Underground 2 Revived runs Need for Speed Underground 2 in Chrome and Firefox via WebAssembly, with thousands of players free roaming Bayview online again.
Instead of playing this AI slop that has to play on chrome, according to one comment, why not help GOG get it. It’s currently near the top for most votes on the GOG wishlist.
Oh damn, was the original a mmo that anyone could just grab real quick and start playing?
Edit: I just checked. Lol this is an old game made by EA! Won’t someone think of EA?! Give them your money for an unsupported and inferior product so that they can put that money into their own AI powered games!
Your “support EA, not slop” comment, is wild. Are you on drugs? Do you need sleep? Or does your anti-AI stance only apply to the poors? Brb, I’m going to download a car.
Do you know what supporting EA buys you? More AI, but this time it costs more, funds the police state, terrorism, torture, slavery, the subjugation of women and queer people, and you are very limited in what you can do with it.
If you prefer your “slop” to have the fascist seal of approval, that’s a choice you can certainly make. But don’t come here and try to play dress-up with it as if you are fighting for humans.
This is one of those rare cases where I’m like, you know what? I’ll allow it. Just this one time.
It runs good too. It’s hard to make this game run well on modern computers, and it’s next to impossible to find through legitimate channels. So what’s all these people whining about, other than the perpetual AI moaning, which honestly is getting almost just as bad as the AI tire pumping.
Not gonna happen. Car, music and other licensing makes this practically impossible. These licenses are only for a limited number of years - renewing them is often ridiculously expensive, to the point of usually making no economic sense. It’s the main reason why old racing games like this one are not available digitally.
Even Rockstar was forced to re-release their older GTAs with some music tracks removed (and they had to patch it for existing owners as well). If it’s too expensive for them and far higher profile titles, you know it’s not going to happen for a game like Underground 2.
My biggest regret is selling my old game consoles because it was becoming a burden to store them in our old place. Our new place is much bigger and I could easily have them all in my office.
You can easily emulate them all these days. I know it’s not the same, but often times, that’s actually a good thing. It’s far less of a hassle to play older titles on modern devices than to hook up an analog output era console to a modern TV and getting a good image quality out of the combination. Not to mention, performance and resolution were often much worse than you remember. Hell, some emulators even fix bugs and you can easily play ROM hacks or other mods that way - which sometimes also fix bugs, like a fan-patched version of Gran Turismo 2, which makes it actually possible to complete the game.
Instead of playing this AI slop that has to play on chrome, according to one comment, why not help GOG get it. It’s currently near the top for most votes on the GOG wishlist.
Oh damn, was the original a mmo that anyone could just grab real quick and start playing?
Edit: I just checked. Lol this is an old game made by EA! Won’t someone think of EA?! Give them your money for an unsupported and inferior product so that they can put that money into their own AI powered games!
Your “support EA, not slop” comment, is wild. Are you on drugs? Do you need sleep? Or does your anti-AI stance only apply to the poors? Brb, I’m going to download a car.
No it’s wasn’t an MMO. It also wasn’t vibe coded and didn’t require chrome. Which by all accounts makes it better than this garbage.
This doesn’t require chrome either, I just drove around on Safari on my phone. Firefox is definitely going to be supported then.
The original required Windows which I consider worse than requiring a browser, even if you can run it via Proton.
Sorry, I just edited my comment.
Do you know what supporting EA buys you? More AI, but this time it costs more, funds the police state, terrorism, torture, slavery, the subjugation of women and queer people, and you are very limited in what you can do with it.
If you prefer your “slop” to have the fascist seal of approval, that’s a choice you can certainly make. But don’t come here and try to play dress-up with it as if you are fighting for humans.
we still talkin bout EA here?
Yes. Check who bought EA
The world’s premier anti-consumer gaming company who’s profits now all go to Saudi Arabia? Yeah
This is one of those rare cases where I’m like, you know what? I’ll allow it. Just this one time.
It runs good too. It’s hard to make this game run well on modern computers, and it’s next to impossible to find through legitimate channels. So what’s all these people whining about, other than the perpetual AI moaning, which honestly is getting almost just as bad as the AI tire pumping.
Because playing nfsu2 is fun.
Playing on Firefox with no issues. I’d love a natively running program, though.
You can get it from archive.org. There even is a lutris install script which downloads and patches it:
https://lutris.net/games/need-for-speed-underground-2/
Not gonna happen. Car, music and other licensing makes this practically impossible. These licenses are only for a limited number of years - renewing them is often ridiculously expensive, to the point of usually making no economic sense. It’s the main reason why old racing games like this one are not available digitally.
Even Rockstar was forced to re-release their older GTAs with some music tracks removed (and they had to patch it for existing owners as well). If it’s too expensive for them and far higher profile titles, you know it’s not going to happen for a game like Underground 2.
I have my old PS2 and the disc still sitting around :D
My biggest regret is selling my old game consoles because it was becoming a burden to store them in our old place. Our new place is much bigger and I could easily have them all in my office.
You can easily emulate them all these days. I know it’s not the same, but often times, that’s actually a good thing. It’s far less of a hassle to play older titles on modern devices than to hook up an analog output era console to a modern TV and getting a good image quality out of the combination. Not to mention, performance and resolution were often much worse than you remember. Hell, some emulators even fix bugs and you can easily play ROM hacks or other mods that way - which sometimes also fix bugs, like a fan-patched version of Gran Turismo 2, which makes it actually possible to complete the game.
True. I was going to start getting into Pokemon Rom hacks.
It doesn’t have to play on chrome, and the game isn’t AI slop, it was made in 2005.
The net code is AI slop. Original game was very limited in online play.