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Midtown madness 3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My daughter got this for her 12th birthday and loved it. She likes the game that you can just drive around and pretend you're cruising the city. She pretends she's out on a driving lesson, and hits all the other cars, and people on the sidewalks. You can set it up to have heavy, or light traffic, and whether, or not you want police patroling around. Lots of different games to play on this. Perfect for kids who love to out run the law!

NOT PLAYABLE ON XBOX 360

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love MTM3, but once I got my XBOX 360 and found it is not compatible and XBOX refuses to respond to my inquiries, I have decided to get rid of everything. EA Games should put pressure on Microsoft to get their act together. Until I can play some type of Midtown Madness on my 360, I will never buy another XBOX GAME, Accessory, or game from anyone.

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

WOW! this game is really fun, theres alot of missions and i like to do cruise where you can just go around the city, but what really makes this game worthwhile is xbox live, its very fun especially hunter, where a player is a cop and if he tags someone they become a cop until the last person is left (he also has to get caught to end the game) and if someones cussing you can mute them or if your host you can boost them :) a very fun game i recommend it to anyone with xbox live

Awesome! More fun than Crazy Taxi!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is an awesome bundle of fun! Much more fun than Crazy Taxi, by the way. I love how they chose unusual cities to drive in. Paris and Washington, DC, I believe. Now that's unique. I'm sick of San Francisco, and New York, and LA.

I would recommend this game to any X box gamer!

MC White said: X Box gamer 4 life, dawg!!!

best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is just awsome and its full of excitment. I have owned this game for about 3 years and i still like it. this game is awsome. You could unlock cars such as a garbadge truck or even a corvette. Ive beat the game 5 times and i still like it

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game tops my chart of the greatest graphics of any game on X-Box. Paris and Washington are huge and the graphics are crazy. I like cruising down the subway. I also like the jumps. All three games are fun. Either if your working undercover in different missions and in many different cars. Or maybe you wanna simply race they made the races incredible and just about hard enough for you to take a couple turns before winning.And the blitz is also fun where u have to indivually race the clock to the finish. All 3 are great and the levels and ability to unlock cars is great. It's also real fun racing a friend. But the thing that stands out for me is the incredible graphics. They're just awesome. And also a really fun game. Best racing game ever.

My favorite game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, so I only have a handful of games for Xbox and haven't owned a home video system since Atari 2600, but this game is hands down my favorite.

Sure, there are negative aspects to it like the level of difficulty on the final Blitz races (hard!) and trying to unlock certain cars. But overall, the graphics are great, the scenery is quite lifelike and depictive of the real D.C. and Paris, and it's the coolest feeling to tool around both cities jumping stairs at famous monuments and knocking each and every lamppost out all around the White House.

The game is the epitome of fun. Where else can you race a garbage truck up the steps of the Capitol building or do doughnuts under the Eifel Tower? My one peeve: players can't get inside the White House fence. Oh, the things I could do....

This game kicks booty!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game!! The graphics are fantastic and the handling is superb. Plus, that guy in the black leotard and yellow clown-noses is sooo hot! I can't stop watching the stop-motion video. Michael White is a god!

Reviews make game sound better than reality

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought this game because I was looking for a game that I could just drive around and have fun, much like GTA: Vice City.

Graphics are great, handling and speed is nice, however, to beat the game it is very hard. I gave up and just searched for codes because I wanted to be able to drive all of the cars.

For this price, I would reccommend this game, however, reviews are often over exaggerative.

Great Diversion

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There's little left to the imagination with the Midtown Madness series. Released in its first two incarnations on PC only, the games were already well-known for their original, free-roaming style of gameplay, their wide selection of real world automobiles and their revolutionary use of online play. This was one of the earliest games to allow players to leave the pre-set race tracks and obstacle courses to explore an entire virtual world on wheels, complete with working traffic systems, interesting jumps and stunts, and pedestrians. I'm surprised it took the series this long to make the transition from home computer to consoles, but the third chapter in the ongoing series was worth the wait. It's a vast improvement over chapters one and two in every area, and though it does have its faults, I'd consider it to be one of the Xbox's strongest original titles.

The storylines themselves are, honestly, very overwhelming and incredibly cheesy, but that slowly becomes part of their appeal. Every single character you interact with is a crazy, super-exaggerated parody of some sort of culture, be it French, American or anything in between, and the voice acting reflects that more than anything else. The unifying sense of humor between all the different stories is a bit too cartoony for my taste, but occasionally delivers a good laugh or two. If you're looking for a game with the realism, grit, grime and atmosphere of Grand Theft Auto, you better move along because this ain't it. If you've got your eye out for a squeaky clean, sometimes amusing, lighthearted adventure that won't lose you any sleep at night, this is your ticket.

The controls employ your standard racing setup, basking in the glow of the strengths of Microsoft's controller design. The triggers are your gas and reverse, respectively, and are pressure-sensitive which makes all the difference when you're trying to set the proper speed for taking a turn or lightly brake before pulling a fancy Hollywood U-turn. Both the left analog stick and the D-Pad can be used to steer, but you're out of your mind if you use the D-Pad. Unlike Sony's classic dual analog, Microsoft's S-Controller was born to handle racing titles, and my hands never cramped or suffered throughout my experiences behind the wheel of MM3 (which is something i most certainly CAN'T say about my marathon sessions with Gran Turismo 3.) Even the extra "click" functions of the Box's two analog sticks come into play here, and clicking the right stick will bring up a translucent full-screen map of the city and your location, overlaying the game screen itself which is still in motion. It really gives the feeling of keeping one eye on the road while you quickly check the map in your passenger seat, and often leads to similar results. I've driven headfirst into some nasty situations because of this map, and I love it that way. Very nicely done.

Though not particularly original, the graphics of MM3 are still quite a sight to behold, and deserve special mention without a doubt. There's a nice visual theme running between the cutscenes, (which are few and far between) the loading screens, the main menu and the in-game HUD, and the car / building models themselves are fan-freaking-tastic. There's no question in my mind they were setting out to flex the Box's muscles in a big way with this one (thus the inclusion of both 480p High Definition and Dolby Digital 5.1 support) and in this regard they were quite successful. While I won't go so far as to claim the vehicles or environments trump those seen in the previously mentioned Project Gotham 2 or Gran Turismo titles, they do give both a healthy bit of competition. The sheer visual interactivity of tiny elements of the scenery especially caught my attention.

Almost as an afterthought, the sound is also an impressive example of what the Box can do when it really sets its mind to it. The use of Dolby Surround is more effective than you'll give credit for at first, sending the sound of squeeling tires, angry horns, screaming pedestrians and scattering change from one side of the room to the other as you wildly spin the wheel. There's no doubt in my mind that this is an example of some of the best use of ambient noise in a video game, and it aids the entire package immensely. The in-game music is nothing worth remembering, no doubt, but never really gets in the way and is negated due to the inclusion of custom soundtracks. There's really no excuse for a racing game to ship on the box WITHOUT this feature, since even the greatest tunes can get old after an hour of solid racing, but it's noteworthy all the same.

All in all, this is a game I'm happy to have in my collection. It didn't force my jaw to the floor in utter disbelief when I first caught a glimpse of the visuals, it didn't blow me away with unique, revolutionary new gameplay methods or stun me with a totally original concept. Put plainly, it is what it is; a solid, straightforward adventure game mixed with a solid, straightforward driving game. The single player story mode isn't anything to write home about, but I can't think of a time at any point in the future where I'll grow tired of playing the online modes and trying to erase my old land speed records offline. This is a great example of a game that never takes itself too seriously and is meant as a diversion, a way to kill a couple hours with pure, unadulterated fun. It isn't perfect, but it's good enough. I'd recommend a purchase without a second thought if you're Live-Enabled yourself.

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