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PS2 version of Need for Speed: Undercover.

• There are more bugs than the Brazilian parts of Amazon rain forest such as...

  Uncapped reverse speed in certain vehicles by holding both brake/reverse and acceleration buttons at the same time, Standard police cars occasionally patrol the city streets at Mach Fuck, Reward vehicles for story progress sometimes not appearing in your garage at all seemingly randomly, Late game vehicles such as Pagani Zonda being faster than what the game can compute, causing you to drop through the map in certain places, In highway battle -mode the game can randomly think the CPU's behind you despite actually being ahead, causing it to rubberband up to Mach Fuck and losing by outdistancing you, Civillian traffic pathfinding getting all messed up in certain locations, if you park your car and don't move for a little while, At least on race layout where the CPU's jump up a crest and slam into an invisible wall at full speed because there's a 90 degree corner right after the mentioned crest, In short, the whole game is a bunch of al dente spaghetti held together by three Hail Mary's in regard to code

• The game also has some utterly baffling design choice such as...

  Event markers in career mode free roam are so big and numerous that it's nearly impossible to see where you are going towards the end game, The pursuit cooldown spot locations. Somehow the Police heli can find you from under the roof of a remote car wash, but can't find you under a bridge... which goes across an eight lane freeway... Legitimately the police station is a better hiding spot than half of the official cooldown locations, CPU vehicle types appear only under specific circumstances for no reason like a car truck that appears just once per save file at the beginning of a single checkpoint race or Police K9's only appearing during specific pursuit missions, Story bosses, aside from the first and last ones, all drive single tone hot pink cars for some reason. Honestly this could just as well be bug when trying to load the livery texture. Also, the whole game world is just a baby's first romhack-esque kitbash of the OG Most Wanted map due to limited amount of development resources given to the project.

All this and more is exactly why I have a soft spot for this version of Undercover. It is the quintessential "so bad that it's good" -game.