The handling and damage modelling are equally arcadey, and havenвЂ™t much improved since the original. When you crash into ongoing traffic, it feels more like a bowling ball hitting wooden pins. Hitting obstacles or ramming into buildings will eventually damage your car, but props donвЂ™t have that much mass overall. The gameвЂ™s physics modelling is just as laughable, though it does not claim realism. Multiplayer includes the entertaining вЂњCops and Robbers,вЂќ a game where one (or more) players try to steal gold bars while others are ramming them with cop cars. Some are fixed routes (with shortcuts) while others are free-for-alls through the cities. The Blitz, Checkpoint, and Circuit racing modes are all variations on a theme race along different routes in the cities hitting markers.

You can still use Cruise Mode to do banzai runs around the cities, with little regard for property or human life. The single-player race modes are considerably easier than they were in the first game, though youвЂ™re still stuck with the slightly schizoid computer opponents (which seem to all have very fixed paths through each race) and kamikaze cops that are more hazardous to the denizens of the city than you could ever be (thankfully theyвЂ™re slightly less omnipotent than they were in the first game). Residents, or people that have visited the cities, will be able to pick out all of the major landmarks, such as Coit Tower, the Transamerica Pyramid, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and Trafalgar Square, the Royal Albert Hall and Big Ben in London (but whatвЂ™s up with London cops driving Mustangs?). While not exact replicas, they do a terrific job at conveying the overall flavor of the cities. The cities are superbly rendered, though not in the literal sense individual graphic elements in the game arenвЂ™t particularly impressive, but taken as a whole the overall game is attractive. Twenty drivable vehicles are included (eleven are carryovers from the previous version) and six race types (the single-player вЂњCrash CourseвЂќ is new).

As with the first game, both cities here are nicely built. This time youГўв‚¬в„ўll get to access two cities вЂ“ fly down the hills of San Francisco just like in stunt films or navigate the narrow twisting streets of London. As a sequel to the first game, you will find similar challenges with some new extras thrown in, the biggest change being the increase in real estate. The same game engine is used but a good increase in racing opportunities and a more forgiving difficulty makes this version better. On the whole, Midtown Madness 2 is mostly about expanding the original. Midtown Madness 2 takes racing mayhem to the streets by putting you in two new real world locations to tear up the town.

Some like to blow it up with hand held ordnance, others prefer to cause carnage behind the wheel of an automobile. You probably shouldnвЂ™t drive like this in real life.Дestroying property seems to be a favorite pastime of computer gamers.

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