Midtown Madness

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. 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 -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

OK, thanks a lot Daxe. It should run pretty smoothly on my P2 400 mhz with 64 MB RAM and a 12 meg voodoo2 card then. And I'm a true sim lover, but there's some arcade racers that are probably as fun to drive on as any sim almost (San Fransico Rush on the N64 and F1WGP on the N64 are two that come to mind. Arcadish as hell but the AI cars are such a challenge to beat!). I'll call up my local Babbages right now and see if they still have a copy. Dan Belcher Team Racing Unlimited

>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. 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. Joe

Also, with the graphics set to the level that befits your Voodoo2, you'll find tht 64 meg might not be enough. If you experience some stuttering, turn off any windows apps. 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.

Check out the review at [link lost in import] 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!

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> : 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

> Also (and be honest here!), how much less are you playing the > game now that several weeks have passed? > Martin > Nigel Mansell RIP! Playing on the Zone is where the you'll probably end up spending most of your time with MM. David G Fisher

Runs perfectly fine with the graphics pumped, but thanks for the advice! Dan Belcher Team Racing Unlimited

> How does it compare with the following arcade and PC games: NFS1, >Atari's SF Rush, Sega's Harley-Davidson LA Riders, Vette? I guess it would be closest to a cross between Vette and Harley-Davidson LA Riders. I don't think they geographic area modeled is quite as big as LA Riders though. The only other thing I would mention is that it's the first game since NFS1 to sometimes give me feelings of being in a movie car chase scene [as we here the sounds of Mark grabbing car keys and doing real-life racing to the computer game store ;-]. 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 ========================================== Staff Writer for the Sports *** Network [link lost in import: /***.com/] ==========================================

> How does it compare with the following arcade and PC games: NFS1, >Atari's SF Rush, Sega's Harley-Davidson LA Riders, Vette? I guess it would be closest to a cross between Vette and Harley-Davidson LA Riders. 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!

I was looking forward to Driver as well, but I saw it at E3 and was hugely disapointed. The driving mechanics and physics weren't even in the same class as Midtown. 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

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> >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!