Midnight Club | (Almost) Full Series Review
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
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Even though I'm known to enjoy racing games from time to time, Midnight Club had always evaded my attention. With the massive following these games have garnered over the years, I think it's time to see what all of the fuss was about.
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0:00 Intro
3:00 Midnight Club LA when!?
3:37 Midnight Club Street Racing
17:00 Midnight Club II
35:38 Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition - Ігри
I miss Midnight Club. 2 had such fantastically challenging tracks and amusing cartoon characters, 3 had an amazing career progression and pacing, and LA's level of immersion is still unmatched in some aspects. Though 2's handling is a bit stiff at times and some map sections are unnecessarily cluttered, 3's tracks are a bit simple at times, and LA's tracks are sometimes basically just long straights and the progression is boring. They're all great games, but also come with their own unique ups and downs. I guess 1 also exists, but eh..
The peds in MC3 were probably given the Driver treatment due to the licensed cars. Even in the wild west of videogames that was 2005 I don't think car manufacturers were very keen on their products being portrayed as crowd killers.
small tip on mc2: if you're not sure whether a checkpoint is below or above, check the minimap; if the checkpoint is above an existing road it will be marked with a white circle around the icon
One thing that can put everything into perspective is that Midnight Club is like an edgier spiritual successor to Midtown Madness. It's a bit confusing that Angel Studio fumbled with Midnight Club 1 after their excellent Midtown Madness 2, but the Midtown's arcade racing DNA is still present up to MC:LA, which is impressive (you can even argue that GTA V's street racing still carries that same DNA).
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27:57 actually, the game does tell you when the checkpoint is on a street level and when it's on an elevated area. The white outline around the circle on the minimap means the point is on an elevated area and the normal circle is on street level.
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Also you should have played dub edition remix
another revolutionary street racing game genre would be the tokyo xtreme racer
You should use the Xenia Canary emulator for the Xbox 360 for Midnight Club La , it's better than the PS3 emulator .
I've seen multiple racing game fans play MC2 for the first time in the past few years and you're the only person I've heard say the handling could be better lol. I know a few people who prefer MC2's handling to MC3 and LA even.
Bro out here making literal documentaries. Love it, keep em coming
Funny, because I mostly remember the random order races in MCII from when I played it as a kid, you just needed to know shortcuts on maps. Especially in multiplayer it was so much fun. And I played on keyboard. Skill issue!
Did you know in Midnight Club 2 there are cheats that allow you to shoot machine guns, and missiles. I am not sure why this is even a thing. I used to play split screen with my brother and shoot at each other.
Also another fantastic video!
Do they actually do anything?
@@Hidden_lvl Machine guns deal so much damage they can wreck a car very quickly, even if one were to use the cheat code Immortal. Missiles create explosions that create enough force to lift cars off the ground, and when spammed you can send a bus over a railing. Used to send busses into the river back when I was a kid.
me and my brother would pretend we were playing call of duty against each other like that, lol. ( i was too young to own cod)
47:03 They didn't. But MC3's variants of them are fairly straight forward. Only one or two might require some staring at the map before you figure out a good route. They don't really demand map knowledge, especially since the maps themselves are fairly straight forward. While that makes the races flow faster, it does remove the satisfaction of properly learning the tracks that MC2 offered. And LA only made race layouts even easier to the point map knowledge is rarely a factor.
Also there's something that the video made me wonder: Did you ever use the map button? On d-pad up brings over a full map, which is quite useful for getting a better idea of where the checkpoints are and where they're headed. You've only ever mentioned the minimap, so I can't help but wonder this. 3 and LA bring up a pause menu map with the select too.
39:37 wdym you don't like "Brain 35 Only A Illusion Non Vocal Cut - Michael Da Brain" or all of the bangers from Thomas Bangalter?! But unironically, I like the "Silverscreen (Shower Scene) - Felix Da Housecat"
He also said MC2 was nothing but rap. There might only be around 5 tracks that are rap songs the rest are trance, techno, and acid base. It was mainly an edm track list
in MC3 the unorder races where still a thing, and to finish the career base story yu needed to do atleast 3 unorder races, 1 in atlanta, 2 in detroit, NPCs will have cars more upgraded than yours, even using cars from higher classes to keep with you (like when you get the class B cars they go with the class A that are already going at their max bcause cant get more upgrades than nitro), Rawr is better used as an offensive manuver to take other drivers than the trafic, using it to clear trafic can make actually worse bcause they go very ramdom, AIs adapt to your driving, if you drive clean they have a hard time keeping up with you (until they get the faster cars than yours) making errors like crashing trafic, objects, slamming into walls) makes them catch you fast, they will try to match your speed and max speed on your car, and only get faster when they use nitros, but the speed thing is exploitablo bcause when you go full stop you can see them all slam into their brakes, and if you have an insane acceleration better than them, they will loose more than you, is not a easy game, but after playing for years and still continue now i hav notice many things like it (and yeah, the paradox lmao XD, always baffle me how useless is the Zone for the sport bikes, on the cars is more pasable), MC3 and LA are my most played and fav games, both way diferent, glad you doing LA separated to this 3, bcause is just way diferent on how it feels, ill be waiting on that LA review
Not entirely true, many (at least half of the) times the game gives random races
And if you have remix version you will have 4 unordered races in Tokyo
Probably can't hit pedestrians anymore because the cars in MCIII have name branding on them. Its probably also the reason the police have such aggressive AI - as a deterrent against real world street racing wit the brands on the cars.
I think to rework agro, it's meter is built up by getting near misses with traffic, and with zone it is filled up with drifting while roar is built up by speed
29:28 you can actually drive under the trucks trailer
Awesome works Man. I missed racing in midnight club
When you talked about the difficulty in Midnight Club 2 it seems like you completely disregarded Paris and Tokyo where the difficulty skyrockets out of nowhere.
I often beat LA with the intro vehicle. I prided myself in taking tight race lines and clean racing.
As soon as Paris hits, the degeneracy and hazards to all involved begins 💀
Thank you for giving this game justice with this well made video.
good job on this video, only ever played midnight club 3, but damn that game was great
Just found your channel. The Midnight Club series is my favorite arcade racing series of all time. Having grown up a driving game fan, when the first MC game came out, it was great to have an open world racing game finally done right. Need for speed was cool but i was bored of just driving in a straight line so that series never interested me. R* needs to bring this franchise back ASAP
I remember getting Midnight club 2 on ps2 and fell in love with it, the story was sorta like f&f and each character had its own theme, car and race style, Midnight club 3 was the peak of the series and the car customization and music was just fantastic, Midnight club l.a was sort of a mixed bag, the story was alright but it lacked alot cars and bikes, the soundtrack was okay, but even with its flaws it had a huge map and it introduced livery editor which allowed you to customize cars anyway you like, all in all the Midnight club series was fun but it was sadly let go in favor of gta online
Thank you! That was great
what's the song briefly playing at 17:00 ? I need to know so bad
bro got me smiling when Midnnight Club 3 was loading up, haven't seen that shit in years. such a nice nostalgia hit 💪💪
for midnight Club 2 on PC u have to manually map tha controls on main menu and options! which i had to do with alot of older PC racing games back in tha day
I never played the first game, but I could tell just by looking that it certainly has "first game in the series" problems. Midnight Club 2 was a massive leap over this! And would you believe that as much as I enjoyed that game, I never beat it?
23:38 I did hate trying to follow rivals to the starting line for this reason. The game was still fun despite it's trial-and-error difficulty, though
I was planning to play MC1, well now at least I know that is better to find all unlocked save, play for 2-3 hours, then ditch it. The MC2 I finished with keyboard, it was crazy :D
what is that sound effect at 52:19, i know it from somewhere but just can't figure out from where
Sounds like it comes from the tony hawk games whenever you perform a trick
@@SmokeKillaz13 YES, YOU'RE RIGHT, it's the sound from when you do one of those special tricks, thank you!
So here's the thing, in midnight club 3 the ai does have slip stream turbo. So it's a mix of both rubber band and them just drafting you that's why you see little wind streams coming from your car that's the ai drafting you
The whole thing in MC2 with the music being set when you start a race was to give a more distinct feeling of each character and car. Personality.
Sure, it's annoying if you're not into the music, but it gives the game more character than many modern streamlined/cookiecutter racing games. In fact, many of it's 'flaws' gave it more charm/distinctness.
Which is why I personally was disappointed with the mainstream direction they started to go in starting in MC3.
2 was sort of like the 'Dark Souls' of racing games. Also, you were just really good on bikes lol, or must be very different in feeling compared to on controller.
The thematics in MC1 and 2 are still present in 3.
odd question but what's the font you used in the thumbnail?
The sentence "I was already bikepilled" sent me, and I don't know why...
I dont get your emulation issues on MC3, the game plays perfectly, you really shoulda upscaled the game and used vulkan, maybe messed around more with settings like anisoptropic filtering, you could've also used the 60 fps and 16:9 patches
also please tell me you used the nightly version of pcsx2
it's some very old pcsx2 version he's playing on
half-screen fix that fixes the headlights has been on by default for a long time by now, along with widescreen fix i think (it's just a simple toggle in settings anyways)
That’s weird that you had trouble with mc3. I thought it was a breeze compared to 2. But I didn’t know about the wheelie speed thing either
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I shared your same sentiment regarding the first 2 games at first. Although, after finishing and replaying both a few times, I was able to learn the maps and races properly, as well as getting comfortable with the handling models that are stark differences from the 3rd and 4th iteration.
A couple years ago I also played through all Midnight Club Games (only previously playing the 4th game), and found that Midnight Club 2 was my favourite. Other games followed in this order: MC LA, MC Street Racing, MC 3.
Midnight Club 3 has the same problems as Underground 2 for me in that it is too repetitive. I simply got bored of the game. On top of the poor rubber banding AI and terrible frame rate it became my least favourite of the series.
I think I've just grown to like these more simplistic games where you complete an objective and just move on. I have grown tired of the constant grind in any game of any genre over the years.
Midnight Club la is really good
OMG! I beat this game on the keyboard!(MC2) Since then I have been popular with girls, they love the way I “work” with my fingers
There’s no reason for them to ever make another midnight club game as everything that made the midnight club series unique has been implemented into grand theft auto. There will never be another stand alone midnight club game. It would just become a DLC to GTA’s online component, the same way they did with all of their other IPs from manhunt to smugglers run.
This series was fucking sick and tbh is still the best street racing game ever made for me, cant wait for the LA video, that one and 3 DUB edition were my favorites.
Also GET A BETTER FUCKING MIC MAAAAN feel like im discussing games in a mw2 lobby
11:38 Street Racing is weirdly obtuse how to progress which is another issue - you have to unlock cars with pink slip races which you have to manually call racers for
Best racing game even today
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Ah shit, another hour long video. RUSE review when?
I’m running mc3 on pcsx2 emulator and it’s running great
20:05 Use Handbrake bro. Fishtail
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I gotta say Midnight Club 3 was the only game that had a neck and neck competition with Most wanted 05. I finished mw 05 about 20 to 30 times but never got a chance to play Midnight Club 3. Now, I think Mc3 is better than Mw 05
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You say that the bikes in midnight Club two are broken... And I don't exactly disagree, but this is how they're broken for me: The handling is terrible! It was way too easy for me to crash all the time, so I just stuck to the cars
your experience with midnight club 2's difficulty is baffling to say the least. id easily consider it the hardest racing game ive ever played, and ive played a LOT of them. the last couple racers in tokyo and the world champ are just insane and i fully came here expecting a first-timer's rant about how torturously, brutally difficult they are, to which i would gleefully revel in your pain... but you didnt even mention them! midnight club 3 isnt exactly an easy game but its a pleasant sunday drive in comparison.
but then ive never used the bikes, since i just dont enjoy riding them as much as driving a car, so i kinda ignored their existence. are they really THAT broken that they even trivialize the final boss's races? seems like it kinda ruined the game. its funny too because i also watched another review of these games where the reviewer had the opposite experience and instead ruined mc3's difficulty by using bikes the entire time and was like "wtf why is this game so easy compared to mc2"
In the nicest way possible, it seems that most of your complaints of MCII are skill based. 29:57 you can beat all LA with the base car 😂.
And all the scripted “random bullshit” turns the races more into a puzzle than a straight forward race. Half the fun was learning the track and finding short cuts.
Gran Turismo 3, Burnout 3 and Midnight Club 3 = the holy triforce of PS2 racing games in my opinion. I love Most Wanted, though the PS2 version is trash, so I always consider that a 360/PC game. My first streat racing game was Underground and I have a lot of nostalgia for it, though outside of the racing and the customization, though only being able to have one career car and the lack of cars hurt it for me. I cannot stand the racing in Underground 2, it feels slow and the tracks have very little happening in them.
Gran Turismo 4 isn't fun to me, and even though it can be played in HD on the system, the textures and details on track are horrible to compensate. There's also an insane amount of filler in my opinion, I get it, the more the better for some people, though I like to 100% games and I like them to eventually end. So this is all just my opinion lmao.
Make a video about men of war
Holy crap, there’s so much wrong with your midnight club 3 review that im gonna bother writing an essay trying to correct everything you said about the game.
But one thing im gonna say is to try beating the game before reviewing it or don’t review at all.
Hey have you ever tried men of war (the original one of 2009, not assault squad)? I think you should try it because it's a very nice game in my opinion but beware, some parts of the game REALLY require micromanaging
Bad review, MC2 and 3 were awesome
You definitely should have tried to play Midnight Club 2 on the PS2, or at the very least, the original Xbox. PC ports back then were ass! (AVGN voice)
if you ain't playing racing games with a negcon why bother
Need for speed is the most overrated racing game of all time, midnight club is better in every single way to me
Could you please put on some free de-esser/multiband compressor for higher ends and highpass filter/eq for lower ends on your voice if you can't get a better mic? My ears really hurt after 30 minutes.
The first game looks exactly like Midtown Madness... actually, you could have reviewed these instead, and started with those, since that's the true start of this series.
10:55 They managed to do circuits in Midtown madness, so no, the devs knew what they were doing, and these sort of races are pretty good for using the knowledge you've got from exploring the map. That's why map knowledge is so important.
22:00 Weirdly enough I never had this problem. I'm a PC only player, always have been *because poor lol), and I didn't really have a problem with playing Midnight Club 2. Just tap the keys fast enough.
Honestly, I do like your videos.
But your research on world in Conflict was lackluster and it shall haunt you.
Unless you make a multiplayer video of it too (I wouldn't mind nukin- helping you out)