Midtown Madness2

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Microsoft Game Studios

Rockstar San Diego

Mission-based Driving

Release: Apr 30, 1999

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game with "Madness" in the title, you might as well grab it as soon as
it hits store shelves. Midtown Madness 2 is no exception to this rule.
It doesn't matter whether you're a hard-core simulation fan or you
simply crave speed, destruction, and mayhem in your games - if you want
to play a very fun racing game, then Midtown Madness 2 is for you.

But that's not to say that Midtown Madness 2 is ideal. In fact, it seems
as though it could have used a couple more weeks in testing. On several
occasions the game completely locked up on a fairly standard system
(Celeron 450MHz, 256MB RAM, TNT2 video card with the latest drivers),
and only through uninstalling and reinstalling did the problem finally
seem to go away. As in some other racing games, the brakes don't truly
function as real-life brakes when both pedals are configured to use the
y-axis: Slamming on the pedal doesn't lock the wheels but merely
decelerates your car more quickly. An attempt to correct this by
configuring the pedals to use two axes revealed a bug - the brakes
worked in reverse, forcing you to keep the pedal down for no brakes and
releasing it to stop. Your only true braking option is the hand brake,
which tends to cause unpredictable slides when all you really want to do
is slow down in a hurry. Also, at the beginning of one race, my car was
positioned facing in the opposite direction of the other cars, and
stepping on the gas sent me hurtling backward along with them even
though I was in first gear. Fortunately, none of these problems were
persistent or detrimental to how enjoyable the game turns out to be.

You can actually work your way around most of these issues, and in fact
you might never experience a game crash yourself. But there's no getting
past the game's rather pathetic engine noises. When you see a '68
Mustang Fastback tearing through downtown San Francisco, you want to
hear a mighty rumbling sound that'll make bystanders think the big
earthquake's finally happening. Instead, the cars in Midtown Madness 2
give off a little purr that barely changes in tone even when you're
redlining the tachometer. Even in an arcade-style racing game such as
this, it's good to be able to hear when you should change gears, rather
than constantly have to check the tachometer.

The occasional bugs and the weak sound effects are the only low points
in Midtown Madness 2, because otherwise, the game is a blast. Midtown
Madness players who've grown used to screaming through Chicago will be
happy to find two new venues featured in the sequel: San Francisco and
London. As in the original game, both cities have been meticulously
modeled to include many notable landscapes. In San Fran, you'll see Coit
Tower, the Palace of Fine Arts, and of course the Golden Gate Bridge;
in London, you can tool around Trafalgar Square and even ram through the
gates of Buckingham Palace and do a few donuts on the well-manicured
lawn.

You can drive in 20 different rides that range from standards like
Mustangs, an El Dorado, and several types of Volkswagens (including the
Dune and the new Beetle RSi) to big rigs, double-decker buses, and even a
Humvee-wannabee called the "light tactical vehicle." But don't expect
to hop in that Dune, Aston Martin, or Panoz GTR-1 as soon as you load
the game. Nearly half the cars are locked when you first begin play.
Fortunately, unlocking the first few isn't too tough when you play on
the amateur difficulty setting - for instance, to get the Audi TT, you
just have to finish in the top three of half of the San Francisco
checkpoint races. Still, it can be frustrating to have to unlock all
those hidden cars.

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