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Good moaningįor a start, it's split into a variety of play modes - the central 'Undercover' option is a sort of story mode, which has you performing strings of jobs driving taxis, security vans, limousines, police cars and such, whilst two of our old favourites - Blitz and Checkpoint modes - lurk under the banner of 'Single Race' options, along with the obligatory Cruise mode.īecause the game boasts two cities - intricately constructed (and destructible) incarnations of Paris and Washington - it's a bit like having two whole games to play.

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However since our first date was to be broadband deprived (pity me and my trips to the family home to do PC tech support), we can tell you plenty about the single player game. Indeed, we can't see the various single player challenges taking more than five or six hours to complete, and there's no reward for going back through with feistier vehicles.īut in a way, the single player game is just an appetiser for the superb multiplayer mode, which relegates Midnight Club 2 almost to the bin barely a fortnight after its Xbox debut. It's not as if it does everything particularly well, either, or that it presents more of a challenge than its two most comparable adversaries. You'd think that with Midnight Club 2 and Burnout 2, we'd be fixed for arcade racers by now, but apparently not. Since then we have been spoiled with the ability to get out of the car when we are bored, gun down police and basically cause mayhem, and because of that Midtown Madness comes across as a poor man’s GTA.Driving around real-life cities is nothing new, and yet here we are in the middle of 2003 clocking up 10-hour sessions on Midtown Madness. When the original Midtown was released there was nothing else like it. Primarily that it's not Grand Theft Auto. The introduction of the police while a good idea does highlight the major problem with this game. However it isn't enough to sway the vote.įree ride mode offers the chance to change daytime settings, weather conditions and the amount of police that will chase you if you’re driving badly. Multiplayer gives you the chance to play online via the X-Box Live service and this does add some playability to the game as a whole. These are stereotypes working to the max. The French city sees you trying to steer clear of a badly scripted, badly voiced Frenchwoman.

What makes it worse is the annoying in-game characters that are there to insult you as you drive around. The campaigns have been split to the separate cities, but the missions are virtually identical. Levels see you rising from a pizza delivery boy in Washington up to a chauffeur and beyond while the Paris city sees you starting out as a parcel delivery boy.

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As with most games the campaign mode offers the chance to open up cars and paint jobs in the free ride mode as well as giving the player something to aim for. Paris offers small streets while Washington a grid like city, but to most there will be nothing familar in the same way London is unless you’re well travelled.Īs with Midtown Madness 2 there are a number of options available to you - free ride, campaign mode and multiplayer to name but a few. While these are both interesting cities, neither is known as well to the British public. While Midtown Madness 2 offered the cities of San Francisco and London - both cinematic cities - this time Midtown Madness 3 is based in Washington DC and Paris. Unfortunately for Microsoft while the game is well presented and polished it will soon lose its novelty value.

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(Pocket-lint) - The Midtown Madness series fits into two schools of thought - the first is that it’s the best game ever created, and the second is that after the initial 15 minutes, the novelty soon wears off and this game becomes dull and unimaginative.

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