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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As if you could write software to make everyone happy. MCO doesn't even make some happy. When you log on expect to be called [rude] names or and to have your car stolen and if you race the clock for cash its the same track 5 minutes of time over and (...) over.
AVOID THIS one.

Racing at its Worst

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After buying the game you'll be paying ten bucks a month to play it and the learning curve will be long - very long, just the way EA intended. If you want to race, and not spend years earning money to buy parts, in order to be competitive - look elsewhere. The beta-testers may love it - they played for free for months and learned the game but I'd rather have an even playing field when I do my on-line battles and I'll pass on the role playing aspect too.

AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: September 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best sports game for computer I have ever played. I am just playing the BETA release and it is already very very good. I am planning on pre-ordering the game today. The only thing that i am not looking forward to is the monthly fee. But well worth it anyway.

Great game but not worth it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I found Motor City Online to be a very good game but, I did not think the monthly fee was worth it. I mean if you BUY the game that should be all the fees there are but instead they need to drain all the money possible out of you. So bottom line if you want a Decent racing game with litteraly thousands of mods for your cars and are willing to pay the web site service fee then its a great game, but not for me.

One of the best racing games I have ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you love cars you have got to get this game. It features cars from the 1930's through the 1970's. There are 1000's of parts you can customize your car with in addition to many different paint schemes.

The physics model for racing is the best I have every played. I honestly have not touched another racing game since I bought this game.

I highly recommend trying this game out, it's [reasonably priced] and if you are a car enthusiast I gurantee you will be hooked.

Roll up the sidewalks the party is over.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When MCO first launched it was a wonderful game. It was fast paced and very challenging. Being able to tune a car was every bit as important as driving skills and purchasing dream rides from the auctions was almost as much fun as mastering the many tracks. However, it did not take long for the hackers and scammers to seperate the online community into the elite, rich players who always won races from the honest players who played just for fun. The economic system eventually evolved so that only high level players with inside scam information could afford the fastest cars and this allowed them to set the fastest times, receive all the bonus money, and win all the races. EA made a few feeble attempts to fix the many loopholes with patches but by the time they were aware of a problem the damage had been done and the hackers were on to bigger and better scams. EA is finally pulling the plug and abandoning Motor City August 29, 2003. Since this game is a ONLINE ONLY offering with no offline play at all, giving your money to EA for the CD is pointless.

It was a great concept with lots of potential, but greed both inside the game and out (EA tends to put the bottom line of profit above all else when it comes to online games... remember Air Warrior?) turned Motor City into a ghost town in just over a year.

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun at first, but then it got repetitive, boring and dull. The beta testers all have the nice cars, and as a newbie it will take you ages to be able to afford anything decent. Plus it's just like the Need for Speed games, which I have never liked. The initial price of the game is just like any other computer game, but then you have to also pay each month to continue playing! There is no offline single player mode, so you either pay or you don't play. For the initial price it's worth it, but when you add on the monthly fee it's definately not. Needless to say I won't be buying another EA computer game for a LONG while. Don't waste your time and money on this game unless you absolutely love classic cars and don't mind wasting money each month to play a game that is mediocre at best.

Lots of potential, and that's it.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I participated in the Motor City Online(MCO) beta after it was opened to the public and I was actually impressed by what I saw. To me, the game's goal of re-creating online the height of American car culture's golden age just might be possible.

However, Electronic Arts shipped the game before it was finished, as is the point of view of many of it's testers, including myself.

There was so much yet to be added to the game, not just cars and tracks, but new features and anti-cheating measures that were not put in. And on top of that, EA ended their EA.com Platinum Service so playing MCO won't be included in a monthly fee which included Majestic and Multiplayer Battletech(R.I.P.) And you also needed to get a separate username and password to use MCO as well.

So MCO does have a lot of potential, but I'm afraid that's all it will have, locked into this state of unfinishedness. (At launch, anyway.)

But I'm still looking forward to Maxis' The Sims Online and Westwood's Earth and Beyond.

Beware!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all there is nothing in the description of this product that says you are required to pay $9.99 a month to play!! You can't play unless you subscribe & then they say their rates can change at any time!! They also say this is a "low" user fee?? Pretty hefty sum to play a game I bought! My son is pretty disappointed. I'm disappointed, too, with the false advertising. There's a big difference in playing on-line & paying to play online. Unless you are willing to sign up via credit card & fork away $10.00 a month to play this game, find something else!

Awesome game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the best racing game I have ever played. But it costs 9.99 a month but think about it, if you go to the movies twice a month, you spent more money than the 9.99. This game allows true interaction, you race people, chat with people, and even join clubs. If you like cars you will enjoy the freedom of building the engine from the block up.

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