Need For Speed Underground 2 Gets Full Browser Version

The Best Need For Speed Game Is Now Playable In Your Browser Published Oct 22, 2026, 3:20 AM EDT Sam Woods is TheGamer’s Senior Reporter. He’s been in games journalism since 2020 and has undertaken a variety of roles in that time. These have included roles such as SEO Editor, Managing Editor at DualShockers, and Global Head of Gaming, and he's also been seen on the BBC. He was promoted to the Senior Reporter position in 2025 following a series of high-quality reports and exclusives for TheGamer. Since 2020, Sam has written over 3,000 articles and specializes in telling the stories of the people behind the games. He’s interviewed the biggest game directors, some of the industry’s top talents, told the stories of how indie games came to be, and spoken to players about what really makes them tick. He’s also interviewed some of the world’s biggest musical artists to find out how the medium has inspired their work, and TV and Film actors about their roles in video game adaptations. He even hosted a PAX panel in 2021 and made a documentary in 2024 surrounding the creation of a Disney game. Alongside this, Sam focuses on breaking news. He got the scoop on Perfect Dark’s cancellation, provided context on some AI drama, and revealed that Lady Dimitrescu’s actress would love to step back into the character’s giant shoes. These articles have been picked up by the biggest gaming sites, including IGN, GameSpot, and PC Gamer. He also loves to dive into the numbers behind the games. Sam’s journey in games journalism has taken him all over the world. He’s covered Gamescom in Germany, Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, and Tokyo Game Show in Japan, each on three occasions. He’s been learning Japanese since 2024 with the intention of identifying and translating Japanese-language news and bringing it to English-language audiences first, something he’s done countless times. Sam’s first review was 2020’s Battletoads reboot, and he’s since reviewed games in The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, and Pokemon franchises. The Need for Speed series has had a very mixed history. Its Metacritic scores range from as high as 89 (Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2) to as low as 61 (Need for Speed Payback). While Hot Pursuit 2 has the best critical reviews, Most Wanted has the best User Score, and Need for Speed: Underground 2 ranks near the top when you combine critic and user scores. Thanks to some fans, that last title is now much more accessible, as Need for Speed: Underground 2 has a fully working browser version. Need For Speed: Underground 2 Works Perfectly As A Browser Game Growing up, I would play Need for Speed: Underground on my GameCube and games like Neopets in my browser. Never did I imagine a world where the former would be available so readily, as if it were a Flash game. The fan project, which stresses that it is not associated with Electronic Arts (which has just annoyed the gaming world by closing BioWare), brings 2004's Underground 2 to your browser in all its glory. It's not just a simple port, either, and it makes tons of meaningful changes. Need for Speed: Underground 2 stood out for many things, including its car customization, music, and, most impressively, Free Roam mode, which let players explore the neon-lit city of Bayview. This Free Roam mode now has a full online server, in which you can explore the city with hundreds of other racers. At 3 am ET, there were over 1,000 players making their way around Bayview. The game has also seen a range of visual and technical enhancements, including 120 FPS, widescreen support, and a horn to honk at pesky online racers. Surprisingly, after playing around with it for a while, it works flawlessly. Sadly, there is one small catch to it: there's a high likelihood that it was AI-vibecoded. We've seen dozens of old games pop up with PC and browser versions over the last few months, and much of it is down to the growth of generative AI (boo). Titles like Halo: Combat Evolved and Call of Duty: Black Ops 1's Zombies mode have received browser versions, while others, like Super Mario Galaxy and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, have seen their code decompiled at record speeds, leading to PC ports. This puts gaming in a very tricky spot. It's great that these games are being preserved online and that fans can access them easily, but the path to getting there isn't pretty.