Later, as your fame builds, you join the Underground Racing League and compete in races that take place on tracks broken into, or “borrowed.” “Warning: No Trespassing” reads a sign seen outside one oval before a URL race-instructions that are hastily rejected. Initial challenges take place (illegally) on city streets, where respect for traffic laws and non-racers fly out the window. Winning secures corporate sponsorship, which leads to faster cars and a fatter “rep.”

Engine mods, suspension tweaks, exhaust kits, transmission upgrades, flashy graphics and custom body work are within your grasp as a hungry street racer. Every aspect of your car is customizable, provided you score enough prize money. The game’s objective is winning races to earn reputation points and “bank” to improve your car. If the wail of a turbocharged engine is your idea of a symphony, NFSU2 is a dream come true that’ll test your metal … and mettle. It offers a relatively cheap way to (virtually) plunge accelerator first into the underground racing world. That’s where the new video game Need for Speed Underground 2 comes in. But most kids can’t get their hands on enough dough to turn dad’s Mitsubishi Eclipse into a fast and furious road hog.

With all that performance comes the itch to race, to prove who can put the most power to the pavement. Transforming pedestrian modes of transportation into quarter-mile monsters capable of warp speed-that’s the ticket in 2005. Kids are just as likely to put up posters of hyper-modified Honda Civics as they are Aston Martins. Posters of all my dream cars decorated my room: Ferrari’s 308 (think Magnum, P.I.), Lamborghini’s exotic Countach, Porsche’s 944. I for one was totally into cars during my teen years. For many adolescents, nothing captures the imagination like a hot sports car.

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