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A Fun, Fast Racer without a Lot of Depth

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: August 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Midnight Club 2 is a solid racer with great control and good graphics. The racing action is very fast and intensely exciting, and many of the competitions are very challenging. Also, there seems to be some behind-the-scenes handicapping going on so that you're never really out of any race - I've had horrible multi-mishap runs where the difference between first and last was only a second or two. This keeps every run exciting to the finish.

Unfortunately, after a while, all of the competitions get repetitive. Career mode should have been so much better, but it turns out to be very linear: trail competitor-race competitor-win competitor's car-repeat. When racing for pink slips, you put up nothing in the wager, so the heat's off you every time. If you lose the first time, just keep trying until you take the poor guy's car. It would have been better to have a dynamic wagering system where you build up a bank account and race primarily for agreed-upon amounts of money. After all, in the "real world" of underground racing, no one would automatically accept the ultimate challenge so readily. The wager system would make a race for slips a real event rather than just another notch on your belt. But what good would the winnings be unless you could spend them on goodies for the car? The cars in the game are all stock - you can't upgrade them or trick them out at all. If you could use your money to do this, this would have given the game much more lasting appeal. Hustling other online drivers out of their money in an Emu quietly souped up to perform like a Veloci would keep me coming back night after night.

All in all a fun game, but not the sure-fire rave that many other reviewers are making it out to be. Recommendation - rent first buy second.

PROS
* Exciting race action
* Good car control
* Online play capabilities (broadband only)

CONS
* Lack of depth in career mode
* Inability to modify cars
* Some of the soundtrack (what's the only thing worse than Limp Bizkit? A knock-off of Limp Bizkit made for a video game - if I have to hear that "Put Ya Top Down, Playa" track one more time. . . )

By Far My Favorite PS2 Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Being a big fan of street racing games I had to pick this one up the day it came out. Imagine a setting like Tokyo Extreme Racer Zero only times ten. Not only can you challenge people then race on freeways, you can exit those freeways and adventure all through the city streets, with pedestrians, stop signs, lights, trash bins and a load of other stuff to smack if your unlucky, all while being chased by cops, and trying to find the best routs through the city(s) to win against 1-6 other racers.

The graphics are right up there with "The Getaway", maybe better. The cars are not licensed, but they look exactly like fixed up Rx7's, vipers, integras, civics, Fto's....you name it. This game has three HUGE cities, L.A, Paris, and Tokyo. I have yet to see Tokyo, since you have to earn your way to the next city, starting in LA, then to Paris, then Tokyo. What is great about this game is the motivation to play, every time you win a race either a new car or a new upgrade gets added to the game....
If you get sick of racing, you can always roam around the city to learn the streets, show off your car, ect... when your ready to race, your map has indicators of potential oppents, to flash your lights at and challenge....then its on!!

The music is great too, with the option to change through a variety of tracks or have it off. You can also turn off the voices of the other racers (they get annoying, especially those from east LA). Once you earn better cars and the motorcycle, learning to control your car is important, like how to powerslide, use weight transfer while in the air, or when its safe to hit the nitrous button. I should warn some people, because this game is hard....but if your up for a challenge and love street racing, dont hesitate to get this game.

Fun Fast yet Hard Street Racing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

MC2 is the best Street Racing game ever. It is extremely addicting and fast paced. Hitting the NOS is one of the biggest adrenaline rushes I have ever had in a videogame. The Career Mode allows you to compete with other street racers for slips. It is slightly open ended as to the order of which racer you face but other than that it is pretty linear. This game is extremely difficult because of the need for flawless racing. The AI is flexible in that they become harder when you race well and if you are far behind and racing poorly they will ease up slightly and allow you to catch up somewhat. The cars are sleek. My personal favorite model is the 1971 Bestia (musclecar). The graphics are top notch especially with the sense of speed, particle effects, and car reflections. The controls are very tight.
As far as downsides go this game has few but still should be noted. If you have a short temper I do not reccommend playing this game because you will become extremely frustrated when youre in first place at top speed and hit a bus just inches from the finish and lose because all of your opponents were right behind you. The difficulty level is extreme as i stated before especially if you face the racers out of order in Career Mode. The music is fine but nothing too great. It is a mix of Techno and Rap. Note: If you see the song "Take Your Top Down" skip it immediately. It is by far one of the most annoying and worst songs I have ever heard in my entire life. Anyway back to the downsides the graphics are stellar but the car models are a little lacking in detail.
This game is amazing. I reccommend it for all gamers particularly racing fans and extreme sports fans (just for the thrill of speeding down the streets with NOS blazing while weaving in and out of traffic). Do yourself a favor and buy this one.

Better than NFSU

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is way better than loads of other racing games in many ways .here are my pros &cons 4 it.

pros:
-great grafix
-free roam around 3 highly detailed cities
-great selection of tight looking cars
-get to choose who you want to race by finding them in the city

cons:
-fake cars UNLIKE nfsu
-you can't customize your car except for a small color change choice
-the cities are expansive but compact...you see the same things over and over and...

but when you get past those...it is a great game.

very cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

yo this game is the bomb i like it so bad i hope if they make mc 4 they better make it with people going for aride with you and a you can come out of your vechile and talk to people on the side of the street and i hope they make it with more places to go like calaforinia and somewhere in the carribean like jamaica and the small islands of st eustatius saba st maarten curacua bonaire aruba peurto rico and nederlands.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. The cars are excellent and the career mode is really fun. The greatest thing i loved about it is the city accuracy. Paris really looks like paris. IT has the eiffle tower, the louvre, Notre Dame, this game is great. The best racing game ever.

good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game. I find it hard, though. But the graphics are amazing, the streets are cool, and the cars are great looking. The cheats don't work for the career mode. Here are the pros and cons

Pros

Amazing graphics
Awesome cars
Great streets

Cons

The characters
Difficult
Cheats don't work for the Career Mode

Going the Distance - Rockstar does this and more.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rockstar Games has a masterpiece on its hands with Midnight Club 2.

The graphics are spectacular, with amazing detail and effort put into the details and sights of the cities. With all the famous landmarks found in the cities, you begin to believe that your actually there.

The soundtrack for the game is an electronica/trance festival (which includes 20+ tracks),unparalleled by any game on the market, and includes notable artists such as Art Of Trance, and Felix Da House Cat.

MC2 does have a complexity thats all its own, which forces you to examine your strategy and change it with each race. Mix and match different cars, and routes through the cities to beat your opponent, and add another car to your collection.

The overall layout of the game interface is what gives the game its true versatiltiy. MC2 not only has its "Career" mode but Arcade, and Online modes, which can be a nice break in between your "Career Races", allowing you to challenging a friend to a race(wether he's sitting next to you or in another city), capture the flag, or demolition, or if by yourself you can just cruise the cities in your favorite car.

This game is definetley worth adding to your collection.

It's really fast.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Finished Need for Speed 2? Craving more? This is the ticket. Its slick, sharp, crazy, maybe even insane, but the one point I want to get across in this review is the sense of speed. Wow. No screenshot, not even a little movie off the internet can justify how much intensity there is here. Traffic. Cops. Pedestrians. Lights. Sharp turns. All at 172 mph. And the first time I hit L2, I have never screamed "HOLY ...!" with such joy so loudly.

But If your like me, you read reviews to find out the dirt, the bad stuff, right?

So, what's bad about it? The cars are all the same. They get faster the more you earn, and sometimes the handling varries, a little. But don't expect to really be able to distinct one car from the next. It's really hard. This is fine with me, I'm one of those guys that wants to get his money back in difficulty after I blow 50 bucks on these things, but it is going to be daunting, especially once you get into Paris (I havent reached Tokyo yet...). The music is terrible. I mean really, what on earth were they thinking? The genres certainly fit, techno and trance and hip-hop, but they aren't very good songs. And if your looking for the kind of depth Need for Speed offered (for an arcade racer anyways), this will not have it.

Still, the graphics are awsome, it's a blast, motorcycles are just plain cool, it's really fast, I love the city lights, you can make your own courses, its online(!), and there's a reason I rated it 5 stars, there simply isin't a better way to spend your 50 bucks right now in the video game racing world.

Best racer ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first popped this game into the PS2, my jaw dropped. I played for 5 hours straight in 1 sitting, and im not a very big gamer. It has everything Gran Turismo 3 has, but it has a much bigger fun element. Not buying this game should be considered the 8th Deadly Sin.

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