Need for Speed series

[TIGER8855]

I'm in the middle of a driving cab project for model 2/MAME but also want to add some later PC Games to the cab. I remember playing Need for Speed back in the 90s and thinking how incredible it was for it's time and would like to add 1 or 2 of the later need for speed games to my cab but I haven't played any of the games that have come out in the last 10 years or so.

So I was hoping someone could recommend a recent Need for Speed game that is worth buying. Some of the ones I'm looking at are:
-NFS Underground 1 or 2
-NFS Undercover
-NFS Shift 1 or 2
-NFS World
-NFS Hot Pursuit
-NFS The Run
-NFS Most Wanted (later version)

[Drnick]

Underground 1 & 2 all the way for me.

[Fursphere]

Shift 1 and 2 are simulators, not arcade games.   Fun, but hard (for me at least).

Hot Pursuit and the Run are very arcade, and I've enjoyed them.  Takes a beefy system to play them at max settings though.  I downloaded World (free) but haven't played it yet.

As for the others, haven't played them.

[BadMouth]

I haven't played any since the original Most Wanted, but I think it holds up well and is fun to play on a cab.

I picked up Shift 2 and Hot Pursuit out of a bargain bin for $6 each, but haven't installed them yet.
Also got Pro Street.  I think it was only $3. 

It was at Ollies Bargain Outlet if you have one near you.
They also had Split Second and some simbin racers that I already had.

If you have the hard drive space, add everything you can find cheap. 

[Malenko]

Porsche Unleashed was pretty epic (in my head, havent played it in years)

[Vigo]

My fav NFS games are still the original hot pursuit games, circa 1998. I only played a bit of the new hot pursuit, but I thought it fit pretty well in line with my expectations from the originals.

Last one I played was the Run. I would call it a NFS sample platter. It pretty much rifles you between a number of game modes. (Race, time trial, police evasion, obstacle course). It's not bad, but everything kinda blurs together since you mostly are going in a straight path the whole time, and many courses have the same feel to them. It's fun, but not that memorable.

[isamu]

Shift 1 and 2 are simulators, not arcade games. 

That's debatable