Midnight Club 1 was rough around the edges, but it was a PS2 launch title. For a brand new IP launch title it was amazing. It came out just before The Fast and The Furious.
Three songs appear from Thomas Bangalter in Midnight Club 2, which if you don't know, he's the one half of the former duo Daft Punk. The songs in question are Outrun, Turbo and Extra Dry. There's also Felix Da Housecat, his remixed song appeared in NFS Undergound 2, so yeah, it had a couple decently known artists.
I grew up playing Midnight Club 2, still do to this day. The atmosphere, music and visual style, ngl some people don't know that it's from 2003. Makes me feel even older, knowing the game just turned 20 years old(!) It's a timeless classic for real.
same bro, Midnight Club 2 is a masterpiece and has one of the best soundtracks in gaming imo - when BlueTag was talking about the soundtrack and said "I wouldn't say it'll stay with you for life" i literally yelled at my screen and said IT WILL STAY WITH YOU. Every song in this soundtrack is a banger and trust me it will make you feel things, racing music for the adrenaline rush and relaxing cruising music. Listening to Nokternal - Aurora on the Maria Highway race at the beginning is nostalgic af. I honestly view this game as a time capsule to the early 2000's
@@potatoking2597 MC2 is iconic, as someone said it's pretty much dark souls but arcade racing in terms of difficulty. The OST is amazing because it actually scales with the difficulty. The last races in Tokyo get the most hardcore and psychedelic tunes, it's amazing. I play this game since I was a kid, and I replay it every year
Just so you know, that tipping the car to 2 wheels thing taking way too long is because the higher your framerate is, the slower it takes as the game's physics were designed around 30fps. there's a bunch of other issues tied to having too high framerate too 2 wheel driving is arguably the most useful in mc2 because of the tight as hell streets in like paris for example lovely video though, i love this game series and the different atmosphere each game offers
Just to complement your comment about the issues around the physics tied to the framerate: whenever you are doing burnouts in the game, your car takes damage from it. If you are playing on a high fps PC, the damage would be greatly exaggerated to the point that your car would be on fire at the start of some races Also, the animations for the motorcycle rider are played way too fast to the point that you barely notice it
A little known fact, I've played MC2 like crazy as a kid. To the point where I have 90% of the soundtrack on spotify, oh and to answer your question about the OST. Yes, all the songs are licensed just some of them you can't find anymore
I really adored Midnight Club 2's sci-fi vibes with the trance and techno music, it just fits so well with the game's vibe and atmosphere and really does screams early 2000s
Midnight Club 2 isn't even close to being forgotten, loads of people still talk about it and regard it as the best Midnight Club game. Personally my favorite is 3, but 2 is still very near and dear to me. The songs are licensed but most are pretty underground artists, with the exception of Thomas Bangalter who was one half of Daft Punk, and Felix Da Housecat who is a pretty big name in the scene. Sorry to be nitpicky, just figured you might find the extra info interesting. Fantastic video regardless. Been watching a bunch of your videos for a while. I really love your channel and keep up the excellent work!
That jumpscare really caught me off guard, I never played those two games, but the cutscenes in the midnight club 2 are a gem, great video as aways blue, very enjoyable, keep up the great work.
My man, MC2's soundtrack is AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!!! 💖 I remember playing it as a kid, and thought it was kinda cool The I grew up, studied sound engineering and music production, I've been a drummer and a DJ for 14 years now, and let me tell you, NOTHING in the world has been able to beat the Y2K house and techno techno vibe even to this day, and most of the names there are legendary, like Thomas Bangalter (½ of Daft Punk, the one you "made fun" of), Blu Mar Ten, Art of Trance, Paranoize and Felix da Housecat I just finished MC2 again recently and I couldn't believe what a great raver vibe it had and how awesome it was (except for the difficulty curve lol) Always loving your videos my man 👌
haha thank you so much! I'm glad people didn't take the joke too seriously, otherwise the channel would be up in flames for making fun of Thomas really cool to see so much appreciation for the music in this one!
i played that first midnight club game as a kid, loved it. Going back to it now, it feels like something someone would make in unity in their first couple years of learning game dev in the 2020's
All of Midnight Club 2's music is licensed! There are even three tracks by one half of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter, which get added to the radio when you reach Paris. They are Turbo, Outrun and Extra Day, the last of which you used as an example of the music for the game.
Midnight Club 2, man I played the shit outta that. Just cruising around in the freemode, listenin to the music. All those little animations they do to introduce certain racers, so good.
midnight club - street racing was made on a compact disc also you're going to get deja vu when you play LA Remix because it uses the same maps from MC2
The first game on PS2 is pretty much a spiritual successor to Midtown Madness since it was developed by Angel Studios (Rockstar San Diego) and incorporated the same driving/physics model. From the second game onwards, the driving/physics were remade from the ground up and were a whole lot better. As much as I love MC3 and LA, I personally prefer MC2 mainly due to its atmosphere and soundtrack (Tokyo anyone?). Another thing to note about the first game is that you can get a Baja Buggy on the PS2 version if you have a Smuggler's Run gamesave.
One of my only memories of the 3rd game is plating on my brother's file and making a big Hummer with a gold paintjob, gold-tinted windows, spinners, underglow, and a spoiler. It was a monstrosity.
i gave midnight club 2 a shot and really enjoyed it. i didn't actually think about the whole traffic spawn thing in that last hard race, it was frustrating yes but i had a lot of fun strategically building a solid route with every retry, and after creating my own, most optimal path it felt very rewarding finishing first.
I love the Midnight Club games, even if the games have led to me breaking a controller or two. Im glad you enjoyed MC2, my dad loved that one when he was younger.
The two wheeled thing is actually pretty useful in mcla (the last one) since the weight transfer is almost instant and it really helps to make sharper corners
The mom was pretty funny, cute mom A game full of personality, especially when everyone has their own themes and the main menu theme also changes too. When you're on the bike, if you idle long enough, you can see your driver with various emotions, little details; they are important. You don't see the originality in today's games
That un-ordered Savo race, you did right by following Savo XD took me a while too back in the day. Haley and Parfait are pretty cool. Julie & Jewel are like the goofy sisters. Stephane, just wants a hamburger XD
ah, every time I see anything MC2 related, I always look forward to them talking about Savo's unordered paris race... I kid you not, I got stuck on that Race for *literal Years*, but after the game forced me to get good over time, it's outrageous to say that I can now beat that race with handicaps. MC2 just hits different(and also really hard)
Congratulations for hitting 20k subs from a fellow brazilian! I played a lot of Midnight Club 3 back in the PS2 days and it's one of my favorite games. Last year I decided to replay a lot of the racing games I used to play as a kid, so I also ended up playing some that I had never played and/or finished before as well. To be fair, I played the first minutes of Midnight Club 2 back in the day, but my pc wasn't powerful enough for the game, so I gave up on it. I have to say that playing the game last year was definetly challenging, perhaps one of the most difficult games that I ever got to 100%. I feel you about the frustation, I had to play a couple of races for several days until I finally managed to win, but in overall I would say that I had a lot of fun and it was definetly worth it.
7:39 I mean you could've done some research, because 90% of the Tracks are licensed music ranging from various artists like: Art of Trance, Axus, Michael Da Brain and D-Noiser with their Brain series, Felix Da Housecat, Golden Boy, Thomas Bangalter, Tommy Tee...
The cool thing about midnight club 1 is that in the open world you can find hidden red checkpoints and those unlock hidden cars some are very OP and you can use them to beat career mode,
I loved your video! I grew up playing Need for Speed, Midnight Club, and GTA, and it brought back so many memories. I loved driving all the different cars, winning races, and exploring the cities. The games were always so challenging and fun at the same time. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. It was a trip down memory lane. Keep up the great work!
i actually discovered something about MCII's two wheel drive problem. see the game was originally developed with PS2 in mind, so natively running the game at 30fps was R* San Diegos goal. the PC port wasn't thought out for higher framerates. so if you have a way to cap your framerate to 30 fps while playing on PC you should feel the difference in physics compared to 60+ fps.
The soundtrack on 2 is indeed licensed, not only that, but there's a Brazilian one in there, too. Remix, sort of, from an old Caetano Veloso song, it's called "Escaping Sao Paulo" by Projections.
The Soundtracks of Midnight Club 2 are truly and purely Masterpieces, so many unique and diverse genres... bangers after bangers...🎶☯️🎶 #NostalgicVibes #Childhood #Memories ☯️
Midnight club 2 is hard af. Specially against Savo in Paris,i always didnt know where i was going. The third game is also difficult but the special habillity saves a lot of time
mc2 was one of my fav games and with the 3rd one adding even more. lol the loading menu always used to scare me when i was alone but besides that it was hard game i wish rockstar kept making midnight club game since the last one was midnight club LA
If you ever revisit MC2, be sure to cap the framerate to 30, thats what the physics were designed to operate at, everything will feel better, weight transfering is far more responsive, burnouts are no longer a waste of time, car acceleration is more responsive, ect... Unless if you plan to fishtail, then you'll want something over 100 fps
The cars on the box are owned by a guy I know from the import car scene here in the dmv and his brother. My pops had a big turbo e36 bmw in the early 2000s so I got to experience alot of car shows and street races from that era.
7:50 "I wouldn't say it'll stay with you for life" my brother I loved this video but you have to realise that some of us literally had our lives and personalities defined by the MC2 soundtrack 😭
i was saying the same thing lol, when Bluetag said that phrase I yelled at my screen IT WILL STAY WITH YOU FOR LIFE. MC2 soundtrack is literally one of the best soundtracks in entirety of gaming not just racing games but the whole gaming industry. This soundtrack is what makes you connected to the game and make you feel emotions. The rushing adrenaline as the races intensify, the relaxing cruising music, the chill racing 2000's nightclub beats like Nokternal Aurora on the Maria Highway race. Like someone else said, Midnight Club 2 was not just a racing game but also a musical experience.
Remember my brother buying a copy of MC2 for the PS2. It was remarkable in particular for the fact he rarely ever wasted his money on videogames, least of all PS2, but the racers like any Hard Truck, Midtown Madness, Sega Rally, Rollcage, NFS, Midnight Club 2, he’d have a soft spot for these type of games. And yes, I was “blown away” by the fact we had 3 cities to race. More than that, the many hidden alleys and path ways to make the lap more... optional, that was amazing. Even GTA3 or Vice City didn't have that level of detail. And the ability to make your own track layout and race it. It's true “going back” a series is like dressing down on features, that's why I consider myself blessed to have grown up from MSX/DOS era, through Win 95, 98, XP, and all the iterations of Playstation (except 5, because I am still content with how the 2, 3 and 4 are holding up today). Got to see the industry develop like the games themselves. Going back is simply nostalgia for me. But I can understand it may appear like a downgrade for people who didn't get to try the previous iterations. They may appear limited in what you can do, keep in mind the hardware they were designed on and for was quite limited too. Temper expectations but embrace the adventure into memory lane. Game engines have come a long way since the early days.
My favorite part of 2 is easily the cheat codes. "savethekids" literally gives you a machine gun and rockets. When you can't play Twisted Metal like a racing game might as well bring the Twisted Metal to your Midnight Club. Good times for sure.
Que video foda! Muito bom seu conteúdo, sua pauta e edição. E tbm o "cybercafe" que vc jogou MC2 com certeza foi uma lan-house daquelas que era famosa no br nos anos 2000 😂
i Dunno why, but Midnight club 1 gives a little Test Drive 5 vibes that's is a bad game, but at same time it's AMAZING ! tracks of that game are REALLY unique
Also Weight Transfer is essentially useless for the first 3 games. The controls are too tight when on two wheels. On MCLA however, they made them much looser. You can use the weight transfer to make tight turns and not lose speed. It's called Two Wheel racing, many videos of it on UA-cam.
The game has licensed songs and artists. For example those tracks you played at 7:26 are Extra Dry and Outrun from Thomas Bangalter A.K.A. 50% of Daft Punk.
I grew up playing MCLA Remix (psp version) around 2010 ish. Then when I read about the series around 5-6 years later, I looked into getting the older games. Played MC3 Remix, then MC2 and enjoyed both and still play. I don't think I can play MC1 however because of the physics. It's based off Midtown Madness, another great game but with the same wonky physics. If only they had the physics of the later games it would be superb. I have yet to play MCLA on Xbox/PS3 however. What I like about the series as a whole is that it makes you learn all the obstacles (which ones to avoid hitting like telephone poles in MC2) and traffic patterns of the city (dense traffic on the wide roads around the Eiffel tower in Paris). And from that you form your own route to win races.
Angel Studios developed Midtown Madness 2 and Midnight Club at the same time. In early betas of MM2, a cut Japan level for MCSR can be found in the files. As well, I later discovered that the freaking ragdoll code existed in MM2, albeit unused. We made it happen though! Let me blow your mind further: MC2 uses the same game engine, the Angel Game Engine (AGE); This little-known game engine is what RAGE was built upon, and powered a lot of fun racing games back in the day. That includes MC2 and MC3. Anyways, loved the video - keep up the great work!
I think the pedestrian ragdoll physics was unused to give more value to the graphical upgrades, physics are heavier compared to regular animations. I get surprised to saw rwgsoll physics in the first game, that was very impressive for a 2000 PS2 game.
In midnight club 2, it takes too long to do the 2 wheels thing because the engine is tied to your fps, the minimum is probably recommended on 30fps, and also everything in midnight club 2 is affected by fps, so turn that fps down baby!
In MC2, 2 wheel flips your car slowly because of high framerate, at 30 fps which is what the game was intended to run at it will pop up much quicker. Same for burnout, it is framerate dependent, the higher the framerate the quicker it wears off, thus having less of an effect.
Interesting I was unaware of that, maybe next time I'll try my next MC2 play through with the PS2 version which should natively be capped at 30. I heard Ps2 handling is also different to PC version handling but the difference in framerate might be the reason why.
@@potatoking2597 Cap the PC version to 30fps, plug up a controller for that smooth steering and you pretty much have the same experience, handling values are the same across different platforms, it is indeed the framerate that changes the feel of it completely.
7:40 damn when i played gran turismo 4 again a couple years ago when we got a ps2 at work (Covid and nothing to do) i was shocked by how bad it looked in comparison to how i remembered it. This actually looks really nice and i got flashbacks of how i was driving around the airport during one of these sunsets after school.
I grew up with the Midtown Madness games made by the same developers (Angel Studios / R*) and when I tried MC1 back in 2018, it felt like a rushed sequel unfortunately
Oh boy. You have no idea how frustrating it is playing against The World Champ in Midnight Club 1. Her car is just too fast. Even with Nitrous you can catch up for seconds or minutes only till she catches up quickly. (Also yes.. the World Champ in MC1 is female) World Champs races in Midnight Clubs (1 & 2) ain't no joke. Luckily i made it
I didn't knew Pyrocynical was hired for this game back then. (But in all seriousness, Rockstar was wild with games back then and it would be cool to see Midnight Club remake)
Midnight club mentioned! Most of these games feel like a fever dream, I completely forgot you're forced to do unordered races. The worst type of races imo
@@BlooTeg If you ever get a chance, try find Red Asphalt (PS1 1997), I adore that game and it's ridiculously underrated and forgotten. Shooting/Racer, six characters, Bunch of cars to upgrade with winnings, LOTS of tracks (Each world has an evolving track each race) excellent music, fun and vengeful as, and kinda hard the closer to the end you get. Give it a go!
Ah, it’s great to look at where the series originated before it went more mainstream. The first game was the first one I played and even though I didn’t like it the first time when I replayed it I enjoyed it much more. And the second game is basically the first game but better in every single aspect. By far one of the best street racing games without customization. I constantly flip flop between liking II or LA more because they both are great in their own ways. While the second game I wouldn’t consider forgotten, the first game is something no one talks about anymore because the later games are just better. Great vid dude.
Hell yeah. You made a video on one of my favorite games of all time. I just recently beat midnight club la because of dustin eden. Im saddened rockstar stopped supporting midnight club. They really had something going. I feel like if we still had midnight club to this day and it was good, it might have push ea to make Their need for speed games good again. Miss midnight club to this day 😢
it's a weird choice but MCII is probably my favorite PS2 racing game. Something about the aesthetic and format vibes with me more than 3 and LA and I've replayed it several times. The race you talked about, Burn, is crazy hard and I remember spending hours just copying the different enemy routes to find one I liked. However when I replayed more recently I found a route someone did on youtube that is objectively faster than the enemies' routes and makes the race kinda easy. but i would have never found that on my own lol
Same, i finally finished Midnight Club 2 in 2022 and turned into my favorite racing game, when i played and finished Midnight Club 3 at same time, doens't have the same feel that i got with the serious atmosphere and sountrack of the second game.
Dude... I remember getting so frustrated with the rain race against the guy in the Evo back when i was a kid. I could not figure out how to control the saikou (supra look alike) in the rain and i basically stopped my career there and find cheats and mess around with the bomb game mode. Many years later, i got the game on emulator and my god, figuring out that powersliding with the saikou in the rain or just powersliding in general made it faster was so satisfying and i finally made it out of that hurdle. Savo's races were honestly quite fun and especially the background music on his races which makes the races more hectic than it needs to be, I honestly had more trouble with the second tokyo race with heavy traffic than the unordered race in paris. The LA ones were a decent challenge and the second paris race was the easiest for me.
Niko is the guy who drives the Knight (unlicensed Evo 7), Saikou was the worst car to use during the rain, you need a car with better handling to beat it, i used the RSMC 15 (Nissan 350Z) and the Alarde (Lotus Elise second gen) to beat it.
@@Silva_GP I saw those on some very old mc2 vids i think it was an online modr clip with a bunch of people in velocis. I did see some speedruns i remember one where he like did a 360 spin just to enter a corner faster, blew my mind. I tried it on emulator with controller but apparently its a trick easily done with keyboard than controller
Midnight Club 2 and LA (plus LA Remix) are my favorite games in the series. Btw doing burnout, weight transfer and etc are actually useful ONLY on locked 30 FPS since the game was meant to be played on 30, its fine on 60 but the game was designed to be played on 30. I will link the video that explains the engine behavior of the game with different fps in my reply for this comment
omg I played all the console games from the franchise. Was definitely one of the top tier racing franchises at the time. I wish they would have kept going with the series because I know the game would look AMAZING if it was released now.
I didn't play much of Midnight Club as a kid growing up. But i did play a lot of Test Drive though the only one i have any memories of Test Drive is the one that had that at the time every racing game had the car with the blue paint and the white stripes but also looked like the Banshee from gta 3. And that Test Drive wow it was amazing.
Midnight Club 1 was rough around the edges, but it was a PS2 launch title. For a brand new IP launch title it was amazing. It came out just before The Fast and The Furious.
It felt so much more authentic because it was pre fast and furious
Three songs appear from Thomas Bangalter in Midnight Club 2, which if you don't know, he's the one half of the former duo Daft Punk. The songs in question are Outrun, Turbo and Extra Dry. There's also Felix Da Housecat, his remixed song appeared in NFS Undergound 2, so yeah, it had a couple decently known artists.
yoo that's cool!
TAKE ME ON A ROCKET RIDE
@@Matt_STS Yup, remixed by none other than Soulwax, the same Soulwax that has their own radio station in GTA V.
@@Matt_STS that's my jam
Another fun fact. Some of the same voice actors in Midnight Club 1 and 2 also reappeared in later Rockstar titles such as GTA 3, GTA LCS, GTA 4 and 5.
I grew up playing Midnight Club 2, still do to this day. The atmosphere, music and visual style, ngl some people don't know that it's from 2003. Makes me feel even older, knowing the game just turned 20 years old(!)
It's a timeless classic for real.
same bro, Midnight Club 2 is a masterpiece and has one of the best soundtracks in gaming imo - when BlueTag was talking about the soundtrack and said "I wouldn't say it'll stay with you for life" i literally yelled at my screen and said IT WILL STAY WITH YOU. Every song in this soundtrack is a banger and trust me it will make you feel things, racing music for the adrenaline rush and relaxing cruising music. Listening to Nokternal - Aurora on the Maria Highway race at the beginning is nostalgic af. I honestly view this game as a time capsule to the early 2000's
@@potatoking2597 MC2 is iconic, as someone said it's pretty much dark souls but arcade racing in terms of difficulty. The OST is amazing because it actually scales with the difficulty. The last races in Tokyo get the most hardcore and psychedelic tunes, it's amazing. I play this game since I was a kid, and I replay it every year
MCII is a masterpiece.
Just so you know, that tipping the car to 2 wheels thing taking way too long is because the higher your framerate is, the slower it takes as the game's physics were designed around 30fps. there's a bunch of other issues tied to having too high framerate too
2 wheel driving is arguably the most useful in mc2 because of the tight as hell streets in like paris for example
lovely video though, i love this game series and the different atmosphere each game offers
oh no way, rockstar and the framerate problem
noticed 4 bugs in the gameplay alone, can't believe he beat the whole game like this!😩👌
pc also has more traffic
2 wheels in a car is good for small base cars.
Then again I rarely use it so yeah
Just to complement your comment about the issues around the physics tied to the framerate: whenever you are doing burnouts in the game, your car takes damage from it. If you are playing on a high fps PC, the damage would be greatly exaggerated to the point that your car would be on fire at the start of some races
Also, the animations for the motorcycle rider are played way too fast to the point that you barely notice it
I liked the part where he said midnight and clubbed all over the place
i clubbed all over your mom
^ yall getting good at this
I just DUB’d when I saw this vid 😩
I remixed when I when to Los Angeles
Amaboutuclub thank you so much
Midnight club was the dark souls of racing games, it was fun but unforgiving at the same time
MC2 was hard, but dark souls of racing games should go to Stuntman
@@beatingstuff88im still stuck on the damn tuk tuk stage
I must have lost more than 50 times for Savo's first Paris race
@@beatingstuff88you only say that because you never tried to play it with the how hard can it be number 9 cheat code
A little known fact, I've played MC2 like crazy as a kid. To the point where I have 90% of the soundtrack on spotify, oh and to answer your question about the OST. Yes, all the songs are licensed just some of them you can't find anymore
Some of the songs are too underground and doens't appears on modern music plataforms.
OR (Back in the day) you didn't download them from a torrent.. i still have it as a mp3 :)
Ah Midnight Club! My favorite Rockstar series. ❤
LONG LIVE MIDNIGHT CLUB
STILL CANCELLED
@@BlooTeg SHIT ROCKSTAR
Midnight Club 2's soundtrack was my favorite and I still listen to it on a regular basis.
I really adored Midnight Club 2's sci-fi vibes with the trance and techno music, it just fits so well with the game's vibe and atmosphere and really does screams early 2000s
Midnight Club 2 isn't even close to being forgotten, loads of people still talk about it and regard it as the best Midnight Club game. Personally my favorite is 3, but 2 is still very near and dear to me. The songs are licensed but most are pretty underground artists, with the exception of Thomas Bangalter who was one half of Daft Punk, and Felix Da Housecat who is a pretty big name in the scene. Sorry to be nitpicky, just figured you might find the extra info interesting. Fantastic video regardless. Been watching a bunch of your videos for a while. I really love your channel and keep up the excellent work!
not at all! thank you for the info on it!
Some of the artists from the game like Art of Trance was only popular on europe during the early 2000s.
One day the video is just gonna be silence for 10 minutes then suddenly… “hey!”
Video ends.
watch me do that
@@BlooTega good 2024 April Fools prank
Snesdrunk did something like that
That jumpscare really caught me off guard, I never played those two games, but the cutscenes in the midnight club 2 are a gem, great video as aways blue, very enjoyable, keep up the great work.
hahah thank you!
there’s been a handful of instances where i was able to avoid a crash by two-wheeling and there’s no better feeling than pulling it off
My man, MC2's soundtrack is AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!!! 💖
I remember playing it as a kid, and thought it was kinda cool
The I grew up, studied sound engineering and music production, I've been a drummer and a DJ for 14 years now, and let me tell you, NOTHING in the world has been able to beat the Y2K house and techno techno vibe even to this day, and most of the names there are legendary, like Thomas Bangalter (½ of Daft Punk, the one you "made fun" of), Blu Mar Ten, Art of Trance, Paranoize and Felix da Housecat
I just finished MC2 again recently and I couldn't believe what a great raver vibe it had and how awesome it was (except for the difficulty curve lol)
Always loving your videos my man 👌
haha thank you so much! I'm glad people didn't take the joke too seriously, otherwise the channel would be up in flames for making fun of Thomas
really cool to see so much appreciation for the music in this one!
One of the hardest racing games i've ever played
Not to mention with a banger ass soundtrack too especially Brain Train and D-Noiser
Midnight Club 2 taught me how to be precise with keyboard controls. Beating it felt so good.
My favorite thing about Midnight Club 2 was driving into a gas station and exploding cuz yes
i played that first midnight club game as a kid, loved it. Going back to it now, it feels like something someone would make in unity in their first couple years of learning game dev in the 2020's
All of Midnight Club 2's music is licensed! There are even three tracks by one half of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter, which get added to the radio when you reach Paris. They are Turbo, Outrun and Extra Day, the last of which you used as an example of the music for the game.
Midnight Club 2, man I played the shit outta that. Just cruising around in the freemode, listenin to the music. All those little animations they do to introduce certain racers, so good.
midnight club - street racing was made on a compact disc
also you're going to get deja vu when you play LA Remix because it uses the same maps from MC2
is LA remix the PSP one
@@BlooTeg
Yeah, it is.
@@BlooTeg yes
The first game on PS2 is pretty much a spiritual successor to Midtown Madness since it was developed by Angel Studios (Rockstar San Diego) and incorporated the same driving/physics model. From the second game onwards, the driving/physics were remade from the ground up and were a whole lot better. As much as I love MC3 and LA, I personally prefer MC2 mainly due to its atmosphere and soundtrack (Tokyo anyone?).
Another thing to note about the first game is that you can get a Baja Buggy on the PS2 version if you have a Smuggler's Run gamesave.
tokyo was easily my favorite city in the second game!
One of my only memories of the 3rd game is plating on my brother's file and making a big Hummer with a gold paintjob, gold-tinted windows, spinners, underglow, and a spoiler. It was a monstrosity.
Midnight club 1 was my first ps2 game. Crazy how time flies
i gave midnight club 2 a shot and really enjoyed it. i didn't actually think about the whole traffic spawn thing in that last hard race, it was frustrating yes but i had a lot of fun strategically building a solid route with every retry, and after creating my own, most optimal path it felt very rewarding finishing first.
I love the Midnight Club games, even if the games have led to me breaking a controller or two. Im glad you enjoyed MC2, my dad loved that one when he was younger.
definitely a great one!
The two wheeled thing is actually pretty useful in mcla (the last one) since the weight transfer is almost instant and it really helps to make sharper corners
The mom was pretty funny, cute mom
A game full of personality, especially when everyone has their own themes and the main menu theme also changes too.
When you're on the bike, if you idle long enough, you can see your driver with various emotions, little details; they are important. You don't see the originality in today's games
That un-ordered Savo race, you did right by following Savo XD took me a while too back in the day. Haley and Parfait are pretty cool. Julie & Jewel are like the goofy sisters. Stephane, just wants a hamburger XD
ah, every time I see anything MC2 related, I always look forward to them talking about Savo's unordered paris race...
I kid you not, I got stuck on that Race for *literal Years*, but after the game forced me to get good over time, it's outrageous to say that I can now beat that race with handicaps.
MC2 just hits different(and also really hard)
Congratulations for hitting 20k subs from a fellow brazilian! I played a lot of Midnight Club 3 back in the PS2 days and it's one of my favorite games. Last year I decided to replay a lot of the racing games I used to play as a kid, so I also ended up playing some that I had never played and/or finished before as well. To be fair, I played the first minutes of Midnight Club 2 back in the day, but my pc wasn't powerful enough for the game, so I gave up on it. I have to say that playing the game last year was definetly challenging, perhaps one of the most difficult games that I ever got to 100%. I feel you about the frustation, I had to play a couple of races for several days until I finally managed to win, but in overall I would say that I had a lot of fun and it was definetly worth it.
7:39 I mean you could've done some research, because 90% of the Tracks are licensed music ranging from various artists like: Art of Trance, Axus, Michael Da Brain and D-Noiser with their Brain series, Felix Da Housecat, Golden Boy, Thomas Bangalter, Tommy Tee...
The cool thing about midnight club 1 is that in the open world you can find hidden red checkpoints and those unlock hidden cars some are very OP and you can use them to beat career mode,
I loved your video! I grew up playing Need for Speed, Midnight Club, and GTA, and it brought back so many memories. I loved driving all the different cars, winning races, and exploring the cities. The games were always so challenging and fun at the same time.
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. It was a trip down memory lane.
Keep up the great work!
thank you so much!
i actually discovered something about MCII's two wheel drive problem.
see the game was originally developed with PS2 in mind, so natively running the game at 30fps was R* San Diegos goal.
the PC port wasn't thought out for higher framerates. so if you have a way to cap your framerate to 30 fps while playing on PC you should feel the difference in physics compared to 60+ fps.
The soundtrack on 2 is indeed licensed, not only that, but there's a Brazilian one in there, too. Remix, sort of, from an old Caetano Veloso song, it's called "Escaping Sao Paulo" by Projections.
I noticed that after finishing the video LOL
To this day i still farm money in the random races in MC3 while i listen to podcasts.
It just feels great.
I still get PTSD from that first Savo race in Paris
The Soundtracks of Midnight Club 2 are truly and purely Masterpieces, so many unique and diverse genres... bangers after bangers...🎶☯️🎶 #NostalgicVibes #Childhood #Memories ☯️
Midnight Club was released in the year 2000 'pretty early in the console's life cycle'
it was a launch title.
Midnight club 2 is hard af.
Specially against Savo in Paris,i always didnt know where i was going.
The third game is also difficult but the special habillity saves a lot of time
mc2 was one of my fav games and with the 3rd one adding even more. lol the loading menu always used to scare me when i was alone but besides that it was hard game i wish rockstar kept making midnight club game since the last one was midnight club LA
If you ever revisit MC2, be sure to cap the framerate to 30, thats what the physics were designed to operate at, everything will feel better, weight transfering is far more responsive, burnouts are no longer a waste of time, car acceleration is more responsive, ect... Unless if you plan to fishtail, then you'll want something over 100 fps
thanks for the tip! didn't know that was a thing
The cars on the box are owned by a guy I know from the import car scene here in the dmv and his brother. My pops had a big turbo e36 bmw in the early 2000s so I got to experience alot of car shows and street races from that era.
no way! that's sick haha
7:50 "I wouldn't say it'll stay with you for life" my brother I loved this video but you have to realise that some of us literally had our lives and personalities defined by the MC2 soundtrack 😭
yeah apparently a lot of people loved it!
i was saying the same thing lol, when Bluetag said that phrase I yelled at my screen IT WILL STAY WITH YOU FOR LIFE. MC2 soundtrack is literally one of the best soundtracks in entirety of gaming not just racing games but the whole gaming industry. This soundtrack is what makes you connected to the game and make you feel emotions. The rushing adrenaline as the races intensify, the relaxing cruising music, the chill racing 2000's nightclub beats like Nokternal Aurora on the Maria Highway race. Like someone else said, Midnight Club 2 was not just a racing game but also a musical experience.
Midnight club 2 is the reason why I love cars today. Great video!
thank you!
Remember my brother buying a copy of MC2 for the PS2.
It was remarkable in particular for the fact he rarely ever wasted his money on videogames, least of all PS2, but the racers like any Hard Truck, Midtown Madness, Sega Rally, Rollcage, NFS, Midnight Club 2, he’d have a soft spot for these type of games.
And yes, I was “blown away” by the fact we had 3 cities to race. More than that, the many hidden alleys and path ways to make the lap more... optional, that was amazing. Even GTA3 or Vice City didn't have that level of detail. And the ability to make your own track layout and race it.
It's true “going back” a series is like dressing down on features, that's why I consider myself blessed to have grown up from MSX/DOS era, through Win 95, 98, XP, and all the iterations of Playstation (except 5, because I am still content with how the 2, 3 and 4 are holding up today).
Got to see the industry develop like the games themselves.
Going back is simply nostalgia for me. But I can understand it may appear like a downgrade for people who didn't get to try the previous iterations. They may appear limited in what you can do, keep in mind the hardware they were designed on and for was quite limited too. Temper expectations but embrace the adventure into memory lane. Game engines have come a long way since the early days.
My favorite part of 2 is easily the cheat codes. "savethekids" literally gives you a machine gun and rockets. When you can't play Twisted Metal like a racing game might as well bring the Twisted Metal to your Midnight Club. Good times for sure.
Fun fact: PSP version of MC: LA uses the same maps as the second game (LA and Tokyo)
VERY interesting
These are the types of Racing games I grew up with. I miss the arcade race games. I need a midnight club 1 and 2 remake or remastered for ps4
Midnight Club was dope i remember how nice & unique the graphics were broski. 👌✅️
Que video foda! Muito bom seu conteúdo, sua pauta e edição. E tbm o "cybercafe" que vc jogou MC2 com certeza foi uma lan-house daquelas que era famosa no br nos anos 2000 😂
exato!
i Dunno why, but Midnight club 1 gives a little Test Drive 5 vibes
that's is a bad game, but at same time it's AMAZING !
tracks of that game are REALLY unique
The AGE engine was used in Midtown through to MC3. Then redone into what became the RAGE and used for MCLA/GTA/RDR
Also Weight Transfer is essentially useless for the first 3 games. The controls are too tight when on two wheels. On MCLA however, they made them much looser. You can use the weight transfer to make tight turns and not lose speed. It's called Two Wheel racing, many videos of it on UA-cam.
The game has licensed songs and artists. For example those tracks you played at 7:26 are Extra Dry and Outrun from Thomas Bangalter A.K.A. 50% of Daft Punk.
unfortunately nowadays all midnight club games are kinda forgotten
good point
I grew up playing MCLA Remix (psp version) around 2010 ish. Then when I read about the series around 5-6 years later, I looked into getting the older games. Played MC3 Remix, then MC2 and enjoyed both and still play.
I don't think I can play MC1 however because of the physics. It's based off Midtown Madness, another great game but with the same wonky physics. If only they had the physics of the later games it would be superb.
I have yet to play MCLA on Xbox/PS3 however.
What I like about the series as a whole is that it makes you learn all the obstacles (which ones to avoid hitting like telephone poles in MC2) and traffic patterns of the city (dense traffic on the wide roads around the Eiffel tower in Paris). And from that you form your own route to win races.
Angel Studios developed Midtown Madness 2 and Midnight Club at the same time. In early betas of MM2, a cut Japan level for MCSR can be found in the files. As well, I later discovered that the freaking ragdoll code existed in MM2, albeit unused. We made it happen though!
Let me blow your mind further: MC2 uses the same game engine, the Angel Game Engine (AGE); This little-known game engine is what RAGE was built upon, and powered a lot of fun racing games back in the day. That includes MC2 and MC3.
Anyways, loved the video - keep up the great work!
thank you so much! so they do run on the same engine? that's actually crazy.
I think the pedestrian ragdoll physics was unused to give more value to the graphical upgrades, physics are heavier compared to regular animations. I get surprised to saw rwgsoll physics in the first game, that was very impressive for a 2000 PS2 game.
yeah don't forget about smugglers run 1 that also running at the AGE engine.
Nice video, I wish you more subscribers, you really deserve it :)
thank you so much!
2:28 - I think that might be hydroplaning from the wet street. it's been a while, but I remember wet streets making handling more difficult.
Midnight Club 1 is more of a weird spinoff of Midtown Madness 1 and 2 as Angel Studios got bought by Rockstar and Microsoft owned the MM license
Take your car, you think you are real clever i imagine - Makato
In midnight club 2, it takes too long to do the 2 wheels thing because the engine is tied to your fps, the minimum is probably recommended on 30fps, and also everything in midnight club 2 is affected by fps, so turn that fps down baby!
And Just Like that blue tag went off and committed war crimes haha 😂
In MC2, 2 wheel flips your car slowly because of high framerate, at 30 fps which is what the game was intended to run at it will pop up much quicker. Same for burnout, it is framerate dependent, the higher the framerate the quicker it wears off, thus having less of an effect.
I should have expected that from a Rockstar game, physics tied to fps to this day haha
Interesting I was unaware of that, maybe next time I'll try my next MC2 play through with the PS2 version which should natively be capped at 30. I heard Ps2 handling is also different to PC version handling but the difference in framerate might be the reason why.
@@potatoking2597 Cap the PC version to 30fps, plug up a controller for that smooth steering and you pretty much have the same experience, handling values are the same across different platforms, it is indeed the framerate that changes the feel of it completely.
@@dovydasbudrys452 I'll try that then, thanks.
7:40 damn when i played gran turismo 4 again a couple years ago when we got a ps2 at work (Covid and nothing to do) i was shocked by how bad it looked in comparison to how i remembered it. This actually looks really nice and i got flashbacks of how i was driving around the airport during one of these sunsets after school.
Sometimes I wish Rockstar would remaster these games, and make them available on PC too.
And then I remembered the gta trilogy.
Song in the background from the MC 2 video is Thomas Bangalter - Turbo
I grew up with the Midtown Madness games made by the same developers (Angel Studios / R*) and when I tried MC1 back in 2018, it felt like a rushed sequel unfortunately
I never knew it was made by the same devs!
Oh boy. You have no idea how frustrating it is playing against The World Champ in Midnight Club 1.
Her car is just too fast. Even with Nitrous you can catch up for seconds or minutes only till she catches up quickly.
(Also yes.. the World Champ in MC1 is female)
World Champs races in Midnight Clubs (1 & 2) ain't no joke. Luckily i made it
I still got my ps2 copys 1 , 2 , 3 , and LA 😢 i wish rockstar gave us a new midnight club even if itd unlicensed cars that resemble real life cars
Midnight Club
Max Payne
Bully
All victims of GTA Online.
Jumpscare rat confirmed. 10/5, spooky intro.
I didn't knew Pyrocynical was hired for this game back then.
(But in all seriousness, Rockstar was wild with games back then and it would be cool to see Midnight Club remake)
I just want anything midnight club at this point
Thomas Bangalter is one half of daft punk. would definitely say there's some stardom in the soundtrack.
Midnight club mentioned! Most of these games feel like a fever dream, I completely forgot you're forced to do unordered races. The worst type of races imo
could be fun IF IT WASN'T FOR THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM
MCII. My favorite MC game alongside III. So many banger soundtracks.
Just when I grabbed some snacks to eat, you upload, perfect timing man as always
oh hell yeah!
7:26 ayo this goes hard what the heck
also i hope u gonna review the third game next, the Mnc 3 DUB edition REMIX
Oh heck that 'your mum' joke was slipped right in their like a true pro. Great work!
The second one not so much, but a callback is always nice.
haha thank you!
@@BlooTeg If you ever get a chance, try find Red Asphalt (PS1 1997), I adore that game and it's ridiculously underrated and forgotten.
Shooting/Racer, six characters, Bunch of cars to upgrade with winnings, LOTS of tracks (Each world has an evolving track each race) excellent music, fun and vengeful as, and kinda hard the closer to the end you get.
Give it a go!
Ah, it’s great to look at where the series originated before it went more mainstream. The first game was the first one I played and even though I didn’t like it the first time when I replayed it I enjoyed it much more. And the second game is basically the first game but better in every single aspect. By far one of the best street racing games without customization. I constantly flip flop between liking II or LA more because they both are great in their own ways. While the second game I wouldn’t consider forgotten, the first game is something no one talks about anymore because the later games are just better. Great vid dude.
thank you!
The weight transfer on 2 is based on your frame rate and will be slower the higher it is.
Midnight club 3 is and will be the best of all time.
Bro be looking like he’s about to make a sans undertale noise everytime he gets jumped on.
cannot wait for u to cover the other midnight club games in separate videos
Good to know my mom gets excited when she sees puddingman, now I know why she's so into you 🙃
LOL
Wish MC LA was on PC, I haven’t played any of MC games but LA just seems interesting
same, too bad they ignored PC
@@BlooTeg I’ll probably buy it on PS3 one day, seems interesting
Hell yeah. You made a video on one of my favorite games of all time. I just recently beat midnight club la because of dustin eden. Im saddened rockstar stopped supporting midnight club. They really had something going. I feel like if we still had midnight club to this day and it was good, it might have push ea to make Their need for speed games good again.
Miss midnight club to this day 😢
Watching midnight club 2 upscaled in wide-screen makes me want to try it again!
worth it!
it's a weird choice but MCII is probably my favorite PS2 racing game. Something about the aesthetic and format vibes with me more than 3 and LA and I've replayed it several times. The race you talked about, Burn, is crazy hard and I remember spending hours just copying the different enemy routes to find one I liked. However when I replayed more recently I found a route someone did on youtube that is objectively faster than the enemies' routes and makes the race kinda easy. but i would have never found that on my own lol
I love the effort people put into things like that on old games like this. Definitely something I'll look up when I come back to replay this game haha
Same, i finally finished Midnight Club 2 in 2022 and turned into my favorite racing game, when i played and finished Midnight Club 3 at same time, doens't have the same feel that i got with the serious atmosphere and sountrack of the second game.
which route?
Dude... I remember getting so frustrated with the rain race against the guy in the Evo back when i was a kid. I could not figure out how to control the saikou (supra look alike) in the rain and i basically stopped my career there and find cheats and mess around with the bomb game mode. Many years later, i got the game on emulator and my god, figuring out that powersliding with the saikou in the rain or just powersliding in general made it faster was so satisfying and i finally made it out of that hurdle. Savo's races were honestly quite fun and especially the background music on his races which makes the races more hectic than it needs to be, I honestly had more trouble with the second tokyo race with heavy traffic than the unordered race in paris. The LA ones were a decent challenge and the second paris race was the easiest for me.
Niko is the guy who drives the Knight (unlicensed Evo 7), Saikou was the worst car to use during the rain, you need a car with better handling to beat it, i used the RSMC 15 (Nissan 350Z) and the Alarde (Lotus Elise second gen) to beat it.
@@Silva_GP yeah thats what i figured before but powersliding with the saikou on the rain actually helps it alot
@@demon-x3250 The powerslide glitch was a thing that i discovered on the speedruns.
@@Silva_GP I saw those on some very old mc2 vids i think it was an online modr clip with a bunch of people in velocis. I did see some speedruns i remember one where he like did a 360 spin just to enter a corner faster, blew my mind. I tried it on emulator with controller but apparently its a trick easily done with keyboard than controller
I wish you well bluetag. You make me want to create videos myself.
then go for it! speak your mind!
well, they wouldn't be forgotten if rockstar made one game in the last decade and if the old ones were on pc
would be cool if they did that!
Midnight Club 2 and LA (plus LA Remix) are my favorite games in the series. Btw doing burnout, weight transfer and etc are actually useful ONLY on locked 30 FPS since the game was meant to be played on 30, its fine on 60 but the game was designed to be played on 30. I will link the video that explains the engine behavior of the game with different fps in my reply for this comment
ua-cam.com/video/Wr91EDGEbQg/v-deo.html
omg I played all the console games from the franchise. Was definitely one of the top tier racing franchises at the time. I wish they would have kept going with the series because I know the game would look AMAZING if it was released now.
true! I hope they bring it back!
Thomas Bangalter is a brilliant musicant
One biggest problem with Midnight Club games are rubberbanding, no matter how powerfull car you had the oppoents gonna be on your nerve
There are actually no rubberband in Midnight Club 2 and 3.
I'm not sure about the first MC and LA tho
7:37 he even added a part named Mr. Krabs 😆😆😆
I didn't play much of Midnight Club as a kid growing up. But i did play a lot of Test Drive though the only one i have any memories of Test Drive is the one that had that at the time every racing game had the car with the blue paint and the white stripes but also looked like the Banshee from gta 3. And that Test Drive wow it was amazing.