If you're expecting to find some form of realistic racing, don't bother!! Need for Speed: Underground 2 is an arcade racer through and through, it provides pure racing fun. For me this is definitely a nice change.
The lower difficulty, easy, allowed me the illusion of just how great a driver I was, by making the opponents Sunday drivers, however for a more challenging race this can be raised by two levels to hard.
You can also hot-up and upgrade your ride. Winning races gets you access to performance and visual enhancements. Don’t worry about damaging your new carbon fiber wide body kit; there is NO damage in this game which can make for some easy and extremely forgiving racing methods like riding the wall.
If you’re looking for a racing game that will let you enjoy thrill of racing a sporty-fine looking ride, then this is the game for you.