few screenshots and a review but it looks hella cool.
Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
You can go to AltaVista Usenet search or DejaNews and search on the title of the
game. A bunch of people have posted 'reviews' of the game already and you may
wish to look through them for a variety of opinions and possible hardware
issues.
One of those posts will be mine, but in a nutshell, I love this game. The
driving is not quite a sim experience, but it is challenging enough not to be
100% arcade. It is more like an 'environmental sim'. The city and the people
and traffic in it are modelled fairly well. You have a small but interesting
selection of cars and the mini-games presented within the context can be very
challenging.
The online multiplayer action is fast-paced, free, and fun. (MSN Zone or IP to
IP) On several occasions I have lost hours playing online and found myself
grinning from ear to ear and drenched in sweat.
Apparently the game is memory-hungry, so if you have less than 64 MEG, you may
have some troubles running it smoothly.
All in all, worth the 35$ or whatever you have to pay for it. Put in
perspective, there are lots of things you could spend that $ on and have less
fun for less time.
HTH
~daxe
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Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
Joe
A lot of recent games out run better with greater than
64 megs. Since its so cheap, I went and upgraded mine to 128 meg.
It got 5 out of 5 stars and a reviewer award:
"Overall: Midtown Madness easily transcends the boundaries of racing games.
Its appeal is unlimited and gameplay totally ***ive. Right now, you can't
play a better game!"
Buy it! It's a blast!
> : It is the best arcade racer in years. It really revitalizes what had
> : become a tired genre. Check out the reviews on the net, they'll all
> : tell you the same thing.
> I've also been thinking about buying this game for some time.
> However, I'm torn between buying MM or buying TOCA2 to fulfill my "light"
> racing jones (i.e. non-GPL). Since your arcade racing tastes seem to be
> pretty close to mine, Joe, I've got a few questions for you.
> How does it compare with the following arcade and PC games: NFS1,
> Atari's SF Rush, Sega's Harley-Davidson LA Riders, Vette?
> Also (and be honest here!), how much less are you playing the
> game now that several weeks have passed?
> Martin
> Nigel Mansell RIP!
: It is the best arcade racer in years. It really revitalizes what had
: become a tired genre. Check out the reviews on the net, they'll all
: tell you the same thing.
I've also been thinking about buying this game for some time.
However, I'm torn between buying MM or buying TOCA2 to fulfill my "light"
racing jones (i.e. non-GPL). Since your arcade racing tastes seem to be
pretty close to mine, Joe, I've got a few questions for you.
How does it compare with the following arcade and PC games: NFS1,
Atari's SF Rush, Sega's Harley-Davidson LA Riders, Vette?
Also (and be honest here!), how much less are you playing the
game now that several weeks have passed?
Martin
Nigel Mansell RIP!
I'd like to answer on this... I'm having as much fun with it as I do with San
Francisco Rush. ;-)
Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
> Martin
> Nigel Mansell RIP!
David G Fisher
Runs perfectly fine with the graphics pumped, but thanks for the advice!
Dan Belcher
Team Racing Unlimited
A fair bit less, since I finished all races - though there is a race
editor coming out (i.e., place your own checkpoints) that will
certainly having me playing again. And even now I get it out once
every couple days for a spin.
Mind you, I should also point out I would be playing it more, but I
have just received a beta copy of "Need for Speed 4 - High Stakes"
which I will be reviewing when it goes gold (btw, NFS4 seems like a
much better game than NFS3, which I tired of quickly).
Joe McGinn
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A fair bit less, since I finished all races - though there is a race
editor coming out (i.e., place your own checkpoints) that will
certainly having me playing again. And even now I get it out once
every couple days for a spin. Mind you, I should also point out I
Joe
I see by the posts below that you have purchased it and like it. It
is a great game, BUT.... As has happened throughout the history of
computer games, there is always someone raising the ante. This time,
it looks like it'll be "Driver" by ______(? can't remember the
developer). I think it's due to be out this fall, and is similar to
MM, but with more goodies.
--mountain K
Midtown is fine by me until then!
Driver did have a very cool replay mode. It looks like that
is the focus of the game. It's like Carmagedon...sure it's a
racing game, but the focus is on running over people. If
you want great mechanics and physics then Midtown is
the game.
> >I'm thinking about buying this game today. Is it any good? I've only
seen a
> >few screenshots and a review but it looks hella cool.
> I see by the posts below that you have purchased it and like it. It
> is a great game, BUT.... As has happened throughout the history of
> computer games, there is always someone raising the ante. This time,
> it looks like it'll be "Driver" by ______(? can't remember the
> developer). I think it's due to be out this fall, and is similar to
> MM, but with more goodies.
> --mountain K
> Midtown is fine by me until then!