While the current EA is engaged in masturbation by introducing loot boxes everywhere, releasing useless singles in addition to multiplayer and reinventing the wheel by releasing NFS 2015 and Payback, in 2003, on the wave of the popularity of fast and furious and street racing, Underground was released from under the wing of EA Black Box.
They uploaded videos with characters like cool racers, brought in styling and tuning, piled on cool music and threw all this stuff onto store shelves. It’s a pity that we can’t find licensed discs on sale now, but that’s not the point.
Atmospheric and driving racing in the Underground, along with the afterburner, gave rise, at least in Russia, to a bunch of custom cars. Everything was tuned: from rusty buckets of the Soviet automobile industry to cool foreign cars.
In the game, each race was filled with drive and it was a wild thrill to make your own unique car, and then argue with a friend who has the coolest one.
In short, the game can still give a kick to modern racing.