Need for Speed: Underground (NFSU) is the seventh racing game in the Need for Speed video game series developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts in 2003.
participating in illegal street races) is reminiscent of the import scene and the movies The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious. A complete reimagining of the series' formula, NFSU offered a career mode featuring a storyline, and a garage mode that allowed players to fully customize their cars with a large variety of brand-name performance and visual upgrades. All races take place in a generic city at night (though the city bears some resemblance to New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles). Instead of hundred-thousand dollar exotics, Underground featured vehicles associated with the Import Scene. This, plus the increasingly arcade-like controls, became points of conNFSU's premise (highly tuned, customised carstroversy for Need for Speed fans. Despite this, Underground was commercially very successful, and inspired a sequel. It is rumored that the car manufacturers were very strict in how their vehicles were to be portrayed in this game, especially considering the "illegal street racing" reputation of the tuner culture. EA took some effort in making the races appear as sanctioned racing events, and included a public service announcement in the game's introduction. In addition, vehicles do not have damage models.
The name of the city that the game is set is given as "Olympic City" shown on many billboards across the city. It resembles both New York City and Los Angeles. Some of the landmarks seen here are later seen in Bayview, used in Need for Speed: Underground 2. It is also possible that the game takes place in Texas, as billboards depicting a picture of the shape of Texas are visible.
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