I bought MCO back in 2002, when I moved into an apartment and finally had cable internet. It was the first and only online game I paid a monthly fee for. On a broadband connection the experience was great. It was a really fun game, I had a lot of fun for a few months, and then EA pulled the plug on the servers. That was the day I vowed to never again pay for online-only games. The car customization and building was a fantastic aspect of the game. It was a great game and plenty of people were still playing it when they killed the servers. I'm still salty about it to this day.
EA claimed that there weren't enough people to continue supporting the game, but I played it right up until they shut the servers down and there never seemed to be a shortage of players. My guess is that there were plenty of people playing it but they just didn't feel it was worth it to keep the servers running. EA seems to be quick to shut servers down for games that are a couple years old.
I absolutely loved this game, especially during it's first several months. The modifying and building up of your own car and engine with decently accurate component simulation, and racing for actual stakes (your car if ballsy enough), has never been done since. I made some serious real life cash selling in game currency on ebay. Actually bought my first real car at 17 because of it. I owe MCO so much...
Nothing beat have big ass wheels on front and tiny on back sleepers beating people for pinks. lol... I was 16 when it came out and my aunt was nice enough to pay for my sub I loved the game.
They Brought in the Toyota Supra at the very tail end of the game because of people losing interest, cost of servers and the rise of The Fast and the Furious scene. It was both loved and hated in the game, but kind of funny because when you modded it, it would have a V8 Blower sticking out of the hood.
Didn’t they also add a 98’ eclipse? I think they were both V8 rwd cars no matter what you did as well. No special drivetrains created for those models.
Man do I miss Motor City online I used to play the shit out of this every afternoon until it was gone! I remember the drag race was so competitive you could replace every part of the car and people were tweaking and modifying and everything was just out of experimentation until you got the perfect time. The 32 Ford Coupe was a great car for drag races, and I remember playing until I could afford the 1970 Mach 1 Mustang for sooo long. Thanks for covering this, sorry you didn't get to play online back in the day. I would be surprised if no one has ever made a personal server for this. Like I said people were super competitive
I don't know much about programming but from what I've read, EA never released the server code and building it from scratch would be pretty daunting. I miss MCO so much
yeah it looks like everything is in Class E. completely unmodded with no parts upgraded. i use to have a mach 1 with 1011hp and did 226mph. but my favorite money maker was my murcery. it was a class C that would dance like a whale around corners!
This game was ahead of it's time.. At least for me, I also didn't have an internet worthy of online play at the time.. not even close. My PC multiplayer endeavors in the late 90s and earlier 2000s was restricted to local network. Good times though because nowadays I think online gaming sucks... Having all your friends in the same room with a bunch of PCs locally hooked up together was 1000 more fun that it is today playing online with a bunch of faceless strangers... I rarely play any multiplayer now.
Yeah, we used to have LAN parties where everyone would bring their computers over to someone's house. Sit around drinking and playing multiplayer video games all weekend. It was before WiFi, so we actually had to run network cables all over the house. Good times. :-)
The real fun of this game was the auction house!! OMG I had soooo much fun buying and selling in the auction house.chat was insane you had to be incredibly fast to keep up. And the amount of tinkering you could do to the cars puts GT and Forza to shame. Motor City online was the greatest racing game I've ever played and I haven't ran into a single online game since equal to mco.
True! At sunset of the game I bought my dream '57 Chevy Corvette Convertible type and it went for like 50mil+ because EA changed the rewards per race to a huge amount.
Hell yes!! I remember staying up till 3 am as a teenager trying to win auctions for those rare... rusted... chopped... sponsored.. bumperless, fenderless 32 coupe dragster haha u name it, best car selection, tuning.. cars has mileage parts would wear out. I still have my copy and will always keep it. One of the best games on my childhood 💯
This game was awesome at it's time. In the game you received a paycheck, i don't remember if it was a once a day thing or what. But you earn money that way and from races. You bought a junker, went on an auction house and bought parts to fix and beef up your rat rod! Parts from different engine blocks, camshafts, headers, exhausts....all which had an affect on your car. There was track racing and drag racing as well. I "think" you could race for slips, im not sure. They kinda redid this game and it was called Need for Speed World, but it wasn't the same, it lost a lot of what made MCO great. An that game is shutdown too. I wish MCO would get a proper remake.
I had forgotten about the paychecks! Cool game. I *think* there was some sort of leveling system to determine how much you got paid, but I don't remember for sure.
+Tudor Tanasa Idk, but it was suppose to be the squeal to it. The game looked nice though. The power ups/abilities were stupid and really ruined that game for me.
I think there's something to be said about the incredible level of detail they put into this game. If you're going to create a game where's it's just racing, you might as well make it as immersive as possible. After watching this video, it's a real huge bummer you can't play this online anymore, it looked super interesting to me. I would love to get into this.
I was a tester for this game for a few month before it went online. The game was incredible for its time. You started out with a plain car then went to the garage and bought upgrades. The challenges were great. It also had an option to take pics of your car and save them as you upgraded. I was 45 when I did t he testing and have missed it ever since. I went thru many racing games but was never as excited by any of them. I may try and get the version you are running just for the nostalgia. Thanks for making the video it brought back memories.
The supra, and mitsubishi were special releases that I think were tied in with the Fast and Furious movie success if I remember correctly. They were pretty difficult to get and I think it came from winning a pretty big race that would be considered sort of 'late game' at this point. They were some of the final cars released before it was shut down. Sort of hinted to the community that something weird was going on.
The Supra and Eclipse were both in Righteous Rides at $1,000,000.00 each. Neither one had the first person graphics, so it looked like you were just sitting in the air above the road and saw the tire marks that the front tires left. They were both powered by Ford 351, the cars were rushed and lazy. On top of that, they felt out of place.
Sadly, with more and more games going to a 'Games as Services' model, this will be the norm. Heck, we will be lucky to be able to do even this with future titles. On top of that, with 'Cloud Gaming' being sold as the future, we may never even be able to play a game like this in the future period. I am glad that there has been some effort to allow Motor City Online to be playable after it was long gone. I hope that the Destinys and Overwatches of today will get this treatment in the future so that they never truly go away.
Sad thing is that online games on console will always die. Not that I like either destiny or overwatch but at least on 360 and PS3 destiny is already dead and the same will happen over time to other platforms.
Yea, I wonder what type of insane fan-made hacks and tricks are going to be necessary to play Destiny or Destiny 2 in 30 years once it's totally gone and replaced with other products... if it'll even be possible. And just because we often make fun of those games doesn't mean these issues of game preservation aren't important or that someone may actually want to play Destiny in the future. Once Destiny 12 (or whatever) is out and the old servers are totally gone, there should still be a way to play the old games though, ideally.
oh my lord this was the first MMO I played, and still holds a place in my heart, I'd kill for a new MMO under the same premise as this. It was sooooo fun
I loved this game to death as a kid! There never was another game like it, just tinkering around with your own personal car and having drag races with others online to an absolutely godly soundtrack. RIP.
As Tiago Pessotti said, just search for Soapbox Race World on Google and go to the official website. It comes with a new launcher, let's you play with people and best of all, NO MICROTRANSACTIONS. There's also an offline server included If you wanna mess around with mods and stuff.
I loved this game so much. It was so far ahead of its time. The online aspect lasted too short. Mixing engine parts and getting different and unique results was so much fun. Thanks for putting this out! Cheers!
I'd love those camera options in more games. Too often driving games let you maneuver the camera manually, but move or snap back to a default, which means you can't get it where you want without constantly holding a joystick.
I played this game religiously as a kid, to this day it's the best car game I have ever played. It was like a racing mmo rpg. You could truly build cars in this game. It was all about power to weight ratios and car classes. Not sport, street, or racing "kits" but real branded individual parts and the selections was huge I believe it was over 2000. There were chat lobbies with different scenes like the diner, the top leveled players in the chat would get there cars in the parking places. I spent hours chatting with people watching cars pull in and drive out. Clubs would host car shows in these lobbies where you could pay an entry fee and everyone would vote on who has the coolest car and winner got the money. I hosted and participated in these all the time. Cam shafts, pistons, engine blocks, springs with different spring rates, super chargers, nitrous kits. and everything effected the way the cars drove from weight to rpm ranges the way it handled even the exhaust sound. I had a folder full of print outs with different build combination for different cars at different tracks and kept track of what works and what doesn't. It was everything games like forza horizon try to be today with so much more detail. Rare parts and cars with special modifications or paint jobs you could only get through online auction or trading other players. They even started adding player submitted paint jobs to cars and then auction them off. I used to wake up before school to check auctions and bid on cars with rare parts to get them cheaper than what they were worth on the open market. Then use those rare cars and parts to sell or to win top times on tracks for myself and my club. Stuff like chop tops that had better aero and top speed, convertibles, fenderless, bumperless, to decrease weight and different combinations of them all. Weekly leader boards to compete for the top times, bragging rights, and cash prizes. Turf wars that required people working together in clubs to get the best average top times. Everyone started with a rusty car, in the beginning you could barely afford to repair your car after races so you had to keep racing with damaged cars. or do sponsored races where everyone drove a predetermined car. Parts wore out and had to be scrapped. even car bodies wore out if you raced them long enough. Even with the game coming to an end it was a lot of fun the Dev's who were very active in the game and you could chat with them in lobbies or race them in events started giving out crazy cars. like cars with no hoods or other body parts. I was given a hoodless convertible gto. They started adding modern cars just for the hell of it. Oh and I almost forgot all the one time special holiday themed stuff you would get that would become rare. My favorite cars were my chop top reaper camaro, fenderless bumperless chop top skull coupe, sponsored convertible vette, and of course my formula firebird with rare parts that would dominate goose point with a setup so good people would give me their formula and pay me to put the same parts in it and trade it back. or I would lend it out to club members to post times with for turf wars. My dad even played, he got so competitive in it he bought a racing wheel and upgraded from aol dial up to our first broadband internet connection.
That Ford Escort at the start of the video! I love that car. Thank god Forza Horizon 4 have it for us ford escort lovers to play and remember good old times. I had the 1.3 lt, 1982 model. Thanks LGR for this beautiful video.
I'm seriously impressed by this game's graphics! Never played it, but watching you play made me feel like a kid again haha If I knew about this game when it came out I would totally be hooked and glued to that screen :) Great video as always!
This game was amazing back in the day. Would love to play it again. It was a pretty sad day for the MCO 'community' when EA decided "Sims Online" was to take priority and our "$15 a month" which was insane back then, still wasn't enough to justify keeping the 1 west coast, 1 east coast, and 1 midwest server going.
Man, I LOVED this game. I remember putting a '69 Camaro up for auction over a Christmas, and coming back to a surprising sale amount and buying all kinds of fun stuff. Hate they pulled the plug. Thanks for sharing these nostalgic scenes.
I’ve always wanted to play this game but for some reason it wasn’t available in Europe (or at least in the Netherlands). I’d love to see EA do a remake of this game. It would be so cool to see a racing game set in ‘50/‘60s rockabilly style. A breath of fresh air in all the modern racing games with Rocket Bunny and Pandem wide body kits
Speaking of resurrected online-only games, have you heard about FreeSO? It's an attempt to make Sims Online playable again! I missed out on the Sims online because while my parents let me play The Sims, they weren't comfortable with the idea of a kid like me playing with random strangers on the internet, and then when I was older they had long since pulled the plug. Haven't played much of it yet, but it's been a blast so far. Thanks as always for this review, good to know an awesome little racing game like this is alive again now too. EDIT: ANd there you go mentioning it at the very end XD
The way you described this game in the 1st minute is 100% what happened to me as a kid! I bought it not realizing it was an online only game and we only had dial-up which my mom would hardly let me use. I was so bummed out because i loved cars even then! Awesome to see you bringing it back! Just found your channel about a month ago and i love your videos!!!
MCO babyyyy, I haven't even watched yet, I'm just thrilled to see it mentioned! :D I spent far too much time on that game for the year or two I had it.
When I heard about this game around 2012-ish I was devastated that it had simply vanished. And I never saw any videos about it. Now I randomly stumbled upon your video and I'm super impressed, what an incredible game for the time.
That process should be mandatory, they literally render the product you purchased useless. If the game is no longer selling they should just release the server side.
yosuhara Agreed, When an online game is going to be shut down the people running the servers should be forced to make all the server code open source so people can keep it going.
The Supra and Eclipse.. Let me tell you a little story... So a little movie came out in 2001 called The Fast and the Furious. What were the two hero cars of that movie? An Eclipse and a Supra. So MCO was getting stale, they didnt want to update it, no new cars, pay to win wasnt a thought of thing yet ect, so to test if the gamers wanted muscle cars or tuners, they used MCO as a guinea pig, injecting the car bodies in to see what would happen. Well...Since we hadnt had new cars in a very long time, they got bought by literally everyone. The hard core racers loved them because they were light and had a lower co efficient of drag, and the kids bought them because duh, imports. EA missread this data as, nobody wants muscle cars, and scrapped MCO for Underground. Thats it, it sucks, we wanted more old cars, tracks and an updated c=game engine, but were scrapped in the import craze.
Thanks for bringing some spotlight to this! There's a guy trying to make a working server from scratch to really revive this game! If you know how to code Java/Prettier please consider helping out! Github.com/drazisil/mco-server
You could fully customize your car changing motor completely out of them painting them you can pretty much do whatever you can possibly think of also car and part auctions was a good game and better than most of the car games
My absolute FAVORITE game of all time! Used to love buying individual parts to upgrade cars. My brother and I spent forever playing day and night. Getting the rare parts when they popped up in the shop was insane! People actually bought and sold game currency on ebay for it! I hope I can get at least this much to play again!!! Thanx for this!
I played this game from its release. It had some of the most detailed upgrade paths. every part of the engine was upgraded. And the combos you chose made a difference! pistons, cams spark plugs, heads etc. then as you progress you could add blowers etc. plus trans suspension tires body etc all upgraded and it was based on cars from the 30s through the 80s so it was amazing.. kind of dated but amazing game!!
I'm so glad to see this video. I tried and tried to get this running in offline mode a few months ago.Glad to see it is possible after all. Thanks for the upload!!!
I played this game online for some time before the servers were closed and it was great! after a few races a nice guy gave me a car that I could customize and be competitive, at least for the little that lasted.
Ahh every time I see your XP desktops with those game icons, I get a nostalgia boost that temps me to load them back up myself. Thanks for the continuous content, Clint!
A full retrospect of this would be killer! I’ve always thought that this was High Stakes, but in an open world and online, but this looks freaking amazing! Great video as usual, Clint.
We're in the same boat LGR! This is my first time seeing this game. Back in the late 90's I was obsessed with NFS games but MCO was really out of reach. My family can't afford a fast internet connection at that time. Great video. It just makes me sad that the NFS series will never be like this. The race tracks were really creative back then. It was like a theme ride. Today NFS race tracks are bland and boring. If EA is really serious in bringing this franchise back to life they need to bring back themed tracks.
Clint, thank you for posting this up. Back in 2001 I had a subscription to this game (after a lot of parent convincing), and it was amazing. There were other modes in the game like drag racing, and a ton of options for car customization. You earned money by racing, and in turn used that to modify your car.
This game was SO DAMN AMAZING!!! The auction house was so much fun.buliding your entire engines from the pistons and rods blocks heads valves ooooo it was so addicting.. My buddies and i would tag team this game. for days and weeks at a time it was running. It was completely worth the monthly subscription.. It started to lose its appeal when they added in the newer cars like the supra tho.
This was the best car game I have ever played. The car builds were insane, I remember selling car setups for in-game money. You could choose engine compression, cam size, carbs, heads, rear gear ratio, transmission, springs, shocks, all brake components. If your car was not set up right, you would get destroyed in races. I was in a club called "Tin Indians", we were a bunch of Pontiac fans. We would also go into the file and change the car skins, like making a general lee and all types of special paint, only the person that changed their files could see it, but it was still amazing. The car and part auction were also amazing, once in a while, rare parts and paint schemes would pop up. The auction was also a great way to make money, I would get up at a certain time in the am when servers had fewer people and watch the auctions, buy special parts and then just relist them for more money. Thanks for the video, this game is dearly missed
I played this game religiously and was very upset when EA shut it down and honestly their hasn’t been a game like it. I was surprised that no one ever picked it up. Thanks for doing the blast from the past!!
Seeing this video reminds me of the successor of this game...need for speed world,racing MMO for PC xD not sure if it's still available but it's a thing I use to be on a lot back in the days also dunno if you ever play it but yeah it's freaking fun and it's open world
The game was officially shut down a few years back. There is now an open-source recreated server Soapbox Racing World, which has issues with online races, but open world and bot races work fine. Oh friend list doesn't work either.
I played this game all the time back in the day. I was in a fairly large racing club as well. The customization of the cars, the officially licensed parts, the community feel, seeing you car pull up to the diner in the lobby if you were high enough in the ranking. The game was pure awesome back in the day. The racing itself was really only one half of the experience. It really is too bad this "hack" doesn't show off the other half. Every online racing game I play, even today, makes me miss MCO greatly. I'll definitely be installing this - I still have my MCO CD! :)
I remember being on Need for Speed message boards back during the Underground era and I heard this game talked about so much there. But I think this is the first time I've ever seen footage of this lost treasure, so thank you for this! (Also, if this released in 2001, I guess it explains the gap year between Porsche Unleashed and Hot Pursuit II, assuming the same teams worked on these three games. Because before HPII, NFS was a yearly franchise).
I was absolutely in love with MCO when it released. I was heartbroken when it went offline. A great taste of Electronic Arts screwing over it's customers to protect it's worthless IP. Unfortunately, the real magic of this game was the menus, classifieds, and modification portions. There was nothing like racing for pinks on the drag strip.
Since we're talking about older Need for Speed like titles here, I'll just put this comment here. I've dug up an old demo of NFS3 on the internet which is different from the regular one and also happens to be a demo I played back in the day. You race in Rocky Pass like in the previous one, but instead of Corvettes, here you race with Lambo Countach(with an engine sound of one from PS1 if I'm right). What's interesting about it how there are several different things that are actually borrowed from the PS1 release and even NFS2. For example the music is present, the flyby to your car is the same as the one in NFS2 for the knockout race, race countdown is the same as in NFS2/3 on ps1 with the same flying numbers and letters, police declare they're in pursuit of a Lamborghini instead of a Countach, the police speak on their police speaker while chasing you which is present in a PS1 version and cops have a different sound while ticketing/busting you. There might be more, but that's all I can remember from the demo i continuously played from my computer magazine's demo disc. Also I might be wrong, but this game could only be played in software render, as I tried playing on D3D and it didn't run. If anyone's interested, I can upload it and link it as well. EDIT: I had tried it on my Win7 64bit laptop and it runs smoothly on a wide screen and it isn't even stretched. The only problem I came across was the mild sound cracking during the gameplay, but nothing too serious. Also the graphics are set to minimum and from what I can see, it doesn't look too different from the final release's software mode. Now onto the newfound differences between this and a final version: - Countach you're driving actually leans while steering and steering seems more responsive but still stiff - the cops are all shown on the map as pink spots on the minimap and also, they have a significantly unfair rubberband. They can be dodged to prevent them from ticketing/busting. - if you enable the list of racers, you and your rival will be shown just below the upper HUD(below the speedometer). Another EDIT: Tried to run the game again and the screen messes up badly. After this I had tried to run it in d3d mode. It actually ran without the screen break, but it still lagged in comparison to the first launch. It seems that one run messed up something within my drivers and what not. I actually deleted the file and transfered it from my virtual Win98 again to see if it's only the game's files being corrupted, but it doesn't seem to be the case.. I'll try to figure something out.
An awful lot of little details scattered around the place - Especially for an online game WITHOUT microtransactions and WITHOUT DLC. How the hell did they afford to make this!? /s
Motor City Online... wow, I remember that one from back in the day, but it had totally slipped my mind until now. Thanks for the nostalgic jogging of the memory, LGR ;)
This was the first game I ever bought as a child for PC at age 12, and luckily my mother let me use her credit card when we found out it had a monthly subscription after installing on the family PC because there isn't a game to this day that I reminisce about more than MCO. This video really doesn't do the game justice... It honestly only portrays about 15% of the actual game. This game had an entire car catalog of parts. There was no tier 1, 2, 3 upgrades.. You literally had to change every engine and suspension competent individually and each small change would have some type of affect on the car. Literally thousands of different configurations could be had. I remember making page after page of spreadsheets with different builds. An online auction house where you could not only buy and sell cars, but every hour new randomly generated cars would be listed. Some would have rare paint schemes, some fenderless, choptop, convertible or had rare parts. Everything had wear and tear, and had to be replaced at some point or your cars performance would decline. The DEVs were so close with the community too. Every week there would be community held events, made for and by the players in the community, and the DEV team would always donate one off cars (paint/fender combinations) to the winner of these events. Was just such a great time, and iv never been more upset about a game being shut down. I remember when they shut the game down, they offered everyone Ultima Online or The Sims Online... Lols. Not being much of a gamer at all, the very first night I had the game I was scammed out of my rusty noob starter car and I remember spending the next 3 days not knowing what to do, before someone showed me the sponsored car races, where you didn't need your own car to race in. SO MUCH FUN.
Played this game from launch to close, nothing to this day compares to this game. The online auction for parts and cars was second to none. You could bet money or pinks in drag races, or shoot for big bucks by getting fastest lap each week against 1000s of other players. No game compares to this day, is all I can say. RIP
I loved this game. The best part is how you could build the car ground up and it would change the feel of the car considerably. The 57 vette was the best from what I remember. You can build a custom engine with every part. Different camshaft, fuel injectors, carburetors, cylinder heads, suspension parts, brakes, wheels, etc... on and on, and the parts store would have different parts. You could drag race for pink slips. This game was fantastic and the monthly cost was pricey for its time. but those who played loved it. You could swap engines into different cars. Great vid some nostalgia for sure.
I played so much of this game when i was young. it laid the ground work for my love of pc gaming and racing. I played in the morning before school then at 3 when i got home i would play til 10 at night for months on end. I still have my copy. Go in peace and drive like hell!
There was nothing quite like it at the time. I played in the City Center Server. It was a total grind to earn money and special paint jobs (decal, bad ass, and rust) or chop top, convertible versions would randomly show up in the auctions. I mainly liked collecting the rare paint cars and still have screenshots from playing. The ‘64 mustang and Vette were the best cars until the Supra was available. It went downhill after that. You could also create, join clubs and hang out with friends. It was a joy to play back in the early 2000s. Also, check out the “Bad Ass” paint for the ‘69 Charger.
the game was amazing, you could race for pinks drag racing or even track racing. You won special parts in pvp track races, there were auctions on special cars and parts, there were levels that would go up giving you higher amounts of allowance every week or so, it was an awesome game and I think it needs to come back from the dead asap
This game was fantastic. It's cool that you can still race but there was so much more to the game. You could swap pretty much any part of the drive line out, change pistons, cam, engine blocks, rear end differentials, shocks, tires etc.. There were rare versions of the cars, convertibles, runningboard less, fenderless, chopped tops, rare paint schemes. You could race tracks like you were or drag race for in game currency or pink slips. You started off with a rust bucket and race your way to fixing up your car up or winning/ buying newer ones. It was geared toward the 30s-70s muscle/hot rod cars. Then EA released a patch that added a couple newer cars, Mitsubishi Eclipse and Toyota Supera I assume trying to get a younger crowd interested. When EA decided to pull the plug they offered Ultima Online or one of The Sims games as compensation. I'm still salty they gave up on MCO. MCO was the greatest racing game of all! #MotorCityOnline2 Make it happen!
Could you imagen playing Carmageddon 2 with these levels and this amount of level customizability? (The weathers, choosing Day or Night variants, ect.)
ABSOLUTELY LOVED this game. It killed me that they killed it. Either way, I made screenshots of all my cars If you're interested in seeing / using for an upcoming retrospective. I also have a few screenshots from the beta. Thank you SOO much for bringing this patch to my attention. Will definitely be replaying & rebuilding my old cars!
I loved that damn game. I was totally bummed when they shut it down and it didn't make sense to me at the time, because it was still an active game. Haven't thought about it in almost 20 years. Thanks for the memory rerun!
It was really ahead of its time, You could race for pink slips you could buy and sell and trade upgrade parts and cars, You could also raise for money and you would get special cars during holidays and your birthday
had my hopes up reading the title and the description, watched the video and i'm disappointed, it's arcade style. this is not MCO at all, and there has never been another racing game like it since, and if you were one of the original MCO player's you know damn well what i'm talking about. Those hours and hours of part by part trying to build your car and testing it.
In the game you can do everything to the cars not just motors but pistons,cams, coolers, superchargers, didernt transmissions, tires and blah blahThis is the one the best games I have played online. The car modding was awesome. And they had a radio DJ playing music in game and you could request songs.
You mentioned midnight club and I instantly got depressed. I was washed away to midnight club 2 and all of the nostalgia there was from racing motorcycles past the glass pyramids in Paris or jumping a huge bridge in Tokyo. And now I don't have it. I've been getting this feeling a lot lately in regards to gaming. It's really getting to me.
This has been bothering my mind for a few years now, does anybody know the name of a racing game from the early 2000s where you race with regular cars but you have pickups like in Mario Kart (snowballs, force field, gaint front bumper etc)?
LGR yeah this seems to be right (just look’t at a clip) it's just that I remember it to be more Vivid in color and the tracks had a lot of jumps and shortcuts🤔...and like I said, early 2000s so it was probably on the PS2 or early days of Xbox 360
I absolutely loved this game. The races are just scratching the surface of the full game. The online aspecct of it, modding your car with different parts, nos!, drag racing, racing for pinks, betting, auctions!!, the old timey music radio stations in the menus, chatting with other car people/gamers. It was all so amazing. I really got my hopes up around 2010 -2011 when Motor World Online (MCO clone) was in development and releasing gameplay videos that looked like a updated version of MCO. It had a lot of potential but it seems like it has also died. Will they ever replace this?
I bought MCO back in 2002, when I moved into an apartment and finally had cable internet. It was the first and only online game I paid a monthly fee for. On a broadband connection the experience was great. It was a really fun game, I had a lot of fun for a few months, and then EA pulled the plug on the servers. That was the day I vowed to never again pay for online-only games.
The car customization and building was a fantastic aspect of the game. It was a great game and plenty of people were still playing it when they killed the servers. I'm still salty about it to this day.
why they shut down the server ? what happen ?
EA claimed that there weren't enough people to continue supporting the game, but I played it right up until they shut the servers down and there never seemed to be a shortage of players. My guess is that there were plenty of people playing it but they just didn't feel it was worth it to keep the servers running.
EA seems to be quick to shut servers down for games that are a couple years old.
sounds like me with Toontown
Sad, the parts upgrades were a lot of fun, I too played until it was shut down, still have the disc :-(
@@ogorangeduck The difference is, Toontown was completely dead in 2013.
I like how on that one track there was aparrently a tornado going on, but the wind speed was only 8mph
@Honudes Gai yeah and that clearly was not one lol
One of the best racing games ever... EA messed up losing it.
I absolutely loved this game, especially during it's first several months.
The modifying and building up of your own car and engine with decently accurate component simulation, and racing for actual stakes (your car if ballsy enough), has never been done since.
I made some serious real life cash selling in game currency on ebay. Actually bought my first real car at 17 because of it. I owe MCO so much...
I had a '57 Bel Aire with a Cadillac big block V8 and an auto mechanic helped me tune it to the point I was winning 90% of the races I joined
Nothing beat have big ass wheels on front and tiny on back sleepers beating people for pinks. lol... I was 16 when it came out and my aunt was nice enough to pay for my sub I loved the game.
They Brought in the Toyota Supra at the very tail end of the game because of people losing interest, cost of servers and the rise of The Fast and the Furious scene. It was both loved and hated in the game, but kind of funny because when you modded it, it would have a V8 Blower sticking out of the hood.
V8 supercharged Supra? seems legit LOL
Didn’t they also add a 98’ eclipse? I think they were both V8 rwd cars no matter what you did as well. No special drivetrains created for those models.
LS Swapped Supra!
There were no ls swaps... However a aluminum big block and a six speed could be had, as well as the customary nodular 9 inch differential
I was a hardcore MCO fan. EA refused to put any money into marketing it.
Adding imports did not go well at all with the spirit of the game.
Man do I miss Motor City online I used to play the shit out of this every afternoon until it was gone!
I remember the drag race was so competitive you could replace every part of the car and people were tweaking and modifying and everything was just out of experimentation until you got the perfect time. The 32 Ford Coupe was a great car for drag races, and I remember playing until I could afford the 1970 Mach 1 Mustang for sooo long. Thanks for covering this, sorry you didn't get to play online back in the day. I would be surprised if no one has ever made a personal server for this. Like I said people were super competitive
I don't know much about programming but from what I've read, EA never released the server code and building it from scratch would be pretty daunting.
I miss MCO so much
That sounds so cool... man, I can't believe I missed this on it's heyday
yeah it looks like everything is in Class E. completely unmodded with no parts upgraded. i use to have a mach 1 with 1011hp and did 226mph. but my favorite money maker was my murcery. it was a class C that would dance like a whale around corners!
@@soupsandwch yep, THAT sounds like EA
I bought a guy's car drag racing setup off eBay for like $5 so I could finally get low ET's.
This game was ahead of it's time.. At least for me, I also didn't have an internet worthy of online play at the time.. not even close. My PC multiplayer endeavors in the late 90s and earlier 2000s was restricted to local network. Good times though because nowadays I think online gaming sucks... Having all your friends in the same room with a bunch of PCs locally hooked up together was 1000 more fun that it is today playing online with a bunch of faceless strangers... I rarely play any multiplayer now.
Hey nice profile picture there!
Cacodemon is life.
@@thiagovidal6137 Hell yeah! Quite literally here. Love the big red tomatoes.
Did you end up at the wrong channel while looking for a Fortnite stream again?
Yeah, we used to have LAN parties where everyone would bring their computers over to someone's house. Sit around drinking and playing multiplayer video games all weekend. It was before WiFi, so we actually had to run network cables all over the house. Good times. :-)
The real fun of this game was the auction house!! OMG I had soooo much fun buying and selling in the auction house.chat was insane you had to be incredibly fast to keep up.
And the amount of tinkering you could do to the cars puts GT and Forza to shame. Motor City online was the greatest racing game I've ever played and I haven't ran into a single online game since equal to mco.
True! At sunset of the game I bought my dream '57 Chevy Corvette Convertible type and it went for like 50mil+ because EA changed the rewards per race to a huge amount.
Hell yes!! I remember staying up till 3 am as a teenager trying to win auctions for those rare... rusted... chopped... sponsored.. bumperless, fenderless 32 coupe dragster haha u name it, best car selection, tuning.. cars has mileage parts would wear out. I still have my copy and will always keep it. One of the best games on my childhood 💯
This game was awesome at it's time. In the game you received a paycheck, i don't remember if it was a once a day thing or what. But you earn money that way and from races. You bought a junker, went on an auction house and bought parts to fix and beef up your rat rod! Parts from different engine blocks, camshafts, headers, exhausts....all which had an affect on your car. There was track racing and drag racing as well. I "think" you could race for slips, im not sure. They kinda redid this game and it was called Need for Speed World, but it wasn't the same, it lost a lot of what made MCO great. An that game is shutdown too. I wish MCO would get a proper remake.
I had forgotten about the paychecks! Cool game. I *think* there was some sort of leveling system to determine how much you got paid, but I don't remember for sure.
How Motor City Online was even remotely similar to the garbage that was NFS World is beyond me...
IT'S THURSDAY WHERE'S MY PAYCHECK THIS SUXX!!! If you remember the MCO forums, you'll remember this
Yep, there were weekly paychecks and you could race for pinks after you made it to level 5 or something. I spent so much time in the parts catalog!
+Tudor Tanasa Idk, but it was suppose to be the squeal to it. The game looked nice though. The power ups/abilities were stupid and really ruined that game for me.
I think there's something to be said about the incredible level of detail they put into this game. If you're going to create a game where's it's just racing, you might as well make it as immersive as possible. After watching this video, it's a real huge bummer you can't play this online anymore, it looked super interesting to me. I would love to get into this.
I was a tester for this game for a few month before it went online. The game was incredible for its time. You started out with a plain car then went to the garage and bought upgrades. The challenges were great. It also had an option to take pics of your car and save them as you upgraded. I was 45 when I did t he testing and have missed it ever since. I went thru many racing games but was never as excited by any of them. I may try and get the version you are running just for the nostalgia. Thanks for making the video it brought back memories.
The supra, and mitsubishi were special releases that I think were tied in with the Fast and Furious movie success if I remember correctly. They were pretty difficult to get and I think it came from winning a pretty big race that would be considered sort of 'late game' at this point. They were some of the final cars released before it was shut down. Sort of hinted to the community that something weird was going on.
The Supra and Eclipse were both in Righteous Rides at $1,000,000.00 each. Neither one had the first person graphics, so it looked like you were just sitting in the air above the road and saw the tire marks that the front tires left. They were both powered by Ford 351, the cars were rushed and lazy. On top of that, they felt out of place.
It was an attempt of EA to let MCO appeal to a different audience. The cars were hated by a lot of the MCO players.
Sadly, with more and more games going to a 'Games as Services' model, this will be the norm. Heck, we will be lucky to be able to do even this with future titles. On top of that, with 'Cloud Gaming' being sold as the future, we may never even be able to play a game like this in the future period.
I am glad that there has been some effort to allow Motor City Online to be playable after it was long gone. I hope that the Destinys and Overwatches of today will get this treatment in the future so that they never truly go away.
Sad thing is that online games on console will always die. Not that I like either destiny or overwatch but at least on 360 and PS3 destiny is already dead and the same will happen over time to other platforms.
Yea, I wonder what type of insane fan-made hacks and tricks are going to be necessary to play Destiny or Destiny 2 in 30 years once it's totally gone and replaced with other products... if it'll even be possible. And just because we often make fun of those games doesn't mean these issues of game preservation aren't important or that someone may actually want to play Destiny in the future. Once Destiny 12 (or whatever) is out and the old servers are totally gone, there should still be a way to play the old games though, ideally.
Someone probably thought the very same thing when Nintendo did the Satellaview stuff in Japan back in the day. There's always a way.
well as long as it isn't console only game we should be able to revive these games (points at MAG)
@@DeathBringer769 this is why bots are importent
13:20 "She screams, though! That's a nice touch!"
Clint, I'm worried.
oh my lord this was the first MMO I played, and still holds a place in my heart, I'd kill for a new MMO under the same premise as this. It was sooooo fun
I loved this game to death as a kid! There never was another game like it, just tinkering around with your own personal car and having drag races with others online to an absolutely godly soundtrack. RIP.
How about another EA discontinued online game: Need for Speed World(2010)
A polish group is maintaining a server It's called SoapBox
Never heard of that one. Of course my interest in NFS ended with Most Wanted (original) and Carbon
As Tiago Pessotti said, just search for Soapbox Race World on Google and go to the official website. It comes with a new launcher, let's you play with people and best of all, NO MICROTRANSACTIONS. There's also an offline server included If you wanna mess around with mods and stuff.
There's a offline mod called "Need for Speed Offline"
It was very similar to NFS Carbon actually. Played it for a while.
I loved this game so much. It was so far ahead of its time. The online aspect lasted too short. Mixing engine parts and getting different and unique results was so much fun. Thanks for putting this out! Cheers!
FOV slider in a racing game? TotalBiscuit would approve.
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I'd love those camera options in more games. Too often driving games let you maneuver the camera manually, but move or snap back to a default, which means you can't get it where you want without constantly holding a joystick.
OMG I played this all the time when it was new!!!!!! I'm commenting before watching out of pure joy.
I loved this game!! All the classic cars, the music was great, building and swapping parts on your cars!! So much fun!!
This is bringing back memories for me too. So good. I want this back with the multiplayer and parts/cars building. :(
I wanted this game so badly, but EA refused to give access to Australia
what the hell are your videos
@@TheSlowpC Shame they didn't bring it back as a mobile game. Oh well.
This makes me want to play midtown madness 2 for some reason.
I played this game religiously as a kid, to this day it's the best car game I have ever played. It was like a racing mmo rpg. You could truly build cars in this game. It was all about power to weight ratios and car classes. Not sport, street, or racing "kits" but real branded individual parts and the selections was huge I believe it was over 2000. There were chat lobbies with different scenes like the diner, the top leveled players in the chat would get there cars in the parking places. I spent hours chatting with people watching cars pull in and drive out. Clubs would host car shows in these lobbies where you could pay an entry fee and everyone would vote on who has the coolest car and winner got the money. I hosted and participated in these all the time. Cam shafts, pistons, engine blocks, springs with different spring rates, super chargers, nitrous kits. and everything effected the way the cars drove from weight to rpm ranges the way it handled even the exhaust sound. I had a folder full of print outs with different build combination for different cars at different tracks and kept track of what works and what doesn't. It was everything games like forza horizon try to be today with so much more detail. Rare parts and cars with special modifications or paint jobs you could only get through online auction or trading other players. They even started adding player submitted paint jobs to cars and then auction them off. I used to wake up before school to check auctions and bid on cars with rare parts to get them cheaper than what they were worth on the open market. Then use those rare cars and parts to sell or to win top times on tracks for myself and my club. Stuff like chop tops that had better aero and top speed, convertibles, fenderless, bumperless, to decrease weight and different combinations of them all. Weekly leader boards to compete for the top times, bragging rights, and cash prizes. Turf wars that required people working together in clubs to get the best average top times. Everyone started with a rusty car, in the beginning you could barely afford to repair your car after races so you had to keep racing with damaged cars. or do sponsored races where everyone drove a predetermined car. Parts wore out and had to be scrapped. even car bodies wore out if you raced them long enough. Even with the game coming to an end it was a lot of fun the Dev's who were very active in the game and you could chat with them in lobbies or race them in events started giving out crazy cars. like cars with no hoods or other body parts. I was given a hoodless convertible gto. They started adding modern cars just for the hell of it. Oh and I almost forgot all the one time special holiday themed stuff you would get that would become rare. My favorite cars were my chop top reaper camaro, fenderless bumperless chop top skull coupe, sponsored convertible vette, and of course my formula firebird with rare parts that would dominate goose point with a setup so good people would give me their formula and pay me to put the same parts in it and trade it back. or I would lend it out to club members to post times with for turf wars. My dad even played, he got so competitive in it he bought a racing wheel and upgraded from aol dial up to our first broadband internet connection.
That Ford Escort at the start of the video! I love that car. Thank god Forza Horizon 4 have it for us ford escort lovers to play and remember good old times. I had the 1.3 lt, 1982 model. Thanks LGR for this beautiful video.
*Cleaning glasses: *
IS THAT A SUPRA???
Ora supra ora mesra :v
I'm seriously impressed by this game's graphics! Never played it, but watching you play made me feel like a kid again haha If I knew about this game when it came out I would totally be hooked and glued to that screen :) Great video as always!
This game was amazing back in the day. Would love to play it again. It was a pretty sad day for the MCO 'community' when EA decided "Sims Online" was to take priority and our "$15 a month" which was insane back then, still wasn't enough to justify keeping the 1 west coast, 1 east coast, and 1 midwest server going.
Man, I LOVED this game. I remember putting a '69 Camaro up for auction over a Christmas, and coming back to a surprising sale amount and buying all kinds of fun stuff. Hate they pulled the plug. Thanks for sharing these nostalgic scenes.
I’ve always wanted to play this game but for some reason it wasn’t available in Europe (or at least in the Netherlands). I’d love to see EA do a remake of this game. It would be so cool to see a racing game set in ‘50/‘60s rockabilly style. A breath of fresh air in all the modern racing games with Rocket Bunny and Pandem wide body kits
Speaking of resurrected online-only games, have you heard about FreeSO? It's an attempt to make Sims Online playable again! I missed out on the Sims online because while my parents let me play The Sims, they weren't comfortable with the idea of a kid like me playing with random strangers on the internet, and then when I was older they had long since pulled the plug.
Haven't played much of it yet, but it's been a blast so far.
Thanks as always for this review, good to know an awesome little racing game like this is alive again now too.
EDIT: ANd there you go mentioning it at the very end XD
LGR keeps my blood pressure low.
I even it out by watching LGR Foods
I absolutely agree...
You can choose your skid volume..? At what point does a skid become diarrhea?
@@kvltovfreki6020 Wow. I diddnt know that channel existed and Im now on a new level of zen. Thanks.
Watching this makes my blood boil because EA are a bunch of assholes who refuse to let us set up a server to play the entire game again.
calms my anxiety
Please more vintage car games.
The way you described this game in the 1st minute is 100% what happened to me as a kid! I bought it not realizing it was an online only game and we only had dial-up which my mom would hardly let me use. I was so bummed out because i loved cars even then! Awesome to see you bringing it back! Just found your channel about a month ago and i love your videos!!!
For some reason my dialup worked okay on this game. Evident by my many wins. Damn it was fun.
@gypsyspirit2510 I sir would've been a jealous 12 year old lol!
MCO babyyyy, I haven't even watched yet, I'm just thrilled to see it mentioned! :D I spent far too much time on that game for the year or two I had it.
When I heard about this game around 2012-ish I was devastated that it had simply vanished. And I never saw any videos about it. Now I randomly stumbled upon your video and I'm super impressed, what an incredible game for the time.
Game preservation efforts at always appreciated!
Games are dying slowly and current conservation methods are very unreliable.
That process should be mandatory, they literally render the product you purchased useless. If the game is no longer selling they should just release the server side.
Reminds me how 1 man all these years later is trying to reverse engineer the maatrix online or the ongoing project to revive city of heros
I do not understand how gaming industry is able to fly under the radar of consumer protection oversight for so long.
Because legalized bribery aka corporate lobbying means that corporations use the politician in their pocket to make laws that give them power.
yosuhara Agreed, When an online game is going to be shut down the people running the servers should be forced to make all the server code open source so people can keep it going.
I was so dissappointed when mco went offline. Best car game ever made.
The Supra and Eclipse.. Let me tell you a little story... So a little movie came out in 2001 called The Fast and the Furious. What were the two hero cars of that movie? An Eclipse and a Supra. So MCO was getting stale, they didnt want to update it, no new cars, pay to win wasnt a thought of thing yet ect, so to test if the gamers wanted muscle cars or tuners, they used MCO as a guinea pig, injecting the car bodies in to see what would happen. Well...Since we hadnt had new cars in a very long time, they got bought by literally everyone. The hard core racers loved them because they were light and had a lower co efficient of drag, and the kids bought them because duh, imports. EA missread this data as, nobody wants muscle cars, and scrapped MCO for Underground. Thats it, it sucks, we wanted more old cars, tracks and an updated c=game engine, but were scrapped in the import craze.
I remember a huge outcry on the forums when they first announced they'd be bringing in modern imports, too. People were ticked off.
meet the new EA,same as the old EA
@@axessdenyd That is correct. Only the devs sympathised with us, but they couldnt do anything about it.
@@axessdenyd What a bunch of babies. It sucks they scrapped muscle cars entirely, but why such an outcry about imports?
Hey, don't ask me to defend someone else's outrage.
Thanks for bringing some spotlight to this! There's a guy trying to make a working server from scratch to really revive this game! If you know how to code Java/Prettier please consider helping out!
Github.com/drazisil/mco-server
This really deserves more attention. With some good coders this game could be revived for so many people to enjoy again.
Hell yes, get it on, I miss this game so much.
Is anybody still working on the server?
@@tona6g72 update dates as recent as 6 days ago
I've been hearing this for 10 years. I'll believe it when I see it.
You could fully customize your car changing motor completely out of them painting them you can pretty much do whatever you can possibly think of also car and part auctions was a good game and better than most of the car games
better than all the car games in my opinion
My absolute FAVORITE game of all time! Used to love buying individual parts to upgrade cars. My brother and I spent forever playing day and night. Getting the rare parts when they popped up in the shop was insane! People actually bought and sold game currency on ebay for it! I hope I can get at least this much to play again!!! Thanx for this!
"race against thousands on internet"
It was.
And it was beautiful.
Motor City Online was like most driving MMOs, with many players and environments to go around.
@@-Marbal- IIRC, there was 4 different server/worlds in MCO.....
I played this game from its release. It had some of the most detailed upgrade paths. every part of the engine was upgraded. And the combos you chose made a difference! pistons, cams spark plugs, heads etc. then as you progress you could add blowers etc. plus trans suspension tires body etc all upgraded and it was based on cars from the 30s through the 80s so it was amazing.. kind of dated but amazing game!!
This was a great game. I played it until the servers went offline. They also had a plug-in at the time to play your MP3s in game.
mp3s! yes I forgot about that... it was its own radio station iirc.
I'm so glad to see this video. I tried and tried to get this running in offline mode a few months ago.Glad to see it is possible after all. Thanks for the upload!!!
I played this game online for some time before the servers were closed and it was great! after a few races a nice guy gave me a car that I could customize and be competitive, at least for the little that lasted.
Ahh every time I see your XP desktops with those game icons, I get a nostalgia boost that temps me to load them back up myself. Thanks for the continuous content, Clint!
LGR, channelling the spirit of TotalBiscuit over the options menu :D
RIP
A full retrospect of this would be killer! I’ve always thought that this was High Stakes, but in an open world and online, but this looks freaking amazing! Great video as usual, Clint.
We're in the same boat LGR! This is my first time seeing this game. Back in the late 90's I was obsessed with NFS games but MCO was really out of reach. My family can't afford a fast internet connection at that time.
Great video. It just makes me sad that the NFS series will never be like this. The race tracks were really creative back then. It was like a theme ride. Today NFS race tracks are bland and boring. If EA is really serious in bringing this franchise back to life they need to bring back themed tracks.
Clint, thank you for posting this up. Back in 2001 I had a subscription to this game (after a lot of parent convincing), and it was amazing. There were other modes in the game like drag racing, and a ton of options for car customization. You earned money by racing, and in turn used that to modify your car.
This game was SO DAMN AMAZING!!! The auction house was so much fun.buliding your entire engines from the pistons and rods blocks heads valves ooooo it was so addicting..
My buddies and i would tag team this game. for days and weeks at a time it was running.
It was completely worth the monthly subscription..
It started to lose its appeal when they added in the newer cars like the supra tho.
I love it, you must have seen my comment on a prior video you did, thank you for the review LGR!
Ross Scott will be happy to hear about this one.
I STILL have this CD, absolutely LOVED this game.
You KNOW there were a lot of arguments on wich camera settings got you the bigest competative advantage!
Yep.
This was the best car game I have ever played. The car builds were insane, I remember selling car setups for in-game money. You could choose engine compression, cam size, carbs, heads, rear gear ratio, transmission, springs, shocks, all brake components. If your car was not set up right, you would get destroyed in races. I was in a club called "Tin Indians", we were a bunch of Pontiac fans. We would also go into the file and change the car skins, like making a general lee and all types of special paint, only the person that changed their files could see it, but it was still amazing. The car and part auction were also amazing, once in a while, rare parts and paint schemes would pop up. The auction was also a great way to make money, I would get up at a certain time in the am when servers had fewer people and watch the auctions, buy special parts and then just relist them for more money.
Thanks for the video, this game is dearly missed
These types of games like Burnout were always fun.
FACT
I played this game religiously and was very upset when EA shut it down and honestly their hasn’t been a game like it. I was surprised that no one ever picked it up. Thanks for doing the blast from the past!!
Seeing this video reminds me of the successor of this game...need for speed world,racing MMO for PC xD not sure if it's still available but it's a thing I use to be on a lot back in the days also dunno if you ever play it but yeah it's freaking fun and it's open world
The game was officially shut down a few years back. There is now an open-source recreated server Soapbox Racing World, which has issues with online races, but open world and bot races work fine. Oh friend list doesn't work either.
@@SianaGearz Everything works now, with some bugs, PL server works fine.
I played this game all the time back in the day. I was in a fairly large racing club as well. The customization of the cars, the officially licensed parts, the community feel, seeing you car pull up to the diner in the lobby if you were high enough in the ranking. The game was pure awesome back in the day. The racing itself was really only one half of the experience. It really is too bad this "hack" doesn't show off the other half. Every online racing game I play, even today, makes me miss MCO greatly. I'll definitely be installing this - I still have my MCO CD! :)
With your windows XP machine built now you should check out Hot Rod: American Street Drag. My friends and I would play for hours after school
aah i was searching for this comment !
Racing in MCO was really only a fraction of the fun. There was as great, friendly community, and the car customization was bananas.
You are playing like Carmagedon, i hope someone make a remaster of this thing.
I remember being on Need for Speed message boards back during the Underground era and I heard this game talked about so much there. But I think this is the first time I've ever seen footage of this lost treasure, so thank you for this! (Also, if this released in 2001, I guess it explains the gap year between Porsche Unleashed and Hot Pursuit II, assuming the same teams worked on these three games. Because before HPII, NFS was a yearly franchise).
Ross Scott is losing his shit right now.
I love that hairy man
I was absolutely in love with MCO when it released. I was heartbroken when it went offline. A great taste of Electronic Arts screwing over it's customers to protect it's worthless IP. Unfortunately, the real magic of this game was the menus, classifieds, and modification portions. There was nothing like racing for pinks on the drag strip.
From the title I would assume Ross Scott would be interested in this video.
Hi human
Hello fellow human
Since we're talking about older Need for Speed like titles here, I'll just put this comment here. I've dug up an old demo of NFS3 on the internet which is different from the regular one and also happens to be a demo I played back in the day. You race in Rocky Pass like in the previous one, but instead of Corvettes, here you race with Lambo Countach(with an engine sound of one from PS1 if I'm right). What's interesting about it how there are several different things that are actually borrowed from the PS1 release and even NFS2. For example the music is present, the flyby to your car is the same as the one in NFS2 for the knockout race, race countdown is the same as in NFS2/3 on ps1 with the same flying numbers and letters, police declare they're in pursuit of a Lamborghini instead of a Countach, the police speak on their police speaker while chasing you which is present in a PS1 version and cops have a different sound while ticketing/busting you. There might be more, but that's all I can remember from the demo i continuously played from my computer magazine's demo disc. Also I might be wrong, but this game could only be played in software render, as I tried playing on D3D and it didn't run. If anyone's interested, I can upload it and link it as well.
EDIT: I had tried it on my Win7 64bit laptop and it runs smoothly on a wide screen and it isn't even stretched. The only problem I came across was the mild sound cracking during the gameplay, but nothing too serious. Also the graphics are set to minimum and from what I can see, it doesn't look too different from the final release's software mode.
Now onto the newfound differences between this and a final version:
- Countach you're driving actually leans while steering and steering seems more responsive but still stiff
- the cops are all shown on the map as pink spots on the minimap and also, they have a significantly unfair rubberband. They can be dodged to prevent them from ticketing/busting.
- if you enable the list of racers, you and your rival will be shown just below the upper HUD(below the speedometer).
Another EDIT: Tried to run the game again and the screen messes up badly. After this I had tried to run it in d3d mode. It actually ran without the screen break, but it still lagged in comparison to the first launch. It seems that one run messed up something within my drivers and what not. I actually deleted the file and transfered it from my virtual Win98 again to see if it's only the game's files being corrupted, but it doesn't seem to be the case.. I'll try to figure something out.
Upload the files and send them to GrandTheftAero or the NFS Theories forums. This could be something interesting...
As soon as possible. I'll include both the installation and installed game.
An awful lot of little details scattered around the place - Especially for an online game WITHOUT microtransactions and WITHOUT DLC. How the hell did they afford to make this!? /s
Motor City Online... wow, I remember that one from back in the day, but it had totally slipped my mind until now. Thanks for the nostalgic jogging of the memory, LGR ;)
Wow, Forza Horizon 4 looks like real life. I was like, is LGR gonna show us his real car? On a hill?
Forza, best racing game this gen.
lol hope not drive hill down.
Yes because real life has a tachometer and mini map.
Wait... Your life doesn't?
FH4 is pretty good, better than FH3 by a lot and I drove 25,000 miles in that game
This was the first game I ever bought as a child for PC at age 12, and luckily my mother let me use her credit card when we found out it had a monthly subscription after installing on the family PC because there isn't a game to this day that I reminisce about more than MCO. This video really doesn't do the game justice... It honestly only portrays about 15% of the actual game. This game had an entire car catalog of parts. There was no tier 1, 2, 3 upgrades.. You literally had to change every engine and suspension competent individually and each small change would have some type of affect on the car. Literally thousands of different configurations could be had. I remember making page after page of spreadsheets with different builds. An online auction house where you could not only buy and sell cars, but every hour new randomly generated cars would be listed. Some would have rare paint schemes, some fenderless, choptop, convertible or had rare parts. Everything had wear and tear, and had to be replaced at some point or your cars performance would decline. The DEVs were so close with the community too. Every week there would be community held events, made for and by the players in the community, and the DEV team would always donate one off cars (paint/fender combinations) to the winner of these events. Was just such a great time, and iv never been more upset about a game being shut down. I remember when they shut the game down, they offered everyone Ultima Online or The Sims Online... Lols. Not being much of a gamer at all, the very first night I had the game I was scammed out of my rusty noob starter car and I remember spending the next 3 days not knowing what to do, before someone showed me the sponsored car races, where you didn't need your own car to race in. SO MUCH FUN.
Clint, have you ever played Street Legal Racing: Redline? Incredible early 2000s game, still unmatched in terms of gameplay today.
It's more popular than ever now thanks to the Steam re-release but I'd love to see LGR cover it :)
Played this game from launch to close, nothing to this day compares to this game. The online auction for parts and cars was second to none. You could bet money or pinks in drag races, or shoot for big bucks by getting fastest lap each week against 1000s of other players. No game compares to this day, is all I can say. RIP
12:12 NFS Carmageddon style :-D
I loved this game. The best part is how you could build the car ground up and it would change the feel of the car considerably. The 57 vette was the best from what I remember. You can build a custom engine with every part. Different camshaft, fuel injectors, carburetors, cylinder heads, suspension parts, brakes, wheels, etc... on and on, and the parts store would have different parts. You could drag race for pink slips. This game was fantastic and the monthly cost was pricey for its time. but those who played loved it. You could swap engines into different cars. Great vid some nostalgia for sure.
Wonder if this game would’ve gotten ported to the Dreamcast if EA supported the console
I played so much of this game when i was young. it laid the ground work for my love of pc gaming and racing. I played in the morning before school then at 3 when i got home i would play til 10 at night for months on end. I still have my copy. Go in peace and drive like hell!
Could you please do a video on Drift City? That was a big part of my childhood
Omg me too i was about to comment that myself it was amazing!
Is it still alive? I haven't checked in a while.
Caro nope, I wish
Carbon Gaming LINK. NOW.
I did see SomeOrdinaryGaming do a video about it, but he didn't give a link.
This game was ahead of its time in quite a few ways. Nice!
yeah, this is why game devs shouldnt be allowed to kill games and litterely remove something you payed for.
you say devs like this wasn't an executive decision made by some guy in a suit who has never touched an unfinished game before
There was nothing quite like it at the time. I played in the City Center Server. It was a total grind to earn money and special paint jobs (decal, bad ass, and rust) or chop top, convertible versions would randomly show up in the auctions. I mainly liked collecting the rare paint cars and still have screenshots from playing. The ‘64 mustang and Vette were the best cars until the Supra was available. It went downhill after that. You could also create, join clubs and hang out with friends. It was a joy to play back in the early 2000s. Also, check out the “Bad Ass” paint for the ‘69 Charger.
Personality. Something this newer era of racing games from the 7th and 8th gen consoles seem to lack
the game was amazing, you could race for pinks drag racing or even track racing. You won special parts in pvp track races, there were auctions on special cars and parts, there were levels that would go up giving you higher amounts of allowance every week or so, it was an awesome game and I think it needs to come back from the dead asap
so MCO had RTX before nvidia?
*IMPRESSIVE*
This game was fantastic. It's cool that you can still race but there was so much more to the game. You could swap pretty much any part of the drive line out, change pistons, cam, engine blocks, rear end differentials, shocks, tires etc.. There were rare versions of the cars, convertibles, runningboard less, fenderless, chopped tops, rare paint schemes. You could race tracks like you were or drag race for in game currency or pink slips. You started off with a rust bucket and race your way to fixing up your car up or winning/ buying newer ones. It was geared toward the 30s-70s muscle/hot rod cars. Then EA released a patch that added a couple newer cars, Mitsubishi Eclipse and Toyota Supera I assume trying to get a younger crowd interested. When EA decided to pull the plug they offered Ultima Online or one of The Sims games as compensation. I'm still salty they gave up on MCO. MCO was the greatest racing game of all! #MotorCityOnline2 Make it happen!
Could you imagen playing Carmageddon 2 with these levels and this amount of level customizability? (The weathers, choosing Day or Night variants, ect.)
Also a lot of tracks, playable driving the route opposite direction and/or mirroring so each track can be run four ways.
ABSOLUTELY LOVED this game. It killed me that they killed it. Either way, I made screenshots of all my cars If you're interested in seeing / using for an upcoming retrospective. I also have a few screenshots from the beta. Thank you SOO much for bringing this patch to my attention. Will definitely be replaying & rebuilding my old cars!
I swear the announcer sounded like Johnny Sins 😂😂
It wouldn't surprise me at all if it was.
I loved that damn game. I was totally bummed when they shut it down and it didn't make sense to me at the time, because it was still an active game.
Haven't thought about it in almost 20 years. Thanks for the memory rerun!
"grind the clutch"
steazye lol
It was really ahead of its time, You could race for pink slips you could buy and sell and trade upgrade parts and cars, You could also raise for money and you would get special cars during holidays and your birthday
had my hopes up reading the title and the description, watched the video and i'm disappointed, it's arcade style. this is not MCO at all, and there has never been another racing game like it since, and if you were one of the original MCO player's you know damn well what i'm talking about. Those hours and hours of part by part trying to build your car and testing it.
This is the best we can do right now. Unless you think you can do better and reverse engineer the codeand create a server, i wouldn't be complaining.
In the game you can do everything to the cars not just motors but pistons,cams, coolers, superchargers, didernt transmissions, tires and blah blahThis is the one the best games I have played online. The car modding was awesome. And they had a radio DJ playing music in game and you could request songs.
NEVER CLICKED A NONFICTION SO FAST
Because screw fiction
Yeah, fiction sucks!!!
Yeah man! Fuck fiction!
I miss that game so bad! Still one of my top 10 favorite racing games of all time
Just like EA games killed my 2 favorite games like battlefield 2 & Battlefield 2142 ...grrr
BF2 is playable on single player, 2142 on the other hand....
@@Tenzima True but it just isn't the same though 😣
I was playin Battlefield Heroes the night EA pulled the servers....
Didn't 2142 also have ofline? I remember playing that at a friends house once. I know 1942 and Vietnam had ofline.
You mentioned midnight club and I instantly got depressed. I was washed away to midnight club 2 and all of the nostalgia there was from racing motorcycles past the glass pyramids in Paris or jumping a huge bridge in Tokyo. And now I don't have it.
I've been getting this feeling a lot lately in regards to gaming. It's really getting to me.
This has been bothering my mind for a few years now, does anybody know the name of a racing game from the early 2000s where you race with regular cars but you have pickups like in Mario Kart (snowballs, force field, gaint front bumper etc)?
Blur does that, though it's released more recently: 2010
LGR yeah this seems to be right (just look’t at a clip) it's just that I remember it to be more Vivid in color and the tracks had a lot of jumps and shortcuts🤔...and like I said, early 2000s so it was probably on the PS2 or early days of Xbox 360
This is probably way off but I can only think of the game Twisted Metal, although I doubt it.
...Maybe CTR: Crash Team Racing
Or Road Trip Adventure
Rollcage?
MrMateczko sadly none of them
I absolutely loved this game. The races are just scratching the surface of the full game. The online aspecct of it, modding your car with different parts, nos!, drag racing, racing for pinks, betting, auctions!!, the old timey music radio stations in the menus, chatting with other car people/gamers. It was all so amazing. I really got my hopes up around 2010 -2011 when Motor World Online (MCO clone) was in development and releasing gameplay videos that looked like a updated version of MCO. It had a lot of potential but it seems like it has also died. Will they ever replace this?