Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fast and Furious!!
Late night fun or under ground cult, this is the story behind Midnight Club. Suped up cars racing the night streets. Causing havok at 150 mph. With cops on their tail and cars flying through the air, it's your quest to obtain the most cars and become Midnight Club champ. So don't hesitate to hold down the accelerator, it's a close finish for first. This game takes all the best elements of such games as Driver or Need for Speed and brings them to the forefront of the PS2 library in Midnight Club Street Racing. While the much anticipated Gran Turismo 3 focuses on track racing and car performance, this game is concerned with avoiding the law, keeping your car from getting totalled and beating those trash talking racers (computer or friends). I like the this game. It's street racing at it's best. It should come with a disclaimer, "Please, do not try this at home" but hopefully no one is immitating this game on the streets for real. Graphics are good, the two cities you race on (New York and London) are hugh and the cars you can select from are good. Capture the flag is great. It should have come with race editor. Maybe let you course out your own races for you and your friends to play. All and all, it's a great game and I recommend it to any Driving Game fans. Why is it one away from a 5 star rating, you ask? Because I believe they could have done more to this game, but then I guess what would do for a sequel, huh? I guess they figure (like most game makers) they should only give a consumer so much, so they can make more money for future games. A perfect game? Is there such a thing?
Rating: - I bought it, I want to keep it
Ok, so you can see this has gotten mixed reviews. Dailyradar.com and ign.com both liked it. Well I was actually on the wild side, bought it without even renting it. Listen carefully. The graphics are not nearly the potential that the ps2 can perform, the control is nothing ordinary and the game is quite similar to Driver concept. So why give it 4 stars? My friend and I played the capture the flag level, and it was 2 hours before we stopped. Now don't you dare classify this as a racing game. If you want a true racing game, wait for Grand Turismo 3. This is more of a chase game. It has a police chase section similar to Need for Speed and Driver. The maps of New York and London are amazing. I have been to New York and it is very much to scale. You recognize many of the familar spots. You play the capture the flag feature with a friend, and 3 CPU opponents, you will be very entertained. The replay value on this is quite good. This is certainly one I would get.
Rating: - Great Game but not Perfect
The learning curve on this game isn't that high so it makes it easy to just pick up and start playing. The physics are at just the right level of realism. They aren't as realistic as Grand Tourismo but I actually prefer them not as realistic as that. The maps of the cities are huge with lots of secrets here and there. The two player capture the flag mode is great. My friend and I play it for hours on end. There is a cruise mode which is fun to just drive around and see how fast you can get your car going in the middle of New York. The career mode is at just the right difficulty. All of the races are possible to defeat but it may require a flawless run. You can unlock cars and drive as patrol cars, ice cream trucks, buses (a double decker one too), and, my favorite, a modified taxi with a snow plow on the end. That makes pushing cars around a blast. Now I will go off on things I don't like about the game. Sometimes the game can't keep up with painting the buildings as they come up. Of course, that could be because I was going 170 MPH but you would think that the playstation 2 would have enough power to be able to do this correctly. I miss a 4 player mode. Granted, I can only imagine at how poorly the buildings would be painted if there were 4 seperate screens to be painting at the same time. I wish there were more people and cars on the road. I mean, it is New York. The city that never sleeps. Sometimes I am lucky to see a whopping 5 people in Times Square. I want crowds of people to drive through and watch them fly over my car. I know that this game is not carmegedon but I wish the people would splatter instead of just rolling up and over my car. As you can see, these complaints aren't that bad but I couldn't give it 5 stars because of them. Maybe 4 1/2 stars if they would let me.
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