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Great fun, highly addictive, appeals to all ages

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 23 / 23
Date: September 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a hoot. Pick a car (and earn more cars over time), pick a city (Paris or D.C.), and start driving. You can just cruise around, or race (against yourself, against another player, or against virtual players), or do a job (deliver packages, be a limo driver, be an ambulance, be a police officer, etc.). The cities are huge and rendered with incredible amounts of detail, so even just cruising around is fun. And, everything is smashable so you can drive the way you've always wanted to. This software was obviously a labor of love. Quality is very high compared to most of the other XBox titles I have played.

I'm not a big fan of racing games normally, but I like this one because it it set in cities instead of a boring race track. I feel like I know Paris and D.C. thanks to all the time I've spent in them. By the way, you can visit the Louvre, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, etc. in Paris and the various monuments in D.C.

Everyone enjoys this game. That includes me (age 42) and my wife (34); my daughters (6 and 4), my father in law, and my father (who immediately announced plans to buy an XBox of his own).

I'm frankly puzzled at some of the negative opinions others have expressed. Every person I've witnessed playing this game has become an instant fan.

The *must have* game for Xbox Live enthusiasts!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have completed the single-player mode of Midtown Madness 3, unlocked all vehicles and play MM3 online at least 3 hours per day (yes you read that correctly). I am an avid Xbox and PS2 console player as well as an Xbox Live devotee.

Midtown Madness isn't your normal racing game. In fact, the series has become famous for its "fly by the seat of your pants" method of getting the job done no matter what the route, damage or life threatening moves you need to accomplish. The single player mode includes careers you can progress through in Paris and Washington DC from delivering pizzas to full on police pursuits. You can also select "cruise" mode and speed around the two cities looking for special paintjobs to unlock for each vehicle. But online mode is where this game really shines.

You do not need to unlock any vehicles to use them for online play, but paintjobs can be unlocked to use online and two secret, undocumented super cars are available if you have the patience to get them. In addition, the game offers numerous unique and interesting vehicles that can be downloaded free-of-charge, via Xbox Live. Once online, you can choose a standard checkpoint race, or a number of different variations of "tag" where you're it and must tag others, or the other way around. My favorite mode is where one player starts off as a cop in a patrol car, and must collide into other players turning them into cops as well. The winner is the last man standing, who usually finds an entire fleet of patrol cars chasing him/her across the city at breakneck speeds. The best part of this type of challenge is anyone can pick up the controller and understand "you've just gotta run from the cops." I've sold this game to friends and family that have tried it once at my house.

Midtown Madness 3 is the most exciting and interesting "non-serious" racing game available. The single player mode offers a variety of fun and interesting challenges, while online play ensures that you never have the same challenge twice. This game is a "must have" title for anyone who has an Xbox Live gamertag.

Amazing online playability.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Midtown Madness 3 is brought to you by DICE, the chaps who amongst other things, brought Battlefield 1942 to life on the PC. That being said, you'll find no Private Ryans or Gomer Pyles running around with Thompson machine guns.

What you will find instead is a bunch of lunatic Xbox Liver players (myself included) driving Cadilac's, Mustangs, Lotus's and a bunch of other fully licensed cars around the streets of Paris, Washington etc. To begin with, the singler player mode allows you to get familiar with the controls, the details and the street maps of said cities, here in this mode, you can choose to become a paramedic, car-sales man or my fave, Pizza delivery boy.

The controls are simple and easy to get used to, normal stuff including hand-brake controls take about 10 seconds to master so jumping head into an Xbox Live game shouldn't be too difficult for the most part.

One of the major differences between MC2 and MM3 has to be the menus. Dice and Microsoft like to KISS (thats Keep it Simple Stupid) when it comes to making sure Xfans can navigate through the options.

The graphics are outstanding. We're talking smootho supreme graphics with detailed maps, cars, scenery, pedestrians and other cityscapes.

The sound effects and soundtrack are pretty cool. On my 104" projector screen with Dolby Digital sound, I was blown away with the level of sound and fun comments as I merrily mowed down all and sundry through the sunny streets of gay Paris.

Race? What Race?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There's one problem with MM3, and that is you cannot get outside of your car, walk and look around. The driving play is so immersive and the environments so recognizeable that you can't help just driving around saying "Hey, I know that place!".

MM3 is silly driving and smash 'em up fun. I've been online a couple times and people are just happy to play in 'cruise' mode, with absolutely no objective to the game but to talk to each other while driving around Paris (or DC) wrecking into people, objects or each other.

The arcade style of the game is very much like Midnight Club but the controls are an order of magnitude better. I'll just say it: Midnight Club sucks as compared to Midtown Madness 3. It's fairly challenging and I'll probably get back to it, but the free roam driving is so much fun, I may not. Actually, 'free roam' is a good way to think of MM3. Think of the free roam mode of Project Gotham without the cones, add pedestrians and wreckable stuff, voila!

In MM3, if you are in the mood to go on a rampage of destruction, there are hundreds of lampposts, park benches, barriers, traffic signs, cafe umbrellas and tables and other objects to knock around. And if you're in a real Hulk mood, you can drive a garbage truck and take out some statues and kiosks.

The detail is fabulous. There's even an underground parking garage at what I believe is the Kennedy Center in DC complete with gates to crash through. There are also ramps placed at various places, like the Capitol Building so you can jump your vehicle over fountains, creeks and the like.

Now it must be said that the graphics are good, but nowhere near as good as Project Gotham. Control of your vehicle is comparable though and the layout of the controls are the same.

There's plenty more to explore in this one but it is, behind Gotham, the most laugh out loud driving game for the XBOX yet. Yes I like it better than Midnight Club 2, Crazy Taxi, Yakuza Mission, Rallisport, Sega GT 2002 but not as much as MotoGP2.

On the other hand, three cities would have been better, and people haven't really been racing with it online...

BEST RACING GAME EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game features career mode missions in two HUGE citys: Paris, D.C. You drive in more than 50 missions, which are broke into 14 driving careers. The careers include a Pizza deliverer,taxi driver,secret agent,limousine driver,and many more.
Multiplayer is awesome in this game. You can chose from over 30 cars (which some you have to earn). There are three types of multiplayer games Checkpoint,Cruise,and Blitz. Cruise is my favorite, its where you get to crash EVERYTHING in the city and go off awesome ramps(if you can find them).
Overall I think this is the best racing game! BUY IT NOW!

Best Midtown Madness Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: June 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is to be the best yet of all the Midtown Madness Games. With around 30 vehicles to choose from and two imensely detailed citys(Washington D.C and Paris) this game is pretty much guaranteed to be exciting. Unlike traditional raceing games which are on fixed tracks like NFS series, MM3 is in an open city enviroment with realistic traffic and pedestrians not to mention you can destroy pretty much anything that gets in your path. This game is worth the money because its a copletely unique driving experience which makes all of your driving fantacys come true. Having played and owned the first two installments of the Midtown Madness series this one will be three times as good and the other games were pretty dang good. So preorder now while you still can. Trust me its worth the wait and money! Ill write another review as soon as i buy it tell you once again how good it is!

now THIS is a very fun game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Usually in a driving game, it's just you going against some un named AI drivers, no real plot, and no sense of humor whatsoever. Not to mention some make believe tracks and stuff...

Not in this game my friend! In addition to the "normal" checkpoint racing, the real fun is when you take an undercover job as a pizza delievery driver, limo driver, taxi driver, a police man...and the cars you fet to unlock, like a DC Metro Bus (!) the humor in this game is outstanding--you can deal with the French, a pair of Norweigan race fans, an italian mobster, sme famous European race car driver, etc. Even in crusie mode, you can simply hop in and drive down to the White House, Capitol ill, and give your least favorite windbags a virtual piece of your mind.

During the Limo race in Paris, I found myselft yelling back at my 2 passengers to shut the bleep up--really! And the live play is just too good for words, you have to see and kay it to understand. I rate this higher than MC II, because MM3 doesn't deform your hands and fingers with some stupid control layout. Just guess which one I'm buying?

Best Racing Game, Period

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like racing games this is without a doubt a must have game. If you dont like racing games, still give mm3 a chance. It totally different from any racing game I have ever played. Instead of driving around a boring circle thousands of times, you get to drive through 2 very detaild cities. Paris and Washington DC. See main attractions like the eifel tower, the Louve, the white house, the capitol building the lincoln memorial and many others. Cruise on the streets following all traffic laws or wreck the whole city. Run from the police through soccer feilds and lawns. at the beginning you start out with trashy cars, but as you win races and complete jobs Like delevering pizzas the fastest, or getting a man in a limo to his wedding on time, you get awesome cars and other vehicles. Some of the things you can get are an 18 wheeler, a garbage truck, a cement mixer, a safe truck. Some of the cars are a volswagen beetle a chevy corvette a audi tt and dodge viper there are 2 awesome cars that I havent unlocked yet. The game has tons of replay value You can cruise the streets with a freind and look for new paint jobs for all your cars. If you have xbox live you can play people all over the world.

I paid fifty dollars for this game when it first came out, and it was well worth it. For twenty bucks, your ripping amazon.com off. GET THIS GAME NOW!!!!!!!!!

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.

Unreal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game effectively does what a lot of modern video games seem to have largely forgotten - it entertains. The main thing that attracts me to this game is its lack of reality, and its lack of violence.

By lack of reality, I certainly don't mean poor graphics. I mean that the developers obviously concerned themselves more with the fun factor of the game than with a true-to-life physics model. The only thing that tops the speed of the vehicles is their handling. You can take curves and corners as if you're glued to the pavement, and you can do so at very high speeds.

The lack of violence is equally compelling. Though you are plowing through the streets of two very large (and very detailed) cities, there is no blood and carnage. Humans always magically dodge your car or truck just in time, and the only possible injury is to your car.

The attention to detail in MTM3 is second to none. Everything is interactive and destructible, from the street lights in the road, to the shop windows in the stores.

The developers of this game have done a great job of combining today's technological prowess with the simple fun and playability of arcade games of the 80's. It is a very good reminder that video games are supposed to offer an espace from reality - not a recreation of it. Highly recommended.

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