Special marker
At the “press start” screen press up, up, down ,down, left, right, up, down to unlock a special marker in the back room of the one stop shop.

Mo Money
When youre going to sell a car, always take it to the tune up shop and sell all the parts first. The selling price of the car is the same either way.

Pursuit Help
Never press select whilst in a police pursuit, unless you are in cooldown mode, the police will always catch you. Remember: dont press select!

Quick start
Pay close attention to your tachometer when launching from the start line. Grab a perfect launch to gain a few precious seconds. When the needle turns blue drop the clutch and hold on.

Nitrous and grip
Hitting nitrous torques the chassis back, giving the rear tires immensely more weight under the new acceleration. The end effect is that you will go straight. If you find your tail sliding out or are about to spin out of control, hit your nitrous. You will be surprised at how fast you will get straight again. This is a great trick in combination with Speedbreaker. With the correct timing, there is no corner you cannot take at any speed.

Easy money
If you are low on cash, just defeat one of the opponents on the black-list. You will get two marks to use on several different things. Do not use them on the Uniques early in the game. Instead, use them on the middle or the left “Random” choices. They should always come out to either be a big cash bonus or the opponents pink slip.

Recommended car tuning:
If you are performance tuning your car, try to raise “Top Speed”, “Acceleration”, and “Handling” at the same time, and keep them even as much as possible.

Easy bounty
If u look on the map at the golfcoarse u will see a crude circle. get some cops on u and lead them onto the corse and go around the circle. they will crash and call 4 backup. i had in hour long chase just going around the circle!

Extra Money
If you start a new career with a memory card with Need for Speed Underground 2 file on it you get extra money when starting out.

Easy Money when You Sell a Car
Before you sell a car, go to a One-Stop Shop and reset all the exterior body parts (body kit, wheels, spoiler, hood, etc.) to stock. You will get a trade-in credit for the old custom parts and it will not lower the cars value when you sell it in the Safe House.

Perfect Launch
Watch your tachometer when at the starting line. Get your needle in the blue right when the race starts to get a perfect launch and gain some time against your opponents.

Heat Levels
There are 5 heat levels in a pursuit:

1: Civic police; this is just a basic pursuit.
2: Undercover civic police: this pursuit may include some road blocks.
3: State Police; this pursuit involves roadblocks, rolling blocks and light SUV Rhinos. The units are also stronger.
4: Undercover State Police; in this pursuit state helicopters are deployed, spikes are laid down next to the roadblocks, there are rolling blocks, and there are heavy SUV Rhinos.
5: Federal Units; in this pursuit, federal helicopters are deployed which sweep down and try to you off the road. There are heavy SUV Rhinos, spikes, and rolling blocks. The units in this pursuit are very strong.