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Midnight Club 2
Features:- Midnight Club 2 isall about unlimited freedom and fun in three separate living cities - LA, Paris, and Tokyo. Open city racing brings a whole new level of intensity compared to racing within the staged, controlled environment of a track-based racer.
- Eight player online multiplayer action!
- The Midnight Club is now open to motorbikes. Take advantage of a bikes size for speed and control through tight traffic and alleys - but watch yourself, a wrong move will send you flying.
- Race more than 30 new performance adjusted vehicles, muscle cars, hot rods, rally cars and the worlds fastest domestic and foreign autos.
Customer Reviews
Rating:  - The game is just the don of racing games...
Look at the date that midnight club 2 came out, and now look at the date i am writing this review. Midnight club 2 came out AGES ago but yet i still play it because it was so well put together. The soundtrack to the game is probably my favourite game soundtrack of all time. The gameplay is impeccable because there is so much action, like if you are a lamer who likes games that are really easy and love thrashing the computer because of this, then do not expect to like MC2. This game is challenging which makes it even more enjoyable to play, if you manage to thrash the computer (which is highly unlikely) thats when you can tell yourself that you are a Don. The graphics are above average (seen as there is midnight club 3 out) but this is hardly noticable due to the great gameplay and great audio. Alot of races to win, alot of cars to win, 3 cities to explore, choose your own path to the finish line, outrun the cops, race bikes against cars, vanish in the distance with nitro, life like car physics including slipstream turbo which is basically driving behind one of your opponents cars so that they take the wind resistance for you which slows them down and cause a slingshot like effect which enables you to speed right past them due to the fact that your vehicle has not taken any wind resistance (hopefully that makes sense), the characters in the game are entertaining due to the fact that they think they are street Gods until you beat them and take their car!! to the guy who said it looks like GTA3- that is a complete lie. BASICALLY WHAT IM TRYING TO SAY IS... THIS GAMES OWNS. FINISH THIS, AND THEN GO AND BUY MIDNIGHT CLUB 3. PEEEEEEEEAAAAAACCCCEEEE.
Rating: - MidnightClub2- 5*****
MidnightClub2 is an awesome game. It is sooo realistic, you can land on roofs and rome around. You can use noss and get up to speeds of 200 mph. And if you just want to play it safe and rome around town slowly and calmly, the stop lights actually work. And its not any violent fighting game either.
Rating: - Tough but very enjoyable
This is a pretty sweet game right here. Not the greatest racing game ever, but I like it alot. The cars are really cool and the vast cities make for enjoyable albeit usually pretty challenging races. I mean, I spent at least an hour trying to beat mutliple individual races and that did get to be a pain in ass, but no biggie. The races where there isn't one set way to race them (i.e. just a bunch of checkpoints with no order in which to get them) take a while to learn and they really tried my patience, but the soundtrack is probably my favorite out of any game so I didn't really notice how much of my life I was wasting away staring at my TV. The controls are responsive, but get crazy as you progress through the game and I felt like mother nature got incredibly annoying because too many levels were rainy and made driving fast cars pretty hard. Anyway, so this is a fun game with a great soundtrack, nice graphics, solid controls and it's challenging so it'll take up a good chunk of your life. Some might find it a little too tough and say that it lacks depth and reality which admittedly it does, but I think it's great none the less. OH YEAH, one more thing. THE VOICES OF MOST THE PEOPLE YOU RACE ARE SOOOO PAINFULLY ANNOYING! They say the most obnoxious, non-funny things ever. Like right now I'm going through the game again and in Japan you race this guy with ridiculous hair and he calls you a Squid Head at least 789534785988912 times.
Rating:  - Ho-hum graphics, tough races, but fun nonetheless
Midnight Club II is a decent but unspectacular racer that is pretty tough but fun if you have the patience to stick it out.
The game obviously has its origins in Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto III". Everything from the feel of the cars to the look of the city and the behavior of the pedestrians can be traced to that game. MCII obviously adds lots of bells and whistles to the basic driving controls. You have nitrous boosts, can control the balance of the car in mid-air, and can earn "slipstream turbo" by drafting behind other cars until a meter fills up and turns red.
The cityscapes are great, with nice recreations of L.A., Paris and Tokyo. There are tons of hidden alleys, jumps, parking garages, and shopping malls to explore.
The cars are mediocre. You won't find actual Acuras or Ferraris here. Instead, the game gives us cars loosely modeled on actual vehicles. The models are okay, but are not as polished as, say, Burnout 2, another game with fictitious cars.
The actual racing is pretty fun, though. Most involve having to hit a series of checkpoints scattered throughout the city. There is lots of room for finding your own path, taking advantage of the aforementioned alleys, ramps and passages.
However, the game is pretty tough. I found I probably have to replay each race about 10 times before winning. Also, in each race you basically have to come in first. There is no bronze medal for placing third, you'll have to start over. Basically it is impossible to win a race on your first time out, as you can do in Project Gotham 2 and Burnout 2. The difficulty may be one of the game's biggest drawbacks. In fact, when I first got it, I eventually just quit because I wasn't having any fun doing the same race over and over. But recently I picked it up again and have been having quite a bit of fun trying to figure out the best routes, even if it does take a dozen tries.
In short, I would dock this game one star for the bad graphics, and one star for the difficulty, but give back one star now that the price has come down. Gamers who like casual driving games should definitely consider picking this up.
Rating: - Great game for a great price!
Midnight Club II is well named, as you drive in darkness. At first, this is very intimidating, but it is changeable (you can drive at midnight, dawn, or sunset). The cars are nice and the response time is very fast. I just wish there was a better selection of well-known cars. The controls are easy to adapt to. However, the game was very difficult for me, as I found myself racing a certain track 20-30 times before I would beat it (and I am an avid racing game fan). But if you love a challenge, and a game with lots of hidden goodies and shortcuts, this might be for you!
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