About the handling and speed, you can tweak it on each car but even with that, it does stay behind Burnout 3 but it's understandable since NFSU2 wasn't intended as a full arcade racing game. I also want to add that NFSU2 is painfully long, the game should've been completable at Stage 4 at least but nope.
many racing games arent available to buy anymore due to timed licensing, basically any need for speed before most wanted 2012 i think. any forza game before forza motorsport 7, codemasters games before dirt rally. then you had the rather underrated game blur from 2011 or 2012 too i think.
most wanted was by far my favorite, but with that being said, underground 2 was incredible for its time and imo, more of a breakthrough in racing games. and like the user above, ya it would
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