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** The aforementioned "Bank" made it all the way to Need For Speed Payback.
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* InformedFlaw: Bayview's residents act as if Olympic City is some rural backwater, and treat you like you're a hick. Likely [[{{Jerkass}} some (very) rude teasing]] on their part.
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* {{Jerkass}}: A massive chunk of the racers you come across in ''Underground 2'' are arrogant douchebags that belittle your car and see you as one of three things:
** A schmuck to steal money from.
** A delusional teenager driving his parents' car.
** A yokel that's about to get lapped numerous times.
** A schmuck to steal money from.
** A delusional teenager driving his parents' car.
** A yokel that's about to get lapped numerous times.
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* ThatOneLevel: Event #95, Kurt's Killer Ride, in the first ''Underground''. 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. Because of that reason, the rubberband AI has a stronger effect on opponent cars. 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.
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* AlwaysNight: Daylight never occurs in gameplay within these games, which was {{justified|Trope}} given the illegal street racing that made up them.
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* AlwaysNight: Daylight never occurs in gameplay within these games, which was {{justified|Trope}} given the illegal street racing that made up them. Sometimes in Underground 2 it brights up a bit, turn to dawn, but quickly it skips to dusk, and to night again.
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* RealSongThemeTune: ''Underground'' has "Get Low" by Music/LilJon & The Eastside Boyz featuring the Ying Yang Twins; ''Underground 2'' has the "Fredwreck Remix" of Music/TheDoors' classic "Riders on the Storm", with special rap lyrics by Music/SnoopDogg.
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* LethalJokeCharacter: The Toyota Corolla in ''Underground 2'', which starts out as the slowest car in the game, but when it's fully upgraded it's easily the ''best'' car in the game, thanks to its insane handling. Street X races, Drift events and pretty much every race in Jackson Heights in particular are an absolute ''cakewalk'' with the Corolla. To top it all off, it's one of the cars you can pick from right at the start of Career Mode. [[Manga/InitialD Some guy uses it to deliver tofu at 4 in the morning while navigating mountain passes, what do you expect?]]
** The Mazda MX-5 in both games also counts. It's a starter car just like the aforementioned Corolla, but when fully upgraded it has the highest overall stats in both games, putting even Skylines, Mustangs and Supras to shame.
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* LethalJokeCharacter: The Toyota Corolla GT-S ([=AE86=]) in ''Underground 2'', which starts out as the slowest car in the game, but when it's fully upgraded it's easily the ''best'' car in the game, thanks to its insane handling. Street X and URL races, Drift events and pretty much every race in Jackson Heights in particular are an absolute ''cakewalk'' with the Corolla. To top it all off, it's one of the cars you can pick from right at the start of Career Mode. [[Manga/InitialD Some guy uses it to deliver tofu at 4 in the morning while navigating mountain passes, what do you expect?]]
** The MazdaMX-5 Miata/MX-5 (NB) in both games also counts. It's a starter car just like the aforementioned Corolla, but when fully upgraded it has the highest overall stats in both games, putting even Skylines, Mustangs and Supras to shame.
** The Mazda
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** [[Manga/InitialD Some guy uses it to deliver tofu at 4 in the morning while navigating mountain passes, what do you expect?]]
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'''''Need for Speed: Underground''''' is a sub-series of Creator/ElectronicArts's ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' franchise developed by EA Black Box. Consisting of the titular first game in 2003, the [[WideOpenSandbox open world]] ''Underground 2'' in 2004, and the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable portable]] ''Underground Rivals'' in 2005, these games drastically changed the focus and identity of ''NFS'' from racing exotic cars in various scenic tracks while being chased by the cops to racing heavily-customized import tuners in urban environments [[AlwaysNight at night]] when there are no cops around. In addition, ''Underground'' introduced an actual plot to the series for the first time.
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* GameBreaker: Any four wheel drive vehicle. Due to their increased traction and traditionally higher horsepower, they oftentimes get a much better launch than vehicles of other drivetrains. This allows them to gain a considerable advantage in many Street X and Drag races.
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In ''Underground'', [[PlayerCharacter you]] are an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] [[FeaturelessProtagonist racer]] in Olympic City with your friend, Samantha. Supposedly, according to the ''Need for Speed'' [[http://nfs.wikia.com/wiki/Player Wiki,]] you originally hail from Palmont City (the setting of 2006's ''Need for Speed: Carbon''), where you were in a race against Wolf, Angie, and Kenji until they were all ambushed by Palmont Police Department. You managed to flee from them with a bag filled with (fake) paper money given to you by Nikki before settling in Olympic City.
After being awoken from a daydream by Samantha, she shows you the ropes around the city's underground street racing scene. You race around the city, meet a mechanic named TJ, and beat competitors left and right until you could come up to [[BigBad Eddie]]. Eddie is the best racer in the city, and also is the leader of The Eastsiders who drives a customized orange Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 (the car seen on the game's cover). He also has a girlfriend named Melissa.
After being awoken from a daydream by Samantha, she shows you the ropes around the city's underground street racing scene. You race around the city, meet a mechanic named TJ, and beat competitors left and right until you could come up to [[BigBad Eddie]]. Eddie is the best racer in the city, and also is the leader of The Eastsiders who drives a customized orange Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 (the car seen on the game's cover). He also has a girlfriend named Melissa.
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In ''Underground'', [[PlayerCharacter you]] are an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] [[FeaturelessProtagonist racer]] in Olympic City with your friend, Samantha. Supposedly, according to the ''Need for Speed'' [[http://nfs.wikia.com/wiki/Player Wiki,]] you originally hail from Palmont City (the setting of 2006's ''Need for Speed: Carbon''), where you were in a race against Wolf, Angie, and Kenji until they were all ambushed by Palmont Police Department. You managed to flee from them with a bag filled with (fake) paper money given to you by Nikki before settling in Olympic City.
After being awoken from a daydream by Samantha, she shows you the ropes around the city's underground street racing scene. You race around the city, meet a mechanic named TJ, and beat competitors left and right until you could come up to [[BigBad Eddie]]. Eddie is the best racer in the city, and also is the leader of The Eastsiders who drives a customized orange Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 (the car seen on the game's cover). He also has a girlfriend named Melissa.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The races are mostly set in night in comparison to the daytime dominated previous NFS titles, and Underground 2 begins with attempted murder of the protagonist.
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* MarketBasedTitle: The first game was called ''Need for Speed: Underground J-Tune'' in Japan.
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* SwallowedWhole: The fate of a particular silver and purple Nissan [=350Z=] in the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs mindfuck]] that is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CLXi1al9zA older intro movie]] for ''Underground 2''.
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* SwallowedWhole: The fate of a particular silver and purple Nissan [=350Z=] in the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs mindfuck]] mindscrew]] that is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CLXi1al9zA older intro movie]] for ''Underground 2''.
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* NitroBoost: These are the first ''NFS'' games to include this. While the first ''Underground'' limited you to one tank with no way to refill it mid-race, ''Underground 2'' introduced the "Racebreaker" system, which refilled your nitrous if you did various stunts, like drifting, jumping, and narrowly avoiding traffic. Certain stunts had multipliers increasing refilled nitrous every consecutive time you can pull off a stunt, meaning weaving through traffic with the maximum x5 multiplier can give you nitrous more quickly than you can spend it.
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** In ''Underground 2'', once you arrive in Bayview, Rachel lets you borrow her car (a fully-modded Audi TT) so you can get from the airport over to your garage. You can drive straight there, or you can participate in a couple of races, [[WhatTheHellPlayer which will prompt increasingly irate messages from Rachel]].
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* HeelFaceTurn/HighHeelFaceTurn: Nikki in ''Underground 2'', after [[DefeatMeansFriendship you beat her in an URL race]].
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* ATasteOfPower: Both games.
** In ''Underground'', the opening race is a FantasySequence in which you drive a fully-modded car. After Samantha wakes you up from your daydream, you're invited to select your ''actual'' unmodded starter car.
** In ''Underground 2'', once you arrive in Bayview, Rachel lets you borrow her car (a fully-modded Audi TT) so you can get from the airport over to your garage. You can drive straight there, or you can participate in a couple of races, [[WhatTheHellPlayer which will prompt increasingly irate messages from Rachel]].
* BagOfSpilling: Justified in ''Underground 2'': the player's car is totaled in the opening cutscene, forcing them to move to Bayview and start all over again.
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** In ''Underground 2'', once you arrive in Bayview, Rachel lets you borrow her car (a fully-modded Audi TT) so you can get from the airport over to your garage. You can drive straight there, or you can participate in a couple of races, [[WhatTheHellPlayer which will prompt increasingly irate messages from Rachel]].
* BagOfSpilling: Justified in ''Underground 2'': the player's car is totaled in the opening cutscene, forcing them to move to Bayview and start all over again.
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* BrokenBridge: You have to win events to unlock access to various areas around Bayview, otherwise you'll have to deal with holographic barriers blocking access to the locked areas of the city.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the ''Underground'' games, where almost all race givers will treat your car as a wreck, and expect you to be [[EpicFail lapped five times by the end of the race.]]
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight painfully straight, especially in the ''Underground'' games, where ''Underground 2''; even if you've maxed out your car's performance and visual ratings, almost all race givers will treat your car as a wreck, wreck and expect you to be [[EpicFail lapped five times by the end of the race.]]race]].
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* LethalJokeCharacter: The Toyota Corolla in ''Underground 2'', which starts out as the slowest car in the game, but when it's fully upgraded it's easily the ''best'' car in the game, thanks to its insane handling. Street X and Drift races in particular are an absolute ''cakewalk'' with the Corolla. To top it all off, it's one of the cars you can pick from right at the start of Career Mode.
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In ''Underground 2'', after the player defeats [[TheDragon Nikki]] in an URL race, Caleb's VillainousBreakdown begins in earnest and he angrily chews her out. Nikki's response is to perform a HeelFaceTurn and join the player's side.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Caleb spends the final part of ''Underground 2'' having one, as first Nikki, and then his sponsors turn against him. This culminates in him angrily challenging the player to a final showdown, which he then loses.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Need for Speed'', the 2015 series reboot.
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* RealSongThemeTune: ''Underground 2'' has the "Fredwreck Remix" of Music/TheDoors' classic "Riders on the Storm", with special rap lyrics by Music/SnoopDogg.
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'''''Need for Speed: Underground''''' is a sub-series of Creator/ElectronicArts's ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' franchise developed by EA Black Box. Consisting of the titular first game in 2003, the [[WideOpenSandbox open world]] ''Underground 2'' in 2004, and the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable portable]] ''Underground Rivals'' in 2005, this these games drastically changed the focus and identity of ''NFS'' from racing exotic cars in various scenic tracks while being chased by the cops to racing heavily-customized import tuners in urban environments [[AlwaysNight at night]] when there are no cops around. In addition, ''Underground'' introduced an actual plot to the series for the first time.
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'''''Need for Speed: Underground''''' is a sub-series of Creator/ElectronicArts's ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' franchise developed by EA Black Box. Consisting of the titular first game in 2003, the [[WideOpenSandbox open world]] ''Underground 2'' in 2004, and the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable portable]] ''Underground Rivals'' in 2005, this drastically changed the focus and identity of ''NFS'' from racing exotic cars in various scenic tracks while being chased by the cops to racing heavily-customized import tuners in urban environments [[AlwaysNight at night]] when there are no cops around. In addition, ''Underground'' introduced an actual plot to the series for the first time.
In ''Underground'', [[PlayerCharacter you]] are an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] [[PlayerCharacter racer]] in Olympic City with your friend, Samantha. Supposedly, according to the ''Need for Speed'' [[http://nfs.wikia.com/wiki/Player Wiki,]] you originally hail from Palmont City (the setting of 2006's ''Need for Speed: Carbon''), where you were in a race against Wolf, Angie, and Kenji until they were all ambushed by Palmont Police Department. You managed to flee from them with a bag filled with (fake) paper money given to you by Nikki before settling in Olympic City.
After being awoken from a daydream by Samantha, she shows you the ropes around the city's underground street racing scene. You race around the city, meet a mechanic named TJ, and beat competitors left and right until you could come up to [[BigBad Eddie]]. Eddie is the best racer in the city, and also is the leader of The Eastsiders who drives a customized orange Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 (the car seen on the game's cover). He also has a girlfriend named Melissa.
When you finally do so, he challenges you and Samantha to a sprint race that leads to [[spoiler:her wrecking her Hello Kitty-esque Honda Civic Si in the process, which TJ takes for himself and repairs (and redesigns) it afterwards]]. Eddie tries to get rid of you to no avail, as you win [[spoiler:back Samantha's]] car and beat Eddie and his crew. Finally, a mysterious driver in a silver Nissan 350Z challenges you to compete in one more race. After you beat the driver, who [[spoiler:reveals herself to be Melissa]], you are deemed the best racer in the city.
However, your time of celebration will not last long. Leading into the events of ''Underground 2'', a mysterious bald man calls you to try to force you into joining his crew, but you hang up on him. En route to a celebratory party, you are rammed in your Skyline by a black Hummer H2 driven by a man with a scythe tattoo on his hand, calling someone to say that he "took care of a problem."
Six months later, you take a flight to Bayview with Samantha recommending in a note that you meet her friend, Rachel Teller. After arriving at the airport, you drive Rachel's green Nissan 350Z (the car on this game's cover) to get your first car from Bayview for free as insurance payment for the totaled Skyline (although [[ATasteOfPower you do have the option to race in three events in her car]], though she won't like it).
From there, you race around the city, winning events and collecting sponsorships. Eventually, you cross paths with The Wraiths, led by Caleb Reece, and as you win races against them, you hear more about their shady work in their attempt to control Bayview's racing scene, such as manipulating sponsorships against both you and Rachel. It's also revealed that [[spoiler:Caleb was the man responsible for the wrecking you in Olympic City]]. Later on, after you win a series of URL (Underground Racing League) races, a female Wraith member named Nikki Morris [[spoiler:defects from them and joins your crew]].
Infuriated by your constant winning, Caleb eventually challenges you to one last race against him in his 2004 Pontiac GTO. Once you beat him, The Wraiths are dissolved, Caleb is forced to leave town, and you are (again) deemed the best racer in the city.
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!!These ''Need for Speed'' games contain examples of the following tropes:
* AlwaysNight: Daylight never occurs in gameplay within these games, which was {{justified|Trope}} given the illegal street racing that made up them.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Underground'' radically changed the look and feel of ''Need for Speed'' by taking out the exotics, scenic environments, and police and replacing them with tuners, cities, and aftermarket customization.
* BigBad[=/=]FinalBoss: Eddie in the first ''Underground'', Caleb Reece in ''Underground 2''.
* BraggingRightsReward: ''Underground'' had the Bonus Cars, untuned cars with awesome vinyls.
* BrokenBridge: You have to win events to unlock access to various areas around Bayview, otherwise you'll have to deal with holographic barriers blocking access to the locked areas of the city.
* {{Cool Car}}s: These games were when ''Need for Speed'' switched from exotics to tuners, and thus had the coolest imports for the time, especially the Nissans on the two main games' covers.
* DesignItYourselfEquipment: [[OlderThanTheyThink While they're not the first games in the series to feature aftermarket parts]] (that honor goes to ''Need for Speed: High Stakes''), they are the first to make them a main feature.
** The UsefulNotes/NintendoDS version of ''Underground 2'' allows players to create decals.
* DifficultySpike: The first ''Underground'' started this trend in the franchise.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the ''Underground'' games, where almost all race givers will treat your car as a wreck, and expect you to be [[EpicFail lapped five times by the end of the race.]]
* ExcusePlot: Seriously, the plots are only there to provide some sort of motivation for winning events.
* FameGate: The ''Underground'' games have a style gate for certain points in the campaign, where you customize your car to reach a set stylish rating.
* InMediasRes: The first ''Underground'' starts like this.
* MarketBasedTitle: The first game was called ''Need for Speed: Underground J-Tune'' in Japan.
* MightyGlacier: The three [=SUVs=] in ''Underground 2'' (Lincoln Navigator, Hummer H2, and Cadillac Escalade) play to this.
* MsFanservice: Pick a girl, any girl. They were all played by models.
* NitroBoost: These are the first ''NFS'' games to include this.
* ProductPlacement: Along with the numerous sponsorships and part manufacturers in both games, in ''Underground 2'' (2004 [[MedalOfDishonor "winner"]] of [=GameSpot=]'s "Most Despicable Product Placement"):
** You have a Cingular Wireless[[note]]which today is AT&T[[/note]] phone with SMS capabilities with their logo prominently showing on your HUD ''all the time'', and there are various Cingular stores strewn across Bayview.
** There are several Best Buy stores in the City Core and Coal Harbor areas.
** There are several Burger King franchises strewn across the city, with a prominent Burger King restaurant located in Beacon Hill West that has a drive-thru pathway that can be used as a shortcut.
* RampJump: ''Underground'''s maps had players jumping over rivers and canals using opened drawbridges.
* SwallowedWhole: The fate of a particular silver and purple Nissan [=350Z=] in the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs mindfuck]] that is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CLXi1al9zA older intro movie]] for ''Underground 2''.
* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Melissa]] in ''Underground''.
* TheVoiceless: Your character doesn't speak at all in these games.
* WhamEpisode: Actually a Wham Race in the first ''Underground''. The race known as "Friends Are Easy To Make, And Easier To Lose" has you racing against [[spoiler:Samantha, who's been your guide throughout the first two-thirds of the game]]. Later, the other racers will call you out on this.
* WideOpenSandbox: ''Underground 2'' marked the debut of free-roaming environments in the ''Need for Speed'' franchise, with Bayview able to be explored more and more as you beat events.
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'''''Need for Speed: Underground''''' is a sub-series of Creator/ElectronicArts's ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' franchise developed by EA Black Box. Consisting of the titular first game in 2003, the [[WideOpenSandbox open world]] ''Underground 2'' in 2004, and the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable portable]] ''Underground Rivals'' in 2005, this drastically changed the focus and identity of ''NFS'' from racing exotic cars in various scenic tracks while being chased by the cops to racing heavily-customized import tuners in urban environments [[AlwaysNight at night]] when there are no cops around. In addition, ''Underground'' introduced an actual plot to the series for the first time.
In ''Underground'', [[PlayerCharacter you]] are an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] [[PlayerCharacter racer]] in Olympic City with your friend, Samantha. Supposedly, according to the ''Need for Speed'' [[http://nfs.wikia.com/wiki/Player Wiki,]] you originally hail from Palmont City (the setting of 2006's ''Need for Speed: Carbon''), where you were in a race against Wolf, Angie, and Kenji until they were all ambushed by Palmont Police Department. You managed to flee from them with a bag filled with (fake) paper money given to you by Nikki before settling in Olympic City.
After being awoken from a daydream by Samantha, she shows you the ropes around the city's underground street racing scene. You race around the city, meet a mechanic named TJ, and beat competitors left and right until you could come up to [[BigBad Eddie]]. Eddie is the best racer in the city, and also is the leader of The Eastsiders who drives a customized orange Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 (the car seen on the game's cover). He also has a girlfriend named Melissa.
When you finally do so, he challenges you and Samantha to a sprint race that leads to [[spoiler:her wrecking her Hello Kitty-esque Honda Civic Si in the process, which TJ takes for himself and repairs (and redesigns) it afterwards]]. Eddie tries to get rid of you to no avail, as you win [[spoiler:back Samantha's]] car and beat Eddie and his crew. Finally, a mysterious driver in a silver Nissan 350Z challenges you to compete in one more race. After you beat the driver, who [[spoiler:reveals herself to be Melissa]], you are deemed the best racer in the city.
However, your time of celebration will not last long. Leading into the events of ''Underground 2'', a mysterious bald man calls you to try to force you into joining his crew, but you hang up on him. En route to a celebratory party, you are rammed in your Skyline by a black Hummer H2 driven by a man with a scythe tattoo on his hand, calling someone to say that he "took care of a problem."
Six months later, you take a flight to Bayview with Samantha recommending in a note that you meet her friend, Rachel Teller. After arriving at the airport, you drive Rachel's green Nissan 350Z (the car on this game's cover) to get your first car from Bayview for free as insurance payment for the totaled Skyline (although [[ATasteOfPower you do have the option to race in three events in her car]], though she won't like it).
From there, you race around the city, winning events and collecting sponsorships. Eventually, you cross paths with The Wraiths, led by Caleb Reece, and as you win races against them, you hear more about their shady work in their attempt to control Bayview's racing scene, such as manipulating sponsorships against both you and Rachel. It's also revealed that [[spoiler:Caleb was the man responsible for the wrecking you in Olympic City]]. Later on, after you win a series of URL (Underground Racing League) races, a female Wraith member named Nikki Morris [[spoiler:defects from them and joins your crew]].
Infuriated by your constant winning, Caleb eventually challenges you to one last race against him in his 2004 Pontiac GTO. Once you beat him, The Wraiths are dissolved, Caleb is forced to leave town, and you are (again) deemed the best racer in the city.
''Underground Rivals'' has no plot, and thus does not connect to the above stories.
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!!These ''Need for Speed'' games contain examples of the following tropes:
* AlwaysNight: Daylight never occurs in gameplay within these games, which was {{justified|Trope}} given the illegal street racing that made up them.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Underground'' radically changed the look and feel of ''Need for Speed'' by taking out the exotics, scenic environments, and police and replacing them with tuners, cities, and aftermarket customization.
* BigBad[=/=]FinalBoss: Eddie in the first ''Underground'', Caleb Reece in ''Underground 2''.
* BraggingRightsReward: ''Underground'' had the Bonus Cars, untuned cars with awesome vinyls.
* BrokenBridge: You have to win events to unlock access to various areas around Bayview, otherwise you'll have to deal with holographic barriers blocking access to the locked areas of the city.
* {{Cool Car}}s: These games were when ''Need for Speed'' switched from exotics to tuners, and thus had the coolest imports for the time, especially the Nissans on the two main games' covers.
* DesignItYourselfEquipment: [[OlderThanTheyThink While they're not the first games in the series to feature aftermarket parts]] (that honor goes to ''Need for Speed: High Stakes''), they are the first to make them a main feature.
** The UsefulNotes/NintendoDS version of ''Underground 2'' allows players to create decals.
* DifficultySpike: The first ''Underground'' started this trend in the franchise.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Played straight in the ''Underground'' games, where almost all race givers will treat your car as a wreck, and expect you to be [[EpicFail lapped five times by the end of the race.]]
* ExcusePlot: Seriously, the plots are only there to provide some sort of motivation for winning events.
* FameGate: The ''Underground'' games have a style gate for certain points in the campaign, where you customize your car to reach a set stylish rating.
* InMediasRes: The first ''Underground'' starts like this.
* MarketBasedTitle: The first game was called ''Need for Speed: Underground J-Tune'' in Japan.
* MightyGlacier: The three [=SUVs=] in ''Underground 2'' (Lincoln Navigator, Hummer H2, and Cadillac Escalade) play to this.
* MsFanservice: Pick a girl, any girl. They were all played by models.
* NitroBoost: These are the first ''NFS'' games to include this.
* ProductPlacement: Along with the numerous sponsorships and part manufacturers in both games, in ''Underground 2'' (2004 [[MedalOfDishonor "winner"]] of [=GameSpot=]'s "Most Despicable Product Placement"):
** You have a Cingular Wireless[[note]]which today is AT&T[[/note]] phone with SMS capabilities with their logo prominently showing on your HUD ''all the time'', and there are various Cingular stores strewn across Bayview.
** There are several Best Buy stores in the City Core and Coal Harbor areas.
** There are several Burger King franchises strewn across the city, with a prominent Burger King restaurant located in Beacon Hill West that has a drive-thru pathway that can be used as a shortcut.
* RampJump: ''Underground'''s maps had players jumping over rivers and canals using opened drawbridges.
* SwallowedWhole: The fate of a particular silver and purple Nissan [=350Z=] in the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs mindfuck]] that is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CLXi1al9zA older intro movie]] for ''Underground 2''.
* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Melissa]] in ''Underground''.
* TheVoiceless: Your character doesn't speak at all in these games.
* WhamEpisode: Actually a Wham Race in the first ''Underground''. The race known as "Friends Are Easy To Make, And Easier To Lose" has you racing against [[spoiler:Samantha, who's been your guide throughout the first two-thirds of the game]]. Later, the other racers will call you out on this.
* WideOpenSandbox: ''Underground 2'' marked the debut of free-roaming environments in the ''Need for Speed'' franchise, with Bayview able to be explored more and more as you beat events.
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