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Metropolis Street Racer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 36 / 65
Date: December 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is not out yet, but I visited the producers and had a go with it. The game in my book is a classic after seeing some of the footage and playing it. The realistic approach is a good choice because you will be racing around in the cities of San Francisco, Tokyo, and London. This will be a game any Gran Tourismo fan shouldn't miss.

Beats out Sega GT by a mile.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's about time some company makes actual cities to explore while keeping good graphics and good control. Also the cities don't just have a night and day settings, it can be anytime of day. The game is addicting with lots of speed and requires some experience but not so much that slow learners can't ever win a race. Also the cars weren't duplicates of one another making MSG's 40 seem like Sega Gt's 120. Overall it's the better then anything that comes out before (Including Ridge Racer 5) but GT3 Is looking to be even better then this.

easily the best racer on the dreamcast, but ever?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm from England, so this game came out about 2 weeks ago. Sorry for you American guys having to wait til January now, but it is worth it, and at least you don't have the bugs! Anyway, as I'm sure you all want to hear, the game IS amazing, and yes, I'd go so far as to say it is the best racer I have played. Racer this is, not full out sim, it doesn't have all the customisability that I've come to love with Gran Turismo, but the new style of playing more than makes up for it. As the game says in the intro, it's not how fast you drive, it's how you drive fast. This game is dependant on scores for particular races if you want to succeed, the points called 'kudos'. You get these points for how 'cooly' you drive the circuit. So just doing a nice clean lap won't get you many points, you'll have to swerve and slide and make tight corners, and race with style. Trust me, you'll love it, and the graphics are just incredible. It'll tide you over till GT3, big time, the game is HUGE!

Metropolis: Street Racer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is good. You should get the racing wheel along with this game if you haven't had it yet. Great game. Just get it while it is available.

Played the ODCM Demo

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I played the ODCM Demo of Metropolis Street Racer, and I must say it is astonishing. The graphics are phenomenal. I had my friend bring over his PS2 (Yes, he actually has a PS2!) and compare Ridge Racer V to MSR. MSR looks amazingly better than RR5. I'm giving MSR four stars, and keep in mind that this is just the demo! The final product will most likely get five stars.

Good but not great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is good, however, I can't say it is amazing, when i heard the game was coming I was very excited. I thought it would be a Gran Tourismo 3!! IT ISN'T!! It doesn't have the customizing features the Gran Tourismo games did. Which is a shame cause I loved fiddling with the engines. However, the tracks are amazing and the cars are stunning, definately worth buying if you are a dreamcast owner who loves a good race.

metropolis street racer vs. grand turismo 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

since a picture is worth a thousand words take a good look at the screen shots of dreamcast's metropolis street racer then take a look at the screen shots of playstation 2's grand turismo 3. see the difference? with two years in the making MSR can't be anything short of the best. MSR creates a new standard for racing games that will remain unmatched for years to come.

good game but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Note again that MSR has great graphics. However, in some areas in the several tracks, the lighting is so dim I cannot see turns clearly. The game frame rate seems just a bit slow so I don't feel adrenalized driving a car at 80-100 mph in the city. Also, when you bump into barriers, the car just stops, it won't bounce back or spin the car around. Not that I've ever ran into walls in real life, but, MSR just doesn't seem to have that realism I'd imagine. Alright, so, I've been negative about this game. But, I am glad to have purchased it. I've played many many racing games, both on PlayStation and Dreamcast (big names like GranTurismo 1&2, Tokyo Extreme Racer 2, Test Drive Lemans, etc . MSR is one of the most interesting as well as enjoyable racing games to play. There's something about racing in the city that's different from a racing on a circuit track. There are more surprises and possibilities to do well or screw-up in the streets. MSR, I'm sure you've heard, is not about how fast you drive, it's about how you drive fast. You need precision and lots of practice to win kudos but with the game's great controls you should be able to drive quite well after a few run. The game can keep you addicted as you try to unlock new tracks and cars. The game play is simple and tight. The driving is solid. The graphics are great. Only thing is there is a longer learning curve than most racing games trying to get good at this game.

At last -- the Best Racer Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: January 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's been a long time coming, and Metropolis Street Racer is definitely worth the wait. It combines new ideas with the best graphics on a console racing game, and manages to mix arcade-style action and realism in a way that's not been seen previously. In MSR, you race through 25 chapters, each with 10 races (over 250 tracks!) in any of three different cities: San Francisco, London, or Tokyo. The time of day in each city corresponds to the Dreamcast's inner clock -- so if you're playing the game in L.A. at 10 pm, it's 6 am when you race a London track -- very cool. Ambient sounds arise as the day begins as well: if you're racing in the dead of night you'll hear Big Ben chime the hours, but as day breaks (quite a sight to see -- the sky slowly becomes lighter gray, shadows appear...it's not SUDDENLY DAYLIGHT -- and wait'll you see the sun SET over the Golden Gate bridge -- breathtaking) you'll gradually hear traffic in the background, as well as sounds of construction, birds, etc. Put this together with the hyper-realistic graphics (each city is modeled after its real-life counterpart with painstaking accuracy, and there's no pop-up or slowdown whatsoever, even in multiplayer mode) and you have a racing environment unlike any other. Your car is even fitted with a radio that has three unique stations for each city, including news, weather, commercials, and music. At last -- not the same techno beats race after race (but you could use the car's custom CD player to do that if you wanted). MSR contains over 40 cars, from MGs to Mazdas to Porsches, and you can choose the color, transmission, license plate, and even window tint and rooftop style(topless, hard, or soft), and they look and sound incredible. You can't fiddle with engines or suspensions, true, but each car has its own Kudos rating, as well as top speed, acceleration, drive type, and so on. Kudos is another innovation: a unique point system that must be satisfied in order to progress through the chapters, unlocking ever more tracks and cars. Each of the 10 tracks in a chapter presents you with a challenge, which varies hugely from a standard multicar race to a time challenge to a game of How Many Cars Can You Pass Within a Time Limit? and many others. Outstanding variety -- it's not simply a battle for first place. You are able to customize the limits in order to attain the maximum Kudos as well: think you can beat the 40 second time limit for a lap? Change it to 35. Even 30. But be warned: fail to attain your own goal and you lose Kudos big time. MSR compels you to get better with a wonderful learning curve that you can actually adjust to your own ability. And you can re-race any race in any chapter at any time in order to get more Kudos, even using Jokers to double the number of Kudos you gain....but you can lose the same amount, so be cautious when you gamble! There's definitely a rush when you beat your lowered time limit, finally gaining enough Kudos to open another track! MSR handles great -- the handbrake works to perfection, enabling you to perform a Kudos-earning skid, but watch out for the walls -- hit em and you lose Kudos. As the game says, "It's not how fast you drive, it's how you drive fast." At the end of each race, you're awarded Skill and Style points, and penalized for each crash, and then further adjustments are made based on if you beat the challenge or not. Graphics-wise, control-wise, and gameplay-wise, MSR sets new standards for racing games. Add in a fantastic multiplayer mode (you can also up/download track times via the Internet) with several different options, and it's easy to see that this is the best racer to ever appear on any console. It appeals to casual and hardcore, sim nuts and arcade junkies. We DC owners sure have it good: Soul Calibur, Code Veronica, NFL2K1, Shenmue, Jet Grind Radio...and now Metropolis Street Racer, an absolute classic that'll be praised and remembered fondly for a long time.

Lack realism and lighting

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: January 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty cool, but the realism I was looking for was not there. Most of the tracks are dimly lit, so its hard to see where you are going. This game is freeking hard too man! You get penalties for crashing into walls, and you're even penalized for side-swiping other cars to get ahead of them. Why? It's a racing game, the idea it to get ahead. In short, the penalties are deducted from your points, and unless you gain enough points, you cant advance in the game. I purchased this game since Grand Tourismo 3 for PS2 was delayed. If you own a Dreamcast and a PS2 like me, wait for GT3.

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