Análise - Review - Midtown madness

- Hello! Today's video is about Midtown Madness I bought it 8 years ago in a department store in another point of the city It's produced by Ubisoft, also in charge of Assassins Creed franchise - Why did I decide to review this game? - Because I wanted to and also I've downloaded the second game recently so I dediced to make a full review of this franchise not being sold currently anywhere and show you in case you don't know it! - Back in 2004 I was splitted between this game and Nicktoons Racing which I've reviewed in another video - As Nicktoons Racing demanded 3D videocard board as announced on front cape, - I had no other option than buying Midtown Madness as there was no 3D videocard on my old PC - So Let's review Midtown Madness 1 - Midtown Madness is a franchise that you don't need to park on red lights or respect the traffic rules. - It's all about making shortcuts to get to desired point the fastest possible - This is Chicago Edition, featuring lot of sightseeing points to be seen as Sears Towers, currently known as Willis Tower [Kenan and Kel footage] - Get into Planetarium, stop by former Meggy Field Airport, Aquarium, Inside Soldier Field, Chinatown and specially go under the Elevated Train Station - There are 10 cars at all, 5 of them are locked to unlock them you must be sucessful at such game modes as Blitz mode - a time trial, Checkpoint Mode going from a point to another point and Circuit Mode which is the main mode where it's worth making shortcuts to achieve 1st place - Unlocked Cars range from Old Mustangs to City Bus - Unfortunately there are few camera views as 3rd person view, dashboard view, which despite not being as perfect as GT5 premium cars (it's more likely to 1996's The Need for Speed), if at least GT5 could offer similar dashboard to standard cars it'd be much better than the current silhouette. - Besides, there is Trill Cam and Wide Cam unfortunately there is neither more camera views nor I'm still getting to the wide cam's point - Was Microsoft's intention to predict multimonitor option? - Graphics must be better than what you're watching now unfortunaly it couldn't recognize my videocard, so the render was set to software rather then hardware resulting this. - Sounds are average and the most difficult is gathered to unlock the fastest car in the game: Panoz GTR - To do that you must clear the game on Pro level which unlike Amateur that you must finish at top 3 to advance level, it's necessary to win races - In spite of not being a long term game, it offers some challenge and what's more: it's funny to be chasen by the police on cruise mode. - A final grade: B+ - Midtown Madness 2 was released an year later. Let's check the main differences: - First of all, there is Crash Course or should I say Pain in the ***? - It's consisted by some tasks to be either a London taxi driver, making stereotypic mission as following another car, 180 reverse, jumping through boat till ... dying in the sea! - Common in Midtown Madness, it even deserves a stamp [Stamp Midtown Madness of Craziness] ... or you can attent to San Francisco mission running away from the police, jumping to parked ship or training to be a stunt performer going over the checkpoint faster than 50mph. - This mission requires tons of attempts, however as we're experts like a boss, we made it. - Check it out. - I don't know it's due to the fact I downloaded this on The Pirate Bay or some other reason for not having an opening CG. - A mistake being repeated again since the first game - Although opening CGs isn't that relevant, we made ours. [A criticism about dubbing - ignore that] - In case I haven't mentioned, there are two cities - Oh, I mentioned that on Crash Course! - Microsoft must think we're idiots: those cities are relatively small. - Both altogether is the same of Chicago size area on previews game - In London, by the way, you may visit subways with your car! - The number of cars was increased. 9 cars from MM1 are unlocked not to mention new cars as London City Bus and Mini Cooper - Unlike the first game, it's not being told how to unlock them - Is it not being told? LOOK it's right here: someone here should make new glasses! - Graphics were improved: now the resolution is up to 1440x900, much higher than 2000's standards when there were no 16:9 screens. - If you use a patch, you'll play in even higher resolutions. - Unfortunately, though, dashboard are limited to 4:3 resolution in most of cars similar to some CGs on TV. [demonstrating 4:3 CGs on TV] - Checkpoint, Circuit and Blitz races are back better than ever and completing them, you'll win new paint jobs and cars. - You are also able to hack it, installing new cars. - There is no such pleasure than cruising the Golden Gate Bridge onboard in a Chevette or traveling in time on a Delorean in London. - As difficult level are much higher due to Crash Course, a much better graphics and considering smaller cities this game deserve nothing less than A- - In 2003 it was released Midtown Madness 3 on Xbox, the first one. However, I don't have it, so let's watch someone's else review. [Full Review on description below] - Now time is over, see you next time, bye!