[Announced] Need For Speed Underground 2

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Op vrijdag 23 juli 2004 07:34 schreef G-Mart het volgende:

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Ja, dit klopt. In de niuewe Power Unlimited staat trouwens een preview van deze game.

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Op dinsdag 27 juli 2004 20:08 schreef Mikkie het volgende:

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* meldt. Maar pas sinds kort een console en NFS:U heeft... twee of drie weken ofzo. Maar t gaat nu wel richting het einde lopen...

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By: Micheal Mullen, eagames.com editor

Last week EA GAMES had the rare opportunity to talk to one of the only reasons why men watch the E Network, Brooke Burke as she talked about her upcoming starring role in the anticipated release of Need for Speed Underground 2. While her often studied assets are usually front and center (usually on the cover of your favorite magazines), we're happy to report that Brooke's while she's not only beautiful, intelligent and has a great sense of humor, she also plays games.

EA GAMES: I've heard that you actually play games so it must be an honor to actually star in one.

Brooke Burke: It's huge. I actually had that the game [Need for Speed Underground] before EA approached me. I'm also a car enthusiast so there is a reason why I was passionate this game. I think it's going to be awesome. I'm really excited to see the finished product.


EAG: Were you any good at playing Need for Speed Underground?

BB: I was ok but I had a lot to learn. I'm much better now than I was before. I love to drive and I've done some things to my personal car that you can do in the game so it's been kind of fun to see that all happen.


EAG: Have you been able to get in a little time to play NFSU2 yet?

BB: Yeah. We've been messing around a little bit and I think it's going to be so much more fun having the open world option. The size of the world now is just incredible. Things that I really like about the game are that you can make it up as you go along. You can make it up as you go along, you don't have to play the races like the last game that you don't want to play where it just dropped you right in. I also think that it's cool as opposed to some other racing games where these are really attainable cars, these aren't $100,000+ cars. These are cars that people have or can have or that there are attainable goals and they can really have fun and style them out and make them their own. I think that people are really to relate to this game.


EAG: Do you have any favorite games that you're anxious to play in the game?

BB::The Hummer because I have a Hummer in real life. It's pretty amazing to see the performance packages and all the little options to put on that to really make it styled. That's something that's going to be a lot of fun because that's something I'm in the process of doing right now. Not performance-wise, but mainly exterior. I'm dying to see to open up the Hummer in a fantasy world and see how it rides.


EAG: Or you can just ride around and intimidate the other drivers...

BB: Totally and just through all the barriers and whatever!


EAG: So I've heard you own a Ferrari and I was wondering if you've ever raced or drifted?

BB: No, I don't drift in it. I try not to do that. Y'know an occasional race but I'm pretty responsible with that car. I try to avoid all that. But I have a Hummer that I've styled out. It's got a lot of bling on it and chrome so I've had a lot of fun with that inside and outside. And I own a Mercedes with an after kit package on it, lights front and back, rims and exhaust [2:00]. So there are definitely a lot of things in the game I can relate to.


EAG: Being a TV personality and in film... being in a video game is a completely different experience. How to you prepare for a role in a video game?

BB: I had no idea what to expect. And I have to say that the still photo shoot was the toughest acting job I've ever had. Having to be so animated, having to hold the animations, having to let a still photographer capture those moments was pretty challenging. I also had a lot of fun in the voiceover booth really developing the personality of the character and learning the tuner culture lingo. And it's totally different than anything I've ever done before. I have love doing things that I have not done before and I think that this whole process is fascinating, from the still shoot, to the voice over to the development of the character. Today I saw the animated drawings for the first time, it's amazing to see this graphic-like novel play out with me in and be so realistic.


EAG: In Need for Speed Underground 2, you portray Rachel. Now that you've completed your work on the game, can you tell us anything about her?

BB: I think that Rachel has a really cool demeanor about her. Very confident and strong and knowledgeable. She's not a bimbo and she's not too playful. She's a really tough chick. She runs the entire underground street racing circuit and I think she has the ability to mess around with the gamer when she needs to but also to encourage them and give them the tools they need to become better racers. I like that about her, she's really straight up and tough. I think that we have some similar characteristics.


EAG: So I know you're married (sorry, guys) to a plastic surgeon, is he going to torture the animation team if they don't recreate your likeness correctly?

BB: Ha, ha, ha! No, no, no. I think they did a wonderful job.


EAG: So you actually play games at home?

BB: We had a PlayStation 2 and we just got an Xbox. We have a home theater so we have a lot of time playing in there. I used to play video games when I remember Pac Man and Asteroids were just coming up. I love the compilation discs with a lot of the old school games on them, and those are a lot of fun. I play a lot with my kids too, we play Nemo. My husband plays a lot of sports and racing games that he loves. And we play a lot of the old school stuff.


EAG: Have you played any games online?

BB: No. I haven't yet. I would definitely like to check that out. Since my character in the game, Rachel, can't race in the game I'd definitely get online and race against other people. We should set that up.


EAG: Do you have anyone in your family that's most eager to see you in NFSU2?

BB: Yeah, my nephew Ritchie, he's 10. He's a Need for Speed Underground freak, he knows the game inside and out and I'm his hero.


EAG: So has he already asked for Need for Speed T-shirts and other swag?

BB: He hit up EA PR for everything. And he came to the shoot. He lives in Arizona so I flew him out to LA to go to the photo shoot with me. He's a little enthusiast now, I tell ya.


EAG: What's up next after the game?

BB: I don't know. Everybody's asked me that. I think that I've been really fortunate that I'm always working on something. My workout video is finished and is rolling out all over the country. There's an infomercial about that. With my swimsuit line, we're sort of changing direction. I'm looking at some licensing deals. My 2005 calendar hits stores in October, that's going to print this week. We've just signed a deal to do two new posters both internationally and here in the states. And TV and movies, I'm doing some news anchoring this summer.


EAG: It sounds like you don't actually have time to sit down.

BB: [Laughs] Believe it or not I have a lot of free time lately. I have a lot of little projects that are fun. More selective projects if you will.


EAG: So my last question is one to even a bet that we have here in the office. You don't actually live in a bikini everyday, correct?

BB: I'm in a bikini right now [laughs]


EAG: There goes $5.

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Op woensdag 4 augustus 2004 00:24 schreef Mikkie het volgende:

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Ik zie geloof ik twee keer een 350Z... als ik het goed heb. Alleen die bovenste heb ik niet echt een idee...?

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Op woensdag 4 augustus 2004 10:58 schreef Mikkie het volgende:
Die bovenste lijkt trouwens het merk van een Acura te hebben... maar welk model is het dan?

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Op woensdag 4 augustus 2004 13:41 schreef ElmarO het volgende:

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Ik heb even gezocht op Google en die bovenste schijnt de Infiniti G35 te zijn.