Underground 2 Revived is a fan project that runs Need for Speed: Underground 2 in Chrome and Firefox by recompiling the original PC game’s code. It offers widescreen play at up to 120 frames per second, free roam, online races with friends, and support for controllers, wheels, keyboards, and touchscreens. The project began as an effort by two brothers to play a game they had enjoyed together roughly 20 years earlier; it has since grown into a browser-based version with multiplayer features and tools for managing profiles, screenshots, settings, and game data.
Players can meet in free roam, join friends’ rooms, and use crews of up to four people, whose members see one another in the same crew color. The site also provides cloud saves that sync saved games and usernames across devices, downloadable backups, configurable controls, and options to play offline or in ghost mode. The game includes mods and a range of language translations, with credits for the developers and translators involved. Its code builds on the MIT-licensed NFSU2Recomp project. Hosting and development are supported through optional donations; supporters receive a Discord role, but the game has no microtransactions or paid gameplay advantages. The project is unofficial and unaffiliated with Electronic Arts.
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