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Anytime, Any Place, It rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 28
Date: November 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Midtown Madness 2 is possibly the best game I have ever played in my life! I could tell it was going to be the best game ever by the main menu! You can do a blitz, Checkpoint race, multiplayer, crise, and hers the new one, Driving School. In the Driving School you can do San Fransisco Stunt Driving, and London Cab Driver School. Suppose you select cruise, another menu follows that and you select a city, London, Or San Fransisco. Now I bet all of you are saying, "Ow man, there's only 2 tracks??" But what you dont realize is that these "two tracks" are fully modeled and detailed full size cities. Aftre you get past the location menu you can select 1 of 25 cars including the Audi TT, Mini Cooper, Aston Martin DB7 Vantage, London Cab, Freightliner Fire Truck, even a double decker bus, Hummer, Beetle RSI, Beetle Dune, plus all of the cars from the original Midtown Madness. In the outcome, I would give this game 10 stars (If I could!) Please buy this game. You will be pleasently suprised!

Fun, fun, fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 19
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Even though I'm a big racing sim fan who's into real-world physics and whatnots, I've logged my hours with Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2 than with any other racing games. Sure, NASCAR 4 has much better driving physics; the latest Need for Speed has better graphics; but nothing comes close to being as fun as the Midtown Madness games.

This second installment of the series (O how I eagerly await the third one) takes the gamer to two lovely cities, San Francisco and London. I had just returned for a trip to London when I played this game last year, and was more than thrilled to be cruising and racing down the same streets I had set my foot on not so long before. While not 100% accurate, the representations of the cities are remarkable and very fun to explore.

The driving, as has been pointed out many times by others, is rather arcade-like, which means two things: 1) it's easier than driving in the real world, and 2) it's more exciting than serious racing sims. You can ram the other cars on the road as well as scare pedestrians (but not, as in Armageddon, kill them). The cars, modeled after real-life roadsters, come in all shapes and powers, but are responsive and drivable even on a keyboard. (I use driving wheels, which is a bit of an overkill for an arcade game like this, but does make you feel more in control.)

In summary, Midtown Madness 2 is by far the most playable racing game I've ever played. It beats out Armageddon, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, not so much in graphics but in the limitless ways you can have fun.

Cool game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 43
Date: July 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. Its much better than the first one. I love it.

An excellent followup to an already good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What could be better than the origional midtown madness?? Two cities including London and San Fransisco, twice the cars, and twice the fun. This game has all the fun of the origional game including blitz, circuit, and checkpoint races, as well as a new crash course feature set up like a school of driving. This game is both challenging and fun. The textures and graphics are done well and the new engine relieves the quirks of the old engine from the first game. Overall, a great game that has every car from a mini cooper classic, to new vamped up VW bugs and a Aston Martin DB7 Vatange.

MM2 is AWSOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: October 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

dude this game is soooooooooooooooo much cooler then the first. if you had trouble unlocking the cars in the first game, you'll like this game! You start out with a lot of the cars you had to unlock in MM1. The graphics are so cool. It also has damage stuff like bumpers that come off. Twice the cities, twice the cars, twice the fun!

Excellent game, with only couple of problems

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: March 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Midtown Madness 2 is a great sequel to the original Midtown Madness with 20 cars including the ones from the original. The original cars has been retuned with more realistic sound, graphics, and performance. The new cars include the Audi TT, Aston Martin, Mini Cooper, London Cab, fire truck, and the double decker bus with a few more. Graphics are excellent if you are on a powerful machine of about 500 MHz or higher with a 16 mb or higher video memory but a lower system will do the job pretty well. I have a 733 MHz machine with 32 mb of video memory and it works just fine. As the ... article say, it is hard to unlock some vehicles, but you can download the unlock for it at various download sites. Playing alone may become boring, and if you have a connection above 28.8 kbps, there is a great multiplayer site ... where you can race, cruise or play "cops and robbers". One of the two cons is that when you hit something at certain places very very very hard at like 200 mph, you may end up underground and will not be able to get out, but that's not likely. I enjoy the game very much and I hope you will too. Have fun!

One of my favorite games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is so much fun. It is not only fun, but sometimes very funny. Pedestrians jumping out of your way, other drivers shouting things like "Where did you learn how to drive?!" when you ram them. It has 5 single player games, Cruise, Blitz, Checkpoint, and Circuit and a new mode called Crash Course. In Multiplayer games there is no Crash Course, but there is Cops and Robbers. There are 60 races in all. 2 Cities: San Francisco and London. Let me tell you something, in August, I went to San Francisco, and it is not street for street, but almost the same and in this game it is VERY detailed. If you beat all the races, it is still fun playing cruise, or trying new things. Play it online and you can make friends, play Cops and Robbers, and have fun too. It has 20 cars, such as: City Bus, Audi TT, Ford Mustang GT, Cop car, Panoz GTR-1, LTV, and Ford F-350 to name a few. If you get sick of something, this game has many 3rd party cars, cities, mods, and other stuff you can download. Graphics don't look real on my computer but my computer is a laptop but better the PC, better the graphics and sound. However the cars are detailed very nicely. I heard a real Mustang GT and it sounded like in the game. There are many cars and paint jobs to unlock so this is a lot of fun. If this helped you, then say so below.

Hands down one of the most enjoyable LAN games ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Me and my friends love racing LAN games together and midtown madness 2 is perfect. Free roaming the city's playing in the cops and robbers mode is just so fun. And now one of the greatest LAN games and racecar games ever. We've come to midtown madness to from need for speed high-stakes, and we love it.

The game itself in non-LAN mode is fun to, but if you want a LAN racing game for you and your buddies. This is the one to beat.

Have some fun and get it done

Okkkkkkk.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is great. One question though, why does the green paint job for the fire truck never come unlocked?

An Outstanding Racing Program

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Overall:
Microsoft Midtown Madness 2 is an excellent racing game. I consists of detailed scenery and a wide variety of cars. There are specific landmarks in both London and San Francisco. I definately reccomend buying this software.

City Scenery:
Midtown Madness 2 has specific landmarks form both London and San Francisco. You can drive through the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco or around Trafalger Square in London.

Commentary:
It is interesting to hear the Midtown Madness 2 commentary. Some of the commentary voices are against urban racing. They feel like it disturbes the city. Other voices, though, are enthusiastic with urban racing.

Physics Realism:
The physics in Midtown Madness 2 are not realistic. You can drive up to the top of one of San Francisco's tall buildings, and then drive off. You will only have light damage. You can flip other cars upside down and not hurt them at all. But it is fun, you can do things you could never do in the real-world!

Car Selection:
In Midtown Madness 2, there are a wide variety of cars you can drive. It ranges from a London Double Decker Bus to a Panoz GTR-1! There are three Volkswagon New Beetles, two Mini Coopers, a fire truck, and a city bus, and a Cadalac Eldorado along with a lot of other cars. There are creative paint jobs, such as a Bathtup Floural London Cab, which is yellow with flowers and a smile!

Compatability:
Midtown Madness 2 works on almost any computer above the standard Windows 95. A 3d accelerater card will improve its performance, but a non-accelerater card works great too. The software also works good if your computer is right on the minimum requirements.

Conclusion:
Midtown Madness is not very fast paced, but its creativity makes up for it and does what many racing games do not do.

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