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Need for Speed: Underground

Need for Speed Underground for the GBA is based upon the same gritty dark-side-of-racing design released on the consoles. Here, players have the opportunity to challenge racers to different styles of driving…

17 December 2003

Need for Speed: Underground is a racing developed by Pocketeers, released 17 December 2003 on Game Boy Advance.

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What Need for Speed: Underground is

Need for Speed: Underground is a racing game developed by Pocketeers and released in 2003. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Need for Speed Underground for the GBA is based upon the same gritty dark-side-of-racing design released on the consoles. Here, players have the opportunity to challenge racers to different styles of driving in order to earn coin that can be spent on upgrades; the GBA game features a garage of fourteen different licensed vehicles from Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru and Acura, and each of these cars can be customized with paint, bumpers, decals, rims, ground effects, and more. The further into the Underground you go, the more extras you can unlock in order to create the most tricked out road machine the streets have ever seen. Most of the races are the…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Need for Speed series

Need for Speed: Underground is the 13th of 84 entries we hold in the Need for Speed series. The next entry was Need for Speed GT in 2003.

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What it launched against

Need for Speed: Underground launched on 17 December 2003, within three weeks of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, Deus Ex 2: Invisible War, SpellForce: The Order of Dawn and Deus Ex: Invisible War.

Released around the same time: Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, Deus Ex 2: Invisible War, SpellForce: The Order of Dawn, Deus Ex: Invisible War.

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When did Need for Speed: Underground come out?
Need for Speed: Underground was released on 17 December 2003 for Game Boy Advance.

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