Many fans consider the second Underground entry in the Need for Speed series the best in the franchise, and a committed fan is currently working on his own fan remake of the game. The fan remake is being created by YouTuber ‘Ivan Novozhilov’, and comes with numerous features that made the original game stand out, including a soundtrack from the Underground games. In addition, this remake packs optimized visuals, an optimized weather cycle, new textures, revamped steering, suspension compression sounds, car turbo and nitrous, optimized auto transmission and clutch, and much more. We’ve included 10 minutes of gameplay from this impressive project down below alongside a list of features currently included with this work-in-progress project:
Overall, this gameplay looks quite spectacular and offers pretty much what fans of the original game loved about it. Whether this fan remake will ever be released to the public remains to be seen, but going by the project’s authenticity, the project will likely face a cease and desist from EA. Zones: -audio zones -reverb zones -named zones -every island hase a distinctive colorization. Graphics: -optimized graphics for much better performance and an overall more pleasent look. -optimized weather cycle -new textures -added more missing meshes Misc: -traffic node system(you cannot see but it is there) -more optimized camera shake -more optimized radial motion blur -destructible environment (signs, waterbarrels…) -music from UG1, UG2, MW is implemented. You can also skip tracks or go a track back ( QOL hack 🙂 ) -whoosh sounds -new camera lag and rotation (lag) UI: -drift score counter + nifty messages -drift zones (these blue red white striped decals) are used for additional multipliers along with speed for the drift score. -menus are in the making and already working partially but not shown here.
