Can I Beat The Hardest Game Rockstar Ever Made?

Midnight Club 2 is still remembered by many as one of the hardest racing games ever made. In fact, one could consider it the toughest game in Rockstar Games history. Will I be able to beat it before going insane?
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[@DustinEdenYT]

This video was edited by my new editor KeNosha! If you enjoyed the video, let him know in the comments 👇

[@Minator250]

KeNosha's editing is really good in my opinion

[@snackytem277]

Wat happened to james 😢

[@Eggyteevee]

Yo where can I find the dude to give him a handshake for making me laugh 4 (four) times

[@kagakuryu639]

KeNosha's editings are great ngl 👍

[@RealityRicky]

​@@snackytem277might be still busy on editing 100% gt4

[@PuppyPlimby]

"the franchise was here to stay" yeah if only

[@SNOWDUDE13]

I said the same thing about TXR 😢

[@notTerabyte]

midnight club still cancelled soz

[@PuppyPlimby]

@@SNOWDUDE13 TXR was peak they need that shi back

[@SNOWDUDE13]

@@PuppyPlimby Genki abandoned it 😥

[@Ghost-510-z2z]

​@@notTerabyte sad m8

[@Mx64MaxyImpress]

This game soundtrack is completely banger, majority is no copyright on YT especially that Zen soundtrack ACM - Elements of Trance

[@CyanRooper]

"I ' M Y O U R D J" "H E R E W E G O" *trance intensifies*

[@Victor_2000s]

Possibly mostly of them have expired licenses.

[@RalseiSmokinAFatBlunt]

Shoutout to trance music frfr

[@thorvonfalin9975]

never heard that song before, searched it on soundcloud and after that banging 303 came in it got instantly liked

[@eddieru]

shout out to felix da housecat

[@IMzKDC23]

I just wanna say an estimated total of 524 pedestrians were harmed during the playthrough of this game... Could actually be more. Other than that, hope you guys enjoyed the video! - New Editor

[@tiraderodeTori_]

you did an awesome job, incredible 🔥🔥

[@carlosmojica-escobedo6731]

You did awesome, especially with the funny bits!

[@raphaelwong304]

I loved the part where you zoom in to the vehicular manslaughter

[@88FanNASCAR]

I gotta ask, where did you get the "Oh hi!" sound effect from 21:11? Haven't been able to find it anywhere. Great job with the edit by the way.

[@ultracrazed2215]

18:37 the dev who placed that finish line there needs a pay cut.

[@xXgtagod369Xx]

you misspelled increase !

[@Freezorgium]

MCII is so fun. I fucking HATE that nobody has the balls to make street racing games with actual TRAFFIC anymore, dodging traffic is part of the fun of driving fast. This game is one of the biggest racing game gems for me. Edit: props for the shirobako clip at 32:02

[@GaganAruna]

Hey, I'm making a roblox street racing game, I'll take that comment as a suggestion, thanks

[@Vlm293]

​@@GaganArunawe will watch your career with great interest

[@GaganAruna]

@@Freezorgium also Midnight club as a whole is one of my inspirations for making the game. Although the physics may not be similar to mc2

[@GaganAruna]

Or any other mc game for that matter

[@H4MM0ND]

What's the game called ​@@GaganAruna

[@AHSValor]

One tiny fun fact!: In the rain, traffic cars actually have a small chance of randomly initiating car crashes. You can especially see this on highways. This is different from the scripted traffic crashes during races, as they can happen anytime, anywhere, solely because it's raining

[@bungieman2810]

I also noticed that the police will sometimes chase traffic cars too.

[@frankiepace140]

Bro I'm so glad you've finally done MC2. This was by far the underdog and unsung hero of the series in my opinion. Captured a true sense of speed in this game and I only wish the career was a little longer

[@Victor_2000s]

The career supposed to be longer, the rivals have a lot of unused dialogues sounds, especially Diego which appears only 1 time.

[@leonbender16]

Try midnight club 2: new challenge Its a mod to the game with a complete rework of car models and story mode races

[@avior2951]

I didn't know this was supposed to be the underdog, it's the only one i've played

[@frankiepace140]

@@avior2951 most rate MC3 dub the best, and MC2 gets overlooked for the lack of customisation

[@avior2951]

@@frankiepace140 Guess i'll have to pay a visit to the nearby game shop and get me a copy for PS2 :D

[@flyderay]

Fun fact: you can swerve right and left while hitting the handbrake to drive at a constant 400km/h with the Emu, Schneller V8 and the Lusso XT. Allowing you to completely break the game's difficulty.

[@tiraderodeTori_]

ah yes, *fishtailing*

[@eddieru]

you know i vaguely remember doing this when i played split screen with my cousin drag racing in the la river. i would curve so i couldn’t take full advantage of it

[@FairyLiquid69]

Ah, so that's what Swerve Strickland talking about when he says "yeah I swerve when I drive".

[@GaganAruna]

Another fun fact: that is programmed in the game(maybe) and is the only ability to not show up in the game

[@GaganAruna]

Another fun fact: that is programmed in the game(maybe) and is the only ability to not show up in the game

[@CyanRooper]

There's a vibe in Midnight Club 2 that no other racing game has (other than maybe NFS Underground 1) with it's menu, characters and soundtrack (especially the soundtrack). Out of all the racing game plots out there, I think Midnight Club 2's plot is the one that could be perfectly adapted to a movie or a TV show like imagine if the studio behind Hot Wheels AcceleRacers made an animated series using Midnight Club 2's story, complete with the voice actors and soundtrack from the game. The main character could even be modelled after Vert Wheeler from AcceleRacers and even be voiced by his actor and it would still fit with the story.

[@Victor_2000s]

I agree, Midnight Club 2 its one of the racing games with best art direction and visual identity. I learn at some KZbin video about Gina voice actor death years ago, if are true, i don't know.

[@CyanRooper]

@@Victor_2000s I think she's still alive, a quick Google search doesn't say anything about her being dead or anything.

[@passivevii4052]

@@CyanRoopercomparing this trash to need for speed underground 1 or 2 is insane

[@FH4Player6397]

@@passivevii4052 Unground 1&2 are cring compared to NFS MW and NFS Carbon.

[@killakam123321]

Midnight club 2 has a night life vibe to it . Mixed with how I would think actual real life fast and furious would be. i think this game and the los Angeles map caused me to love midnight setting and dusk/dawn setting

[@UndercoverBoy833YT]

Elements of Trance would always fit for night time racing and Friday Nights parties. Another awesome video as always and love your new editor. James surely had an editing partner

[@HennerzLennerz]

36:00 That Paris race is actually called Stage III - Burn. I think that name was intentional as you just burn up in anger from all the attempts, and you feel burned out when you finally win, no other race in this game compares. But if you play the Decade Edition mod of this...about 90% of the races made for it are on Burn's level of deviousness.

[@Jay_ce_]

At least the characters in this game are better modeled than those in Megamind 2 💀

[@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435]

Kenichi actually looks cool and somewhat familiar as well, ngl. Like, I've seen that kind of face somewhere before. Maybe it's one of those famous Japanese movie actors, Yakuza character or something🤔 If only they didn't give him such an overtly stereotypical VA, I think he would've been received better.

[@CyanRooper]

@@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435 According to the Midnight Club Wiki, Kenichi is actually based off a real life Yakuza member named Kenichi Shinoda who happens to be one of the chairmen of the largest Yakuza group in Japan. There are other Yakuza references as well so I recommend you check out the Wiki.

[@CtRAIN77]

Speaking of Megamind, have you seen Ricky?

[@Jay_ce_]

@@CtRAIN77 Who the hell is Ricky?

[@CtRAIN77]

@@Jay_ce_ he's a racer in this game

[@SNOWDUDE13]

The casual vehicular manslaughter edits in the video had me absolutely rolling 😂😂

[@InfernotheFox]

Fun fact: You can (for whatever reason) make the game harder!! There's a cheat called "howhardcanitbe" and you put the final digit as a singular number ranging between 0 and 9. Zero being baby first's street race and 9 being "THE MORE YOU FUCK AROUND, THE MORE YOU'RE GONNA FIND OUT" I believe the game's base difficulty setting is 4 or 5.

[@pkemr4]

It took me more than 20 tries to beat the first race but it's not that bad after

[@hexagonalcarbon]

Apart from the first race hard9 isn't much harder than the default setting

[@erikbritz8095]

When im done with Elden Ring ill unlock all and race Savo at Lvl 9 difficulty just to see how rough it is cause i have speedran the game a lot since 2021

[@KazzyMac]

I dare dustin to beat the game on difficulty 9. :)

[@TheBule1234]

Yes! I beat this game so many times i challenged myself to how hard 9 and smashed it 😎 love the game so much!

[@votekyle3000]

I’m glad my 20 year old memories of this game being hard weren’t wrong

[@Reefer-Rampage69]

18:39 I got transported to playing Mob of the Dead 😂

[@joaopires1761]

0:35 casually mowing down a pedestrian.

[@akashi2863]

As someone who has finished this game countless times in my from 10 year old me until 18 year old me, watching Eden play this and suffer a lot just brings me joy knowing that I am not the only one who still sucks at this game even today. Great video btw.

[@Stormtrooper-oc4vn]

Me too it's a fun game. As children these games are much much easier.

[@qinn1996]

@@Stormtrooper-oc4vn They aren't haha. I played that game over and over when I was a child and I sucked. Could only play that game when I was visiting my grandparents since my grandpa had it installed on his Windows XP PC. I spent entire holidays trying to beat a couple races. I beat it eventually but it wasn't easy. Peace of cake nowadays when I do my annual replay.

[@Outside998]

8:48 Yo, Polka. That caught me off guard.

[@jdmsnowmonkey7913]

I feel like if Eden's playing through the Midnight Club games, he should try their spiritual predecessors - Midtown Madness 1, 2 and 3. I remember the London and San Francisco stunt challenge series on 2 being quite difficult as a kid.

[@JinteiModding]

17:00 did they really add skulls falling in the Paris catacombs? Man thats dark

[@YAH2121]

Yep that part of the map has you driving through walls of skulls lol

[@Katriot1]

This game's aesthetics is something we are yet to see again. So unique and charming

[@Victor_2000s]

Pure Y2K.

[@sagitta98]

31:31 "Humble Onion" - Dustin

[@Minator250]

Ah yes my favourite game Murderclub 2

[@Bad_Company225]

😂😂😂

[@matthewwilliams4656]

5:40...So THAT'S where the Fast & Furious familia legacy begins...the more you know 👍🏾!

[@wyzmotorsport664]

16:54 As an Algerian 🇩🇿, the model looks on point 👌😂

[@PeterRH432]

21:11 Moomer Greets. :D

[@ItJstWrks357]

Moomz is everywhere

[@felipeferreira00]

This video is fire (as always), i'm loving how the editor, goofs arround with Eden missing checkpoints, hitting stuff, and giving zero fucks about the pedestrians he runs over. Also, i really liked the white hoodie and the blue shirt, they suited you really well, Eden. I honestly think that if i someday get to edit my ETS2 clips imma do it something like you guys do. I like how the videos are really well made, fast paced, yet not rushed, and full of small but incredible details. Congrats KeNosha, you did really well 🔥

[@tiraderodeTori_]

I have played this game since before I can even remember got to master all the races and could complete it in less that 4 hours-ish new midnight club 2 content on 2024 is actually goated, thank you Eden and the editing was so good, love this new guy

[@CyanRooper]

15:21 POV: Johnny Depp finds out you are from America.

[@Victor_2000s]

And Haley looks like Android 18 from Dragon Ball.

[@yxrackman2397]

@@Victor_2000s savo looks like a metal gear solid villain lmao

[@akula966]

11:03 "Your car is-a so stinky!" I lost it at that. Oh my god.

[@TheSh4dowgale]

31:55 best song in the game!

[@Interweblurker]

8:34 editor was so based for this.

[@manuel3941]

14:44, now that give me goosebumps 🔥

[@pinkiepromise666]

Thank you so much for uploading this! This is my favorite game of all time. I sometimes forget how hard it is because of how much I love it. These days I normally playthrough the game on bikes; bikes are WAYY easier to operate if you turn that stupid action camera off in the options menu. I hate it lol. Your new editor rocks! Btw I was dreadthesundown in Twitch chat. Around the Parfait battle 😂

[@DustinEdenYT]

Hey thank you so much! Bikes can definitely be faster if you master them :) Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@soulsvortex10]

Played this daily online in the summer of 2003 on PS2. Mostly custom races and CTF. Shoutout to clans IK, LNR, ARC, SEALs, gR and OG racers like TurboBoi, Red Asphalt, DJ Gunner, OmegaKnight, Vel, Mithrandir, etc. I went by the names Transgressor and Omega_Doom. Some great memories of my youth. The game effectively died in November of that year when NFS Underground launched.

[@Syphe07]

This editing was peak Especially the NPCs getting run over

[@-kyoto]

Elements of trance based gaming. One of the best OSTs

[@CyanRooper]

11:14 I finally realised that the checkpoints in this race form the image of a flaccid PP. There's another PP joke where one of the races in Paris has the cars in the start line arranged to form a PP and balls (you can see it at 39:57).

[@kagakuryu639]

I cannot unsee it after reading this

[@UndercoverBoy833YT]

ain't no way I'm seeing it now

[@CyanRooper]

Also if you think about it, 2003 was the year of racing game CBT (hey that rhymed): Savo's unordered Paris race from MC2 🤝 Kurt's Killer Ride from NFS U1 CBT in 2003

[@offbrandbiscuit]

​@@CyanRooper I don't recall Kurt's Killer Ride being that difficult but there were some fucking idiotic examples of rubber band in the endurance races of UG1. I beat the whole game on Hard except for maybe 3 events because the CBT from the rubber band was just too fucking ridiculous

[@jacobrev6567]

Finally I been for waiting Midnight club video

[@ace.of.skulls]

Always a great time when Dustin uploads

[@JDumbz]

Midnight Club 3 will always be my favorite MC but Midnight Club 2 is just as good where it has it's own personality and charm to it. Also Editor did a good job with the edits, hope to see more!

[@-LowResDream]

my favorite racing game of all time. man i put TIME into this game as a kid. even the menu alone gives me nostalgia. I can quote so many characters to the T as well lol. this game began my love for cars. Oh yea and the first champ looks exactly like my dad, forgot about that lmao.

[@cybermexi-8100]

Honestly, as a kid I hoped that going to clubs as an adult would sound like this game. Sadly when I could at least get my way into a club they never played this music. Only top 40 hits... Either way, Rockstar showing its attention to atmosphere and soundtrack. Even if its harder than a robots nutsack

[@Victor_2000s]

If you live at some european country, i believe you can find some Trance raves that have similar songs from Midnight Club 2.

[@WASTOIDSUPREME]

You have to go to an underground club for this kind of music. This game's acid techno comes from a very underground music scene, and it makes me wonder what kind of connections the sound design team had to find these songs. At the time they weren't something you could just stumble upon.

[@Victor_2000s]

@@WASTOIDSUPREME Trance are not underground during 90s-early 2000s, was very popular in european countries.

[@kmsthanks]

Elements of trance sounds straight out of wangan midnight maximum tune

[@regularbloke2117]

1:43 Moses has ascended to godhood

[@Issam-od4pg]

Editing was fantastic , keep doing what you're doing new editor 👍

[@ralph9574]

13:34 flying to the finish line plus one crash hahaha😂😂😂😂😂

[@xaviersanchez8263]

20:04 done had me punching the air and I ain’t even playing. Cmon man lol.

[@capncoolio]

oh my fucking god the editing in this one is so unhinged I am PISSING MYSELF laughing 😂😂

[@leonbender16]

Now try, Midnight club 2: new challenge Its an insane mod with completly new story races, map rework, new carmodels, new songs, and insane difficulty

[@Synergy4375]

Just found you via this video, absolutely love it, and the editing is fire too cracked me up so much 😂😂….

[@zacharyfassett8190]

And the voice lines of the npc pedestrins after being hit were comedy gold, 😂 everytime i hit a npc pedestrain id always be on the floor laughing, when i was younger, tbh i even hit the pedestrians on purpose just to kind easy the pain of the ridiculous difficulty 😅

[@Lighthalzen]

I remember how i used to play this a lot online back then with a mod, it was genuinely very fun but i have 0 memories of whatever that wasn't the online.

[@SJJ1992]

The greatest gaming soundtrack made Elements of trance

[@Pacemaker_fgc]

One thing I love about this game is how much it emphasizes exploration, routing, and picking the right car. Feels more like a puzzle game than a traditional racing game sometimes.

[@pinguilio]

12:00 he said "it's time for the time to start the race"

[@STYN0G]

every time you run over someone i gotta pause the video because of too much laughter lmaO!

[@babab_m]

i had the ultimate cbt experience as a kid with this game and midtown madness 1

[@zbreezy95]

Gotta say your new editor is on point with the production

[@lockout5731]

you been hit by TRUCK X 1000 loving the video cant wait for midnight club 3

[@isuk]

I recently finished MC2. I have to say that the races in Paris are far more difficult than any other maps / races

[@corollavirus4age]

The Music goes insanely hard with this one

[@matskupelaa]

True

[@nexoq4914]

Good video! KeNosha did a great job editing🔥🔥🔥

[@walthuuuuu]

This game is always worth coming back to. Even with some stock knowledge of the routes and knowing the map, the experience stays fresh, of course it will never be as hard as my first playthrough, but damn, not many games are like this. One of a kind!

[@15DEAN1995]

One thing I remember so well is the catacombs in Paris being a nightmare. There was a random checkpoint race I did where a few were underground. As a kid I spent hours on that race trying all the catacombs for the quickest route, it was successful but that was a lot of trial and error.

[@theconnected7234]

MC 2 and smugglers run were so hard. So many restarts, so many controllers thrown, yet it taught me as a kid how to fail and try again without shame

[@AkiRalcolf]

Bro. You so need to try Full Auto. Or Crash N Burn. Both so underrated it's a crime

[@Dirik619]

what i used to do for Unordered races is just sit back and watch what route the NPC's would take, then i would try different NPC routes, then i would spend time memorizing the best route. This game was brutal

[@Falco95]

Oh man, I do remember playing this game back in the day. I didn't check on the web at the time, so I thought I really sucked at it but.. this game is actually VERY difficult it seems 😂 Really enjoyed the video Eden, had my daily dose of laughs with this, well done! 😉

[@DavidLucian]

The Soundtracks of Midnight Club 2 are truly and purely Masterpieces, so many unique and diverse genres... bangers after bangers...🎶☯️🎶 #NostalgicVibes #Childhood #Memories ☯️

[@turkysus1149]

At 7:25 the motorcyclist shaking his arm because he hit the streetlight. I never moticed it until now :O

[@danmuntean4939]

maaaan i miss so much MC2, i used to play on the xbox, was one of the first racing games i ever played, i remember raging as a kid, and then when i went back to my country i tried to play it again and actually finished it, gave me so much satisfaction, also there’s a glitch with the bike, when u crash and your character falls, pause the game and then resume. Also i remember there were a lot of cheat codes, like for guns, police cars and a Batmobile

[@lucasgraeff5391]

I love this game. I played it as a kid non stop, but I used cheats to lowr difficulty lol. I remember playing it online with ranoms, it was my first online game. I remember people glitching the map and getting to inacessible places. I miss this game so much.

[@LordLightborn]

Dustin, you hire some funny af editors. Great work KeNosha, the goofy sound effects had me lmaoing.

[@OkHeyKay]

Your favorite song is elements of trance, im starting to believe that everyone in germany is a raver😂

[@antoniocesarscartezzini]

Friday with a new upload, lets gooooooo

[@gt1967hipocat]

Why is the truck joke so funny

[@firstnamelastname-ev7br]

midnight club 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, i've been desperate for another racing game with the same vibe and atmosphere ever since i first played it 20 years ago

[@eastwestminds]

i grew up with all three & have nostalgia for all of them i can tell you MC2 has head & shoulders the most replay value

[@TheBule1234]

I loved this game! I loved that the racers spoke to you and they didn't in midnight club 3 (didn't even have a champion) as much as i love midnight club 3 i felt it had less soul to me for that reason.

[@iapple6496]

this game is the only racing game to perfectly encapsulate the Y2K aesthetic, nothing comes close

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Need For Speed: Underground 1 & 2

[@yxrackman2397]

@@My_Old_YT_Accountnahhhh

[@gnrtx-36969]

​@@My_Old_YT_Accountthose are just jokes imo

[@machotuga1992]

Out of Rockstar industry, Driver 2 is still the hardest car game...the cops imputs, the car wreck missions and the absurd speed of Mafia cars during chases

[@15DEAN1995]

Midnight club 2 was phenomenal, it was hard but I loved the challenge

[@Nikofoxreal]

This video literally got me through the worst flight I’ve ever been on thank you dusty eating

[@RizqiLq]

Tonight on bottom gear, Eden do Roadkill, NFS UC bloom type, and skill issue

[@k8-sr495]

43:38 That random DarkViperAU reference drop caught me off guard big time 😭

[@muhammadnaufalshidiq7360]

0:02 i thought it was leclerc's scream

[@TominoCabana]

The editing in this video was great!

[@Nein1no]

Awesome! One of my favorite games, ever! Also, trust me, get a group of friends and play the Capture the Flag mode in MC2. Not enough people know how GOATED it is and I am SO disappointed there isn't a truly similar mode on any other racing game.

[@renzo7673]

I remember loving the main theme of this game so much. It had a unique style (but man was this game freaking hard.)

[@Wayneybowe]

Nothing better than waking up to a new upload 💪

[@trueentertainment3955]

The many times you lose a race, the longer the racers will finish until u win

[@DirtyDanMunicipalMan]

The sound effects you added are amazing. Lmao

[@Vi_XXiV]

MCII was my childhood man... I remember the struggles.

[@jakedoe4987]

This video was hilarious. Great editing

[@siyzerix]

You should make a review of distance, since its one of the best racing games out there, specifically arcade racing games. And it is hard. Real hard.

[@ROB.314]

Daft punk being in a game was the way I discovered them I’ll forever love Midnight Club 2

[@AssumptionEmpty]

My favorite racing game ever, I listen to soundtrack still. I never made it past Paris. :)