At the dealership, he buys his first car using the money provided by their insurance company over the totaled Nissan Skyline, and begins to race again. The player arrives in Bayview and is contacted by Rachel, who has left them her Nissan 350Z at the airport car lot, asking to meet at a car dealership the player can ignore these instructions and race in three events and outruns before Rachel calls demanding her car back, after which no more races will spawn. Six months later, the player boards a plane to Bayview with a good luck note from Samantha, referring to her friend Rachel Teller, as well as being given a car key bearing the name 'Rachel'. A man with a scythe tattoo on his hand calls to confirm that he 'took care of a problem'. Angered, the player immediately hangs up the call and drives to a celebratory party while talking to Samantha on the phone, they are blinded and ambushed by a Hummer H2 from a dark alley, which rams and wrecks their Skyline. Revered as the best street racer in Olympic City, the player wins a race while driving a blue Nissan Skyline GT-R and promptly receives a call from an unidentified individual with an 'invitation' to join his team, followed by a threat explicitly disclaiming that he is not 'taking no for an answer'. The story takes place after the initial events of Underground, shortly after the player beats Eddie and his street racing gang The Eastsiders in Olympic City, along with Melissa.

The Nintendo DS port introduces a new feature in which the player can design custom decals to adorn any vehicle in the game. The game's storyline is presented in a comic book strip. Brooke Burke is the voice of Rachel Teller, the person who guides the player throughout the game. Need for Speed: Underground 2 provides several new features, such as broader customization, new methods of selecting races, set in a city known as Bayview. The game entails tuning cars for street races, resuming the Need for Speed: Underground storyline. Like its predecessor, it was also commercially successful, selling around 11 million copies worldwide and breaking sales records in the United Kingdom. Another version for mobile phones was also developed. Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS versions were developed by Pocketeers, and a PlayStation Portable version, titled Need for Speed: Underground Rivals, was developed by Team Fusion. It was developed for Microsoft Windows, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. It is the eighth installment in the Need for Speed series and the direct sequel to Need for Speed: Underground. Need for Speed: Underground 2 is a 2004 racing video game developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts.

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