![]() Also Event #103, Enduro Street Circuit.This combined with the fact that the race is a six-lap circuit in a technical track makes Kurt's Killer Ride a very difficult race. Because of that reason, the rubberband AI has a stronger effect on opponent cars. It's important to know that this event takes place in the final stages of the game, where the player should already have a maxed-out vehicle. Event #95, Kurt's Killer Ride, in the first Underground.It's often viewed as needlessly over-complicated, inbetween not shifting gears at just the right moment causing one to lose a lot of power, and unlike any other type of race, even the lightest crash causing one's car to get totaled. Spiritual Adaptation: The Underground series is considered to be basically the unofficial video game adaptation of The Fast and the Furious (or the earlier films at least), as both share plots heavily revolving around tuner car culture.Special Effect Failure: The prologue of Underground 2, showing the player racing around Olympic City, is obviously shot in Bayview.Sequel Displacement: These games were so popular that many gamers who grew up with these games (alongside Most Wanted (2005) and sometimes Carbon) see them today as "classic" Need for Speed, even though there were six previous NFS installments released before Underground came to the scene.note In Most Wanted and Carbon, customizing your car reduces its heat level, which is helpful for avoiding the cops, but doing extensive modifications isn't mandatory. Thankfully, subsequent games did away with the star rating, making customization completely optional. While forcing players to take on something that should not be mandatory in a game genre is already questionable by itself, it does not help that the late-game visual customization options, necessary for the later magazines, make the car look like a very blatant Rice Burner. While in Underground 1 it is only used for some optional unlockables and entering a few events (And after you're done with the event you're more than free to remove your customizations), in order to advance past certain parts in the Career Mode in Underground 2, you have to complete a time trial to reach a spot in the map to have your car published in a magazine, and said car needs to have a minimum Star Rating to be able to take it on. Scrappy Mechanic: Star Ratings, which are increased by customising your car.Narm Charm: While both games' plots about fighting to be the best illegal street racer in the city are too much Serious Business for their own good, they still have their fans, however.Harsher in Hindsight: The first game's soundtrack contains three songs performed by sex offenders: "Smashing the Gas" by Mystikal note he sexually assaulted his hair stylist, "The Only" by Static X note Guitarist Tripp Eisen was jailed in 2005 after sleeping with underage fans of the band and "Ride" by Lostprophets note Singer Ian Watkins' crimes are so vast and sick we're not even going to list them.
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