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Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: MPTheory on April 17, 2003, 05:15:48 AM
Juslight and I picked this up last night.  This game rox!!! I love it.  I played till 3:00 last night.  Online is pretty cool too.  They did a great job in recreating the sport of street racing... Or at least the personalities of the people in the sport.   Its pretty damn funny actually.  Gameplay is great.  Its cool cause during gameplay, its not all about how fair the levels are, its how good you are at driving the car.  (The AI  can drive like ass, and during a race it can really F\\/
I give the game a solid 8.7  (I dont think any game will be a 10 in my eyes)
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: ##RaCeR## on April 17, 2003, 05:39:35 AM
how are the graphics, smooth frame rate?
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: MPTheory on April 17, 2003, 06:13:00 AM
very good actually.. there is some "jaggies", but not too bad.  The texturing is awesome thought.  I like the way the set up the game as far as teh career mode.  You drive around the city and look for people to race.  (they show up on your map as a red arow)  When you see them, you flash your high-beams and follow them to a place to race.  you go through a series of races, starting with easier to harder, and race for pink slips.  so far Ive seen (Car supposed to be) a civic, integra, silvia, RX-7, and a motocycle.  Oh yeah, also a supra and a GTO.  last night, some guy was driving some crazy ass lookin thing that looked like the bat mobile.  it had to jet engines on the back of it.  Top speed was like, 250 mph. Oh.. one more thing.  I LOVE the NOZ effect :)
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: Lord Nicon on April 17, 2003, 07:40:38 AM
Damn. I want to get this game so bad now. It seems a little silly, but hearing this kind of accolade, im ready to buy it. I had the first and loved it when i first got my ps2. Cant wait.
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: MPTheory on April 17, 2003, 08:07:43 AM
its actually a nice challange.  Its not like normal racing.  Theyre really arent any rules to go by.  You can take any way you want to get to checkpoints, and you can cut corners by bashing through storefonts and malls.  pretty cool.  Oh yeah, rockstar threw in the whole "running over peds".
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: Kurt Angle on April 17, 2003, 08:23:53 AM
Is it a strictly online only or can you also play single player?
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: MPTheory on April 17, 2003, 11:22:53 AM
There are 3 different modes.  Arcade, Career, and Networking mode.  You need to play career mode to receive all the vehicles.  The further you have gotten in career mode, the more vehicles you have to choose from when playing online.  I havent played Arcade mode yet, but I assume you can choose from all the cars.  Ofcourse, that could also be set up like online mode where you still need to have unlocked the levels in career mode.
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: THX on April 17, 2003, 11:27:22 AM
This game and the Cruis\'n series get my vote for the best street arcade racers out there.  I wish more developers would create these types of racers that put fun before simulation (which is nice but gets boring).

Extreme G and F-Zero are personal arcade racer favs but those don\'t count because the cars are fake! :)
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: MPTheory on April 17, 2003, 11:33:34 AM
well.  all the cars in this game are modeled after real cars, but given different names like the citi = Civic.
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: Viper_Fujax on April 17, 2003, 03:04:41 PM
I just rented it and its very addictive. Put the cd in at 2:00 now its all of a sudden 3:40. Sucks i gotta go somewhere, but ill definitly be playing it later tonight. Dont really have a \'review\' besides the controlles are arcade-like which would be obvious, and theres damage control which i didnt know. Couldnt tell if it slowed down ur car or not. NOZ er whatever the turbo sh*it is is awesome. too bad you can only use it once a race.
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: videoholic on April 18, 2003, 03:22:41 AM
A whole hour and a half?  You freak.



Hey, can you use the steering wheel?
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: MPTheory on April 18, 2003, 04:56:52 AM
nope.. no steering wheel view.  Its the same basic viewing options as GT3
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: juslight on April 18, 2003, 05:14:55 AM
Yes you can USE the steering wheel.
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The backwards MP, The backwards MP...;)
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: MPTheory on April 18, 2003, 05:29:31 AM
DAMNIT... :(  yeah.. The Backwards Chad strikes again
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: videoholic on April 18, 2003, 08:24:45 AM
Cool.  Maybe I\'ll get it then.  Using the steering wheel is pretty cool.

Peace out.
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: SwifDi on April 18, 2003, 10:22:33 AM
It\'s pretty good. I like to just go in cruise mode and drive around. I totally wish Rockstar would open LAX and let you race on the runway and shit. Man that would be heaven.
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: SER on April 18, 2003, 08:20:11 PM
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Originally posted by MPTheory
You drive around the city and look for people to race.  (they show up on your map as a red arow)  When you see them, you flash your high-beams and follow them to a place to race.


Sounds like they borrowed the concept from the Shutoku Battle/TXR series. Interesting. I might give this a chance... Maybe a rental first because I thought the first one was crap.
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: MPTheory on April 19, 2003, 03:42:07 AM
yeah, the first one wasnt that great.  This is a major step up from the first man.
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: kopking on April 19, 2003, 06:41:03 AM
hmm sounds very impressive, to be honest i havent been intrested about this b4, but this sounds like its gonna be a great game... yeah i was gonna say the whole flash your lights at a car was on another game
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: Lord Nicon on April 19, 2003, 05:02:16 PM
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Originally posted by juslight
Yes you can USE the steering wheel.
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The backwards MP, The backwards MP...;)


Are we talking about generic wheels or the GT wheel? If we are talking about the GT wheel then im buying it. the game that is
Title: Midnight Club II
Post by: cloud345 on April 20, 2003, 09:55:30 AM
Are there any ways to get special cars like the first one with the buggy from smugglers run?