The Fast and the Furious is great at conveying a real sense of velocity and kinaesthesia. The influences run deeper than just street parties and a narrative. The main antagonist even looks like Vince, rocking the same vest and tattooed look. Everyone sneers at you and your crappy car, all the arrogance and bravado from the films are running through the game characters. In a series first, you’re placed into a cutscene that establishes the story of the game you’re a new driver at a street racing party, complete with show cars, pumping hip hop, and neon - it’s a scene straight out of The Fast and the Furious. As you win, you get snapped out of your daydream by your friend Samantha.
You easily beat your opponents as you race at night through neon-drenched Olympic City. Underground also embraces this culture and throws you straight into the racing seat of a heavily modified Honda Integra R. street gatherings to the dusty desert raves, people congregate to express their shared love of cars, neon, and music. Racing is just one element of tuner culture presented in the film. We get a look under the hood and get to glimpse the parties, the friendships, the rivalries, and the crime. The Fast and the Furious isn’t just a film about fast cars, it’s a film about the culture that surrounds them. Related: Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered - 10 Things To Know Before You Play In 2003 - just two years after the success of the first Fast and Furious film - Need for Speed: Underground was released on the PS2, Xbox, PC, GameCube, and GBA. Need for Speed - an already established franchise - opted to move away from its tried and tested formula in (hot) pursuit of new horizons. The film sped its way to the top of the box office when it released in 2001 and game developers clearly wanted to ride that slipstream and taste the success of first place themselves. I think it manages to steer clear of copaganda, valourising only Brian himself - who eventually turns into a criminal racer - not the other cops.
The Fast and the Furious is about an undercover cop - Brian - who has to infiltrate a gang of street racers - Dom, Letty, Vince, Mia, and the rest.
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