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its driver but much better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 25
Date: October 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

i played this game about 3 days ago and i am sold. when this game omes out i am gona buy it couse this game got it all. think of it as driver with racing not cop evading.the grafix are gorgeus and the citys are totaly huge.i totaly love the drive around mode. the citys are about three times the size of ones in the citys in driver. you can also drive a numder of really cool cars. and unlike driver there is a 2 player mode in this one. if u liked driver and u are looking for a nice racing game for the PS2 you should really consider this one.

evade police legally

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: October 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ever play Driver? Same thing but better. Racing, police, crashes, this game has it all. Crash into what ever you want and walk away alive. Neat cars, great grafix, and high speed. YEA!!!

THIS GAME IS GREAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

i just played this game on a ps2 yesterday cause it was a promotional thing and let me tell you this will blow you away. the backgrounds and graphics are so detailed and perfect that it is amazing. i suggest to pick this game up immediately if you are into car games and like to drive in huge city enviroments.

a sadly overlooked launch title

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 20 / 21
Date: October 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Angel Studios, the developers of Midnight Club, also did Smuggler's Run. Smuggler's Run, thanks to early in-store exposure, seems to be the more popular title currently, despite being a bit repetitive and not quite as deep or original as Midnight Club.

There are many modes of play in Midnight Club, the bulk of which is the Career Mode. You start out with the bottom-of-the-heap Taxi, and use it to roam the city looking for "hookmen." Once you find one, he will acknowledge you, and then you must tail him as he speeds around the city. If you successfully keep up with him, then you will enter into a race (that takes place at midnight, thus the title) against that hookman and any number of his "homeys." The objective of this race is to hit various checkpoints in order, and then reach the finishing point first. If you are successful, the hookman will reward you with his cellphone. When you get a hookman's cellphone, you can then call him, challenge him to a one-on-one race (no marauding "homeys" to help him out this time) which, if you win, you get to use his car. Each "hookman" has a different type of vehicle (sport truck, Latino low-rider, Honda Civic, etc) and each has strengths and weaknesses. The taxi is very maneuverable, but slower than molasses, therefore you will want to challenge immediately in order to gain access to better cars.

There also a Cruise Mode, where you simply take a car and drive around the city, no purpose or objective required (basically to learn the map of the city), as well as an Arcade mode, where you just race against other hookmen for their cars (but you can only use cars gained this way in Arcade mode). The various "hookmen" are all very colorful and have a lot to say when you race them (including a dash of the old profanity), the cars are well-rendered in the style of San Francisco Rush, i.e. sorta arcade-ish, but detailed enough to know what they are. There are only 2 environments in the game, New York City, and London. Both have been replicated in detail from real city maps, lending a very authentic feel to the locales. And both cities are HUGE.

I enjoyed the multi-tiered gameplay that almost forces you to run the gauntlet before you can get the prize (new cars). It shows some creativity and plot-development on the part of the developers. Is this game like Driver? Yes and no. The free-roaming environment is definitely similar, but Midnight Club is essentially a racing game, and not an "evade the cops" game (though the cops do show up in Midnight Club and will chase you). Midnight Club is a very smooth, very laid back game that will challenge even the most hardcore gamer (especially on the later levels). Once you start getting cars, you have to know which ones to use in certain situations (Straight course? Use something with speed. Circuitous path? Get something with handling.)

Not the "killer-app" launch title that SSX is, but still Top-5.

Unimpresive

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: October 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a good racing game, look somewhere else. This game has great graphics, but the cars control like shopping carts. If you are looking for a game that is essentially the same thing but GOOD, go buy Midtown Madness 2. Otherwise all you racing fans better wait for Gran Turismo 2000

Not next generation. Gets dull.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: November 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well, this definitely comes bottom of my launch title purchases. Get SSX. Get Smugglers' Run. Wait for Gran Tourismo 3. Get a Dreamcast and play F355. Don't buy this.

Good things about the game: * The cities. Having lived in both New York and London, I'm very impressed at the detailed reproduction of both cities. Its so good that driving around London I could find my way around based on how I knew the real place. * The speed. It doesn't slow down. At all. Ever. Zooming the wrong way down a highway at top speed is plain scary. * The graphics are pretty good. Especially when the road is wet it looks fine indeed. If you look closely you'll see repeated textures a lot, and some areas of town are very sparsley textured indeed though. The car models are relatively detailed and very very shiny. Perhaps too shiny sometimes.

Bad things about the game: * The *huge* load times. It grinds for what feels like forever loading the city map before *each* race - even if you haven't changed cities. I don't know why it couldn't keep most of the city data and just load course waypoints or traffic.. It feels like its reading data off vinyl, not DVD-ROM. * Its not like driving. Not at all. I guess it has what you would call a very "arcady" feel to it, but its not at all convincing. * Frustrating difficulty. Now I'm no loser when it comes to racing games. I worked my way through the whole of Gran Tourismo on the 'ol PSX. The annoying thing about the way this game plays is that at some steps you can only just beat the other guy - and I do mean only just. You can maybe go 1 mph faster, or corner marginally better, and its just a case of making a perfect performance, or retrying again and again until the other guy hits traffic. * Short 1-player game. I'm half way through after 1 evening. Now we're at the frustratingly difficult stage of beating a city boss, and then its rinse and repeat and its all over. * The sound. A minor gripe, but the cars all sound like lawnmowers, not beastly souped up cars. It doesn't do anything to add to the atmosphere.

I don't think this is a next generation title. There are definitely better PS2 games out there. If you have to have a racing title now, I'd probably plump for Ridge Racer V which at least is outstandingly pretty, but to be honest, the PS2 doesn't have its killer racer yet. If you're carefully choosing your 3 launch titles and minding your dollars, I suggest you don't include this one.

The best rain soaked streets

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's funny how some games get one thing right then blow the rest out the window. This game has mastered rain soaked streets. I have not seen better looking rain soaked streets in a game before. This is the state of the art in rain soaked streets.

The problem is if your looking for more than some nice looking rain soaked streets then your out of luck.

The car control is nice if not a little arcade like. This is by no means a simulation of any real world cars. In fact the game has no real world cars. The have some that LOOK like a Honda Civic and the like but these are cars only found in the world of video games.

The streets you race on are large and sometimes too large. When trying to chase down an opponent it can get boring. The races are boring at times too. Not a test of race skills per say, more like how well you remember the shortcuts.

The game play is ok. The graphics are ok. The sound and music are ok. In short this is an OK game. Nothing to call your friends up and brag about. More something to be mentioned off hand like "oh yea. I got that game at the launch. It's ok. Wanna play SSX?"

What a waste of money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: November 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's a stinker. I normally write verbose reviews with pros and cons and try to be objective but I took this game out of my console within 10 minutes because it was so bad (or rather it really didn't show me why I should pay for this title on PS2 rather than buying Midtown Madness 2.0 for PC - written by the same developers).

Didn't really push the PS2's features, car control and physics were poor, graphics were fine but nothing spectacular...not like some of the other launch titles, and choice of cars was limited and cartoony.

Save your money and wait for GT3.

Here is an idea!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: November 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have a great idea for an awesome driving game!

A driving simulation that you just drive in traffic day and day out. All you do is obey the speeding limits, use your turn signal and pass legally. Rear end someone, break speeding limit, and do something stupid. The cops are after you like a hawk!

After seeing all those police chase videos, you realize that you cannot evade the cops no matter what. So what the heck you put the pedal to the metal and later get caught and etc...

To final stage is to wait through a traffic jam in the middle of rush hour in New York City and then find a parking space next to your run down apartment!

Yeah Baby! This game is huge!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first started playing the game I thought, "Man there aren't very many cars," but after I kept playing, and went really far along, the variety of the cars, that became available, was staggering. There must be close to 50 different cars! My favorite is the Amato Crescendo with 15 nitros! Also the Marauder taxi with the cow catcher is great for tossing cars and pedestrians. I found that car after stumbling across, what looked to be, a magical fountain and driving through it. There are a lot of hidden shortcuts found in the strategy guide. Jumping INTO the aircraft carrier, launching off a super jump in time square, and jumping over the river from a gigantic ramp on a powerplant in London, are just a few of the super fun factors in this game. Buy this game, stick with it, and you'll have the time of your life!

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