A Story in a racing game? Kind of suprising but its not a bad story, still not too good. Its still a great game though.
You might think this game is would be Need For Speed Undergound 3, but this game would surpass what even that game could do. After taking out drifting and the extreme or whatever the stupid races were called its leaves you just with sprints, circuit, and drags but they bring back knockout from Underground 1 and they bring in TollBooth (time trial single car race kind of) and Speedtrap (get the most speed which doesnt mean finish first) and they add most definiatly most fustrating (but fun) thing to beat..... pursuit (yep they did they brought it back FINALLY).
This game serves out some very nice graphics they might have been able to better for being Xbox 360 (but im not complaining really). It also adds a story which is very good (i mean a real story not you lose your car and then you come back, oh yea there is more to it) but hey for a racing game to have a story i like it. it also has more cars then NSFU and they took out hummers. Only bad thing is online becuase you can only do circuits, sprints, and drags. You can't do pursuit with friends and be the police and they totally took out Speed Trap for no apparent reason (TollBooth would really only be good for tournies because its a solo race so that makes sense not to put it in).
You are a street racer (your name here) went all the way up the blacklist from #15 to #1 and went against Razor, but wait he messes with your car and no the cops get you....... Now you have to start all over and get back to the top of the blacklist and now since Razor took your car you need to get another car too. With help from Mia and Rog you get a car but you don't want to lose it to Cross (the nasty cop who hates you).
Now After doing x amount of races and milestones and getting enough bounty you get to race a blacklist racer. Which you do pretty much over and over again (but it doesnt seem super repetitive because pursuit isnt racing and pimping out your car rocks, too bad they took out having more than 1 Vinyl?!?!?!? i dont know why) then you keep moving up the blacklist. also to keep from being repetitive when you beat a blacklist racer you can choose from 6 markers but you can only get 2 (3 are upgrades: performance, part etc or you can go with pinkslips of the racers car, money, get out of jail free etc.) and you can get an awesome blacklist car that has perfomrance parts you cant even get yet.
The game isn't too hard at the core either i beat it in about 4 days (i didn't play it much each day) but it doesnt get harder after awhile, becuase trying to get the bounty and milestones can be hard unless you get one car with a lot of heat (makes your bounty go up faster and for some reason 5 heat is easier then 4) so it gets to be kind of easy.
Now this game is acually visually pleasing when you go off a big jump streaks of white air come from you car which is pretty, PLUS there is damage on your car..... well really the glass breaks and you can get the paint to be worn off but hell thats better then before when you could break glass and a huge reck then it be fixed 10 seconds later. This game also has some very good looking cinematechs which they did very well to convert game and reality into eachother.
All in all i rented it and beat it but i still might buy it because its just that fun. Now if you didn't like NSFU 1-2 this game will change it up a bit so give it a chance and rent it. Overall amazing