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Neon-soaked nighttime street racing through a sprawling city, paired with deep tuning that lets you rebuild your car inside and out. Iconic licensed music and drift and drag events round out the tuner-culture vibe.

  • Driving or flying
  • Lavish presentation
  • Strong character progression
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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In short: Games like Need for Speed: Underground

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Need for Speed: Underground special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Burnout 3: Takedown

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Brings what grabs you about Need for Speed: Underground: driving or flying, lavish production and combat with precise timing.

A blistering arcade racer built around ramming rivals off the road with brutal takedowns and staging spectacular pileups in Crash mode. It is still widely seen as a high point of arcade racing.

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Burnout 2: Point of Impact

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

An arcade racer that rewards reckless speed and spectacular crashes: dangerous driving through oncoming traffic fills your boost, and the Crash mode turns pileups into a game of their own.

Need for Speed: Underground 2

Strong character progression

Neon-soaked night street racing across the open city of Bayview, with famously deep visual and performance tuning that turns every car into your personal showpiece. Backed by an iconic mid-2000s soundtrack.

Need for Speed: Carbon

Strong character progression

Arcade street racing through a nighttime open city, featuring tense canyon duels on mountain roads, deep car customization, and a crew of AI wingmen who help you win races.

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec

Strong character progression

A landmark racing simulator with over 150 detailed cars, many championships, plus endurance and rally events. Driving physics, collecting and tuning cars take center stage, backed by a strong licensed soundtrack.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

An arcade racer where you tear through sunny coastal and forest tracks in exotic supercars while dodging police, or play as the cops yourself and bust speeders. Its fast, accessible handling and rock soundtrack made it a series classic.

Need for Speed: ProStreet

Strong character progression

ProStreet moves street racing onto closed tracks, mixing grip, drag, drift and speed events with more realistic handling, car damage and deep tuning. Instead of open-city police chases, it's all about precision on organized race days.

Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights

Strong character progression

An arcade street racer built around tuner culture, with night-time races, deep car customization and online events. You build up your car and climb the import scene.

Need for Speed: Underground Rivals

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

An arcade street racer with tuning for 20 cars, races on ten circuit tracks and several modes such as Drift Attack. It focuses on speed, car customization and underground style.

Auto Modellista

Focus on a single character

Auto Modellista is a racer with a striking cel-shaded look, where you customize your car and race against models from well-known Japanese manufacturers. Its appeal lies in fast runs through tight mountain passes, where you take every corner at high speed in your dream machine.

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