I love that the final boss of the game, Savo, is completely bored for the lack of challenge and is relieved when we take his place. I find this twist so funny.
Yes. From a surface level many will see it as cartoony or 'aged badly', but actually no, they're quite expressive, the subtlety in their mannerisms has a real and humanlike quality.
You can see their thoughts, and then the expressions are different when speaking. Juxtaposition. Gives great insight to the character in such a short time. @@JGUA-cam0
The design of the faces super original and some even look like real faces don’t know if they had stand ins but hella good designs and character actual character
Reminds me of Need For Speed Most Wanted and Carbon when the Blacklist Racers or crew leaders call you out and stuff than challenges you to a one on one race
I wish game had a direct sequel, do not misquote me I am NOT talking dubedition. A sequel about THIS current cast plus more. I'd love to learn their backstories as to how the got in the racing scene and such. But this maybe more complicated then it looks
Gina -“I finally have a friend that isn’t a total loser” when I was a kid it made me think that women’s don’t like a loser even this game teaches us something
What's weird is if I'm thinking of a trust fund baby from LA California I don't think their first choice of car to be an S2000 lol, maybe a Ferrari or lambo or BMW.
I've played this game for years, but every day Ken'ichi appears in his cutscene, I always get goosebumps. There is just something so intimidating about him.
Honestly, out of all of the racers I think I felt the worst about taking Savo's car. He doesn't seem to have much going for him despite having everything. People like that really just need a good friend.
I mean Savo came up from being just a taxi driver from New York. He was just bored with success that him losing the title and his car became a huge relief that he doesn't have to race anymore.
@@castroabuful2468 the similarity is there though graphically in the first game he didn't look like much, just a blonde dude with some sunglasses on in the NIGHT TIME!
@@swagonometry9893Yeah, not to mention in his description, it says he’s been to every city in the world to get as good as he is at street racing. Guy has done it all.
Moses: Filipino Foodie Steven: Car Enthusiast Maria: Mexican underacheving sore loser Angel: Entitled rich kid (Diego: Broken hollywood director) Gina: Japanese team leader DJ (Mauro: LA night rider) Hector: Mexican street veteran Dice: Respected all around LA homie Blog: British old aged DJ Julie and Jewel: Teasing twins Primo: Italian F1 driver Stephane: French Playboy Ian: sloven Australian rice mate Farid: International counterfeit fugitive (Owen: American skilled inspector) Parfait: Broken french model Shing: Japanese scared rich kid (Ichiro: Shing's acquaintance and fellow rich kid) Ricky: Tricky yakuza kobun Haley: American feminist karen Nikko: Delirious rice boy Zen: Proverbial master and racer Kenichi: Yakuza oyabun Makoto: Elderly honorable racing master Savo: War veteran and depression patient
And the best thing is, you learn of their backgrounds just by listening to their quotes throughout the game; you could also take it from the music. Show don't tell.
As a South American to limited access back then to any consoles, one of my uncles gifted me a PS2 with this game Gina was my first crush ever, I was like 9 years.
Hate to break it to you, but it'll never happand if it does, they will ruin it Is angel studios which essentially Became rock star San Diego. Did every game since the first game But shortly after midnight club, LA the heads from angel studios. Got p***** off with Rockstar and told them to go f*** themselves and quit.
So nostalgic!! Midnight Club 2, along with 3 Dub Edition Remix and Los Angeles was literally my childhood. My life would be complete if this and the other 3 games gets remastered!
I remember playing this 20 years ago over my grandparents basement on Christmas break Even as kid a knew this game would be the best street racing culture video game I’ve ever played. The music, the characters, the vibe man fuck it was sooooo cool
It looks like Savo taps the player on the shoulder or gives him a fist bump, after he is beaten in all 3 cities, and i love that the camera shakes to show that action from the players’s perspective
"I'm just trying to have a good time & you idiot, you just want to ruin it." - Haley WOW. This is the new normal when the metoo movement started. Triggered on any little thing. Well Done Haley. MPE (My Point Exactly).
Look at this little shrimp. Who does he think he's kidding, posing like that? Thinks he can race me in THAT car? Still I must try to be nice, yo. Hey bro, follow me! Thinks he's got the moves on old Moses, eh? Heh, I'll eat him for breakfast! Poor little fella. Not bad, but I'm just being kind! How did this happen?! My beautiful damn CAR!! I'll make him say Moses, I have seen God and he weighs 280 pounds. For my car, huh? Let's go! Enjoy the car my friend, you got potential. Still got a lot to learn, though. Flash those beams, bro. Keep racing.
Savo doesn't know how to lose, that's why he doesn't like being the world champion and when Tiger defeats him, he thanks him for the defeat (poor Savo 😥)
Man i was a little snotnose kid when i fell in love with everything this game was about. It was just wayyy too hard for me obviously and then one day a friend of mine brought a printed list of cheat codes to (ELEMENTARY) school and explained to me what they even were. I thought he hacked the game fr like where did that RPG come from?! Thanks to him 10 year old me also managed to beat the career mode by setting the opponent speed to like 50%. Absolute legend. What a memory!
14:54 That’s an interesting bit of a dialogue from Savo. It implies that prior to the player, no one who has challenged Savo made it past his Tokyo races.
@@juwanhowardhll8019I played this in 2005, beat it and now since my ps2 is long gone (cuz I switch to Xbox when the 360 came out although I didn’t get it until 2008) so is MC2 cuz the CD stopped working in 2007 but luckily I beat the game beforehand. I will always treasure this game as my very first (before MC3)
Rockstar is good at making characters but still it’s impressive how colorful and entertaining they managed to make these characters in like 40 seconds worth of cutscenes
Dice: My sunglasses are my personality (multiple explosions behind him) Parfait: HOW DARE THIS PLEBE TALK TO ME Savo: *please help behind the angry expression* Makoto: *my wife is the protagonist of a NTR hentai* expression
Yeah. I played the PS2 version first then replayed it on PC and waa confused as Jump Jet plays when you race against Owen. Extra Dry/Turbo play when you race against Stephanie in race still on PC.
I Add English Subtitle
i notice that 😁
I love that the final boss of the game, Savo, is completely bored for the lack of challenge and is relieved when we take his place. I find this twist so funny.
I thought dice was the final boss
@@maxkeeble5122 he's the final boss from LA
@@maxkeeble5122He's just the LA Champion, one of 3 bosses before the final one, Savo
It also helps that the character we are playing is an evolved super-being with mind reading capabilities so we could hear this thoughts
@@MrJoshsupra Lol so true. We are truly super humans
When you look at these character's facial animations, they were ahead of their time.
Yes. From a surface level many will see it as cartoony or 'aged badly', but actually no, they're quite expressive, the subtlety in their mannerisms has a real and humanlike quality.
You can see their thoughts, and then the expressions are different when speaking. Juxtaposition. Gives great insight to the character in such a short time. @@JGUA-cam0
They’re like animated caricatures
Honestly it’s amazing how much work they put into them when they only got like 40 seconds worth of cutscenes
The design of the faces super original and some even look like real faces don’t know if they had stand ins but hella good designs and character actual character
The amount of verbal abuse you get in this game from the characters are hilarious 😂
MC2 characters it's like:
in Voice: are you prepared to lose? 😁👍
in Mind: it's that mf who stole my family last week 🤬🖕
Reminds me of Need For Speed Most Wanted and Carbon when the Blacklist Racers or crew leaders call you out and stuff than challenges you to a one on one race
11:07 and physical abuse 😂
@@M4DAttacknot really, in NFS it's just mild trash talk made for a PG13 game, in MC2 it's just straight up verbal abuse
nah moses was just playing with u
Expression of the Characters
• 🇺🇲 Moses: 😄
• 🇺🇲 Steven: 😎
• 🇲🇽 Maria: 😠
• 🇺🇲 Angel: 😡
• 🇺🇲 Gina: 😘
• 🇲🇽 Hector: 😤
• 🇺🇲 Dice: 😎
=
• 🇬🇧 Blog: 😃
• 🇨🇵 Jewel and Julie: 😒😊
• 🇮🇹 Primo: 🤨
• 🇮🇹 Stephane: 😠
• 🇦🇮 Ian: 😁
• 🇩🇿 Farid: 😆
• 🇨🇵 Parfait: 😠
=
• 🇯🇵 Shing: 🤬
• 🇯🇵 Ricky: 😈
• 🇺🇲 Haley: 😡
• 🇯🇵 Nikko: 🙁
• 🇯🇵 Zen: 😠
• 🇯🇵 Ken'ichi: 🤨
• 🇯🇵 Makoto: 😑
• 🇷🇺 Savo: 😡
Stephane is French on ps2 version
@@minefa5 good point
@@minefa5 makes sense completely
Stephane is 🇲🇫 and Ian is 🇭🇲
Bro all the Asians hate you in this game xD
7:17 baddies
8:10 Johnny Depp
11:56 Android 18
12:24 Eminem
14:45 he was racing with 1 eye the whole time
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking Haley was Android 18 as a kid.
SEE I KNEW I WASNT TRIPPIN, THAT IS LITERALLY ANDROID 18
Sir, the rival you mention in the comment was makoto, not savo
@@ZynzzGamingChair 14:44 slavic cycloid
14:15 Heihachi Mishima if he didn’t throw Kazuya off a cliff
I wish game had a direct sequel, do not misquote me I am NOT talking dubedition. A sequel about THIS current cast plus more. I'd love to learn their backstories as to how the got in the racing scene and such. But this maybe more complicated then it looks
+1
You're unfortunately asking for too much from Rockstar
@@justghost563 No, Rockstar had budget to do a sequel that continues the Midnight Club 2 story.
@Victor 2000s I'm talking about now, lol. Rockstar can't do anything right anymore
@Victor 2000s I would kill for a direct sequel though.
Gina says "a friend" broke my heart :'(
@KazuyaAmon First MGTOW moment.
She just playing hard to get
How many of us wish we could live in this game for all of eternity
I'd be rollin in the Kuruma GT.🏁
Dice: Careful! I got a Reputation!
Me (In my Head): DAMN, I WISH I WAS THIS MAN!!!
"Mess with me and I WILL embarrass you!"
9:11 I never noticed that the Aussie dude says no Wucking Forries, Mate.
Neither did I. And how funny it is 9:11
For me i always heard now
"i can furries mate" 💀
Gina -“I finally have a friend that isn’t a total loser” when I was a kid it made me think that women’s don’t like a loser even this game teaches us something
This game was responsible for me liking women like Gina.
Asiatic girls?
@@Victor_2000s has yet to answer
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that
@@basketofmacintosh6479 LOL
Unfortunately, there are not very many women like Gina these days.
12:30 “I am a proud rice boy” 😂
While the car looks fairly stock 🤣
@@aaryeshg.6526i like this style on the Evo VII >w
I AM A PROUD RICE BOY. AND MY IMAGE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
@@aaryeshg.6526 To be fair, he did say why bother if he isn't running 10 or 11s quarter mile times.
@@rustbloodeclipse Time to drive, Let's jet.
One can only wish for this and the other Midnight Club masterpieces to be remastered
Better no, reminds what Rockstar did with GTA Triology Remastered.
No don't.
With how current RockStar are, they'll make this game broken.
@@Victor_2000sgood ‘ol Definitive F**k-Up…
*at last, im free of this rubbish.*
you won my car, my title, have a nice life, goodbye. *hits camera* Can i get out of here now?!
badass moment
3:06 "Under privileged freak"
That line stings 😂
What's weird is if I'm thinking of a trust fund baby from LA California I don't think their first choice of car to be an S2000 lol, maybe a Ferrari or lambo or BMW.
I've played this game for years, but every day Ken'ichi appears in his cutscene, I always get goosebumps. There is just something so intimidating about him.
So glad I'm not the only one.
20 years later & I am still shocked Makoto is the 3rd Main Antagonist/Tokyo Champion. It should be Ken'ichi not Makoto.
His theme is intimidating as hell too
@@SHVRWK He and Tokyo champ themes are the hardest hitting.
@@madcrusader123 Bro don't forget Savo's theme! Absolutely face melting techno.
13:20 you can feel the intimidation from the screen.
He's my favorite character out of all.
Honestly, out of all of the racers I think I felt the worst about taking Savo's car. He doesn't seem to have much going for him despite having everything.
People like that really just need a good friend.
Nah, he's relived that he doesn't have to carry the burden of world champ. Dude probably had to race everyone ten times over to hold the title.
I mean Savo came up from being just a taxi driver from New York. He was just bored with success that him losing the title and his car became a huge relief that he doesn't have to race anymore.
@@LykanPrototype woah woah woah, savo is the protagonist of the first midnight club ?!
@@castroabuful2468 the similarity is there though graphically in the first game he didn't look like much, just a blonde dude with some sunglasses on in the NIGHT TIME!
@@swagonometry9893Yeah, not to mention in his description, it says he’s been to every city in the world to get as good as he is at street racing. Guy has done it all.
Moses: Filipino Foodie
Steven: Car Enthusiast
Maria: Mexican underacheving sore loser
Angel: Entitled rich kid
(Diego: Broken hollywood director)
Gina: Japanese team leader DJ
(Mauro: LA night rider)
Hector: Mexican street veteran
Dice: Respected all around LA homie
Blog: British old aged DJ
Julie and Jewel: Teasing twins
Primo: Italian F1 driver
Stephane: French Playboy
Ian: sloven Australian rice mate
Farid: International counterfeit fugitive
(Owen: American skilled inspector)
Parfait: Broken french model
Shing: Japanese scared rich kid
(Ichiro: Shing's acquaintance and fellow rich kid)
Ricky: Tricky yakuza kobun
Haley: American feminist karen
Nikko: Delirious rice boy
Zen: Proverbial master and racer
Kenichi: Yakuza oyabun
Makoto: Elderly honorable racing master
Savo: War veteran and depression patient
And the best thing is, you learn of their backgrounds just by listening to their quotes throughout the game; you could also take it from the music. Show don't tell.
Owen’s British though
Owen is British and Stephane is Italian (Location shows as Italy)
@@alpinecross4370I believe Stephane is French; he speaks with a French accent.
These how i used to see those cutsenes back in 2004
Gina and Haley could have their own anime.
and Julie
With Ricky being the villain
Haley already has an anime. It's called Dragon Ball Z and she plays Android 18
I enjoyed in this game more than Midnight Club 3, Midnight Club 2 was my favorite game of the franchise.
Makoto looks like he's a friend of Kenichi's.
14:14
He apparently have connections to the yakuza so that may be true
@@TheHardcoreGamer1Makoto and Kenichi have a few words alike and Makoto seems to be the boss of the Yakuza
Yakuza. AKA the Japanese Mafia.
@@Nikko619They both threaten to kill the player so yeah
From all those expression of the characters, only Moses, Dice, Blog, Ian, Farid and maybe makoto not mad or getting angry after losing their car
me too 🤣
I Don't Care, I Am a proud Riceboy 🍚
Gina as well.
Savo too
For as brief as they appear, the characters did a lot for this game.
I think Makoto may be the boss leader of the Yakuza.
In fact, I bet he was seriously bummed that one of his dudes, Kenichi just went down.
14:14
As a South American to limited access back then to any consoles, one of my uncles gifted me a PS2 with this game
Gina was my first crush ever, I was like 9 years.
Moses is definetly the best!
11:56 damn she's hot... remind me of Android 18 from DBZ
@therattrap1997
i notice that too 😁
Shing looks like Postal Dude
There’s everyone then there’s Savo who looks like a character straight from metal gear solid and Morden warfare
13:06 Snake Eyes.
Right in the childhood. I hope Rockstar Games bring the Midnight Club games back!
Hate to break it to you, but it'll never happand if it does, they will ruin it Is angel studios which essentially Became rock star San Diego. Did every game since the first game But shortly after midnight club, LA the heads from angel studios. Got p***** off with Rockstar and told them to go f*** themselves and quit.
@blueracer66
After Grand Theft Auto 6
@@xII_EU_IIx I want to believe! 😢
@@blueracer66 There is the Midnight Club Trilogy Definitive Edition Remastered
MC2, MC3 Remix and MC4 L.A. Complete Edition
So nostalgic!! Midnight Club 2, along with 3 Dub Edition Remix and Los Angeles was literally my childhood. My life would be complete if this and the other 3 games gets remastered!
Yeah me too with Midnight club street racing
Remake made from the 0 % its better, remember the crap Triology Remastered versions.
@@Victor_2000s aun así seria bueno ver los modelos en 1080p y no 480p
@@Gaiet4 Remake would bring remodeled models with better details.
Midnight Club Trilogy Definitive Edition
MC2, MC3 Remix and MC4 L.A. CE
Rockstars version of Pixar
Imagine the akwardness the camera man has to go through when filming people that just stare at him with just a few facial expressions.
A few of them grab or shove him, too.
true! Savo and Shing hit the camera in 15:27 and 11:07
poor cameraman 😓
Just noticed the in game 0-60's, Jesus fuck sub 3 sec from what're supposed to be Hondas in the 90's-2000's
pure nostalgia!!!
10:50 What's Postal dude doing?
SHING REALLY LOOKS LIKE THE POSTAL2 PROTAGONIST!!! LOL
Aaahh, that's the stuff
He's trying to get that petition signed.
This intro is so f*ckin raw! 🔥🔥🔥
I remember playing this 20 years ago over my grandparents basement on Christmas break
Even as kid a knew this game would be the best street racing culture video game I’ve ever played. The music, the characters, the vibe man fuck it was sooooo cool
“Gotta have better timing on the double clutch” 😂😂😂
15:38 I never cringed this hard
@MidnightApex-ml6jc
Tell Me about it 😁
Honestly screw gina give me the older twin
haley and jewel better anyways🚶🚶🚶
It looks like Savo taps the player on the shoulder or gives him a fist bump, after he is beaten in all 3 cities, and i love that the camera shakes to show that action from the players’s perspective
I thought when he says “Can I get out of here now?” and shakes the camera, it’s him breaking the fourth wall.
4:15 THE BEST PART. 🔥💯
GOOOOOD DDDDMMMMMMMNNN
4:04
" You ready Mister "
Oh man... I didn't know Number 1 from "Codename Kids Next Door" was the Boss Driver of the Viper. Lol 6:05
Is it me or does Savo sound like Bulgarin from GTA IV sort of
It is indeed the same va
Same actor. He was also The Russian from The Sopranos.
@pasha_0791 dang i didnt know that. The more ya know
No wonder the voice sounded familiar.
Same Voice Actor. That's why I realized he sounded so familiar
Please remaster this legendary game, Rockstar!
"I'm just trying to have a good time & you idiot, you just want to ruin it." - Haley
WOW. This is the new normal when the metoo movement started. Triggered on any little thing.
Well Done Haley. MPE (My Point Exactly).
12:17 Android 18 in a non Dragon Ball Z game? 😂😂😂
This Game was responsible for me liking Women like Haley. ❤
11:58 MY GOD THAT TEASE
looks like Android 18 tho
android 18 is in the game
Look at this little shrimp. Who does he think he's kidding, posing like that? Thinks he can race me in THAT car? Still I must try to be nice, yo. Hey bro, follow me!
Thinks he's got the moves on old Moses, eh? Heh, I'll eat him for breakfast! Poor little fella. Not bad, but I'm just being kind!
How did this happen?! My beautiful damn CAR!! I'll make him say Moses, I have seen God and he weighs 280 pounds. For my car, huh? Let's go!
Enjoy the car my friend, you got potential. Still got a lot to learn, though. Flash those beams, bro. Keep racing.
(I wrote this all from memory, not by listening to the video. Don't ask me why I have all of Moses' voice lines memorized.)
Till This Day.... I wonder why Savo Didnt want to be World champion street racer.
Constant racing against tons and tons of less skilled racers, I imagine.
Savo doesn't know how to lose, that's why he doesn't like being the world champion and when Tiger defeats him, he thanks him for the defeat
(poor Savo 😥)
@@Nikko619 Savo = DJ Khaled confirmed?
They look like a lot of characters from Hot Wheels Acceleracers. This 2005 drawing was good, similar to many of their graphics.
8:05 something isn't right at all, Primo's hair not rendered well odd they missed this one out since it's pre rendered
Man i was a little snotnose kid when i fell in love with everything this game was about.
It was just wayyy too hard for me obviously and then one day a friend of mine brought a printed list of cheat codes to (ELEMENTARY) school and explained to me what they even were.
I thought he hacked the game fr like where did that RPG come from?!
Thanks to him 10 year old me also managed to beat the career mode by setting the opponent speed to like 50%.
Absolute legend. What a memory!
14:54
That’s an interesting bit of a dialogue from Savo. It implies that prior to the player, no one who has challenged Savo made it past his Tokyo races.
1:58 Verbalase???
He's upset because he lost $50k in the race, lol
11:04 "...there's no teams that want you here, GO HOME 😈🤬"
*loses*
"this idiot embarrasses me in front of my friends? 😭😔🤬"
Ichiro lost 😂
The sound design in this game is nuts
Every character has cool and hilarious quotes 😂😂😂😂
Makoto - Shame
HOW MANY TIMES YOU WANT TO DO THIS
Godddd I miss my childhood
I'll never forget the first time I played it it was 2003 I was 4 years old playing it on my box tv that tv lasted 4 years I miss those days
I was starting my freshman year of HS when this videogame came out. Savo was not easy to beat.
@@juwanhowardhll8019I played this in 2005, beat it and now since my ps2 is long gone (cuz I switch to Xbox when the 360 came out although I didn’t get it until 2008) so is MC2 cuz the CD stopped working in 2007 but luckily I beat the game beforehand. I will always treasure this game as my very first (before MC3)
After years I know realized Gina lost the vortex x to Ricky , now it all makes sense
Ricky cheating against Gina tho.
7:50 the motherfucking same voice actor as ezio auditore
12:38 Jimmy Neutron.
Also Eminem too
LETS JET
The long lost brother.
Rockstar is good at making characters but still it’s impressive how colorful and entertaining they managed to make these characters in like 40 seconds worth of cutscenes
Makoto deserved more.
Alot more. Even 10-20 years later this still shocks me.
Never realized that literally all of the cutscenes just breaks the 4th wall lel
Blast those beans, bro
9:45 Mohammed Henni
@@MuscleMMan no way he was still in middle school 😂
11:30 freezer?
Jewel made me love French girls
This game needs a remake in the style of the CG used for the cutscenes. And DEFINITELY needs to keep the the Tokyo soundtrack!!!!
Blog's first bit is ridiculous. Absolutely cracks me up!
Why do Haley look like android 17 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, and Stephane looks like young Johnny Deep.
@@Victor_2000s more like a parody of Jack Sparrow through in early 2000s fashion style .
18?
Meu midnight club favorito
The best soundtrack from Midnight Club
this game is my childhood😢amazing game
Dice: My sunglasses are my personality (multiple explosions behind him)
Parfait: HOW DARE THIS PLEBE TALK TO ME
Savo: *please help behind the angry expression*
Makoto: *my wife is the protagonist of a NTR hentai* expression
Best game soundtracks ever, loved playing this on the PC, even if it was difficult as hell, such a good game.
This game was the shit good memories miss those days 😭😂
This game had no business having such good music. Maria’s music
What upsclaing technique did you used ?
It looks hella clean !
I think it's because the original is so clean already. Ai had a good source to work with.
@@Erenzilable It's still 480p.
I use Topaz video enhance ai
Fun fact: Savo has the same voice actor as Ray Bulgarin from GTA 4/EFLC, Alex Kroll.
13:28 Roronoa Zoro.
Why is Ken'ichi so damn attractive
@@FranzOberhauser001Gina too
2:00 is this the same dude that voices michael's son on gta 5??? 😯
I don’t think so
I wonder why for Stephane’s intro the song by Thomas Bangaltar- Extra Dry got replaced with Jump Jet instead 🤔
Extra dry seems not fit with the stephane's intro that's why
Why do the faces look like they from acceleracers lol
early 2000s 3D animation
I mean, if they cameo'd in acceleracers, that would be cool.
@@Rvxaz Moses in acceleracers 🔥
Remember who's the Teku leader!
Bro how did you get this game in 4k
2:46 damn What is the song?
Nokternal - Aurora
I never to this day understood why "Jump Jet" Plays for Stephanie's cutscenes on PC.
I remember on PS2 version it was Extra Dry that played
Yeah. I played the PS2 version first then replayed it on PC and waa confused as Jump Jet plays when you race against Owen. Extra Dry/Turbo play when you race against Stephanie in race still on PC.
@@Baschemon how do you play on pc? through an emulator?
@@GigaChadAlucard I still have my CD copy of the PC version.
The music was perfect in this game!
excelent job man!