Need for Speed fans, here is something special for you today. YouTube’s ‘Ivan Novozhilov’ is currently remaking Need for Speed Underground 2 in Unreal Engine 4, and below you can find a video featuring 10 minutes of gameplay footage from it.
Contrary to most of the other Unreal Engine remakes we’ve shared, this one actually feels like a proper remake. In other words, it features proper gameplay mechanics. Players can drive cars, power slide, and destroy various objects. Hell, there is also a weather system, as well as music from both the Underground games.
Unfortunately, there isn’t currently any way to download this NFSU2 Remake. And, given how good this already looks, we are afraid that EA will immediately shut it down.
But anyway, here is the full list of features that the current WIP build of Need for Speed Underground 2 Remake in Unreal Engine 4 has.
Need for Speed Underground 2 Remake in Unreal Engine 4 Features
Car:
- turbo
- -nitrous (not used here)
- earn NOS back by doing some stuff (airborne, powerslide, almost crash…)
- completely new steering.
- optimized auto transmission and clutch
- fixed slip ratio (no more stuttering)
- collision sounds and sparks
- suspension compression sounds
- -sweetener (hear da backfire)
- turbo, sweetener, engine, and transmission sounds are done and “picked” depending on the performance upgrade.
- drastically changed driving behaviour. 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-y driving behaviour and nice drifts at low speed. depending on the game mode this may change in the future.
Zones:
- audio zones
- reverb zones
- named zones
- every island has a distinctive colorization.
Graphics:
- optimized graphics for much better performance and an overall more pleasant 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, MW is implemented.
- 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.
- menus are in the making and already working partially but not shown here.
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Someone is doing something which most probably gets nowhere or will be shutdown.
Yeah all efforts will be wasted with only one EA DMCA
Better for him to invest this energy in some different projects
dont call it need for speed.
At least if he’s looking for a job in the industry, this is great for his portfolio
If he can do what he’s claiming he will do, he doesn’t need a job in the industry. He can create his own IP and go indie. You don’t need these publishers anymore. All you are doing is giving them rep. But I forgot that they’re are still people that worship these big companies. From Software puts a have, no KB+M button prompts AT ALL. 60 hz LOCKed in 2022 and BOOM! 11 MILLION COPIES SOLD. That company could release sh*t on a Stick and people would reward them for it. Still trying to figure out which button on the keyboard is equivalent to Y on the controller. Roomer have it that I haven’t left the first room yet. SMH ??
He might not need it, but some people might want or just take the opportunity to work in a AAA studio or a franchise you respect, even if only for having had the professional experience at the top of the industry.
Most someones like to waste their time and efforts.
Doubt EA is going to take it down. They don’t care. Not to mention trying to take down something from Russia is like throwing sht to a fan.
Well. I’m not so sure about that. Ea could be evil.
Depends. I don’t think they are making money from nfsu2 anymore, so they won’t care in that regard. But them allowing this sets a precedent. What if someone wants to remake most wanted? Or some other, newer game? Where is the line?
Though you are right, it is unlikely that they could stop a game from being shared on torrent, especially as this is not an online game, so there are no servers that could be targeted.
I really hope he succeeds with the game, nfsu2 is my alltime favourite game, would love playing it with top notch(ish) graphics again
This looks so good
2 in this case.
NOW WERE TALKING HERE
Not bad, shame the driving is off, like if the car is sliding on ice.
When is it expected to be available for download?
As long as he never distributes it in any way he’s okay. Build the game, garner interest, then talk to EA about a job (and a significant cut of the game)
make the first one instead of most wanted with night mode.
who cares
Gimme!
wake me up when the headline changes to “Someone is releasing a remake of X game in Unreal Engine 4”
wake me up when the headline changes to “Someone is releasing a remake of X game in Unreal Engine 4”
Instead of ‘recreating’ an copyrighted game with a lot of expensive licenses, why not make your own? This is just like the SpongeBob movie remake and a lot of other projects and the worst part is that this is a game owned by EA no way that this’ll be up for long.
Good