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Midtown Madness
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With single and multi-player modes, a huge number of unlockable vehicles and more laughs per square inch then a clown sucking helium through a straw, Midtown Madness is a joy to play. This is car racing at its lunatic, comic-book best. Based on the streets of Washington DC and Paris, MM3 offers a fairly standard selection of one-player modes including checkpoint racing, first to the finish line challenges and a leisurely cruise mode for Sunday drivers who can't be doing with speeds over 55 mph. For the third release in the MM series, Microsoft have added an undercover mode in an effort to give lone players a running goal to aim for--whether it's busting the mafia as an undercover investigator or playing bodyguard and minder for a famous racing driver. In reality the story modes are paper thin and the plotline (such as it is) is best ignored in favour of completing the missions themselves.
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The offline, single-player modes in Midtown Madness 3 are comprised of two "storylines" that take place in Paris and Washington, DC. These independent scenarios involve little more than running timed errands, and they serve primarily to familiarize you with the layout of each city before heading out for your multiplayer encounters. They do provide a good introductory to the "no-holds-barred," shortcut-friendly driving style you’ll need to use, though, and they compel you to become close pals with the map on your heads-up display.
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The Midtown Madness series started out on the PC back in 1999. The game has always offered checkpoint-style races in huge, open cities carefully modeled after real-world locations. The first two games were developed by Angel Studios, the team that went on to develop Midnight Club for Rockstar. This new, third entry in the Midtown Madness series is exclusive to the Xbox and has been developed by DICE, the company behind another successful Xbox driving game, Rallisport Challenge. While the developers and the platform may have changed, Midtown Madness 3 still delivers the same style of street racing you'd expect to see, with the added bonus of some fantastic online thrills.
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As in Midtown Madness, you can choose from three kinds of races—Blitz, Circuit, and Checkpoint. Blitz races pit you against the clock as you wend your way through the city, Checkpoint races pit you against other drivers, and in Circuit races you’ll race through cordoned-off courses against some very aggressive opponents. As you successfully complete races, you’ll unlike ever-more formidable cars and flashier paint jobs. Don’t expect too much realism—though different cars handle differently, the emphasis in MM2 is on action. You’re able to hurtle over the hills of San Francisco like McQueen in Bullit, crash with relative impunity into other cars and buildings, run through department store show windows for shortcuts, and generally wreak havoc on the traffic code. Microsoft has ... added a new “crash course” feature, a series of mission-based races in which you take the role of a California stunt driver or a London cabbie.
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The original Midtown Madness was published over a year ago, and received an immense amount of acclaim. Reviewers and players alike loved the smell and feel of the city of Chicago, and above all, they loved crashing through it.
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Midtown Madness is all about getting to the end of each course by any means necessary and before you opponent. With each race you are able to select a different type of vehicle that will suit the environment around you, for example, if you want to have a vehicle which is likely to stay in one piece throughout the whole level then choose a bus, but be warned that it is damn slow.
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