Midnight Club 2
Rockstar offer us racing at it's coolest. Chris takes the wheel.
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Midnight Club 2 is obviously the sequel to Midnight Club for the PS2, and like the original it immerses players in the world of underground street racing, complete with hot wired cars, crazy opponents and annoying police patrols. Making things even more interesting is the option to take your racing online and challenge up to seven other players in some tire-screeching action.
Midnight Club 2 is a simple game to pick up and play. Within a few minutes of booting it up, you’ll be ripping up the streets with the best racers the AI has to offer. But that doesn’t mean your opponents are equally simple. The AI starts out easy enough, with Moses teaching you the ropes and taking it pretty easy on you, but after four or five races, you’ll be facing some of the toughest street racers around. As if trying to keep up with Hector and the other super-fast racers isn’t bad enough, you’ll frequently have to avoid police pursuit cars and helicopters. The cops can be just as ugly as the racers, smashing your car into a wall until you finally stop racing, or until you manage to lose them by blasting ahead at full speed.
The great thing about MC2’s gameplay is that every race is different, be it the racing style of your opponents or the actual format of the race. Some races are simple "get to the finish before everyone else does" affairs, while others challenge you to cross checkpoints in any order before everyone else, and still others need you to outrun the cops before you can even race. There are more than enough race types in this game, each of them enticing you to play it all the way to completion just to see what’s next.
Along with the wide variety of race formats is an AI that’s challenging and realistic. Early drivers are sloppy, speed-hungry idiots who run into everything in sight in their quest to keep their engines pumping. Later racers are exactly the opposite, knowing the limits of their cars and just how much they can push those limits without becoming a smear on the pavement. The AI racers will never let up on you. Just when you think you’ve left one in the dust, he’ll suddenly find a shortcut and come leaping out of a parking garage right in front of you. While the AI obviously has the advantage of knowing all the shortcuts, it doesn’t seem to abuse this knowledge, leaving you feeling challenged, but not cheated, by the computer.
The environments in MC2 are huge and well mapped. When racing in downtown Los Angeles, you’ll feel as if you’re in the real city, with pedestrian malls, warehouses, parking garages and aqueducts strategically placed to enhance the realism whilst also providing some shortcuts through the streets. Paris and Tokyo get the same detailed treatment with the ability to drive down the Champs Elyses, under the Arc De Triomphe and up the Louvres glass pyramid. During many of the races, you’ll be able to choose your route too, which allows you to explore every nook and cranny looking for the best shortcuts and checkpoints in the city.
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I have to make sure before I buy this game, does the PC version have Online?
mc2 is the best raing game ever and its th future of street racing
sorry bro but its not i think auto modellista is better but this game is still pretty fun
Nope, I think you'll find Burnout 2 on the GC is the greatest racer
Badly worded perhaps but it does make sense. The grip is good and there is a variation from wet to dry surfaces which is subtle enough that you don't fly off the track. MY OPINION!!! You're also allowed your opinion on the soundtrack which I thought was limited. Do not criticise as I have just received a piece of paper which says I am a graduate in English Literature!!! Oh and just to get you back what does "you can't help put get goosebumps" actually mean ;-)
I understand about many different types of music myself as i play in a brass band as well as enjoying many different styles of music. I am not completely blind to Dance music and quite enjoy some of the more mainstream stuff. I just thought that the game had a limited set of tunes and if you didn't love them they start getting like any tune that is played to you many times over, deadly dull. Sorry for the dig at your english it was a bit low. Happy gaming!
Well. Being human I have a tendency to have a like towards certain things in life. Being the music lover that I am I have an understanding of Dance music, which you don't. So if I get "goosebumps" because a particular track reminds me of good times,whats wrong with that?Nothing. If your trying to "get me back" by simply pointing out that I mispelled "but", you truly are a mature person and REALLY derserve that place as a graduate in English literature.
Need for speed underground is going to beat all racing games made.
thas the best games racing ever made
when MC3 is coming
MC2 the best F|_|cking game I have ever played
CM3 is best in rally
I think that this game is the best street racing game ever. The music is the bomb, the opppnents are cool, the cars are the best. My favorite car is the VELOCI from Savo. I am about to beat him i just need 3 more races.
automodelist?!?!! that game is total crap!! crap i say!! midnightclub 2 is almost freaking perfect!!
hey guyz ;-)
mc2 iz wicked online man, gr8 fun, and i cant w8 4 mc3,
i hope ya'll enjoy diz game as much as i do :-P
l8rz m8z :-)
^^NFS: Go to hell and die.
hello i want to ask if any one else has this problem with mc2 the movies at start and when missions start the audio is out of sync with the graphics the voices start and stop and i cant here what they are saying at all
im using top quality pc with 5200 fx 128mbs cards
512 ddr and a normal 32-40 speed cdrom
i played the demo b4 and it ran fine but i think that was when i had an ati rage card installed on another pc with far lower specs than i have now
dunno whats the problem the onboard sound or the gfx card any help would be nice
teknoqc
i cant beat savo anyone know?
i beat savo. the trick is cheats. one is howhardcanitbe0 its all one word
How do I beat Savo in Paris? Is there another race with Savo in Los Angeles?
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I like this game alot
i whany to play
hola mensos
my name is cedrick im from brooklyn