The small streets allow you to make quick changes in course, but the confusing nature of the city can throw you off easily as well. The two burgs chosen for the game are great foils - the twisty, tiny streets and old world grandeur of Paris offers plenty of places to lose yourself in. The game runs smoothly and consistently at 30 frames per second, which is acceptable, but I wish developers could get the performance out of the Xbox that I thought they were going to when it first came out. While the cars may not be up to Project Gotham's nearly photorealistic standards, everything definitely looks very solid. While neither is going to win awards in the detail arena, it's still so nice to see the Xbox just casually chuck around these huge environments. The real stars of the game are the two cities, which are huge arenas ripe for careening around in. It's too kind-hearted and camp to be offensive, and is typically worth a chuckle or two. Both sides of the coin have the same gameplay and the same sort of mediocrely-presented, just this side of too corny story starring a host of amusing, if stereotyped, characters.
#MIDTOWN MADNESS 3 WASHINGTON DC MOVIE#
In both Washington, DC and Paris you're placed in the shoes of an undercover cop trying to dig up dirt by posing in a variety of different driving-oriented jobs - pizza delivery boy, taxi driver, chauffer - which will allow you to investigate a kidnapping plot against a famous German racer or the seedy machinations of famed movie directors. It's also got a spiffy Xbox sheen, and has proven to be great fun. Consequently the game's flavor has changed, somewhat, gathering some campy Eurohumor. Angel Studios, the originators of the series, have since been subsumed into the gaping maw of Rockstar based on their success with the Midnight Club games, and Microsoft has handed the franchise to DICE, a well-known European developer.
#MIDTOWN MADNESS 3 WASHINGTON DC PC#
The Midtown Madness series was close to becoming an institution with PC gamers - but since Microsoft shifted focus to the Xbox, it's now a console franchise, and it makes a good one.
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