Need for Speed: Underground 2 - Remake

Not just EA is attempting to modernize the tried-and-true representatives of the Need for Speed franchise. No, the guy behind the YouTube channel "2Unreal4Underground" is also working on modernizing the popular Need for Speed: Underground 2. The first video of the fan remake appears to be promising.

Need for Speed: Underground 2 from 2003 on Unreal Engine 4? That's a great idea, and the man behind the 2Unreal4Underground YouTube channel is now working on it. The brilliant coder now exhibits the first results of his labor in a recently published video.

A blue automobile speeds through the city center for 12 minutes, performing strong power slides and cool drifts.

Patch note-like comments explain the specific modifications underneath the footage of the UE4 remake of NFS: Underground 2.

Car:

• Turbo
• Nitrous (not used here)
• Earn NOS back
• Completely new steering
• Optimized auto transmission and clutch
• Fixed slip ratio (no more stuttering)
• Collision sounds and sparks
• Suspension compression sounds
• Engine sounds are done except for two. The analysis tool is not good enough for them.
• Sweetener (hear da backfire)
• Turbo, sweetener, engine, and transmission sounds are done and picked depending on the performance upgrade
• Drastically changed driving behavior. It's still in the making and a lot of tweaking, strongly depends on slip angle and traction, these values are changed depending on the speed to allow arcade driving behavior and nice drifts at low speed.

Graphics:

• Optimized graphics for much better performance and an overall more pleasing 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, water barrels...)
• Music from UG1, UG2, and MW is implemented. You can also skip tracks or go a trackback
• 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
• The menu is in the making and already working partially but not shown here