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Xbox : Midway Arcade Treasures 3 Reviews

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Gas Gauge 55
Below are user reviews of Midway Arcade Treasures 3 and on the right are links to professionally written reviews. The summary of review scores shows the distribution of scores given by the professional reviewers for Midway Arcade Treasures 3. Column height indicates the number of reviews with a score within the range shown at the bottom of the column. Higher scores (columns further towards the right) are better.

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Nostalgia Seekers Only

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Back when these games were popular, people like me were very picky about arcade-to-home conversions. A good one was hard to come by. Nowadays, there is no excuse for anything but arcade perfect. Here is a quick rundown of each game and how it stacks up to the original:
1. SF Rush - The Rock: Emulated from arcade version. Difficult to control. FPS (frames per second) problems. Overall, not a total disaster.
2. Hydro Thunder: Straight Dreamcast port. Sound and video OK. Textures are low-rent.
3. Super Off-Road: Emulated from arcade. Old game, but a perfect port. Credits set to freeplay, so no infinite nitros.
4. Badlands: Emulated from arcade. Similar to Super Off-Road. Also, a good job.
5. Rush 2049: Dreamcast port. Sound and video OK. A surprisingly good game. I always liked the "wings" button.
6. Race Drivin: Emulated from arcade. Not bad! The best home version of Hard Drivin/Race Drivin available. They even incorporated the clutch. The FPS limiter is off just a bit, but it's decent enough. Audio isn't quite there either; sounds like you're squealing tires too much. The control is good, though I doubt any force feedback wheels will work.
7. STUN Runner: Emulated from the arcade. Obviously not finished. The FPS is all over the place. The sound cuts in and out. Awful.
8. Off Road Thunder: I didn't play this one in the arcade. Feels like a Dreamcast port though. Sound and video OK. Mildly amusing.
Overall, a weak package. I only bought it for Race Drivin anyway. Modern gamers looking for a good crash 'em up racing game will want to try Flat Out or Burn Out 3.

4 Stars for Hydro Thunder

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for one reason, Hydro Thunder, and after reading the reviews about it freezing I was worried about it, but I decided to buy it anyway... that being said I had not had any problems with lock ups, and the game has saved the locked stages after I unlocked them, I don't know if it's because I went ahead and finished at least one race in each track and when the game saves your high score, it also saves the stage, so make sure you unlock the medium and hard stages to go ahead and race on one and if you get to add your name at the end for a high score then you shouldn't have to worry about it not being saved. the rest of the games are ok, I do wish like some other people here that they had include racing usa, or racing the world, but I think it had to do with the fact that there is just not enought disk space to have so many high graphics games in one disk, if they did it probably only be 4 games instead of 8, but that still would have been better than what they offered here. another note, game codes from your old dreamcast days do work on this version, so you can unlock everything right away if you wanted to. :-)

They must be getting lazy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The guys at midway must be getting lazy. This collection only has 8 games and only 2 of them are any good except one is unplayable due to some very nasty bugs. The main reason I bought this game is for off road thunder and hydro thunder however hydro thunder is unplayable because there are 2 really bad bugs the main bug is that when you finish a race 95% of the time the game freezes during the loading screen! and if your lucky enough to not have the game freeze if you unlock more stages the game will not save the unlocked stages when you exit the game! the game has an autosave feature but it does not work. and even if you manualy save it still does not work! hydro thunder appears to be the only game in this collection with this problem. anyways just wanted to let you know incase you were thinking about buying this game.

Midway's Need For Speed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There is so much within the classic video games these days. Nevertheless, it really isn't a bad thing, but it still remains a whole lot of fun. Midway has been pushing those classics to the bone recently with a P.C. version offf their original Midway Arcade Treasures series. Although it might not be much for those who feel the nedd to be fast and furious in the world of racing games. Yet, with games like Need For Speed: Most Wanted and Mario Kart DS for Nintendo's DS out, there are just some Xbox fanatics that just want it to really let loose from the past. Now, that opportunity is here for all.

Midway Arcade Treasures 3 for the Xbox, is a compilation of 8 outrageous game from the past, all in one convient package. The games are each ranged from classics like Badlands and the original 3-D racer Race Drivin', to classics that just push the fierceness of extreme racing to the limits like San Francisco Rush: The Rock Alcatraz Edition, and the wild watercraft race Hydro Thunder. Each game is very unique in the controls, and is very simple to pickup. The graphics and sound also have been restored very well for die hard racers who've played some of these greats like the futuristic San Francisco Rush 2049, and they look great. Althogh they may not remain definitive for people who've grown up with racing greats like Gran Turismo or Project Gotham Challenge, but they are just all fun rolled into one convient package.

Midway Arcade Trasures 3 for the Xbox is a great buy for die hard racers, nostalgic buffs, or for anybody who hasn't even played these true racing gems. I like it because there are so many great racing greats here, and they are all just fun to ride.

Graphics: B+

Sound: B

Control: B 1/2+

Fun & Enjoyment: B 1/2-

Overall: B 1/2+

Lacking when compared to the other titles in the series

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this title since I had bought the previous two titles and enjoyed the memories that they had brought me. This one is strictly the racing games that Midway put out in the 90's. However it only had about 6 racing titles and those are the ones never were really fun to begin with. Games such as Hydro Thunder, Big Off-Road, Rush, Rush 2049, Rush Alcatraz edition. On top of that they don't even include any sort of history, background videos, ads, or anything else like they did in the previous 2 titles. I think that the biggest thing lacking is that they didn't try to include the games "Cruising" and "Cruising World". These were the best of thier racing games. I would only recommend this if you are a die-hard fan of Midway's other racing titles, but beyond that this isn't the was of anything over $20. Wait till you see it in the used section of your favorite game store or rent it first.

What?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Racing?Just racing?I was hoping for better games of the Late 90's like Carnevil or MK4 or Artic Thunder and not this crap like Badlands or whatever.The only good game is Hydro Thunder.I only had to look at the game to see how bad it was.Did not buy it.

Pure Evil, Incarnate.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Avoid this hemorrhoid. You gotta have a serious need for a nostalgia-fix to enjoy this game... There are only 2 mildly fun games in this collection; One is a 4x4 trucks racer that has all kinds of jumps and stuff,(but it's out-dated and lame compared to all the decent stuff available for your xbox like Burnout 3 & 4 and Midnight Club 3 dub edition remix and good old Rally Sport Challenge 2), and there is a boat racer here that is sort of okay also, but these 2 games don't make it worth while. The graphics suck throughout, trust me... A couple of those old school racers where you are looking down on a track trying to steer little cars around are here. Always HATED those... This disc is only for engineering students researching a term paper on video game history or something, not for playing... I wish I had read this review before I bought it.

Memories

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The entire reason I ordered this game was so I could play Hydro Thunder [and with it I'm very impressed. I remember playing HT in arcades in the 90's, and it has been faithfully recreated for my xbox [even if the 8 year old graphics haven't aged well]. Besides Hydro Thunder, the other two games on the disc that I really enjoy are Super Offroad and RUSH 2049.

**DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR CUTTING EDGE GRAPHICS OR FEATURES!!!!** This is really more for gamers craving something nostalgic.

midway arcade treasures 3T

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game on the market i have purchased 2 games for psp2 systems and 1 for xbox my whole family loves playing this game. we all play for hours and hours. This is a awesome game and everyone in your family will get hours of enjoyment out of this game. It should have a rating of 10. A must have for any system.


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