going to make anything worthwhile and just check in for the paycheck.
@@jayjaygolden5123 Yeah, because if the paycheck is the only worthwhile thing about working at a place, under the logic of capitalism that's the MANAGEMENT'S fault, for making those cynical marketable games that aren't that fun to work on
best soundtrack, best starter car, autosculpt, strange but fun story, weird yet nice driving, honestly well made police, mainly with their scalling. im off to play it again
I remember going through this entire game, 100% completing it in about 4 days where I played it from 11am to 2-3am. This was during a time when I was quite young, so I had no complaints, and I remembered the game as a very fun one until I revisited it a couple years ago. Great video!
Miss you buddy, I'm loving your videos please promise me you'll keep it up! You deserve it after all those years playing Cs together when couldn't even smoke granade
i got a soft spot for this game, because it's one of those "so bad it's good" games because of how dumb the AI are. high heat police will roam around the map at 1000s of MPH and i found that real entertaining. the cops vs robbers was fun too. idk, when i got tired of mw and carbon, i still only had the ps2 at the time so i had not many options, this was just a fun silly break to play through
Don't forget the fact that BlackBox only had 8 months to complete this entire game 😢😔 If they had enough time then this would have been a perfect sequel to NFS carbon. (Atleast EA realised this mistake after the failure of NEED FOR SPEED (2015), but by then BlackBox was dead😢)and that's why i never played NFS again after Hot pursuit 2010, they just lost its soul. NFS MW, NFS CARBON and NFS UNDERGROUND 1&2 were made with passion and love and that's why no one forget it even after 20 years...
The Wii version of this game is one of my biggest guilty pleasures. The audio-visual differences in the PS2 version are pretty disgusting, I don't know how they messed that up when the two versions are otherwise identical. I know exactly why the game is bad. I have my own problems with the game that aren't even mentioned in this video. For some reason, my broken brain still loves it simply because I played it all the time as a kid with the laggy motion controls. And the glitches? Sometimes they can be really funny or interesting to me. I vividly remember turning around during the first mission of the game, flipping my car on an elevated area of grass, and then suddenly being launched at over 250 MPH backwards. I scrapped a Dodge Challenger, and the black stripes from that car replaced the stripes of my Shelby. Then, the game crashed when I tried to customize it. Another example is when you start a pursuit during a highway battle event. The cops will be able to use nitrous, and for literally no reason at all, can go upwards of 400 MPH, and start flying all over the place at random. It's pure chaos, especially when the Porsches start to appear. Overall, the game is just dumb fun sometimes. Everytime you play, you never know what whacky shit might happen next. I'm actually about to play it when I'm done writing this.
My best guess (based solely on speculation and no actual facts or evidence,) is that the device that is presented with absolutely NO CONTEXT or clues during the ending was supposed to be elaborated on more in NFS Most Wanted (the 2012 version) before the original story got junked. I don't remember enough to know if there was any reference to Most Wanted or Carbon in undercover, and whether it was possible for those two stories to combine, but if there was going to be anything that told us what the device was used for, it would have more than likely been there. (Or it might have explained it during the story of undercover, its been a minute and I don't remember much from it.)
I remember the graphics were a lot grainier in PS2, and like you said, the color correction is off but it was much more saturated. It actually looked smoother with an emulator. Anyway, great job on the video.
Man, the memes are awesome, never saw anyone with better memes, like memes you can understand and don't come out of the blue, no shitty sfx. Actual memes
Thought about buying a copy of this the other day but what really got me is that I'd legit NEVER heard of it before. At least with games like NFS Rivals, NFS:HP, UG, UG2 and MW you hear about them. Because they have their own dedicated fanbases to keep the games alive, hell HP and Rivals servers are still up and running to this day with the modern day rereleases/remasters.
This game had a lot of potential, great selection of cars, good map, I feel the highways are great for highspeed races and pursuits. Unfortunately the gameplay is a bit off. Not to mention the studio tasked with the ps2 development wasn't given enough time.
I had to rewind the video when you've said that you've hit 100 subs, seeing that you have 6,3K made me happy for you. I'm glad this popped into my home page, really entertaining +1 sub mate, cheers.
Cara, pra um youtuber brasileiro vc fala ingles muito bem e sabe muito bem imitar ou reproduzir o estilo de vídeo informativo que os youtubers gringos fazem de need for speed, estou bem impressionado e acho isso um sinal esperança pra que eu possa fazer o mesmo tbm!
I've played all the og nfs games and the only menu theme that really stuck with me and carried weight is arguable the least memorable one, which was Belt by Ekstrak in NFS Carbon, only because it's the one i played the most, with Most Wanted being the one i love the most. That techno beat bounces around my skull to this day.
It's crazy how many people don't know about this version of the game. PS2 slim was the only console I ever had and prior to playing this game I played underground 2 and carbon but not most wanted so I didn't know they just did a twist on a map of a previous game. I only realized it was mw map when I started playing nfs world (oh how I miss that game) which had mw and carbon map merged together. I always thought it was merged with undercover but everyone was saying it was mw and then I realised it was copied. Back when I was younger this game was fun but it always felt weird, out of place, unpolished or unfinished. Now I know why. I don't think the devs didn't care about this game because they just didn't have enough time to make a good game.
Considering it came out 3 years after the Xbox 360 was already out and other 3 NFS games were on it, people probably didn't even think about it. A lot of people already moved to the new gen too so there's that haha I also miss NFS World, used to be so fun besides the pay2win aspect of it haha
The game is pretty much Carbon internally, including cut content still being present, and the whole menus like you said. So much so you can grab the soundtrack files from this and use on Carbon, as Speedy showcased. The soundtrack has nothing from Pro Street, it's all exclusive to Undercover, and PS2/Wii versions have a few exclusives themselves, although all those instrumental versions are fillers. The lag caused by editing vinyls and car parts in general is not exclusive to this game. It happens in all platforms but some fare better, and it started in Carbon. On Pro Street, entering a race day and quitting back to the menu somehow speeds up the sliders and vinyl movement speed, makes it a bit inaccurate but any help is appreciated. And yes this game has severe performance issues, many aren't present on Wii version though. Want a tip? Disable the HUD, especially the rearview mirror. It applies to every game as far back as TNFS on PS1, yes really. In most games when you disable the HUD and the map location as well as traffic/opponent conditions apply, you can reach a locked 60FPS.
That's very interesting! I'm pretty sure girls in black is on Pro/Street but it's been a while so I might have gotten confused about that I never actually tried disabling the mirror, I actually turn it on whenever possible so I'll definitely keep that in mind haha Thank you so much!
@@BlooTeg Nah, Airbourne's song in Pro Street was Blackjack, they're very similar so I don't blame you. I too keep the mirror, way more convenient than looking back. Even more so on PC with mods like Aero's HD Reflections, it also restores the mirror so it can be exactly what you see in the game and not a low quality version of it, give a chance if you can. And oops I forgot to subscribe, really liking the content and the fact you use Gnawty for profile pic. Cheers!
Blackjack! You're exactly right! My bad on that one haha and thanks a lot! glad you enjoyed it! (not sure for how long I'll be able to keep gnawty though lol)
Jeez, this is surreal. When the current console (the ps2) is about to die, the publisher was always come up with "brand new" game like this (NFS Undercover, Call Of Duty World At War, Pimp My Ride Racing). But, NFS Undercover was not really good that time even on the next-gen Xbox360. Fps drop frequently, lack of atmosphere & everything was B R O W N.
Apparently they simply based the PS2/Wii versions off the NFS Carbon codebase for those platforms. I remember a guy who copied the Undercover PS2 assets onto their copy of Carbon and it did work for the most part, albeit with glitches and occasional crashes. At any rate, it's basically EA being EA trying to maximise their profits by covering the widest audience possible.
I don't remember this game looking like this at all. I played on the PS3 and I thought the game looked great. I had to go back and make sure I was thinking of the right title. Was the next-gen (at the time) title a different game?
I got a pirated copy from the local flea market as a kid and I remember liking it. Years later I decided to replay it but on my PC this time and I can confirm that the PC version is decent!
i got this game from a video rental store on thnksgiving 2008 and I beat it before dinner......it was the shortest game ive ever played. I later played the PS3 version which was more of the same but with online, better graphics and better physics, but was just still bland....the open world felt just as dead as the bare PS2 version. my first NFS was NFS 3 Hot Pursuit, so i fell in love with those classic style games. NFSU and NFSU2 were the last 2 that i fully enjoyed until 2010s NFSHP came out. I wish we could get more old school style NFS games, but everyone nowadays just wants customization and a goofy story with hyper and super cars......I miss the old games with more regular street cars that the average person could afford. The old NFS is dead and gone sadly....the next NFS will cater to the younger generation and i know i wont like it.
The only thing I like about this game is the weather, with blue and yellow skies, very green vegetation, and water on the asphalt, it feels like I'm in a tropical city, unlike the main game which is all brown or yellow in some parts , with mountains without texture and no vegetation...
I've play on pc, one thing l hate, loading in mid race, then get crash, or sometimes the road not rendered, and car falling into infinity. I have to restart, again and again.
I remember playing this game in my cousin’s house when it first came out. There was a glitch on the maps where it shows a road but not on the game. From that moment on. I feel like ive had enough
I mostly played Nascar Rumble in PS1 and this on PS2, when I think back I remember more about Nascar Rumble even though it was from WAY earlier in my life. I actually liked this game, am happy that I did play it as a kid.
Undercover have a special place in my heart, because of this 2010's atmosphere, Miami, beautiful music and perfect sounds of car engine's. Love it, despite it's actually shitty comparing to Underground 2 and Carbon
I played the crud out of most wanted with my brother growing up. I knew the map by heart. I got undercover for the ps2 and it didn’t take me very long to realize they just ripped the map from most wanted. I felt so let down by a game franchise I loved somuch
Im playing it again now. I love how broken the McLaren is. Going 392 kmh, sharp 90° to the left coming. Just go right almost touching the wall and slam NOS with the left key full throttle, NO BRAKES. Nyooom 90° turn going almost 400 kmh. 380 kmh coming out the turn. Later suckers. Not even the rubberbanding cops can keep up against the omnipotent Laren.
I got Undercover on PS3 and played it until I got the Platinum trophy. Took so fucking long. Long nights of me listening to my music and doing repetitive shit until I got it. Luckily the online trophies didn't take too long.
@@Neoproxy_ I was suprised when I first got it but I enjoyed the gameplay quite a lot. Races were harder and vehicles were faster. Customization affected performance as well.
It has been YEARS since I played this game and the only thing I loved about this game after I completed it was the sound of the 'Cuda I used primarily throughout the campaign. I used to CRANK my old surround sound system for the effect. I quit playing it after I got sick of being chased by the cops when all I wanted to do was free roam.
devil's lawyer here,i said it before in the NFS sub and i'm saying it here now too:if the studio in charge of it's development was given more time and money,this may have turned out as the best Need for Speed ever crafted considering it -at least on paper- singlehandedly gathered the best assets of Most Wanted and Carbon alike,only being held back by technical problems -great driving physics (*I* liked them) -Rockport map (although rearranged and with a non-updated minimap) -liveries designer -the best/most iconic cars of them both (including a few new ones,i remember seeing a '08 Camaro and a Pagani Zonda) -autosculpt and overall an A tier customization system -splitscreen (with cops and robbers modes too,for fuck's sake...) -challenge series -BLOODTHIRSTY cops (hell,you could even manually call them on you)
I think you should use your old backgrounds sometimes, like the ms paint one from the Rayman video, maybe it could be to denote how bad a certain media is, like a terrible (or nostalgic) game gets the old background, I still find the old background very funny and charming and would imagine other people did too
Existe uma corrida que é impossível de se ganhar mesmo utilizando o melhor carro do jogo, o mais incrível foi que esse foi o nfs que mais joguei na época do meu ps2
I actually liked this game a lot. of course, I had it for PS3 and it was very different. It was the last good NFS I personally experienced. Also, the soundtrack was amazing!
I can't lie I played this version and enjoyed playing. Hell, I even had long pursuit ever on it. However until my cousin who is also a NFS fan I never noticed how bad the games graphics were. He even said the graphics were worse than Most Wanted.
When I saw this thumbnail, I was triggered and was about to say that I actually enjoyed playing the game on PS3 after doing it again on PC for countless hours until I realized it was the ps2 version that I never played. I didn't have any complaints and despite being older, I still find enjoyment to some of the critics. I even platined it, 100% completed while enjoying soundtrack. What made me come back was the Reformed project which makes the gaming experience even better. Also, I never understood the appreciation around Pro Street. Never been fan of this title. I stopped enjoying NFS franchise since Most Wanted 2012.
I think we all just have a different taste on what we believe NFS should be, lots of people said they actually like the PS3/360 version of Undercover, and the amount of dislikes on this one only reinforces that hahah But I totally respect that, even though I'm not a fan of undercover, maybe I just didn't appreciate it for what it was.
@@BlooTeg we all have opinions and i understand that too. Not the best in the franchise but still a decent title to play time to time. Once you cleared the entire game, there's nothing more to do apart multiplayer but it's desert there lol. You might not have appreciated it for what it was or i would say what it wanted to be. Like we all know, development team has been splitted in two, one for Pro Street and the other for Undercover. NFS Undercover had ambitions, good ideas, a good concept but sadly, probably due to deadlines, we didn't get the expected result. Is it a reason to hate ? No, it has flaws but i think we can agree on the fact there's worse than this (hello NFS 2015 : online only for solo experience AHEM...). Being said, there's PC version of UC currently being revamped with the upcoming release of Reformed Project 7.0 update (i let you look up for that online ;).
I'm that guy who enjoys ProStreet much more than Undercover (PC, never really tried PS2 ver.). For me ProStreet is its own fun game. A simcade with a bit more 'cade, before GRID. The nice atmosphere of the game (I always enjoyed the legal street race atmosphere), the fun AF and bonkers speed race mode, simpler and honestly more engaging story. ProStreet also reminds me somewhat of Porsche Unleashed which also tried to be more realistic (even moreso with that game). Undercover on the other hand feels like inferior MW/Carbon, and I'd rather play those games instead.
New sub here, I loved undercover becuz of the story although my favorite is underground 2. the thing with undercover is like something is off but nothing is actually wrong kinda bad and good at the same time, although gotta say the game wasn't optimized for the time being the game suddenly freezed and u see in the background the void is slowly filling with tall buildings or when you customize your car it's just goes not responding and it doesn't matter it was ps or my laptop I still have the game in my new laptop gotta say its hundreds of times more powerful than required but it doesn't feel smooth at all. Love ur content bro its unique I hope see u at million's of subs and say I was there back then keep it up 🔥 also I didn't played undercover on ps becuz we was in need of money so I didn't have my ps1 and ps2 for so long before we selled it and gotta say I think the pc version that I played on my vaio laptop back then is a remaster or a remake its just not like this that was way better.
@@BlooTeg in my case, I played the PS3/PC version and I kinda of enjoyed it despite bloom effect without being able to change that. Of course, game's experience on PC was cleaner.
I remember playing NFS Undercover as a kid and I really enjoyed it, I even got fully upgraded Bugatti Veyron and it was just sitting in my memory as a fun game to play after school. Recently I played it again and I was like "Wtf am I playing right now" and "How is this even a Need For Speed game" XD
4 real when you start talking about the music in nfs's, i immediately played "Get low" in my head to then have you playing it is really showing how the song is I C O N I C.
So you watch Kuru too? What a small world we live in... Btw I never enjoyed this version of Undercover, however I loved ProStreet for ps2. Aside from the graphics, it was more enjoyable to do the speed events, at least for me. Having only 3 oponents on the track while doing speed challenges is way more manageable than competing against 7 drivers like on xbox 360 and pc. However, I do enjoy the 60 fps on 360 and pc.
I know right! I've been noticing a lot more of kuru viewers recently haha But yeah I remember the ProStreet version being pretty decent, the gameplay being pretty close if not the same as the next gen version... I might do a video on it too!
First time i played through, i really enjoyed parts of it. 2nd time playing through (pc) i began to realize the glaring issues with it. For me, some of the obvious stuff (blur/glare) were really unappealing. Something i noticed in endgame is that nos and upgrades felt like they did NOTHING. If anything, using nos would normally sit me down and force me to watch my competitors cruise past me. Now for the previous gen port (this video), i played it on the wii and i think about halfway through the game as i finished a race and saw a cop car speeding by at 700mph while clipping through the road... was the moment i turned off the console and threw away the disk.
I liked this game on 360, kinda thinking about re playing it again just to see how it holds up after playing the recent games for years. UC and Pro street were over hated imo.
I think what pisses me off even more is whenever they try and bring back the BMW, and call it the “hero car” but it’s almost always the wrong version. They never use the m3 GTR, with the racing transmission, so it feels like a cheap copy
In prostreets defense, it wasmt supposed to exist, undercover ("the chase" as it was codenamed) was supposed to be a two year development, but ea was pissy about that and forced the dev team to split in half and made half of them make a game for that fiscal year (prostreet) which they did... with like 12 people... from scratch... over the course of like 6 months...
About 20 people from the start I think, but over time the number increased. Back in the day, I felt like I was the only one who actually liked the idea of progress from streets to circuits. I loved those videos they made specifically as an explanation of why they weren't following the old formula. They were connected closely with the car culture back then, only fools raced on the streets and they knew it well, so they created a vision of what could have been. (I reccomend to watch Birth of Need For Speed ProStreet) The new physics engine which was developed specifically for Prostreet, was made by real data collected from Porsche test track in Germany it aimed to make the handling more challanging, it was not sim-racing grade but the most advanced in the whole franchise, it also added impressive damage system and it had some great tunes too. The amount done to make the game was astonishing and it was a heartbreaker to know it was treated by critics as unwanted garbage. Never forget the speed races, those were fucking terrifying.
I noticed a lot of oddities playing this on the Wii. (PS2 and Wii versions are basically identical) and there's straight up visible buildings floating in the air in one part of the map, overlapping already existing buildings. I shit you not. I also noticed a TON of fences around the map aren't transparent, so most of the stuff they surprisingly put the time to add behind inaccessible areas will never get seen. Lots of weird texture issues too, like I saw this crane holding a shipping container, and for whatever reason, the textures meant to represent the doors were on the sides of the container, as well as just part of the crane texture taking up half the container too. Lots of assets ripped from Underground all the way to Carbon, which look really weird. You get a lot of disproportionate props. A couple traffic cars are recycled from Most Wanted/Carbon and oddly enough, Burnout Paradise. It's a freakin' fever dream to play this, but in a weird way, I love this ridiculous adaptation of Undercover.
I played Undercover a ton on my PS3. I honestly miss it. Undercover and The Run are my favorite story based NFS games. I personally have never played the PS2 version of this or Carbon, but based on this video there are definitely a lot of differences.
Sadly Black Box were being overworked and at times had less than a year to make a new NFS. Horrible. There's so much lost content and features that people found years later in betas, demos and concepts that leaked.
Anyone else remember playing this and loving it? 😅
No pmsl 😂
Only the Pc/Xbox 360 version.
Was the first nfs game i ever played. I rate it tbf from what i remember as a kid. Introduced me to nfs
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This game definitely satisfied me
ProStreet was way underrated, it got the car scene right, kickass soundtrack and a decent handing model, you can tell alotta thought went into it
100% agree and I was sadly part of the reason why we never got anything like it again
Nah, the handling sucked. You had to slow to a complete crawl to make turns worth a shit.
@@matthewvalenti1348because it was realistic for more “pro” drivers
@@prestonwilliams7229 as someone who has always thought that prostreet is one of the best games of all time I can't deny that the handling model is straight up dog shit. it got everything else perfect but driving in that game is very stiff, twitchy, and any time you got any air time your car was going to flip and get totaled unless you tuned your suspension just right.
@@mergame6295skill issue
You forgot to mention one thing. Sometimes, during career free roam, some patrolling cop cars end up going kamikaze, driving at top speed and even hitting traffic and other cop cars without even having their lights and sirens on. They may also total their car in the process. They won’t turn on you, either. They don’t even care if you are speeding as well. However, they sometimes hit you by mistake, which DOES start a pursuit as if they are on the receiving end of a hit and run, even though they caused the collision.
The last part of hitting you and start a chase is basically the police in GTA games. You can kill people np. But you nudge that Police car... Oh boy its over. And many times they go after you after THEY hit YOU
@@pedrosilvaproductions Not quite. Even in GTA, they never go all out speeding while patrolling without their lights on. Even if they are over the limit, the ones in this game are WAY faster. Sometimes they accelerate even quicker than the Porsche 911 GT2 interceptors normally can. And they exceed the top speed of most cars. Seriously, I’m talkin bout 200 MPH in the marked and unmarked civic cruisers. 200+ MPH CROWN VICS. In fact, sometimes they even appear during a pursuit and they still just speed by without their lights on and still IGNORE you! It’s like they’ve gone *ROUGE!*
@@brandonkeith628 Technically you're undercover cop who is driving super fast cars. Let them have fun too.
@@prateekpanwar646 Well, as the player you ain’t in a TCBPD vehicle like these rouges are!
I only played the WII Version of UC (I was broke okay? xD) and there this only happened when you chased the cops for a Longer period of time
It's surprising to find out how polished the PSP version is compared to the PS2 version
The PS2 is a port of the PSP version.
No its not
@@gcm0rais Nope. Just like others, they are far from main consoles.
@@gcm0rais
The PSP port is different compared to the PS2/Wii and Mainline versions.
How different? Well... the game has no open world on PSP.
Back in the day I had a PS2 with modchip and a local game shop sold pirated copies of games for around 2 USD per game (I was very young and didn't know how to burn my own games yet). So I purchased a copy of Undercover for 2 dollars and still brought it back, because I thought that the owner of the shop tricked me saying this was a NFS.
LOL I feel you.
lol
I suppose that’s a “sick burn”
Damn. Took back a pirated game cuz you felt cheated n lied to. That's basically the worst review a game could get lol
Are you from eastern Europe by chance? I am and there was a copy center that did that exact thing just across the road from my school. It still says it does console modding on the door but I bet they stopped a long time ago.
As a youngling I remember having nfs undercover on my moms iPhone back in the day. My nostalgia for it blinds me terribly.
I remember with some cars when u reversed and pressed throttle at the same time, the car went to some kind of super reverse mode and went easily over 520kmh or +300mph
LOL
"We have NFS at home" *NFS at Home*
My life in a sentence
Burnout Paradise and Midnight Club LA came out the same year, and those games look light years more advanced than even the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of NFS Undercover.
True. Playing burnout paradise to this day and I'm still amazed how good it looks
Wait they do? What the hell
That's Cap bruh mad cap
and dont forget race drive grid iracing and gta 4
No cap at all. MCLA looks and plays way better than any version of Undercover.
I really miss this game. Even with its bugs it was such a fun experience
On steam it’s really cheap during sales
And it’s much better than the ps2 version
@@yaplusdenomlibre2705 well the ps2 version is the one I grew up with. All the bs adds to the experience honestly
@@ffturbo I understand, I personnally played it on my cousin computer so I didn’t even know about a ps2 version before
The PS2 Version was my first exposure to Undercover as well. However at the time I had no clue it was a copy paste of Most Wanted til I got older. But if I am being honest I've played the PC version and I find the PS2 one more bearable idk if its just because I played that version first or what. Or because of the simlar map layout to Most Wanted. I know I hated the UI on the PS3 and PC versions much more than the PS2 version.
Oh, true! I forgot about the UI, but this was the one where they started with that "EasyDrive" thing, I used to hate it tbh
Same here when I was a kid I first got myself exposed to the PS2 version of need for speed undercover in fact I still play it to this day and I'm actually playing it right now 😂
Really ? The UI when I played the PS3 then PC version didn't bother me that much. No hate.
This is a similar story to me, I grew up with PS2 before I got the game on 360 later on. I prefer playing the Wii/PS2 only because the amount of Bloom the HD version had was unbearable and hurted my eyes if I play the game longer than 20 minutes
I think there may be mods to fix that on PC
It looked really good on the 360, still one of my favorite racing games to this day, the story was hella cool, and the way they incorporated cut scenes with real actors was sick. The car customization was also really intricate for the time which was really fun to play with.
They did the cut scene thing already in MW
@@Niko-qv5vq yeah but in MW the Green Screen styling was completely different. MW looked like a bad game in the cut scenes, and Undercover looked like a movie in comparison
@@JoDyMa Fair
The 360 version was an another version of the game, it was like the ps3 or the pc one :)
the early 2000s were just so weird when you compare console and PC releases, I never had any idea they just made a completely "new game"
Like early Harry Potter games, PS2 versions of those are COMPLETELY different it's mindblowing
Ohh true! I remember playing a harry potter game on the PS2 that was completely different than on the 360!
Not exactly the early 2000s, but PS1 ports could be wildly different than the PC version during the end of the PS1's lifespan. For example, the PS1 version of Need for Speed 4 had fewer tracks and a cut-down career mode, and the PS1 version of Need For Speed 5 was an entirely different game, and by that I mean not a single track was the same, career mode was different, quick race modes were different, music was different, only some cars were shared. Funny thing is the PS1 version had better handling.
@@BlooTeg Imagine trying to fit a game made for the Xbox 360's 512MB of unified memory to the PS2's 32MB main memory (plus 4MB video memory), and having to deal with the PS2's "emotion engine" running at a blazing speed of 300MHz at the same time. It's easier to have a B-team produce an entirely separate game or license some no-name game and dress it up as a Harry Potter game. Don't know which route they took however.
@@user-yg4kj2mf1p Yes, these two nfs games are a good example. But it gets more complicated. Nfs HS was basically a EA Canada product, and the PS version was the original as developed by EA Canada. EA Seattle, the original developers of the nfs series, ported it to the PC. But they didn't use the graphically more advanced engine from EA Canada's NFS HS, but a improved version of their own NFS 3 engine (which served nfs 2 and tnfs before. Which made more sense, looking at the average specs of a PC that day, NFS HS still supported software rendering.
So when EA Seattle ported HS to the PC they included all the tracks of 3 and an enhanced career mode. At some point HS was also just planned as an add-on for 3, but EA figured out, it would earn more, selling it as stand alone.
NFS Porsche for PC was then solely developed by EA Canada, as EA Seattle was busy with motor city online. MCO then used a modified PC NFS HS engine, NFS Porsche the PS NFS HS engine, ported to PC. If you play NFS HS on PS and then Porsche on PC, you'll notice the graphical effects and the handling of the cars is quite similar.
Also, apparently the handling of the Porsches was too realistic for an NFS game, they increased the size of the tracks and played with the FOV, to make the handling more bearable, especially with a keyboard.
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This game's PC version is better than many other NFS titles. there is wheel to wheel racing which many other NFS dont offer. you overtake all your opponents at the very beginning and it turns into a checkpoint chase. Cop chases are difficult unlike many modern titles such as payback. the map acts as a good racing map with sharp and twisty turns. great number of cars to choose from especially at the time of release and could've had one of the best story if most of it's elements weren't deleted making it. And the difficult handling can be put to great use with an aggressive driving style. And apart from sunset hills with the yellow filter, Tri city bay and the mountainous areas look decent and provide fun races.
the police chases are definitely something... they definitely have a lot of rubber banding and the game seems to "decide" when you can escape haha
I only ever played the PC version and always wondered why there was so much scrutiny aimed at the game, I always thought the story was subpar (pretty normal) but the gameplay was good.
@@BlooTeg i always thought the cop chases were hard as a kid, and i still think its hard
Underground 1,2, Most Wanted and Carbon were still multiple tiers above this pitiful attempt at a NFS title. The bad, not necessarily difficult, handling just means the whole game is rendered useless and unfun.
The run was amazing
Congrats on hitting the algorithm. Great video. I had this on Wii back in the day and really enjoyed it. One time all the traffic just glitched and disappeared so I could do free top speed runs on the long highways. Good times
thank you!
that's the good kind of jank lol
Something that's important to keep in mind, especially when reviewing shovelware/shitty backports, is that no dev sets out to make a bad game. If a game sucks, you can attribute that to a lack of budget, or hardware constraints, not just devs "being lazy" or "not caring" (management is responsible for creating the work environment and pay for workers to start caring). Otherwise, great video! The spongebob bit was well edited in particular.
that makes a lot of sense actually, thank you!
Yes and no. When i give in to the pressure of capitalism and take up employment at a shovelware or mobile gaming studio, im going there 100% aware i am not going to make anything worthwhile and just check in for the paycheck.
@@jayjaygolden5123 Yeah, because if the paycheck is the only worthwhile thing about working at a place, under the logic of capitalism that's the MANAGEMENT'S fault, for making those cynical marketable games that aren't that fun to work on
@@iavenjqasdf Thats true I suppose :P its not the employees fault.
best soundtrack, best starter car, autosculpt, strange but fun story, weird yet nice driving, honestly well made police, mainly with their scalling. im off to play it again
Just found your channel. Subbed as soon as I saw that logo say that start - I knew this was going to be a channel up my street. Great videos.
thank you so much!
The worst thing about the story is that Chau Wu is smuggling a personal organiser, bruh, I thought it was drugs
I remember going through this entire game, 100% completing it in about 4 days where I played it from 11am to 2-3am.
This was during a time when I was quite young, so I had no complaints, and I remembered the game as a very fun one until I revisited it a couple years ago.
Great video!
thanks a lot! I know that feeling too, I didn't think it was bad until I got back into it haha
Dawg I beat that shit in 1 day!! Nonstop and I was pissed the ps2 version.. 🙄🙄. Waist of money
I totally understand that feeling haha
but it's okay, we've both been there
@@blackhearteddmg27 ngl, i didn't know it was lame until i saw how it looked like. NFS Lidl Edition xDDD
that clip with Squidward blasting Get Low was excellence. you've earned a sub
hahaha nice! thank you!
First time I watched one of your videos, and that mystical sound at the beginning suddenly made me feel like a kid again for 15 seconds.
haha it's just great
Miss you buddy, I'm loving your videos please promise me you'll keep it up! You deserve it after all those years playing Cs together when couldn't even smoke granade
the skype calls crashing a few seconds after throwing a smoke grenade will forever be one of the funniest memories I'll ever have LUL
i got a soft spot for this game, because it's one of those "so bad it's good" games because of how dumb the AI are. high heat police will roam around the map at 1000s of MPH and i found that real entertaining. the cops vs robbers was fun too. idk, when i got tired of mw and carbon, i still only had the ps2 at the time so i had not many options, this was just a fun silly break to play through
Don't forget the fact that BlackBox only had 8 months to complete this entire game 😢😔
If they had enough time then this would have been a perfect sequel to NFS carbon.
(Atleast EA realised this mistake after the failure of NEED FOR SPEED (2015), but by then BlackBox was dead😢)and that's why i never played NFS again after Hot pursuit 2010, they just lost its soul. NFS MW, NFS CARBON and NFS UNDERGROUND 1&2 were made with passion and love and that's why no one forget it even after 20 years...
The Wii version of this game is one of my biggest guilty pleasures. The audio-visual differences in the PS2 version are pretty disgusting, I don't know how they messed that up when the two versions are otherwise identical.
I know exactly why the game is bad. I have my own problems with the game that aren't even mentioned in this video. For some reason, my broken brain still loves it simply because I played it all the time as a kid with the laggy motion controls.
And the glitches? Sometimes they can be really funny or interesting to me. I vividly remember turning around during the first mission of the game, flipping my car on an elevated area of grass, and then suddenly being launched at over 250 MPH backwards. I scrapped a Dodge Challenger, and the black stripes from that car replaced the stripes of my Shelby. Then, the game crashed when I tried to customize it.
Another example is when you start a pursuit during a highway battle event. The cops will be able to use nitrous, and for literally no reason at all, can go upwards of 400 MPH, and start flying all over the place at random. It's pure chaos, especially when the Porsches start to appear.
Overall, the game is just dumb fun sometimes. Everytime you play, you never know what whacky shit might happen next. I'm actually about to play it when I'm done writing this.
Hey, no shame on that, I get that feeling haha
Also, the amount of knowledge you have about this game is impressive lol
There was also a glitch where you could get the viper of One of the gang members, It was nearly maxed out, but you could only use It in Police chase
My best guess (based solely on speculation and no actual facts or evidence,) is that the device that is presented with absolutely NO CONTEXT or clues during the ending was supposed to be elaborated on more in NFS Most Wanted (the 2012 version) before the original story got junked. I don't remember enough to know if there was any reference to Most Wanted or Carbon in undercover, and whether it was possible for those two stories to combine, but if there was going to be anything that told us what the device was used for, it would have more than likely been there. (Or it might have explained it during the story of undercover, its been a minute and I don't remember much from it.)
I remember the graphics were a lot grainier in PS2, and like you said, the color correction is off but it was much more saturated. It actually looked smoother with an emulator. Anyway, great job on the video.
Thanks a lot! I actually felt like going back to the PC version to compare it but my steam version wouldn't run :/
Dude, the thumbnail and intro had me laughing through the entire video 🤣
hahahah I'm glad you liked it!
Man, the memes are awesome, never saw anyone with better memes, like memes you can understand and don't come out of the blue, no shitty sfx. Actual memes
they do come out of the "blue" tho
get it?
sorry
@@BlooTeg No, i mean they aren't stupid
Yeah I know, that was a stupid joke lol
Just discovered this channel. Great review bruh. Keep it up. This channel gonna be big. Subscribed.
thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!
I really wanted to like Undercover, but I didn't.
It felt like a watered down version of Most Wanted, which is such a shame.
R.I.P. Black Box
Thought about buying a copy of this the other day but what really got me is that I'd legit NEVER heard of it before. At least with games like NFS Rivals, NFS:HP, UG, UG2 and MW you hear about them. Because they have their own dedicated fanbases to keep the games alive, hell HP and Rivals servers are still up and running to this day with the modern day rereleases/remasters.
Had no idea Rivals's servers were still up... That's impressive
Helllo ,, your channel got recommended to me on the homepage 😅 all the best on it 😊
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Thanks for blessing us with that banger in the outro
any time!
This game had a lot of potential, great selection of cars, good map, I feel the highways are great for highspeed races and pursuits. Unfortunately the gameplay is a bit off. Not to mention the studio tasked with the ps2 development wasn't given enough time.
Never saw this version. Hard to imagine it really came out.
I had to rewind the video when you've said that you've hit 100 subs, seeing that you have 6,3K made me happy for you. I'm glad this popped into my home page, really entertaining +1 sub mate, cheers.
thank you so much! the support has been immense!
130k views?? The algorithm blessed you on this one. I wish you continuous success!
Thank you! It's been honestly crazy!
The first racing game I ever played through and it was on my dads iPhone. I remembered it being awesome lol 💀
Cara, pra um youtuber brasileiro vc fala ingles muito bem e sabe muito bem imitar ou reproduzir o estilo de vídeo informativo que os youtubers gringos fazem de need for speed, estou bem impressionado e acho isso um sinal esperança pra que eu possa fazer o mesmo tbm!
lógico po! vai nessa!
I've played all the og nfs games and the only menu theme that really stuck with me and carried weight is arguable the least memorable one, which was Belt by Ekstrak in NFS Carbon, only because it's the one i played the most, with Most Wanted being the one i love the most. That techno beat bounces around my skull to this day.
You did the underground ”main song” I got hyped as hell 8:14
Oh my , it looks so horrible. I didn't like PS3 version because... I just didn't, but this PS2 version - why did they even bother to make it?
Probably to take money from idiots like me haha
I actually really enjoyed Undercover to the point where I beat the game 4 times in my life and bought it 3 times
I've beaten it over 3 times on Ever platform i bought it for. Except the PSP and Ps2 version.
It's crazy how many people don't know about this version of the game. PS2 slim was the only console I ever had and prior to playing this game I played underground 2 and carbon but not most wanted so I didn't know they just did a twist on a map of a previous game. I only realized it was mw map when I started playing nfs world (oh how I miss that game) which had mw and carbon map merged together. I always thought it was merged with undercover but everyone was saying it was mw and then I realised it was copied.
Back when I was younger this game was fun but it always felt weird, out of place, unpolished or unfinished. Now I know why. I don't think the devs didn't care about this game because they just didn't have enough time to make a good game.
Considering it came out 3 years after the Xbox 360 was already out and other 3 NFS games were on it, people probably didn't even think about it. A lot of people already moved to the new gen too so there's that haha
I also miss NFS World, used to be so fun besides the pay2win aspect of it haha
They got me with the cover - I really wanted to race that 911.
The game is pretty much Carbon internally, including cut content still being present, and the whole menus like you said. So much so you can grab the soundtrack files from this and use on Carbon, as Speedy showcased.
The soundtrack has nothing from Pro Street, it's all exclusive to Undercover, and PS2/Wii versions have a few exclusives themselves, although all those instrumental versions are fillers.
The lag caused by editing vinyls and car parts in general is not exclusive to this game. It happens in all platforms but some fare better, and it started in Carbon. On Pro Street, entering a race day and quitting back to the menu somehow speeds up the sliders and vinyl movement speed, makes it a bit inaccurate but any help is appreciated.
And yes this game has severe performance issues, many aren't present on Wii version though. Want a tip? Disable the HUD, especially the rearview mirror. It applies to every game as far back as TNFS on PS1, yes really. In most games when you disable the HUD and the map location as well as traffic/opponent conditions apply, you can reach a locked 60FPS.
That's very interesting! I'm pretty sure girls in black is on Pro/Street but it's been a while so I might have gotten confused about that
I never actually tried disabling the mirror, I actually turn it on whenever possible so I'll definitely keep that in mind haha
Thank you so much!
@@BlooTeg Nah, Airbourne's song in Pro Street was Blackjack, they're very similar so I don't blame you.
I too keep the mirror, way more convenient than looking back. Even more so on PC with mods like Aero's HD Reflections, it also restores the mirror so it can be exactly what you see in the game and not a low quality version of it, give a chance if you can.
And oops I forgot to subscribe, really liking the content and the fact you use Gnawty for profile pic. Cheers!
Blackjack! You're exactly right! My bad on that one haha
and thanks a lot! glad you enjoyed it! (not sure for how long I'll be able to keep gnawty though lol)
@@BlooTeg Aye, no worries there.
And you're welcome, I wish you best of success, and may Gnawty stay, his face, he's seem some deep shi.
Jeez, this is surreal. When the current console (the ps2) is about to die, the publisher was always come up with "brand new" game like this (NFS Undercover, Call Of Duty World At War, Pimp My Ride Racing). But, NFS Undercover was not really good that time even on the next-gen Xbox360. Fps drop frequently, lack of atmosphere & everything was B R O W N.
lmao good video.
What I absolutely love are the busted cutscenes
yeah, people seem to really like those, I'll check them out on RUclips
Glam Bucket playing while you’re customizing your new car = Paradise ❤️
Apparently they simply based the PS2/Wii versions off the NFS Carbon codebase for those platforms. I remember a guy who copied the Undercover PS2 assets onto their copy of Carbon and it did work for the most part, albeit with glitches and occasional crashes.
At any rate, it's basically EA being EA trying to maximise their profits by covering the widest audience possible.
Even back then industry looked at EA as evil corporate.
And the funny thing is, EA didn't even develop it. They outsourced development of the PS2/Wii versions.
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If the games story just said the setting was in New Jersey then this would be entirely justified
This made me laugh way more than it should
I don't remember this game looking like this at all. I played on the PS3 and I thought the game looked great. I had to go back and make sure I was thinking of the right title. Was the next-gen (at the time) title a different game?
Yes, the PS2 is a completely different game haha
The amount of glitches this game had. Was what made me stop playing.
I got a pirated copy from the local flea market as a kid and I remember liking it.
Years later I decided to replay it but on my PC this time and I can confirm that the PC version is decent!
i got this game from a video rental store on thnksgiving 2008 and I beat it before dinner......it was the shortest game ive ever played.
I later played the PS3 version which was more of the same but with online, better graphics and better physics, but was just still bland....the open world felt just as dead as the bare PS2 version.
my first NFS was NFS 3 Hot Pursuit, so i fell in love with those classic style games. NFSU and NFSU2 were the last 2 that i fully enjoyed until 2010s NFSHP came out. I wish we could get more old school style NFS games, but everyone nowadays just wants customization and a goofy story with hyper and super cars......I miss the old games with more regular street cars that the average person could afford. The old NFS is dead and gone sadly....the next NFS will cater to the younger generation and i know i wont like it.
The only thing I like about this game is the weather, with blue and yellow skies, very green vegetation, and water on the asphalt, it feels like I'm in a tropical city, unlike the main game which is all brown or yellow in some parts , with mountains without texture and no vegetation...
I've play on pc, one thing l hate, loading in mid race, then get crash, or sometimes the road not rendered, and car falling into infinity. I have to restart, again and again.
I remember playing this game in my cousin’s house when it first came out. There was a glitch on the maps where it shows a road but not on the game. From that moment on. I feel like ive had enough
I mostly played Nascar Rumble in PS1 and this on PS2, when I think back I remember more about Nascar Rumble even though it was from WAY earlier in my life.
I actually liked this game, am happy that I did play it as a kid.
I noticed a lot of people played Nascar Rumble while I only played Thunder on the ps1, maybe it's worth checking it out?
@@BlooTeg I laughed a lot a few days ago by watching a gameplay on YT.
That game is timeless, wish we got a game with that same feeling again.
Hot Pursuit 2 had Fever for the Flava by Hot Action Cop. That's some premium nostalgia.
Just discovered your channel and enjoyed the video 👍
Nice! I'm glad!
Undercover have a special place in my heart, because of this 2010's atmosphere, Miami, beautiful music and perfect sounds of car engine's.
Love it, despite it's actually shitty comparing to Underground 2 and Carbon
I played the crud out of most wanted with my brother growing up. I knew the map by heart. I got undercover for the ps2 and it didn’t take me very long to realize they just ripped the map from most wanted. I felt so let down by a game franchise I loved somuch
I totally get that feeling. Sucks.
My first impression when playing this game: "This is the recent release right? Why the graphics is far worse than most wanted?"
Im playing it again now. I love how broken the McLaren is. Going 392 kmh, sharp 90° to the left coming. Just go right almost touching the wall and slam NOS with the left key full throttle, NO BRAKES. Nyooom 90° turn going almost 400 kmh. 380 kmh coming out the turn. Later suckers. Not even the rubberbanding cops can keep up against the omnipotent Laren.
VERY DANGEROUS.
I got Undercover on PS3 and played it until I got the Platinum trophy. Took so fucking long. Long nights of me listening to my music and doing repetitive shit until I got it. Luckily the online trophies didn't take too long.
I actually liked Prostreet back in the day. It was an interesting change from the open world games
Prostreet had great graphics and artstyle.
@@Neoproxy_ I was suprised when I first got it but I enjoyed the gameplay quite a lot. Races were harder and vehicles were faster. Customization affected performance as well.
It has been YEARS since I played this game and the only thing I loved about this game after I completed it was the sound of the 'Cuda I used primarily throughout the campaign. I used to CRANK my old surround sound system for the effect. I quit playing it after I got sick of being chased by the cops when all I wanted to do was free roam.
That slap noise was EPIC 🤣
devil's lawyer here,i said it before in the NFS sub and i'm saying it here now too:if the studio in charge of it's development was given more time and money,this may have turned out as the best Need for Speed ever crafted considering it -at least on paper- singlehandedly gathered the best assets of Most Wanted and Carbon alike,only being held back by technical problems
-great driving physics (*I* liked them)
-Rockport map (although rearranged and with a non-updated minimap)
-liveries designer
-the best/most iconic cars of them both (including a few new ones,i remember seeing a '08 Camaro and a Pagani Zonda)
-autosculpt and overall an A tier customization system
-splitscreen (with cops and robbers modes too,for fuck's sake...)
-challenge series
-BLOODTHIRSTY cops (hell,you could even manually call them on you)
I'm pretty sure the Zonda F was in Carbon.
I have such a soft spot for Pro Street, I wish it got more love. The vibes were immaculate for the time and the age I was, I’m very nostalgic for it
I think you should use your old backgrounds sometimes, like the ms paint one from the Rayman video, maybe it could be to denote how bad a certain media is, like a terrible (or nostalgic) game gets the old background, I still find the old background very funny and charming and would imagine other people did too
“We just hit 100 subs” one month later ganes over 4k great work bro!!!
I know right? that's insane!
thanks a lot!
Existe uma corrida que é impossível de se ganhar mesmo utilizando o melhor carro do jogo, o mais incrível foi que esse foi o nfs que mais joguei na época do meu ps2
I actually liked this game a lot. of course, I had it for PS3 and it was very different. It was the last good NFS I personally experienced.
Also, the soundtrack was amazing!
I can't lie I played this version and enjoyed playing. Hell, I even had long pursuit ever on it. However until my cousin who is also a NFS fan I never noticed how bad the games graphics were. He even said the graphics were worse than Most Wanted.
My god, this was less than 2 years ago and BlueTag had only 100 subs yet his personality and channel lore was completly there?
my channel is and has been just me talking about games, no made-up personality for it, so I guess that's why it didn't change haha
When I saw this thumbnail, I was triggered and was about to say that I actually enjoyed playing the game on PS3 after doing it again on PC for countless hours until I realized it was the ps2 version that I never played.
I didn't have any complaints and despite being older, I still find enjoyment to some of the critics. I even platined it, 100% completed while enjoying soundtrack. What made me come back was the Reformed project which makes the gaming experience even better. Also, I never understood the appreciation around Pro Street. Never been fan of this title. I stopped enjoying NFS franchise since Most Wanted 2012.
I think we all just have a different taste on what we believe NFS should be, lots of people said they actually like the PS3/360 version of Undercover, and the amount of dislikes on this one only reinforces that hahah
But I totally respect that, even though I'm not a fan of undercover, maybe I just didn't appreciate it for what it was.
@@BlooTeg we all have opinions and i understand that too. Not the best in the franchise but still a decent title to play time to time. Once you cleared the entire game, there's nothing more to do apart multiplayer but it's desert there lol.
You might not have appreciated it for what it was or i would say what it wanted to be. Like we all know, development team has been splitted in two, one for Pro Street and the other for Undercover. NFS Undercover had ambitions, good ideas, a good concept but sadly, probably due to deadlines, we didn't get the expected result. Is it a reason to hate ? No, it has flaws but i think we can agree on the fact there's worse than this (hello NFS 2015 : online only for solo experience AHEM...). Being said, there's PC version of UC currently being revamped with the upcoming release of Reformed Project 7.0 update (i let you look up for that online ;).
I'm that guy who enjoys ProStreet much more than Undercover (PC, never really tried PS2 ver.).
For me ProStreet is its own fun game. A simcade with a bit more 'cade, before GRID. The nice atmosphere of the game (I always enjoyed the legal street race atmosphere), the fun AF and bonkers speed race mode, simpler and honestly more engaging story. ProStreet also reminds me somewhat of Porsche Unleashed which also tried to be more realistic (even moreso with that game). Undercover on the other hand feels like inferior MW/Carbon, and I'd rather play those games instead.
New sub here, I loved undercover becuz of the story although my favorite is underground 2. the thing with undercover is like something is off but nothing is actually wrong kinda bad and good at the same time, although gotta say the game wasn't optimized for the time being the game suddenly freezed and u see in the background the void is slowly filling with tall buildings or when you customize your car it's just goes not responding and it doesn't matter it was ps or my laptop I still have the game in my new laptop gotta say its hundreds of times more powerful than required but it doesn't feel smooth at all.
Love ur content bro its unique I hope see u at million's of subs and say I was there back then keep it up 🔥 also I didn't played undercover on ps becuz we was in need of money so I didn't have my ps1 and ps2 for so long before we selled it and gotta say I think the pc version that I played on my vaio laptop back then is a remaster or a remake its just not like this that was way better.
Thank you so much! I can definitely see people liking Undercover, even this one tbh hahaha
It just wasn't my taste, but I can still respect that
@@BlooTeg in my case, I played the PS3/PC version and I kinda of enjoyed it despite bloom effect without being able to change that. Of course, game's experience on PC was cleaner.
I remember playing NFS Undercover as a kid and I really enjoyed it, I even got fully upgraded Bugatti Veyron and it was just sitting in my memory as a fun game to play after school. Recently I played it again and I was like "Wtf am I playing right now" and "How is this even a Need For Speed game" XD
4 real when you start talking about the music in nfs's, i immediately played "Get low" in my head to then have you playing it is really showing how the song is
I C O N I C.
7:52 best part of the video😂😂😂
So you watch Kuru too? What a small world we live in...
Btw I never enjoyed this version of Undercover, however I loved ProStreet for ps2. Aside from the graphics, it was more enjoyable to do the speed events, at least for me. Having only 3 oponents on the track while doing speed challenges is way more manageable than competing against 7 drivers like on xbox 360 and pc. However, I do enjoy the 60 fps on 360 and pc.
I know right! I've been noticing a lot more of kuru viewers recently haha
But yeah I remember the ProStreet version being pretty decent, the gameplay being pretty close if not the same as the next gen version... I might do a video on it too!
First time i played through, i really enjoyed parts of it. 2nd time playing through (pc) i began to realize the glaring issues with it.
For me, some of the obvious stuff (blur/glare) were really unappealing. Something i noticed in endgame is that nos and upgrades felt like they did NOTHING. If anything, using nos would normally sit me down and force me to watch my competitors cruise past me.
Now for the previous gen port (this video), i played it on the wii and i think about halfway through the game as i finished a race and saw a cop car speeding by at 700mph while clipping through the road... was the moment i turned off the console and threw away the disk.
I liked this game on 360, kinda thinking about re playing it again just to see how it holds up after playing the recent games for years. UC and Pro street were over hated imo.
the worst thing is that the proper version of the game (7th gen and pc) isn't really much better, if not even worse at some aspects 💀
The story of NFS undercover is just a modified version of the story of the first Fast and Furious movie.
This was the only NFS that I 100%ed as a kid and I will never forget that for all the good and even more bad reasons.
I think what pisses me off even more is whenever they try and bring back the BMW, and call it the “hero car” but it’s almost always the wrong version. They never use the m3 GTR, with the racing transmission, so it feels like a cheap copy
I know right? They even called it "Razors M3" in NFS No Limits lol
In prostreets defense, it wasmt supposed to exist, undercover ("the chase" as it was codenamed) was supposed to be a two year development, but ea was pissy about that and forced the dev team to split in half and made half of them make a game for that fiscal year (prostreet) which they did... with like 12 people... from scratch... over the course of like 6 months...
wow.
that actually only makes it impressive honestly
About 20 people from the start I think, but over time the number increased.
Back in the day, I felt like I was the only one who actually liked the idea of progress from streets to circuits.
I loved those videos they made specifically as an explanation of why they weren't following the old formula.
They were connected closely with the car culture back then, only fools raced on the streets and they knew it well, so they created a vision of what could have been.
(I reccomend to watch Birth of Need For Speed ProStreet)
The new physics engine which was developed specifically for Prostreet, was made by real data collected from Porsche test track in Germany it aimed to make the handling more challanging, it was not sim-racing grade but the most advanced in the whole franchise, it also added impressive damage system and it had some great tunes too.
The amount done to make the game was astonishing and it was a heartbreaker to know it was treated by critics as unwanted garbage.
Never forget the speed races, those were fucking terrifying.
I noticed a lot of oddities playing this on the Wii. (PS2 and Wii versions are basically identical) and there's straight up visible buildings floating in the air in one part of the map, overlapping already existing buildings. I shit you not. I also noticed a TON of fences around the map aren't transparent, so most of the stuff they surprisingly put the time to add behind inaccessible areas will never get seen. Lots of weird texture issues too, like I saw this crane holding a shipping container, and for whatever reason, the textures meant to represent the doors were on the sides of the container, as well as just part of the crane texture taking up half the container too. Lots of assets ripped from Underground all the way to Carbon, which look really weird. You get a lot of disproportionate props. A couple traffic cars are recycled from Most Wanted/Carbon and oddly enough, Burnout Paradise. It's a freakin' fever dream to play this, but in a weird way, I love this ridiculous adaptation of Undercover.
It's definitely fun in it's own way, looking for things like that can always kill some time lol
*_Smuggling, extortion, and murder - very dangerous_*
*points at you menacingly*
Subbed! I had no idea how bad this port looked compared to the other ps2 nfs games
haha yeah
thank you for subbing!
I played Undercover a ton on my PS3. I honestly miss it. Undercover and The Run are my favorite story based NFS games. I personally have never played the PS2 version of this or Carbon, but based on this video there are definitely a lot of differences.
I actually forgot about The Run, but it definitely seems intersting to say the least
But yeah, it's apparently completely different
Sameeee my favourite nfs games (which i own) are the run and undercover ps3 versions
Sadly Black Box were being overworked and at times had less than a year to make a new NFS. Horrible. There's so much lost content and features that people found years later in betas, demos and concepts that leaked.
You mean on undercover? That's interesting
(8:19) the initial banger is the most underrated aspect of this ps2 port
This is a late comment, but can you *please* tell me what emulator you use?
PCSX2 for PS2, Dolphin for the Wii
You might wanna get PCSX2 nightly by the way, some games refuse to run in the other version
@@BlooTeg Holy damn, the thing has improved a lot since I last used it... many thanks!