You know, I loved NFS2:SE, especially when I had a chance to get that in a bundle pack. You can race on a track with cars around, and you can use arcade handling. When I had a much weaker computer, I always wanted to play NFS2:SE. It wasn't until maybe last year when I bought that NFS collection of games with NFS2:SE, NFS3, NFS: High Stakes, NFS: Porsche Unleashed, and NFS: Hot Pursuit. I think this newer direction since NFS3 has kind of been a moneymaker and what EA has done with the franchise.
I still respect EA Games, especially with EA Sports. But when it comes to the Need for Speed series and where it is now, I'm more like, why bother? I actually feel like NFS2:SE was probably the last real NFS game, because the series was all about racing the exotics and great sports cars. It wasn't about testing the waters of the law or whatever as it is now. Basically, I didn't really care because EA wants to take over the world owning rights to everything in known space. I think the original Need for Speed games kind of made a lot of us get into racing exotics. Where else can you race a priceless exotic in a dangerous setting? NFS broke ground in gaming. Nowadays, it's all about damage and online play... just like what GT gamers want for the next GT.
You want to enjoy the old-style NFS? Play an NFS game before NFS3. So that means the first and second ones. Other than that, NFS just has different business to attend to, different cars to attend to, and different styles to attend to. It's like when radio stations change their formats of music.
Damn it! I fell for it again!!!!!!!!!! 
