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  Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (PS2)

  Aalaap Ghag, Apr 30, 2005 1212 hrs IST

  Rice imports, luxury liners, big boys and crotch rockets

  Wide open cities, great sensation of speed, excellent selection of cars, bikes and aftermarket parts

  Performance tuning is not too detailed, not too many character voices and cutscenes, looks good but not too good

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Page 1 - The Race So Far Page 2 - California A**H**** Page 3 - Looks pretty good...

Rockstar Games, the same guys who worked on GTA San Andreas, have pulled out yet another street racer, improving on its predecessor, Midnight Club 2. MC3 has been developed in partnership with DUB Magazine, an automotive lifestyle magazine, who has helped out R* by picking out the cars and the parts that you can use to pimp your puppy in the game.

MC3 fixes another of my problems with U2: a free-er free roaming city. The cities (officially San Diego, Atlanta and Detroit) in MC3 are not only huge and buzzing with activity, they are also wide open and have extra wide roads and tons of ramps and other objects to perform mad stunts off. There are all sorts of cars in the city - cop cars and ambulances and even pedestrians. Unfortunately, you can't run over them! If you park your car around these people, some of them come closer and look at your car from different angles and admire it. Show me some respect, bro, and I may just spare your life!

The roads being so wide and all crisscrossed, there are several different ways to get around buildings even through them - to get to the destination. The races have checkpoints that you have to cross, regardless of how you arrive there. This gives you a lot more freedom than the extremely limited and narrow point to point tracks of U2.





The game has tons of different cars to choose from, and all of them are now licensed official real cars unlike the previous Midnight Club. You have the standard ration of rice rockets like the Mitsubishis and the Toyotas, luxury liners like Lexus and Merc, bigger boys like the Hummer and the Escalade, classics like the '64 Impala and the '70 El Camino SS. And bikes! Aprillas, Ducatis.. Kawasaki Ninja ZX 12RRRR!!!!

The upgrading system is more or less comparable to NFSU1 (the older one).: stock, level 1, level 2 and level 3. There is no dyno, and no way to fine tune your car for a specific race. There are some exclusives like tire profile and width mods, but these don't seem to massively affect the performance or handling of the car. At least not so much that I could notice immediately. The cosmetics department is also more or less the same, with the difference that you can create custom front and rear windshield decals. You can also pick your license plate letters. Mine reads "California A**H***". Overall, NFSU2 offers much more customization than MC3.

Page 1 - The Race So Far Page 2 - California A**H**** Page 3 - Looks pretty good...

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