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you guys are nuts

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: July 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i wasnt gonna write a review but after i saw how many people gave 5' to this game i had too. this game ... if you like car games dont buy this one this an't a car game at. all it has is cool cars but they dont drive like cars and the object of the game is stupid. you can knock over almost anything and the bullet holes in your car window im not gonna say no more its a waste of my time. if you wanna a game like this but better and you have ps2 just get midnightclub same thing but way better.

Why the first one is better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Why only two stars? PHYISICS, it's what makes or breaks a game. in the original, taking my mustang around a sharp corner at 140 MPH. would result in a spin-out and a lot of damage. in the secont release, you could take a two story bus at 140 MPH. around a sharp corner and not even tip it. trust me it's not as fun, when all cars have super glue on their tires. why? because its more exciting to push a car to or past it's physical limits like in every man's fantasy. the original game has a little meter called realism. where as this one does not. right in between simulator and arcade style made that game fun. this game has less realism than mario kart! if you bought the orignal, don't buy this one, you will be disgusted. but if you have not had any expereience, than buy it. also- if you have children they will love this game, because it's lack of realism (fish tails, spin outs, loss of controll etc.) are non-existant.and all of the other cars act like they are baloons. i hit a semi with a vw bug at 80 mph and launched it into the air, and lost 20 mph.THIS GAME IS NOT A ADITION TO THE SERIES, IT'S A RE-MAKE. Make your decision carfully, once open it can't be returned.

The Rich Kid's Mario Kart = The Poor Man's Carmageddon

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Midtown Madness offers a good, fun engine in wich you'll spend some time driving through two real-life scenarios. Period. If you are looking for a game for your kids, this is it. It's good enough and fun enough to keep a child happy. You will feel like playing Mario Kart in a city, without the weapons, but with real cars.

Now, if you are looking for M A D N E S S, any Carmageddon series game if a better offering; even the mid-90's version. They all have better graphics with highly textured polygons, better soundtracks (the second one had Iron Maiden), much more interactivity (wreck the cars, the stage, and other cars), better scenarios that incluide highways, gasoline stations, parks, rivers, and toxic wastelands, to name a few, interesting power ups that go from "Gravity from Jupiter" and a Knight Rider-like jump to engine upgrades and, of course, the series trademark: blood, blood, and more blood.

As far as the Madness, Microsoft's latest offering falls terribly short with no blood, no violence, and just limited mechanical rage. With twenty real life cars, the offering also falls short of the benchmark-setting, years old Gran Turismo (wich you can play on BLEEM) by about 100 cars, do the math. Do yourself a favor and get it for your kids, if you got the first one, stick with it, and if you want something new for yourself, grab a copy of Carmageddon 3: The Death Race 2000 (about 40 dollars) or Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now (about 20 dollars)... 'cause paying for this Madness really is madness.

The Graphics Ruined it for me

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: March 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well to start off the graphics are terrible. There so boxy and have no detail whatsover, even when i run it on the highest resolution. The controls are nice, but the gameplay sux. I want to just wanted to drive and mess around in the city, but right when i push the gas the cop gets on me for no reason which get's really annoying after about....10 seconds. And the street lights don't work correctly, when the light turns green the cars don't always go. If you like games that are boring and full of many errors that could have been easily avoided, then i guess you like this game

Still the greatest street-racer game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: September 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was kind of disappointed with this sequel. I expected to see the kind of things you see in games that have the "2" in the title, but they were only slightly improved. The graphics engine is the same, physics are the same, tracks and cars are what Angel Studios promised with the first title, that they were going to be downloadable via the Internet, but now we have to buy them. If you enjoyed the first one enough to complete all the race modes, then think about this game as an "Expansion Set". If you haven't play the first one, then this is the racing game you've been waiting for.

Overrated but fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: December 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Racing in the middle of a city is a great idea and can be a lot of fun, but this game is not as good as it cold be.

First, the cities will only appeal to those who have never visited them. For those of us who have, Golden Gate and Hyde parks seem grossly out of proportion and practically barren. In case of London, the map should be larger, in San Francisco, at least part of the town around the other end of Golden Gate Bridge should be rendered. Instead of two cities, I'd like to see one city fully and correctly rendered in version 3, and enough of boring American cities. How about doing Rome or Paris for a change?

The game is quite playable with a joystick, but you have to program it in the options menu to separate the throttle from steering. If you don't you won't be able to handle the sharp corners typical of most races.

The tests for unlocking the top cars are at times too tough and too acrobatic, and neither car physics nor graphics are as good as they are in Need for Speed games. For example, you can't even see the hood of your car in front as you drive in any of the models.

This game is good for some laughs, but if you want superb graphics and an exhilarating feel every time you play, I recommend Need for Speed.

not very impressed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There isn't really anything about this game thats any better than the first one. The biggest improvements are 2 new cities, another driving mode, and more cars. SanFrancisco has been the most fun for me but it gets boring to explore after a little while. London is pretty good but its hard to get around without knocking down half the city. The new driving mode, Stunt Driver, is actually a nice add on. You can drive the Mustang Fastback in a stuntmans role in sanfrancisco or in a cab as a london cabbie. The graphics are almost the same as the first game and the physics are 5 times worse (eg: you can sent a bus flying with a VW bug, kind of fun but looks really stupid after a while). There are too many cars you have to unlock; you start out with the ones from the 1st game and a couple (...) ones from #2. I actually like the first one better because you cant get from one side of chicago to the other as fast because for one, its impossible to maintain 120mph through the city streets in rushhour traffic, and two, there are more obstacles and routes you have to take. So, I have decided this is a waste of money and you will become bored fast. Go buy Grand Theft Auto 2 or 3 or Driver; both are much better games of the same type.

Annoying and difficult tests mar an otherwise good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The big flaw of this game is that you have to "unlock" the cars by performing various tasks or tests. Some of the tests are very difficult, meaning that you won't be driving some of these cars promised to you on the box's cover for quite some time. The first "midterm" for London Cabbie for example, requires very very precise driving within an extremely tight time period - one misstep, and you fail the "midterm" (kind of like being back in school!) Don't pass the midterm, and you still don't get to use the fire engine. That sort of thing. I personally feel we paid for the game, we should get all the features without having to run around likes rats in a maze. Besides that it's a great game, but this patronizing approach dings a couple of stars in my book.

Fun but.........

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

WARNING: do not dowload any cars or else you will be very sorry.I did this and the game stoped working and i can only play it by startung it up through the trail vershion. So evry thing in the London is untextured and messed up. Also the cops have no textures. This game is fun but listen to my warning do not dowload anything for this game because it screws up somthing called an AR file. This file textures ALL of the cars of the game plus London. Over all i would by this game because it is fun to smash through the traffic cars. All though they look like boxes on wheels.

MM2: Fun, yet crude

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Midtown Madness 2 is a great game, especially if you have a fairly new machine and all the goodies: steering wheel with force feedback is sweet! However, if your machine is slow, or dosen't have a very good video card, it can be slow and the graphics are pixelly. If your computer is waaaaaay overloaded with incompatible software, it can freeze up entirely, over and over again.

Another thing about it is that you must unlock about eight of the best cars by winning races, or completing stunt driver or cab-driver training, which can be a big pain in the rear.

The game is very fun to race in. It fairly accurately simulates real racing and street driving, aside from the crude graphics.

It would be better if it had Need For Speed-like graphics, and no locked cars, and possibly a few more cars and a few more cities. But, all in all, a fun, fun game.

To quote Microsoft: 'the sensible cure for the crabby commuter!' Indeed!

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