Rockstar Games Midnight Club 2 X Box Racing Review

Dragon

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 0 of 5

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
4 votes

Price Paid:  $5.00 from blockbuster

Summary:
In this game you are a street racer who starts off with a really bad car. You have to go to people in the city flash your lights and follow them to a race area. Then you have to race them and win to get there car. But the main reason this is interesting is there is no select track that you are forced to follow.You can go on any road to get to your destination.This adds a whole new element to the game.You can go on many different paths to get to your destination so not alwas the fastest car wins. You have to go to 3 cities and beat the best street racers in order to face the champ.When you beat them you go on to the next city and unlock more cars not to mention bikes! The game also has a online mode which is fun to street race online. Overall a real standard in racing games.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 0 of 5

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5,
1 votes

Price Paid:  $0.00 from game outlet

Summary:
This game is one of the coolest street racers of its kind if not the best.
Games like this usually test my patience, but its actually pretty good considering anything goes in it.
Sweeeeet graphics and game play make this a very addicting game like many others said it would be.
Oh yeah, this game rules totally.

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 0 of 5

Visitors rate this review
1.20 of 5,
5 votes

Price Paid:  $40.00 from online

Summary:
If you are a diehard racing sim person, dont even waste your time with this game. It will only frustrate you to the point you will smash your controller.

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Price Paid:  $7.00 from Blockbuster - Rental

Summary:
Mindnight Club 2 is a fantastic racing game for the XBOX, but falls short do to some flaws in the game. You play as a midnight street racer that is looking forward for winning against numerous amounts of people to win their cars and become the street racing champion in three cities LA, Paris, and Tokyo.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $49.00 from FunCo

Summary:
Ahhhh… Finally a XBOX LIVE (car) racer. And what a champ! I’ve played the heck out of this game, and liked it so much that I had to post a review.

Single player is all well and good. Race to unlock vehicles on tracks with ordered and non-ordered checkpoints. Some really cool character animation to set each race up. Handling is all arcade with spot-on handbrake action, turbo boasts and wickedly entertaining jumps and spills. And if you’re man enough, try out the bikes. They’re incredibly fast, but you’ll take a beating from your LIVE opponents racing cars if you don’t get out in front.

And LIVE is where this game rocks. But by all means, put in the cheat code (howhardcanitbe0) and race to get a decent car. You’ll only get blown away if you don’t. However, Rockstar did a great job with the on-line set up in that, among other things, you can host a room that only allows entry-level cars if you’re anti-cheat.

I’ve mostly played LIVE circuit mode with tracks grouped by location, each offering an initial “speedway” track with minimal turns, with subsequent tracks becoming more challenging. If you have an iota of competitive nature in ya, I promise that Midnight Club will get your heart pounding as you fend off the guy behind you, his lights shining in your rear-view. Invite a few of your friends, and you’ll be laughing your fool head off while you or your buddies slam headfirst into a telephone pole.

LIVE also offers up capture the flag and cruise modes (where you, for whatever reason, drive aimlessly about.) Circuit mode can also be modified to include power-ups that allow you to freeze your competitors dead in their tracks, or reverse their steering (which is always entertaining) among other things. In addition, you have complete control over the weather. Should things get a bit stale (which is doubtful,) you can always turn on a little fog to make things interesting.

No, you cannot tweak your car with suspension, brakes and whatnot. While I understand where some would enjoy this bit, I prefer spending my time trimming off a half second on a lap via mastering that *one corner* as opposed to tinkering around in the garage. And when it comes right down to it, you’ve got to be able to maintain while your competitors are beating the hell out of ya… No amount of tuning is gonna save your butt.

If you’re not a LIVE subscriber, I’m frankly not sure where this game would rank with you. Graphically, APEX is better. If simulation is your thing, Midnight Club will defiantly disappoint you. Personally, I bought an XBOX for its broadband online capabilities, and if you’re in the same mind-set, you cannot find a better racer than Midnight Club.

Granted, Midtown is the ONLY other LIVE racer currently available (not including MotoGP.) But in comparison, Midtown is… S…L..O…W. Midnight Club defiantly trumps it in terms of relating a sense of speed. And although Midnight Club is an initial LIVE racing release (what took so long???), Rockstar did a fine job making the most of the service.

You like racing? Have a LIVE account? Buy this game, hop into my room (I’ll wait for your slow a**), and thank me then.