I don't know how, but I just get an overwhelming sense of loneliness whenever I play Cruise. No matter how much traffic, no matter how many pedestrians, I always feel... alone.

“Howhardcanitbe9” is the only suitable way to play this game ❤

THEEEEEEEEEEEE only game that gives me chills while racing.

one word: aura

If Gran Turismo had a dark story:

Still listening to this in 2024

Red faction music

Nostalgia.

I have never played Midnight Club II, but I feel like memories of things that never happened resurfaced with this music. I can feel my subwoofer loves this music too 😈❤‍🔥

Never has making/eating a sandwich felt so suspenseful.😂

Chilling in a dark room, playing with this on a small magnovox tv screen. Even if it was a load screen, it felt intense. 🕶️

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To be a kid on a PS2 with a limited scope of the world, and this is all you are immersed in. The serious tone of being a street racer. What an illustration.

Man.

This game was super hard back in the day

Absolutely still the hardest menu music of any game.

Sounds like something out of Deus Ex.

still playing it right now 2024

Street Racing games are missing this vibe lately.....the whole atmosphere felt under ground and illegal with risks on the line. Get out there do the race then get lost before cops get on you. Miss that tension

Wow. Fucking wow.

All things considered: Midnight Club 2 was an extremely basic racing game with an extremely basic premise: track down members of the Midnight Club and win. Vehicles were almost as characters in a fighting game, with their own personalities and tastes already imparted on them; we needed not any sophisticated performance or visual modification potential. No feckless daytime street races either; you race from midnight to dawn only -- this is a game about a clandestine organization, and it damn sure feels like it. The game nearly got by on vibe alone. The eeriness and spookiness, even as an adult, still elicits hair-raising discomfort when playing it alone at night to this day. The color palette, the vehicle sounds (which still sound excellent to this day), and the fucking soundtrack. Even the clubby hip-hop from Agallah and Tre Little, the house, and trance music all feel ethereal in this landscape. The only break being from sparse use of Tony Touch's "G'z Up" -- a song that doesn't seem to fit the overall feel of the soundtrack at all -- but is used with absolute ingenuity to create relief with extremely difficult races, or opponents with an old school gangster quality (like Diego).

you gotta love comments section xD its just amazing like for real what did u guys expect its a Papa Rockstar old school game masterpiece Imo this game is way more fun than NFS MW

Best menu design to this day, the music, the gui, the button sounds... I wish this style and flavour would come back in modern games

This period from the end of the 90s to the beginning of the 2000s was one of the most notable times in this regard, mysterious, industrial and electronic vibe. Games like Midnight Club 2, GTA 3, FEAR, Metal Gear Solid 2, Halo, Max Payne, Deus EX... Films like: Fight Club, Matrix, Ghost In The Shell had this. This game's music perfectly represents this vibe, and complementing it even further, the trip hop music genre is what best fits this. I miss that mysterious vibe in entertainment in general in the late 90s and early 2000s...

This song Just hits so much harder when played at night with The windows down

This the best one

20 year anniversary of this game. I still play it every now and then to scratch that nostalgic itch.

watching point break to this rn

Sub-bass in this song lets me hear shit I've never heard on these headphones before.

Rockstar menu music is some of the best music, period.

Cinematic. the score and musical textures would hold up in a brand new john wick movie

Man the shift from MC1 to MC2 was done perfectly, the music and style really took center stage in this one. Still awesome all these years later, I still get chills off this theme.

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I’m 22 and still crying 13 years later that when I was little this game and the ps2 got stolen from me 😢 I will buy it again

8 year old me was crazy over all midnight club games I still have love for it

The most atmospheric racing game ever made. LA, Paris & Tokyo being only at dusk/dawn and night, the chill techno tracks, the staggering detail of the maps, the cartoonish cast that each had a soundtrack song as their theme. As far as street racing games go this was pure *chefs kiss* Shame MNC3 didn't have a similar style and presentation

Midnight club 2 was so nostalgic, each character you meet had their own theme and each city had it's own vibe

I think this came out in may 2003 so this year was its 20th.

I still play it till this day on my ps2 😌

Whats the name of this song

i'm feelin old now

Jeez, my dad bought me this game when I was 12 in 2004. I feel old as.

Back in the days when everything was still badass 👊🏽 they don’t make them like that anymore

Midnight Club 2, still arguably the greatest racing game of all time! We've gotten so many great racing games over the years, but there's only a few I feel come close to MC2.

A petition for midnight club to the reintroduced by rockstar must be started

I get the chills every time when i hear this song as a PlayStation 2 player, I'll never forget playing midnight club 2 around 5am at 19 years old during quarantine days.

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This is the only street racing video game I have ever seen that had a cheat code that lets you put missiles and machine guns on your car

This game is and it will ever be the best racing game that you could ever play. It's a game where everything is perfect! Such a masterpiece. Still waiting till this day for Rockstar to remaster this with the same music and same style. Wonderful game.

Menu music was something else. Shit be vibing.