Yo legit. I am a person who would hate a censor version or radio verison of songs to the bone but this game made me give the censored version of Real Big a pass due to how much it was such a childhood song for me playing this game. Still love it to this day
@@Juanguar I think for me its the visual customization and the map. It's better then most nowadays and it's alive with racers and cops but to be fair the cops suck lol. Not gonna lie a lil bias cause I lived half my life there and visit all the time it's pretty accurate. But hopefully the rumors are ture that there is a new one in development.
I remember some youtuber saying that NFS Underground presented early 2000s car culture as shown by The Fast and the Furious while Midnight Club presented 2000s car culture as it actually was in real life
THIS 100%. MC3 was whacky and embraced the uglier trends while also showcasing all the Cool trends as well. From Lowriders, Crotch Rockets, Choppers, Slam Vans, Donks, and more...legit ahead of it's time.
NFSU was more tuner car culture when midnight club was more mainstream car culture. Both great games I really can’t pick between em cuz both games were the first of their kind. Kinda unfair to compare them.
R* Caring about the community? Fuck no. Literally the xbox 1/ps4 GTAV doesn't even work properly anymore, i guess fuck anyone too broke for a series or who can't find a 5 eh?
@@logandehaven8537 Yeah the special abilities were awesome I remember one scenario during a race, I was speeding my way down to the finish checkpoint in a Camaro in 4th place, thinking I was gonna lose then I used Roar just at the right moment and sent them all flying into side roads, and I won What a game 😁
I remember in each city there's at least one race where it literally was only the finish checkpoint and it testing your ability to find the shortest path to get there. Sure you can check the map mid race but that doesn't always translate to a win
@@Rudenbehr nah, the hardest were the open-ended checkpoints where you had to find the fastest route to chain them together and make it to the finishing checkpoint after doing so.
I still can't get over how a 2005 Midnight Club game has *working, functional* butterfly valves on the bug catcher scoop. Yet 17 years later the latest Need for Speed games still don't. Then there is recolorable trim, exhausts, NITROUS. Louvers, Mud guards, WHEELIE BARS that *actually impact your launch with a muscle car.* MNC3 was just way ahead of its time, if 17 years later games still haven't caught up.
Don't forget the hydraulics!!. It still amazes me that this game had SUVs, trucks, and motorcycles, and hot rods. Till this day, most racing games don't have all of them one
Also, some cars like Murcielago, me-4-12, slr etchad active wings that would pop up at 100 and pop down under braking.Some cars like diablo, f355 had headlights that would pop up under tunnels and dark alleys
the fact that this game was so ahead of its time game-design wise (unlike nfsu2) and still manages to show 2000's culture like few other is just so amazing to me. truly one of the best racing games of all time
@@Hoboken90what are you talking about, midnight club 3 remix had 4 cities, and while the cops didnt do anything in free roam, at least they still had an effect on races. the remix edition had 94 vehicles compared to nfsu2 which only had 31, and there were even. mc3 had so many cool features like the abilities (agro, roar, and zone) and the unique types of races like the unordered races and autocross. nfsu2 is a great game, but clearly you dont know what the fuck youre talking about 🤦♂️💀
@@Hoboken90 Not even close NFS have the tunning options that MC3 has. Reducing bodykits as tunning options is just stupid. Midnight Club 3: - 4 cities. +80 vehicles options - Infinite customization options +100 musics on playlist - Not cringe bs story - Insane sensation of speed. -Variety type of races. NFSU 2: - Riders on the storm.
It is one of the very few games of that era that I would say has aged well No cringy story, just a nice, simple context to adress the great gameplay The fact that they took most of if not all the realism away for the sake of fun is the reason this game is so good to come back to still today. My favourite supercar of all time is the 1st gen murciélago because of this game Also, really would like to see you reviewing and/or playing some of these old racing games.
The lack of a story or tons of cutscenes for SURE has helped it age better and prevented it from "Dating" itself too much to an era. The era is presents becomes charming instead of "Cringy" because it's not "in your face". Less is more!
I’m glad I grew up with this era of gaming. The games were challenging enough where once you finally beat that difficult level or race, you felt a since of accomplishment. Midnight club 3, NFS hot pursuit 2 and underground are some of my favorite games of all time
One thing that I love from the original Midnight Club trilogy (not just the third one) is traveling through cities across the world. Modern day games have huge maps but it’s only one city. For instance, in Midnight Club II you travel from the U.S. to Europe to Asia. They’re so different that you simply cannot to this naturally in one big city map. And it’s just so cool.
I loved these last two videos, can really see how passionate you were making them especially this one. Seems to be the time again to setup a PS2 emulator and play Midnight Club again because I'm hooked now. PS: You were my most watched creator last year.
I appreciate your support. I needed to hear it ngl. Specially In a time where I feel like I'm past my YT "Glory days" I'm still doing my best to make content I'm excited about!
This truly was the golden era of racing games. NFS is catching back up and aren't bad right now, but holy shit; Midnight Club or something similar to that really needs to return. I don't think it will though.
3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>LA I'm bouta rip LA a new asshole. MF game was a tech demo for GTAV, still a good game, but not great. Much like NFS Unbound. 3 though? Literally on a tier of it's own.
@@BladedAngel Yea I played MC3 in childhood days and only played MCLA for the first time in around 2013 and to be honest it wasn't that good and didn't get me hooked like MC3 did, I do appreciate it had cockpit view and interior customisation though, what really put me off the game was the weird car handling that just felt delayed and the game just didn't feel as crazy fast as MC3. I tried MCLA Remix on PSP instead and it's pretty much MC3 in Los Angeles map of MC2 - I liked it more.
So many childhood memories with this game. One distinct memory I have is me spending hours in the garage with "Ratt Pakk - Spaced Out" playing in the background whilst I dump all my cash into customising my Eclipse, then once I left the garage I remember the mechanic complimenting how good my ride looked. Oh yeah and I can't forget some of the nostalgic chill tracks that played like Hi-tech Jazz, Jupiter Jazz, Jaguar and Quetzal. Or especially "Get your Shyne on" when you get a prize car.
I have a memory where I found out it had split screen for my cousin after moving back to my home town. Was so happy. Also the eclipse was so fun to customize.
My family had an original Xbox about fall 2004. On it, me and my dad would play Project Gotham Racing 2. That was, until Midnight Club 3 released around my birthday in 2005. An earliest memory of mine was seeing an early promotional trailer of the game, with the new for the time Chrysler 300 and various other cars - had to have been Holiday 2004, because of the anticipated ip that was GTA San Andreas . I would spend nights on end playing the game even when I wasn’t supposed to.
Midnight club 3 city feel big is due to the fact rocket star used the map unlike other games that will keep u in a current street or area in a city multiple time. Midnight club did something lots if games fail to due and that was utilizing everything
I would throw hands IRL against someone saying Midnight Club 3 was worse than literally any other arcade racer. Shit, I'd rack my shotgun for that. My favorite, and probably the least reproducible parts of this game nowadays are 1. How hard the game is, and how despite that you ALWAYS want to keep trying and DO eventually get it, and do so without gimmicks like rewind. And 2. The soundtrack, ESPECIALLY/PARTICULARLY in all the menus, loading screens, event triggers, and the garage. If they took FH3 or maybe Dirt 3 or the original Race Driver: Grid and reskinned it to be a remake of Midnight Club 3, keeping all the songs and menu stuff, but adding new cars, more detailed locations, and more customization; I'd drop a legit $100-$150 on it for whatever ultimate edition they came out with. Just leave the stupid microtransactions and DRM out and don't push the physics closer to the Sim side than the Horizon series. And add car meets within active multiplayer. Like 50+ player car meets, I want a whole fucking SEMA/Street Car Takeover/Texas 2k event or whatever in my free-roam racing game. *EDIT:* 7:03, dude the Bugatti Veyron was SO fuckin ugly, too. No comparison against the F1, that thing is a modern 7.5 or 8, and a classic 9 or 9.5 compared to the Veryon being like... a 4. Bugatti really stepped it up with the Chiron, to the point where if I was given a Veyron, I'd probably just sell it since it was so ugly and buy a Calvo Motorsports CM1600 or higher Viper, instead. 16:00 or w/e: Yeah, I've heard this game be called "The Dark Souls of racing games" and I have to agree, but with the caveat I stated above about how you ALWAYS want to keep trying.
This game was actually the best racing game I ever played. Not to shit on any other racing games but prime Midnight Club Dub Edition Remix on the PS2 is untouchable to this day.
i remember playing this and the remix version of MCLA on the psp. damn i still remember the 'wacky but optimal for me order' of the checkpoints on some of those unordered checkpoint races lol
Finally someone else who thinks mc3 is the best racing game ever made, loved watching this video this is exactly how I felt playing this game as a kid. Never actually finished it, just kept doing whatever races I wanted to lmao
I played a demo in Best Buy, and IMMEDIATELY had to buy it. There is no song that a game introduced me to that stuck around with me longer than 'Real Big.' I STILL listen to it, from time to time!
Yall remember that one race in san diego (i think it was from one of Vanessas race) where a viper just comes out of nowhere and just stops. Honestly favorite racing game of all time I loved taking those jumps and just doing back flips and landing them
I do remember that race! It was called “Rev Limit.” The Viper that always appears in it is actually a reference to the second game, whose first boss drove a car that resembled a Viper.
Imo The most timeless games of all time for the PS2 era are: - Midnight Club Dub Edition Remix - NBA Street Vol. 2 - Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 - Test Drive 2002 - Freedom Fighters
im tired of this colourful rainbow lameo type racing game theme like Forza or The Crew. We need something cool and dark like Midnight Club3. Might even make it Rated M But I'm tired of all this "friendly" wanting to include everyone and be all happy and rainbows
Gosh so much nostalgia with this video. I remember doing races where its only the red checkpoint and you just have the freedom to go wherever as long as you get there first. Damn this game was so ahead of its time and is still my favorite racing game.
This was my favorite PS2 game that I ever played, and still is. I love the difficulty that it has compared to Need For Speed Carbon. It's been years since I last played this game and watching this video makes me want to play it again.
I put so many hours into this game growing up. I remember renting it and played it nonstop. Later on I got it for my birthday and that was a wrap. The soundtrack alone had me playing this game, then you have dope cars that you can customize however you want? Yeah, this game had me in a chokehold.... Good times ♥️
oh man. i remember replaying this game a couple of years ago and being blown away by the menu just like you described. the intro scene gave me chills like i was 5 years old again. i remember being COMPLETELY blown away by the fact that you can even change the color of the trim on your car, nothing that came after it can match the customization options this game had. undoubtedly the best racing game ive played and ever will play, most wanted being a close second. though im surprised you didnt talk about the soundtrack in depth, its so perfect (as per rockstar tradition), the game had the best songs of every popular 2000s genre under its sleeve. it really had everything
A more accurate title would be "The most complete racing game ever". Does it have the best story, driving, graphics, content, customisation? Maybe not, but it has all of it
This was THE game I played! This was my favorite racing game. I loved everything about this and spent years beating this game and free roaming. This remains the only game I ever got to 100% and I agree it's the best tuner racing game ever. I WILL DIE ON THAT HILL.
Recently replayed this and played through MC Los Angeles for the first time in December after a loooooong stint of playing through NFS Underground 1-2/ Most Wanted (2005)/ Carbon/ Undercover and… Midnight Club just has that “zing” to it that NFS (other than MW and Carbon imo) just doesn’t have! MC3 Dub Edition (OG & Remix) & LA just has this balls to the wall-ness to them that makes you want to actually struggle through them! To this very day, I have a complete blast replaying through them with different cars and even toying around with different types of customizations! I can’t say the same with NFS post-Undercover…or even just Undercover itself 🤷🏽♂️ Edit: my only gripe with MC3 is how you can’t customize the ‘94 Impala SS or any of the Exotics very much. They completely won me over in MCLA when they allowed me to apply bodykits & a widebody to it while MAKING THE NEON/INTERIOR FREE TO CUSTOMIZE*!!! *except for the seats, steering wheels, and gauges, which you have to buy
Never played a game with the checkpoint system like this. Always found one ai breaking away from the others and always followed that guy, because you know what he's upto..
I love the races where it's literally just a single checkpoint on the other side of town. It feels like an all out brawl to get ahead, whatever that means in the context lmao
This is my favorite racing game of all time, to this day no racing game has done what Mc3 Remix has done imo and its sad, i ow so much to it, im grateful to have gotten the chance to play it as a kid, it shaped who I am today edit: i also love McLA and gets very close to Mc3 the only problem i have with it is the car list, compared to Mc3 theres so much to be desired but still great game nonetheless
the fact that u made a whole video about this game and used the tekken tag 2 customization song in the background just made this video so much better. u have some good ass taste in games my man
When it comes to having fun this game knew exactly how to keep kids occupied without getting sick of the unoriginal "Race everyone to climb up the ladder" plotline through different arcade modes. My friend and I would spend the whole day just playing Capture The Flag with the AI and it was gas😭🔥
I played this game as a kid but, since I didn't speak english at the time, I didn't even know there was a "story" line. I'd just play ramming into traffic, tipping buses around to make road-blocks (for no reason), and I had sooo much fun without even knowing you could actually race.
the handling alone of this game is a different genre of racing game compared to any NFS game, NFS handling is semi-realistic, MC3 is hyper arcade more suitable for arcade machines.
18:10 just look at the exhaust of the lambo, it wobbles in place, love that detail! Ah how I miss this game. I had even the DUB edition for my icy silver PSP at the time. Man my heat hurts right now…
This was my childhood racing game. So good, I had to watch this video to be reminded about how good it is. So good it was the benchmark I had already known but didn't realize I held so high.
I’m so glad I found a midnight club game at eb games a few years ago I’m going to go play it again because of this video thanks for reminding me about this great series bladed
I LOVED this game. I'll never forget how hyped I was in 4th grade waiting for this game to come out. I wish I kept the Gameinformer magazine I had with it on the cover. My hot take is that MCLA is better all around, but this game was such a building block for the series, and I had an absolute blast with it. Not to mention when the Remix came out with another city and more cars. And the car list in general was just amazing for it's time. If MCLA had 3's car list, MCLA would've been a 10/10. I'll be forever waiting for MCLA's sequel, but I'll check your MCLA video when it drops!
The customization was so much fun in this game and the severely under estimated drifting mechanics. Where if you shift to the 2nd highest gear like 3rd gear with a 4 speed or 5th gear in a 6 speed while drifting you get a stupid amount of speed boost from it to the point you reach the game's speed limit. This game was just underrated by everyone
I had two racing games growing up with the PlayStation 1: NFS Porshe Unleashed and Test Drive 6. They both just came with the console, I got it used, and between the two, NFS was the one I had the most fun driving around in. Test Drive had great presentation, and I still listen to the amazing soundtrack to this day, but I could never enjoy the driving in it. I never figured out the handling model, and so I just gently and carefully drove around the levels to see what was in them. NFS however, not only handled much better, I had a very inviting and helpful tutorial, where you had to avoid orange cones, drive down a piece of road, turn around and drive back. I understood the controls and managed to win some races. The game was prettier too, to this day I'm very impressed with what they did on the PS1. So going forward I had this imprint, Need For Speed just meant quality to me, and I couldn't be bothered to look anywhere else outside that franchise. Other racing games just didn't exist.
Ahhhh the memories. I remember playing the original Dub edition (none remixed), and always having a blast. And always starting with the 64 impala... and that made me actually try to look at getting one whenever I first got my license lmao. But I'd say MC3, GT3/4, and the NASCAR games really defined my childhood.
this game was my childhood and I'm glad, every second spent in this game has a vibe that it lives up to and you really feel like every frame had care put into it. the game feels so special.
I still listen to music from this to this day. This game is what influenced my love of cars and it's criminal that they haven't made a new one in forever!
Please, please, please revive the playtrough you started on CarTaku. I played this game for the first time last year via emulator and I absolutely love it.
Midnight club 3 is the game where me and my cousin will all gather around to play since the 2000s It's the game we talked the most about from that era, just after GTA SA Since our ps2s broke down through the years. The game stayed on our memories for years The cousins and my brothers moved on to different games, while I stayed with other racing games Last year, I heard the ps4 does have an actual emulator for ps2 games It's just that it's locked and only used for just a few games The only way to unlock it was with jailbreak I had it jailbreaken, midnight club run surprisingly well and not only that. My youngest brother who never seen the ps2 played His cousin of similar age where coming almost daily to play it, to the point they are making a mess around I had taken the ps4 with the good old boys and we had a good amount of fun Especially when we were waiting for others to gather to hangout Last week, got a Xbox ss Since u could emlate ps2, running ps2 games a lot better than ps4, since u get actual options to modify the emlation Because of this game, I got my old cousins replaying good old ps2, got my youngest brother and his cousins into this era Heck sometimes he would choose midnight over new games on the Xbox I wish it would get remaster, but I don't want it if it's gonna turn into a cash grap like GTA trilogy Hope the legacy never gets burned down
This was a banger in Mexico, we have stores called "tienditas" and in those tienditas there were arcades with xbox games such as GTASA and Deffjam FFNY, we spent hours playing inside those tienditas, golden memories. Best racing game in history
Been playing Midnight Club 3 since I was 4 in the early 2000s my tiny brain couldn't comprehend why music went so hard. Rockstar really put me on some good ass music (I'm also playing through again with PCXS2)
Man this video just summed up every single feeling i had of the game and never heard anyone speak of, and the freaking jokes you throw in are hilarious. This video must live through eternity. It's imperative.
Tbh, a couple years ago, and still even today, I'm still thinking that how the race system in this game is still the most realistic in terms of street racing. It's just felt like it's actually an illegal street race, no barriers, no limitations, just checkpoints. You had to know where you'll going through the city or you just gonna get lost. This system just kicks NFS races out of the window. The track layouts also just felt high speed. There just a little moment of having to slow down in the race. Sure that some tracks had quite a sharp corner, but I didn't mind it. Then some of them had some kind of special moments going on, which made the races feel less bland (well, even though sone of them are more annoying rather than entertaining). Some events had the moment where there will be bunch of parked cars on the sidewalk, which is one of the praise point in the NFS Unbound. Like, bruh man MC3 already did this 17 years ago. And if you think it only appears on the race, then just check the MCLA instead. The tracks also give you oppertunity to take some shortcuts, which just adds a cool point for me. The physics in this game was also good (maybe not a lot, but still). Tuners felt balanced, muscle and choppers felt drifty, exotics and sport bikes felt grippy, and else. Altough most of the time I always went to drifting, the thing about drifting in this game is that it just felt satisfiying when it pulled off perfectly. And the combination between the tracks and how physics work just made the races felt so adrenaline. About the AI, so far the only thing I found stupid is that they can use the cars that just WAY faster than yours, while you can't. Overall, they seems fine to me. One more thing I found is that it just felt dangerous whenever I hear the AI start using their nitrous. And I have to anticipate on how things will go. So this just makes the nitrous can be an actual treat against you rather than just helping the peformance of the cars. So yeah, this game stay as my most favourite, even more than MW05
Bruh I made the Mille factory go 250 miles per hour with three nitro slots and zone to avoid crashing to much. The muci I sold after like 20 minutes of beating the game I definitely have to say that Lamborghini has become my all time favorite car I loved this game so much like I never played anything else besides this 💙
Midnight Club will forever be a goat amongst all the racing games. And tbh, I'd still play this over any NFS newer than 2010 besides Hot Pursuit Remastered as well as any Forza & Gran Turismo.
Another thing I wanted to mention about old racing games in particular is how unapologetically provocative they were. Back then, there were girls posing on top of cars in the most revealing outfits left and right. Nowadays, we have to settle with, well whatever the hell Tess was wearing cuz everyone is too afraid of getting canceled.
Really wish this game would get a remake!!! Some of ps2 games hit harder than todays games but I really loved this game and you can have a lot of cars you were not limited to 5
I wish I played this growing up (or at all) because it honestly looks better than NFS Underground. This game looks like it has way more Character than NFS. And 80+ vehicles is amazing for any game to have nowadays let alone back in the day. Also bonus points for Your Sunset playing in the background 😎
I played NFS carbon and underground 2 and I also played Gran Touristmo before the Midnight Club franchise. I still fell in love with MC above the other franchises. The Open Maps were designed the best, very nice cars, great tuning. I loved the story. I loved the Race designs even more. I loved how in Races the track isn’t limited. If you missed a corner you could try to find a different route to the checkpoint. The music was A tier ! Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition was my favorit. LA was great too. MC is to this day my fav. I 100%ed 3 Dub Edition 6 times. And btw I don’t think it’s that hard. I really love the speed in this game
Midnight Club 3 was the best Midnight Club ever including L.A. which I sold shortly after I bought it brand new. If you buy midnight club L.A. then prepare to be disappointed. It looked SO good. I was really excited about everything I knew about the game going in and it actually was sort of fun even knowing I couldn't just outskill the A.I. because it's a Midnight Club game. The first three games in this series were the pinnacle of arcade racers and the third one added real cars and in depth customization which Midnight Club L.A. actually expanded upon. The customization was on the next level, it is actually worth checking out just for that. So why did I put down Midnight Club L.A. and never play it again? Well I was progressing through the game at a pretty steady rate for a while, then I encountered a race that was just kicking my ass... and I was fine with that, even with all the rubber banding that was going on. I would get way ahead and the A.I. would magic-boost right up to me and pass me near the end and I was like yeah, I know "Midnight Club" it'll let me win eventually. But then one time I got so far ahead so close to the end of the race that I knew I was going to win... then a civilian car materialized in the middle of the road as I slammed into it in a T-bone collision. I don't think I ever came closer to snapping a game in half - not even Stunt Man (which is one of those frustrating games that you LOVE even as you joyfully fantasize about destroying the disc because you always feel like you're just one more try away from nailing the stunt). I'm fine with "magic-boost" rubber banding, I'm fine with A.I. slamming me into walls, that's all supposed to be part of the game but you don't materialize civilian cars two inches in front of me as I'm about to win as a rubber banding tool. That is something you just don't do. I've always suspected that kind of thing had something to do with the series dying.
Back when Rockstar was thirsty and go above and beyond. Sometimes I do wish for this game to come out with another sequel but with how modernized games are nowadays, especially if Rockstar do a remaster of this game and it get the GTA Trilogy definitive edition treatment. My heart can't take the thought of that.
I played midnight club 2 before any nfs. My first street racing game . Then I played nfs underground 2 but then midnight club 3 came out and even the newer NFS felt like I was going backwards 😂 it was so ahead for the time
R* had a gem. I cannot explain how many friends I have made through Midnight Club LA. That game introduced me to the V8 Audi R8. I was so invested in getting that car, and now it's my PFP. Been my PFP since I made this account.
Three letters express my excitement whilst playing this game... XLR, the Cadillac XLR to be exact. Favorite car of the game after I modded it within an inch of it's life, won countless races, enjoyed jumping 100s of yards... good times, good times.
Owned this during the ps2 run and still have my copy of the game! I love how you brought back all the nostalgia. Great work and you got a subscriber out of me
HOUSE REAL BIG, CARS REAL BIG
YUGIOH DECK REAL BIG, EVERYTHING REAL BIG, LEMME TELL YA HOW TO LIVEEEEEE
Bruh. Take me back. What a game. Have a 9 year old. Because of that song
Ladies, gentlemen, gangstas, pimps, mommas, daddies, stunnas shining, rich bitch I'm a real big tymer
Mah dabt REAL BIG (HeLp Me)
Yo legit. I am a person who would hate a censor version or radio verison of songs to the bone but this game made me give the censored version of Real Big a pass due to how much it was such a childhood song for me playing this game. Still love it to this day
"the best racing game ever made"
Understatement of the century right there
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@@BladedAngel LET'S GOOOOO
Idk its pretty close I think la is better
@@ericv234 nah
LA is a close 2nd
@@Juanguar I think for me its the visual customization and the map. It's better then most nowadays and it's alive with racers and cops but to be fair the cops suck lol. Not gonna lie a lil bias cause I lived half my life there and visit all the time it's pretty accurate. But hopefully the rumors are ture that there is a new one in development.
I remember some youtuber saying that NFS Underground presented early 2000s car culture as shown by The Fast and the Furious while Midnight Club presented 2000s car culture as it actually was in real life
THIS 100%. MC3 was whacky and embraced the uglier trends while also showcasing all the Cool trends as well. From Lowriders, Crotch Rockets, Choppers, Slam Vans, Donks, and more...legit ahead of it's time.
@@BladedAngel FAXXX
NFSU was more tuner car culture when midnight club was more mainstream car culture. Both great games I really can’t pick between em cuz both games were the first of their kind. Kinda unfair to compare them.
I was around back then, both games represented reality, depending on which scene you were around at the time.
well mc3 was a part of the xzibit pimp my ride era lol but it was arcade-like it didnt have to try to be anything else
Played every midnight club, I really wish the rockstar would come back to making more games for this series.
I heard they are working on a new one
@@alexiscardoso1413sources?! Seriously I need to know if you’re bs’ing me
R* Caring about the community? Fuck no. Literally the xbox 1/ps4 GTAV doesn't even work properly anymore, i guess fuck anyone too broke for a series or who can't find a 5 eh?
@@thefirsttrillionaire2925 Given their track record don't expect it to be very good if they do. Expect monetization out of every corner
@@cooldude-ky4niit’s going to be good but just expect monetization
6 years of experience playing this when I was younger, it was the absolute best
Weaving through traffic with near misses every 2 seconds was a blast
i loved grabbing a truck with agro and yeeting ai everywhere
@@logandehaven8537 Yeah the special abilities were awesome
I remember one scenario during a race, I was speeding my way down to the finish checkpoint in a Camaro in 4th place, thinking I was gonna lose
then I used Roar just at the right moment and sent them all flying into side roads, and I won
What a game 😁
I remember in each city there's at least one race where it literally was only the finish checkpoint and it testing your ability to find the shortest path to get there. Sure you can check the map mid race but that doesn't always translate to a win
Goated race type! I still remember the one for Detroit vividly! Probably cause I lost so much 😂😂
Those were the hardest.
You mean unordered races ? 😄😄
Fucking unordered races man. LOL.
@@Rudenbehr nah, the hardest were the open-ended checkpoints where you had to find the fastest route to chain them together and make it to the finishing checkpoint after doing so.
I still can't get over how a 2005 Midnight Club game has *working, functional* butterfly valves on the bug catcher scoop.
Yet 17 years later the latest Need for Speed games still don't.
Then there is recolorable trim, exhausts, NITROUS. Louvers, Mud guards, WHEELIE BARS that *actually impact your launch with a muscle car.*
MNC3 was just way ahead of its time, if 17 years later games still haven't caught up.
annnnnnnd the different tire width actually effected your car keep that on the low though 🤫
and the fact this is the only arcade racer that has traffic which makes you feel like you’re in real life as well as faster unforgiving AIs.
Don't forget the hydraulics!!. It still amazes me that this game had SUVs, trucks, and motorcycles, and hot rods. Till this day, most racing games don't have all of them one
@@FR0Z0NEkeys I love super hard AI on your ass the whole race so fun seeing them dodge traffic along with you Midnight Club 2 did it best
Also, some cars like Murcielago, me-4-12, slr etchad active wings that would pop up at 100 and pop down under braking.Some cars like diablo, f355 had headlights that would pop up under tunnels and dark alleys
Man this game takes me back, still peak arcade racer. Nothing compares to Roy and Vanessa. And for it’s time the graphics have aged pretty decently.
Bro. Roy's Unordered races when you get to Detroit. That shit haunts me to this day. Was my first exposure to unordered races and I was going crazy.
@@neomercury4279 I chose an npc to follow until the last few checkpoints
I still remake Roy's McLaren F1 whenever it appears in racing games nowadays like Unbound
MCLA is even better
Roy was that dude. I hated Phil the first 2 times playing it years ago
the fact that this game was so ahead of its time game-design wise (unlike nfsu2) and still manages to show 2000's culture like few other is just so amazing to me. truly one of the best racing games of all time
THE BEST ❤️
Rockstar Games bore a charming and thoughtful lineup during the 2000’s
jajajja another one waffling around, nfsu 2 sold more and had more tunning and open world wtf u talking about? destroyed in all aspects
@@Hoboken90what are you talking about, midnight club 3 remix had 4 cities, and while the cops didnt do anything in free roam, at least they still had an effect on races. the remix edition had 94 vehicles compared to nfsu2 which only had 31, and there were even. mc3 had so many cool features like the abilities (agro, roar, and zone) and the unique types of races like the unordered races and autocross. nfsu2 is a great game, but clearly you dont know what the fuck youre talking about 🤦♂️💀
@@Hoboken90 Not even close NFS have the tunning options that MC3 has. Reducing bodykits as tunning options is just stupid.
Midnight Club 3:
- 4 cities.
+80 vehicles options
- Infinite customization options
+100 musics on playlist
- Not cringe bs story
- Insane sensation of speed.
-Variety type of races.
NFSU 2:
- Riders on the storm.
It is one of the very few games of that era that I would say has aged well
No cringy story, just a nice, simple context to adress the great gameplay
The fact that they took most of if not all the realism away for the sake of fun is the reason this game is so good to come back to still today.
My favourite supercar of all time is the 1st gen murciélago because of this game
Also, really would like to see you reviewing and/or playing some of these old racing games.
The lack of a story or tons of cutscenes for SURE has helped it age better and prevented it from "Dating" itself too much to an era. The era is presents becomes charming instead of "Cringy" because it's not "in your face". Less is more!
I’m glad I grew up with this era of gaming. The games were challenging enough where once you finally beat that difficult level or race, you felt a since of accomplishment. Midnight club 3, NFS hot pursuit 2 and underground are some of my favorite games of all time
One thing that I love from the original Midnight Club trilogy (not just the third one) is traveling through cities across the world. Modern day games have huge maps but it’s only one city. For instance, in Midnight Club II you travel from the U.S. to Europe to Asia. They’re so different that you simply cannot to this naturally in one big city map. And it’s just so cool.
I loved these last two videos, can really see how passionate you were making them especially this one.
Seems to be the time again to setup a PS2 emulator and play Midnight Club again because I'm hooked now.
PS: You were my most watched creator last year.
I appreciate your support. I needed to hear it ngl. Specially In a time where I feel like I'm past my YT "Glory days" I'm still doing my best to make content I'm excited about!
@@BladedAngel With this quality of videos I really hope you can claw it back and get like a "second renaissance". You'd deserve it 100%.
Bladed you make mine and many others day with your videos! Much love!
@@BladedAngel once you focus less on UA-cam and more on passion projects like this video you will achieve your "true" golden days
This truly was the golden era of racing games. NFS is catching back up and aren't bad right now, but holy shit; Midnight Club or something similar to that really needs to return. I don't think it will though.
nothing was more rewarding than unlocking a new class of cars in MC3.
Yes sir!!! Especially class B and C.
Midnight club is lowkey underrated nowadays, no one emulates them nowdays the last one was pretty good but the story sucked…
3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>LA
I'm bouta rip LA a new asshole. MF game was a tech demo for GTAV, still a good game, but not great. Much like NFS Unbound. 3 though? Literally on a tier of it's own.
@@BladedAngel I once played this with my cousin, on his PS2, I gotta say, loved it, it was better than any game i had played at the time
As dead as burnout?
@@BladedAngel Yea I played MC3 in childhood days and only played MCLA for the first time in around 2013 and to be honest it wasn't that good and didn't get me hooked like MC3 did, I do appreciate it had cockpit view and interior customisation though, what really put me off the game was the weird car handling that just felt delayed and the game just didn't feel as crazy fast as MC3. I tried MCLA Remix on PSP instead and it's pretty much MC3 in Los Angeles map of MC2 - I liked it more.
@@BladedAngelman my entire childhood was playing gta 4 and midnight club LA on the PS3🥲
So many childhood memories with this game. One distinct memory I have is me spending hours in the garage with "Ratt Pakk - Spaced Out" playing in the background whilst I dump all my cash into customising my Eclipse, then once I left the garage I remember the mechanic complimenting how good my ride looked. Oh yeah and I can't forget some of the nostalgic chill tracks that played like Hi-tech Jazz, Jupiter Jazz, Jaguar and Quetzal. Or especially "Get your Shyne on" when you get a prize car.
I have a memory where I found out it had split screen for my cousin after moving back to my home town. Was so happy.
Also the eclipse was so fun to customize.
My family had an original Xbox about fall 2004. On it, me and my dad would play Project Gotham Racing 2. That was, until Midnight Club 3 released around my birthday in 2005. An earliest memory of mine was seeing an early promotional trailer of the game, with the new for the time Chrysler 300 and various other cars - had to have been Holiday 2004, because of the anticipated ip that was GTA San Andreas . I would spend nights on end playing the game even when I wasn’t supposed to.
Midnight club 3 city feel big is due to the fact rocket star used the map unlike other games that will keep u in a current street or area in a city multiple time. Midnight club did something lots if games fail to due and that was utilizing everything
I would throw hands IRL against someone saying Midnight Club 3 was worse than literally any other arcade racer. Shit, I'd rack my shotgun for that. My favorite, and probably the least reproducible parts of this game nowadays are 1. How hard the game is, and how despite that you ALWAYS want to keep trying and DO eventually get it, and do so without gimmicks like rewind. And 2. The soundtrack, ESPECIALLY/PARTICULARLY in all the menus, loading screens, event triggers, and the garage.
If they took FH3 or maybe Dirt 3 or the original Race Driver: Grid and reskinned it to be a remake of Midnight Club 3, keeping all the songs and menu stuff, but adding new cars, more detailed locations, and more customization; I'd drop a legit $100-$150 on it for whatever ultimate edition they came out with. Just leave the stupid microtransactions and DRM out and don't push the physics closer to the Sim side than the Horizon series.
And add car meets within active multiplayer. Like 50+ player car meets, I want a whole fucking SEMA/Street Car Takeover/Texas 2k event or whatever in my free-roam racing game.
*EDIT:* 7:03, dude the Bugatti Veyron was SO fuckin ugly, too. No comparison against the F1, that thing is a modern 7.5 or 8, and a classic 9 or 9.5 compared to the Veryon being like... a 4. Bugatti really stepped it up with the Chiron, to the point where if I was given a Veyron, I'd probably just sell it since it was so ugly and buy a Calvo Motorsports CM1600 or higher Viper, instead.
16:00 or w/e: Yeah, I've heard this game be called "The Dark Souls of racing games" and I have to agree, but with the caveat I stated above about how you ALWAYS want to keep trying.
This game was actually the best racing game I ever played. Not to shit on any other racing games but prime Midnight Club Dub Edition Remix on the PS2 is untouchable to this day.
i remember playing this and the remix version of MCLA on the psp. damn i still remember the 'wacky but optimal for me order' of the checkpoints on some of those unordered checkpoint races lol
Truly one of the best racing games ever made
No.....
The BEST one ever made!
Im my opinion MC3 is the best race game from PS2 and LA is the best from PS3/360
This game has the greatest soundtrack of all time, I loved the menu music and the music after you won a race
Finally someone else who thinks mc3 is the best racing game ever made, loved watching this video this is exactly how I felt playing this game as a kid. Never actually finished it, just kept doing whatever races I wanted to lmao
Finally?
@@tylercouture216 yes finally, because it’s always most wanted for most people who never played a midnight club game
@@AcidMayo27 oh shit hella true
Finally, found people that feel this game as i did wow. Please be my friends 😂
So many childhood memories
This is still one of my favourite games of all time and the first racing game I ever played
I played a demo in Best Buy, and IMMEDIATELY had to buy it. There is no song that a game introduced me to that stuck around with me longer than 'Real Big.' I STILL listen to it, from time to time!
Yall remember that one race in san diego (i think it was from one of Vanessas race) where a viper just comes out of nowhere and just stops.
Honestly favorite racing game of all time
I loved taking those jumps and just doing back flips and landing them
I do remember that race! It was called “Rev Limit.” The Viper that always appears in it is actually a reference to the second game, whose first boss drove a car that resembled a Viper.
This game is better than NFS no matter how much people say it isn't so underrated and underappreciated it's probably one of the best racing games ever
Imo The most timeless games of all time for the PS2 era are:
- Midnight Club Dub Edition Remix
- NBA Street Vol. 2
- Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3
- Test Drive 2002
- Freedom Fighters
im tired of this colourful rainbow lameo type racing game theme like Forza or The Crew.
We need something cool and dark like Midnight Club3. Might even make it Rated M
But I'm tired of all this "friendly" wanting to include everyone and be all happy and rainbows
all these new gen games suck ass, even speaking of un-friendly like games nfsub just sucked ass in that department
Gosh so much nostalgia with this video. I remember doing races where its only the red checkpoint and you just have the freedom to go wherever as long as you get there first. Damn this game was so ahead of its time and is still my favorite racing game.
This was my favorite PS2 game that I ever played, and still is. I love the difficulty that it has compared to Need For Speed Carbon. It's been years since I last played this game and watching this video makes me want to play it again.
Rockstar dropped the ball for not remastering or making a new one
I put so many hours into this game growing up. I remember renting it and played it nonstop. Later on I got it for my birthday and that was a wrap. The soundtrack alone had me playing this game, then you have dope cars that you can customize however you want? Yeah, this game had me in a chokehold.... Good times ♥️
oh man. i remember replaying this game a couple of years ago and being blown away by the menu just like you described. the intro scene gave me chills like i was 5 years old again. i remember being COMPLETELY blown away by the fact that you can even change the color of the trim on your car, nothing that came after it can match the customization options this game had. undoubtedly the best racing game ive played and ever will play, most wanted being a close second.
though im surprised you didnt talk about the soundtrack in depth, its so perfect (as per rockstar tradition), the game had the best songs of every popular 2000s genre under its sleeve. it really had everything
Best racing game of all time imo. Nothing comes close in terms of gameplay.
A more accurate title would be "The most complete racing game ever".
Does it have the best story, driving, graphics, content, customisation? Maybe not, but it has all of it
This was THE game I played! This was my favorite racing game. I loved everything about this and spent years beating this game and free roaming. This remains the only game I ever got to 100% and I agree it's the best tuner racing game ever. I WILL DIE ON THAT HILL.
Recently replayed this and played through MC Los Angeles for the first time in December after a loooooong stint of playing through NFS Underground 1-2/ Most Wanted (2005)/ Carbon/ Undercover and…
Midnight Club just has that “zing” to it that NFS (other than MW and Carbon imo) just doesn’t have!
MC3 Dub Edition (OG & Remix) & LA just has this balls to the wall-ness to them that makes you want to actually struggle through them! To this very day, I have a complete blast replaying through them with different cars and even toying around with different types of customizations!
I can’t say the same with NFS post-Undercover…or even just Undercover itself 🤷🏽♂️
Edit: my only gripe with MC3 is how you can’t customize the ‘94 Impala SS or any of the Exotics very much. They completely won me over in MCLA when they allowed me to apply bodykits & a widebody to it while MAKING THE NEON/INTERIOR FREE TO CUSTOMIZE*!!!
*except for the seats, steering wheels, and gauges, which you have to buy
Imagine how much cooler this already great game would be with modern graphics
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The tekken tag 2 ost in the background makes it even better! I loved MC3 so much back then
Ah yes. A man of culture...
This is, in my eyes, the ULTIMATE arcade street racer. It's no-frills fun across the board.
Never played a game with the checkpoint system like this. Always found one ai breaking away from the others and always followed that guy, because you know what he's upto..
I love the races where it's literally just a single checkpoint on the other side of town. It feels like an all out brawl to get ahead, whatever that means in the context lmao
This game is why I own a 04 Mitsubishi Eclipse GTS. Bought it a few months ago with fairly low mileage it gets a lot of compliments.
This is my favorite racing game of all time, to this day no racing game has done what Mc3 Remix has done imo and its sad, i ow so much to it, im grateful to have gotten the chance to play it as a kid, it shaped who I am today
edit: i also love McLA and gets very close to Mc3 the only problem i have with it is the car list, compared to Mc3 theres so much to be desired but still great game nonetheless
the fact that u made a whole video about this game and used the tekken tag 2 customization song in the background just made this video so much better. u have some good ass taste in games my man
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When it comes to having fun this game knew exactly how to keep kids occupied without getting sick of the unoriginal "Race everyone to climb up the ladder" plotline through different arcade modes. My friend and I would spend the whole day just playing Capture The Flag with the AI and it was gas😭🔥
That intro man heard it sooooo many times as a kid on my ps3
Man I put so many hours into this as kid!! I wish they'd do a remake
Yeah I had 500 hours on Is my backup profile
I played this game as a kid but, since I didn't speak english at the time, I didn't even know there was a "story" line. I'd just play ramming into traffic, tipping buses around to make road-blocks (for no reason), and I had sooo much fun without even knowing you could actually race.
the handling alone of this game is a different genre of racing game compared to any NFS game, NFS handling is semi-realistic, MC3 is hyper arcade more suitable for arcade machines.
The amount of times I've gotten lost in races I'm ashamed to admit 🤣🤣 such an incredible game
18:10 just look at the exhaust of the lambo, it wobbles in place, love that detail!
Ah how I miss this game. I had even the DUB edition for my icy silver PSP at the time. Man my heat hurts right now…
This was my first game on the PSP and played it 24/7. Anyone here for Motorstorm Artic Edge?
It's so saddening Sony abandoned the Motorstorm series. They killed off anything that wasn't Gran Turismo years ago :(
Agreed, Midnight Club wipes the floor with NFS
This was my childhood racing game. So good, I had to watch this video to be reminded about how good it is. So good it was the benchmark I had already known but didn't realize I held so high.
I’m so glad I found a midnight club game at eb games a few years ago I’m going to go play it again because of this video thanks for reminding me about this great series bladed
The absolute best racing game. No other game comes close to the speed this game makes you feel.
It’s a good game but Need for speed underground 2 was the best NFS games in the series and the best racing games but I also like this game too
I LOVED this game. I'll never forget how hyped I was in 4th grade waiting for this game to come out. I wish I kept the Gameinformer magazine I had with it on the cover. My hot take is that MCLA is better all around, but this game was such a building block for the series, and I had an absolute blast with it. Not to mention when the Remix came out with another city and more cars. And the car list in general was just amazing for it's time. If MCLA had 3's car list, MCLA would've been a 10/10. I'll be forever waiting for MCLA's sequel, but I'll check your MCLA video when it drops!
The customization was so much fun in this game and the severely under estimated drifting mechanics. Where if you shift to the 2nd highest gear like 3rd gear with a 4 speed or 5th gear in a 6 speed while drifting you get a stupid amount of speed boost from it to the point you reach the game's speed limit. This game was just underrated by everyone
Imagine a remake of this game, with the cars, soundtrack and scenarios of that 2000's cities...
Had 100% completed this, many years ago on PS2
I had two racing games growing up with the PlayStation 1: NFS Porshe Unleashed and Test Drive 6. They both just came with the console, I got it used, and between the two, NFS was the one I had the most fun driving around in. Test Drive had great presentation, and I still listen to the amazing soundtrack to this day, but I could never enjoy the driving in it. I never figured out the handling model, and so I just gently and carefully drove around the levels to see what was in them. NFS however, not only handled much better, I had a very inviting and helpful tutorial, where you had to avoid orange cones, drive down a piece of road, turn around and drive back. I understood the controls and managed to win some races. The game was prettier too, to this day I'm very impressed with what they did on the PS1. So going forward I had this imprint, Need For Speed just meant quality to me, and I couldn't be bothered to look anywhere else outside that franchise. Other racing games just didn't exist.
MC3 doesn't have rubberbanding btw. The AI is just fast
They have rubberbanding. Only for the freaking cops
People always take about NFS Most Wanted or Underground 2 but never mention Midnight Club 🕛💪🏽
Ahhhh the memories. I remember playing the original Dub edition (none remixed), and always having a blast. And always starting with the 64 impala... and that made me actually try to look at getting one whenever I first got my license lmao. But I'd say MC3, GT3/4, and the NASCAR games really defined my childhood.
this game was my childhood and I'm glad, every second spent in this game has a vibe that it lives up to and you really feel like every frame had care put into it. the game feels so special.
I still listen to music from this to this day. This game is what influenced my love of cars and it's criminal that they haven't made a new one in forever!
Please, please, please revive the playtrough you started on CarTaku. I played this game for the first time last year via emulator and I absolutely love it.
Midnight Club Cancelled Soz
I might stream it, IDK depends on video interest.
@@BladedAngel BLADED, I would commit hundreds of war crimes for the chance to see you revive the playthrough
Midnight club 3 is the game where me and my cousin will all gather around to play since the 2000s
It's the game we talked the most about from that era, just after GTA SA
Since our ps2s broke down through the years. The game stayed on our memories for years
The cousins and my brothers moved on to different games, while I stayed with other racing games
Last year, I heard the ps4 does have an actual emulator for ps2 games
It's just that it's locked and only used for just a few games
The only way to unlock it was with jailbreak
I had it jailbreaken, midnight club run surprisingly well and not only that. My youngest brother who never seen the ps2 played
His cousin of similar age where coming almost daily to play it, to the point they are making a mess around
I had taken the ps4 with the good old boys and we had a good amount of fun
Especially when we were waiting for others to gather to hangout
Last week, got a Xbox ss
Since u could emlate ps2, running ps2 games a lot better than ps4, since u get actual options to modify the emlation
Because of this game, I got my old cousins replaying good old ps2, got my youngest brother and his cousins into this era
Heck sometimes he would choose midnight over new games on the Xbox
I wish it would get remaster, but I don't want it if it's gonna turn into a cash grap like GTA trilogy
Hope the legacy never gets burned down
This was a banger in Mexico, we have stores called "tienditas" and in those tienditas there were arcades with xbox games such as GTASA and Deffjam FFNY, we spent hours playing inside those tienditas, golden memories.
Best racing game in history
I like how you also used the best customization music ever in the vid aka Tekken Tag 2 customizations music lol
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Been playing Midnight Club 3 since I was 4 in the early 2000s my tiny brain couldn't comprehend why music went so hard. Rockstar really put me on some good ass music (I'm also playing through again with PCXS2)
Man this video just summed up every single feeling i had of the game and never heard anyone speak of, and the freaking jokes you throw in are hilarious. This video must live through eternity. It's imperative.
Even the PSP version on an emulator brings back fond memories of playing through all the levels on the PS2 back in the day.
Driving a saleen s7 unstable as it is in this game without crashing is the peak of skill in this game
Tbh, a couple years ago, and still even today, I'm still thinking that how the race system in this game is still the most realistic in terms of street racing. It's just felt like it's actually an illegal street race, no barriers, no limitations, just checkpoints. You had to know where you'll going through the city or you just gonna get lost. This system just kicks NFS races out of the window.
The track layouts also just felt high speed. There just a little moment of having to slow down in the race. Sure that some tracks had quite a sharp corner, but I didn't mind it. Then some of them had some kind of special moments going on, which made the races feel less bland (well, even though sone of them are more annoying rather than entertaining). Some events had the moment where there will be bunch of parked cars on the sidewalk, which is one of the praise point in the NFS Unbound. Like, bruh man MC3 already did this 17 years ago. And if you think it only appears on the race, then just check the MCLA instead. The tracks also give you oppertunity to take some shortcuts, which just adds a cool point for me.
The physics in this game was also good (maybe not a lot, but still). Tuners felt balanced, muscle and choppers felt drifty, exotics and sport bikes felt grippy, and else. Altough most of the time I always went to drifting, the thing about drifting in this game is that it just felt satisfiying when it pulled off perfectly. And the combination between the tracks and how physics work just made the races felt so adrenaline.
About the AI, so far the only thing I found stupid is that they can use the cars that just WAY faster than yours, while you can't. Overall, they seems fine to me. One more thing I found is that it just felt dangerous whenever I hear the AI start using their nitrous. And I have to anticipate on how things will go. So this just makes the nitrous can be an actual treat against you rather than just helping the peformance of the cars.
So yeah, this game stay as my most favourite, even more than MW05
Bruh I made the Mille factory go 250 miles per hour with three nitro slots and zone to avoid crashing to much. The muci I sold after like 20 minutes of beating the game I definitely have to say that Lamborghini has become my all time favorite car I loved this game so much like I never played anything else besides this 💙
I wish Rockstar games made more midnight club games. My brother tell me you got midnight club in GTA V, I tell him it's not the same.
Midnight Club will forever be a goat amongst all the racing games. And tbh, I'd still play this over any NFS newer than 2010 besides Hot Pursuit Remastered as well as any Forza & Gran Turismo.
Played midnight club 2, 3, dub remix, and La. One of the best game series out there. Period
Oh my god you’re so right about these games making the Murcielago and specifically the murcielago the most desirable Lamborghini
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Ngl I shed a tear we really lived the same childhood this game was my everything
Another thing I wanted to mention about old racing games in particular is how unapologetically provocative they were. Back then, there were girls posing on top of cars in the most revealing outfits left and right. Nowadays, we have to settle with, well whatever the hell Tess was wearing cuz everyone is too afraid of getting canceled.
Really wish this game would get a remake!!! Some of ps2 games hit harder than todays games but I really loved this game and you can have a lot of cars you were not limited to 5
I wish I played this growing up (or at all) because it honestly looks better than NFS Underground. This game looks like it has way more Character than NFS. And 80+ vehicles is amazing for any game to have nowadays let alone back in the day. Also bonus points for Your Sunset playing in the background 😎
Parents got it for me for Christmas when I was really young, 100%ed it with my dad too. It’s so great
Midnight club 3 dub edition , midnight club LA and LA rush were my favorite car games back in early 2000s of my childhood
I typed midnight club 3 and this popped up im glad people aren’t forgetting about this hidden gem🔥🔥🔥
Thank god im not the only one who played nfs ug2 before nfs ug1 in 2020 , welcome to the boat my friend
I played NFS carbon and underground 2 and I also played Gran Touristmo before the Midnight Club franchise. I still fell in love with MC above the other franchises. The Open Maps were designed the best, very nice cars, great tuning. I loved the story. I loved the Race designs even more. I loved how in Races the track isn’t limited. If you missed a corner you could try to find a different route to the checkpoint. The music was A tier ! Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition was my favorit. LA was great too. MC is to this day my fav. I 100%ed 3 Dub Edition 6 times. And btw I don’t think it’s that hard. I really love the speed in this game
Midnight Club 3 was the best Midnight Club ever including L.A. which I sold shortly after I bought it brand new. If you buy midnight club L.A. then prepare to be disappointed. It looked SO good. I was really excited about everything I knew about the game going in and it actually was sort of fun even knowing I couldn't just outskill the A.I. because it's a Midnight Club game. The first three games in this series were the pinnacle of arcade racers and the third one added real cars and in depth customization which Midnight Club L.A. actually expanded upon. The customization was on the next level, it is actually worth checking out just for that.
So why did I put down Midnight Club L.A. and never play it again? Well I was progressing through the game at a pretty steady rate for a while, then I encountered a race that was just kicking my ass... and I was fine with that, even with all the rubber banding that was going on. I would get way ahead and the A.I. would magic-boost right up to me and pass me near the end and I was like yeah, I know "Midnight Club" it'll let me win eventually. But then one time I got so far ahead so close to the end of the race that I knew I was going to win... then a civilian car materialized in the middle of the road as I slammed into it in a T-bone collision. I don't think I ever came closer to snapping a game in half - not even Stunt Man (which is one of those frustrating games that you LOVE even as you joyfully fantasize about destroying the disc because you always feel like you're just one more try away from nailing the stunt). I'm fine with "magic-boost" rubber banding, I'm fine with A.I. slamming me into walls, that's all supposed to be part of the game but you don't materialize civilian cars two inches in front of me as I'm about to win as a rubber banding tool. That is something you just don't do. I've always suspected that kind of thing had something to do with the series dying.
Back when Rockstar was thirsty and go above and beyond. Sometimes I do wish for this game to come out with another sequel but with how modernized games are nowadays, especially if Rockstar do a remaster of this game and it get the GTA Trilogy definitive edition treatment. My heart can't take the thought of that.
I played midnight club 2 before any nfs. My first street racing game . Then I played nfs underground 2 but then midnight club 3 came out and even the newer NFS felt like I was going backwards 😂 it was so ahead for the time
You've unlocked a new car Class
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Midnight club 2 was a hit too me and the guys used to play these games for hours back in the day
R* had a gem. I cannot explain how many friends I have made through Midnight Club LA. That game introduced me to the V8 Audi R8. I was so invested in getting that car, and now it's my PFP. Been my PFP since I made this account.
Three letters express my excitement whilst playing this game... XLR, the Cadillac XLR to be exact.
Favorite car of the game after I modded it within an inch of it's life, won countless races, enjoyed jumping 100s of yards... good times, good times.
Owned this during the ps2 run and still have my copy of the game! I love how you brought back all the nostalgia. Great work and you got a subscriber out of me