LGR - Midtown Madness 2 - PC Game Review

Racing through Chicago was only the start. San Francisco and London were in need of some open world madness, and this second game in the series by Microsoft and Angel Studios delivers!
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[@Nuke21]

I used to play this game all the time. I would spend hours in cruise mode with cars I downloaded from the MM2 website. I pretended to have my own house and workplace in the game. This review brought back some great memories of this game and my childhood, thank you.

[@zohans8435]

Nuke Yeah, download by www.mmarchive.com ;)

[@waqasahmed6637]

The building with glasses used to be my wife's office 😂

[@kevinlovescars]

Same XD

[@Svimle]

So many hours, had alot of cars! Take me back

[@hrad]

LMAO I also had a house in SF and used to park my car there before quitting the game.

[@Callhouse]

The amount of time I spent in the London Underground driving around in the Scorcher Aston was seriously unhealthy. That and climbing that building in SF were my absolute favourite things to do.

[@Figureight]

Oh boy this brings back memories.

[@rahulpuri6361]

omds ur here

[@Call-of-dudy]

Figureight dude your my favorite KZbinr

[@shiroyasha7324]

Figureight same :)

[@Niels_engelen077]

Hey man

[@CyborgPunisher]

Childhood is never lost, only forgotten by time.. thanks to LGR

[@generfeld]

one of the most fun things was building up speed and zooming off a ledge or top of an inclined road in SanFran, you could catch a ton of air and looked like you were hundreds of feet high, made my stomach feel weightless in real life as a 12 year old, loved this game

[@Bitzell]

Impostor

[@jbz3532]

Loved flying down Lombard!

[@RadagonTheRed]

Me too!

[@dingdongbells3314]

I think I was 8 or 9 when I got my first computer. Dad had just bought a brand new Emachine for himself, so he put it in the computer room and gave me the old Aptiva. And for my very first PC game... he gave me Midtown Madness2. I wasn't allowed to have internet yet, but he hooked up his Emachine to my Aptiva through lan, installed MM2 on his computer , and then the two of us raised hell together on the streets of San Fransico. I can't even begin to count how many hours I must've spent driving around aimlessly in cruise mode. There was just so much random junk to see and explore. I also remember being so jealous because his machine could run it smoothly on the highest graphic settings while sometimes mine was barely chugging along on the lowest if I set the pedestrian count too high Between playing this, The Sims, and Earthsiege 2, my first computer was a blast. (I know what you're thinking here: (Earthsiege? But wasn't Starsiege out already by then?) That's because my mom thought it seemed too scary for me, so I had to wait another year or two before playing it. Sorry for the little bit of ramble, it's just that this was one of THOSE handful of unforgettable first PC games for me.

[@praveensharma9893]

Leivthious Similarly, when my dad got me Burnout 3 for the PS2 - that very night we both crushed the Riverside - all hail good old split-screen! It's some good fun a father and son can mutually share on the same page, eh?

[@gabrielsteiger5465]

seems like you were seriously sheltered growing up

[@AgentSmith911]

Ohh IBM Aptiva, good times.

[@ranger9047]

Dude, if only my dad had even attempted to spend time with me. You lucky

[@Belegthevarno]

You played games with your dad and he is still alive? So unlike youtube.

[@Quast]

Ahhhh, Midtown Madness 2, the only racing game where any car could drive up a 60° slope at a particular building in San Fransisco. I think that was basicly what everybody did in Multiplayer, at least I recall nothing else. xD

[@brandonstafford4054]

Never played multiplayer except on lab with our downstairs computer but I came here to mention that he didnt show climbing onto that roof in the review. Glad to see I wasn't the only kid who discovered that was possible.

[@HL4EHalfLife]

@@brandonstafford4054 You really missed out not playing MP, on the MSN gaming Zone CityBus CnR was hands down the #1 online mode to play, I must have spent 2000-3000 hours playing CB CnR

[@Bosko423]

Still have both games, boxes included, memory lane..... And i might just play it today for old times sake, :D

[@sebs2306live2]

Bosko423 Did you do it ? Great game !

[@mishalmx]

yep, i still play roof wars with my friends on top of the hyatt :)

[@ReverendTed]

One thing I loved was setting the weather to stormy and just parking my car out by the coast. It had a great ambiance.

[@communistpootisbirb]

Holy shit, someone actually remembers this game. I loved this game so much I installed this game on my school's shared drive and had a huge LAN game

[@WolfyMelon]

This is my childhood game along with the first game, I still own the case and original box too! :D I hate the London Taxi missions but I wanted to unlock that Aston Martin!

[@LGR]

YEP. Those missions were an absolute grind, but those extra cars argh.

[@truthseeker3241]

WolfyMelon my first game too

[@marcinmisiek768]

I don't have the box anymore, but I still have the disc. My dad went out of his way to figure to mod the game for me so i can have fun with broken cars. I remember the terrible, terrible grinding for those nice cars... this game also made the classic ford mustang fastback my favorite car. Also, when I was a kid, I always thought that unreachable backgrounds like the rest of Marin County and the Bay Bridge were actually visitable places, so I tried my best to find ways to glitch out of bounds to go there, only to realize that they are flat backdrops and there is only gray ground/water beyond the boundaries of the map.

[@megatronacepticon]

Marcin Misiek I was always looking for ways out of the bounds of the maps and ways to get on to rooftops and other places you weren't supposed to go. Then I discovered the Virtual Killer. You can get just about anywhere with it since it can use walls as ramps if you hit them at the right angle.

[@оргазмбобра]

бля брантан люто плюсую)

[@Fr4ncM]

*"You know what would make this game better? Tons of swearing and murders!“"* - _Dan Houser_ ... Probably.

[@Fazer_600]

GTA was out before this im afraid, there was a bug in the top down driving game they were making where the cars chasing you were stupid aggressive so they took that a built the game around it and got GTA1.

[@kevinrosario2729]

@@Fazer_600 GTA games were 2D when this game came out, although GTA 3 was in production at the time.

[@Pix3l_Pr1ncess]

Your reviews are always great.

[@zvonkokarabatic2169]

SupaPixelGirl agree

[@Mini-z1994]

Nice & solid video, & mentioned plenty of what i wrote a while back to get the game running along with the modding community & gamemodes. Its still fun to pass the time in a classroom running multiplayer playing cops & robbers setting to run the same car with the wonky physics engine & in general trolling you can do with various obstacles or teaming up to steal the stuff from the other players.

[@kicars7]

true he is good

[@Byokugen]

i grew up with this game. that was the last game my dad bought me, just a week before he passed away. thank you man, this really made mi smile and happy inside!

[@Flipper2542]

I miss the whole Midtown series. You're right, to many games like "The Crew" shove pointless story and characters into games that should be about fast cars, exploring cool cities, and causing mayhem.

[@SianaGearz]

Sometimes that could be considered good; but in The Crew in particular, there is absolutely no point in having a fixed player character. For single player campaign, he or she could just as well been customizable, with the customization carrying over into multiplayer. There is no intrinsic appeal to the character nor much in terms of prerendered cutschenes that couldn't be directed differently if the character wasn't fixed. There's this aspect of these games that just keeps getting worse. These developers can't do stories, so arguably they shouldn't try. The Crew being a sequel of Test Drive Unlimited, in a way, different company names, but related technology and same developer team... TDU, you have no story, but mad races and exploration keeping he thing appealing. Sure the game has flaws, but they're not too distracting overall. You progress simply by levelling or gaining money, doing whatever is fun to you. In TDU2 they tacked on a story, and while it's not too intrusive unlike later games, story driven missions are badly designed and the forced exploration just sucks. In The Crew, they made exploration aspect and story driven races better, but the story is borderline obnoxious, just like it is in NFS games that really work better without one - the stories never had a motivational advantage, the exciting setpieces and tracks did. Plus the social component in TDU2 really worked for the most part, it doesn't in The Crew, it's best played alone. I think something like a mix of NFSW and TDU2 needs to come about, and i'm actually working on something in this regard, but I don't have enough to show, and when I do (could take years) i'll likely present it on the Turboducks forum to solicit feedback. The goal is to make something fully moddable - your own islands, your own vehicles, your own gameplay styles, so people can just create an open world racing game they like and reuse each other's assets to accomplish it efficiently, and leave out the typical industry bullshit. One common theme is that people just hate half baked heartless shit being forced down their throat, but otherwise people will never agree on what kind of game they would like, but they shouldn't have to.

[@SianaGearz]

EximiusDux there's absolutely nothing that I enjoy in a game more than a well told story! It doesn't even have to be too intricate, it just has to make its punches count. But I play story driven games, I read novels occasionally. If I had to name my all time favourite game, it would probably be Day of the Tentacle, and I absolutely loved playing L.A. Noire and Broken Age recently, and I think Tomb Raider reboot is one example of game storytelling in a non story centric genre that I can name of the recent ones that was actually well executed. Thing is, well I haven't played most of the more recent Need for Speed games, I played The Run and forgot what else, but does any of them, in your opinion, do storytelling right, do storytelling well? I'm going to give an example, certainly of doubtful relevance given it's well over 20 years old now, but it does tell us something. The very first Road&Track Presents: the Need for Speed. The original release for ill fated 3DO console, it had the rival as FMV actor in a parking lot talking smack and challenging you. Everyone hated him, they took him out for re-releases, so you can directly compare the game reception and impact. So did he do anything in the first place? He was there to make you hate The Rival, to up the stakes, but they just tightened up the ruthless AI so whatever mistake you make, at the later deciding levels near the end of the multi part tour, he will overtake you, so you're gonna hate him automatically. The same thing the "story" pretense does, conveyed through gameplay, much better. Games are interactive experiences - while they are conductive to tell a story, a mindless game with a trivial narrative tacked onto it is still a mindless game, and a challenging but not punishing game without an attempt at narrative is still inherently rewarding. Sure a good narrative can make anything better, but that's not something I can provide, nor am I aware of a good precedent in this specific genre so far, and I think if something is to be done, it shouldn't just be there, it has to actually be good, or at least have a chance of being good at development stages and culled away before release if it doesn't hold up.

[@startide]

Let's not even talk about all those "brofist" type of games like Dirt 3 and it's ginkana BS, or the NSF game with the cringey actors... Sometimes more is less, Midtown Madness let you in control of exploring that huge city, that was so awesome back then !

[@Flipper2542]

The Ginkana stuff was pretty bad, and the theme was pretty bro, but the actual gameplay was really solid.

[@rnvsinha]

Driver San Francisco is amazing, reminds me of Midtown Madness games.

[@TechnicallyExplained]

90s kids here?

[@Shelby522]

96

[@mattstarhd387]

03

[@darkvago4667]

94... I used to play this game with my older brother . In my mind this game has epic graphics and gameplay🤯

[@james2479]

89

[@camotech1314]

Yes, though my body makes me feel like I was born in the 1940s 😭

[@JakestaSWG]

This was actually very interesting. I never knew angel studios became Rockstar! MidnightClub 3 was one of my favorite games from my childhood. Always thought Midtown madness and Midnight Club were sort of similar. Great video!

[@Yusuke_Denton]

7:49 Cool, I saw superficial similarities to Midnight Club but thought it was a coincidence. Midnight Club 2 was my favorite.

[@JakestaSWG]

Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up!

[@greekboi357]

I thought DHS design(or something similar) became Rockstar

[@greekboi357]

And DHS design was the one who made GTA 1, which had a different title for some time, which was considered a failure, but after a glitch occured that police cars would chase like crazy the player, people started liking the game, which was named GTA, afterwards, and the company Rockstar was formed.

[@greekboi357]

Oh, Angel Studios actually joined, not formed Rockstar, my bad

[@cloudysleep4732]

hey Clint! just wanted to let you know that your videos kept me going at a difficult time on my life. thanks for just being yourself.

[@Kronos0999]

u sure about that?

[@cloudysleep4732]

@@Kronos0999 ?

[@Kronos0999]

@@cloudysleep4732 I'm just glad you're still around even after so many years. ;)

[@kelleroid]

Holy shit dude I literally just watched your Midtown Madness 1 video and see this on the recommended list with like 100 views! Been waiting for this video, played this game for countless hours.

[@LGR]

Excellent! I hope you enjoyed this one too :)

[@JoshuaNicoll]

Wow, i though GTA V felt like MTM 2, well I guess I know why now. It lives on in spirit.

[@roieshalom6478]

Too hard to tell since so much years seperate from them but the open world spirit is saved

[@mr.cantillasz1912]

lol,looks like the graphics are the same as gta 3 or older

[@YeOldeKamikaze]

I had some Midnight Club 3 flashbacks while watching this so yeah I get what you mean.

[@TheArtkaw]

I tried waay to hard to fall into water in this series.

[@LGR]

More tea, vicar?

[@CityKan1]

sleeping with the fishes

[@nsm0220]

i remember that

[@b0glextra]

I desperately tried to run people over in cruise mode.

[@nsm0220]

i know they add it in midnight club 2

[@CEO100able]

I've played this game since 2004. I remember so much about it. I started playing with custom mods back in 2008, and I still like doing it nearly a decade later. Nice review!

[@Fuzy2K]

7:16 -- I can only describe that accent as "Scottish Australian Surfer Dude"...

[@mmdude15]

Fuzy2K Or Jeff from American Dad

[@deus_ex_machina_]

Fuzy2K Bart?

[@rorymacve]

Bought this game new back in 2000 and was absolutely addicted to it! I remember countless hours spent modding the game with an infinite health, 500mph Acura NSX, as well as downloading the New York map so I could launch myself off skyscrapers and jump the gap between the Twin Towers! xD

[@CEO100able]

The London Cab was the first vehicle that I drove in this game. I did it in San Francisco, except it was black.

[@jojag5]

One of my favourite games growing up. My first "open world" style game I ever played.

[@CEO100able]

8:27 - You can still sometimes find this game at donation stores though, like Goodwill as it is one of the only ways to buy an old game locally nowadays. If you ever see it at your local retro video game store also (a place where they sell games that many major retail stores don't sell anymore), you can just buy it there.

[@CEO100able]

Do you have any plans to review the Monster Truck Madness games next? If so, thanks!

[@thesteelrodent1796]

sadly Clint don't do really do games anymore, but man... Monster Truck Madness ... when I bought the first one it included a t-shirt and baseball cap. The shirt was too small and the cap terrible quality, but hey, fun merch.

[@llegoelbigote552]

@@thesteelrodent1796 he did a review of the last cities skylines dlc a week ago

[@keptil]

"...and a dinky little manual..." You mean an automatic? I'll show myself out.

[@LGR]

Heh.

[@PseudoResonance]

Woah.. That was just some light humor.. No need to be rude...

[@EverythingGaming]

god this game brings back way too many memories!! might have to go blow the dust off my old PC and have a retro gaming night!!

[@croneryveit9070]

You did not climb the big tower with the race car :(

[@mafiousbj]

I played the first one to death and i remember how excited i was to get the second. It's so amazing to know that the Studio that did this fun sandbox in which i spent so many hours cruising aimlessly but having a blast later had a part in GTA and Red Dead Redemption. Makes me appreciate it even more. I need to travel to San Francisco to revisit the places i drove through in this game. I remember climbing a glass skyscrapper with my car and then jumping off to see if i could survive the fall! Good times indeed!!

[@therealkzero]

Midtown Madness and Monster Trucks Madness were amazing games!

[@Arenacale]

Would love to see you address the Monster Truck Madness series at some point! I was always sad that Microsoft abandoned that original wing of the Madness franchise.

[@KentishZombie]

Bird poop damage.

[@davemakesnoises]

This game was the jammy jam. Played it most of my childhood. I can't even tell you how many hours were spent on MM2X downloading cars and mods when i was like 14....It brought me so much joy.

[@ProjectGeek1]

Oh my. Between Midtown Madness and Monster Truck Madness, I wasted a lot of time.

[@SilverSurferTDR]

Next :) Motocross Madness 1/2 Monstertruck Madness 1/2 4x4 Evo 1/2 !!!

[@LustForKeyboards]

YES YES YES !!!

[@Spitfire200]

Don't forget Hot Wheels Velocity X

[@randallwegman1028]

SilverSurferTDR many many hours where spent playing 4x4 EVO 2. Loved that game.

[@RBRat3]

Played a motocross madness demo that was on a microsoft CD and the only reason I still remember that game is that ridiculous explosion sound and you're suddenly flying across the map when you make it up and over the map barrier.

[@BiCornejoxP]

4x4 evo especially

[@VneedsSpeed]

Hey LGR, I came across your channel by watching the MM1 video and now that you've done MM2 thank you for taking me back to my childhood...however! I noticed in the video you've got Monster Truck Madness 1 and 2 on your shelf! THOSE GAMES, I cannot count how much time I spent with. I created mods and raced in several online races in MTM2...I'd love to hear what you've got on those! Keep up the great work.

[@Raeker]

"... and the cops won't get of your case..." (in free cruise mode) When I was a kid, that was one of my favourite things to do: discover all the ways to get rid of the cops. Heck, I played this game for hours upon hours, this was my favourite game as a kid... I have the disk lying around somewhere, I might want to give it a try again

[@haseenabadshah5381]

disc*

[@alexwillis7980]

I love that old games like these still get attention

[@CEO100able]

This game does work well without any patches on modern Windows operating systems.

[@tsangpogorge]

This blew my mind back in the day, 3D open world games were a rarity in the late 90's and the sheer freedom afforded to the player was so liberating and almost felt like a fantasy simulator . Don't tell me I was the only one to drive along the subway tracks in London!

[@Jaqen-HGhar]

I've never understood the complaints about, "they don't include manuals anymore!" Yes they do they are just digital but they are usually almost exactly the same as they used to be. Except they aren't wasting ink and paper which is something we should be championing.

[@waldevv]

Ahh the memories I used to play this game with a Microsoft Sidewinder wheel, I think this game actually came with the wheel but I'm not sure. But I do know that I got Monster Truck Madness 2 with the wheel and oh boy that was one heck of a game as well I remember the evenings after school when I'd have some friends over playing MM2 with the wheel, then one of my friends would be like "what does this button do on the computer" and shut down the computer in the middle of a race. That moment is something that I'm not going to easily forget, good times

[@Filipe1020]

Please review the game Trackmania Original from 2003 and then the other games in the series, you will have a blast!

[@LightTheUnicorn]

TrackMania Nations still floats in rotation when we have mates together for some LAN gaming, it is a blast. Can get pretty competitive with the lap times though!

[@CWINDOWSsystem32]

Your comment prompted me to install Trackmania Sunrise on my current machine, but I couldn't start the game due to the stupid Starforce DRM thinking Windows 10 is Windows 98. I had the same problem trying to play the game on 7 and even Vista, where the game worked, but I could only play modded maps...

[@grype83]

I have never been a big PC gaming fan when it comes to retro games at lease because my family was super poor growing up so the first PC i ever owned i had a co worker build for me in the late 90's when i was working at a blockbuster video of all places for $250. I don't watch any other PC gaming videos on KZbin except for LGR and that is a sign to me that you are the best at what you do. I'm a huge fan, i have watched most of your videos now and they are all very informative and entertaining. Wish my games collection could compare to your massive wall of big box PC games. I lost most of my collection when i was around 19/20 because of theft. And now game prices are through the roof and i'm a low wage making back breaking manual laborer so it's hard to buy anything for myself these days. But i am happy when watching your reviews and other videos on PC hardware and gaming, keep up the good work!

[@CEO100able]

Midtown Madness 1 didn't have a storyline either. Midtown Madness 3, the only game in the series to have its PC version cancelled, was more oriented for storylines.

[@cowsagainstcapitalism347]

Next to music, a storyline is the most inappropriate thing for a racing game to have. Glad 3 got cancelled before they gave it the Fallout treatment.

[@johnreaper4452]

Watching this in 2021 im 30 years old now brings so much nostalgia

[@firestorm1859]

this game was literally my childhood, thank you!! XD

[@martindeyanov5267]

My friend, thank you thank you so much for doing this review. It brings tears to my eyes. I played this game when I was 3-4 years old living in Bulgaria not knowing a word of English, but it was very fun and passed the time. Every now and then I think about this game but I could never find out what it was, but the memories were so damn good. Now thanks to you I know what the game is called. Bless your soul

[@paulofernando7858]

Im actually liking the youtube algorithm, it recommend me things that I dont even remember I was known of.

[@smakarphoenix]

I always enjoy your reviews - you have the right balance of criticism and sarcasm. I spent many hours playing this game, both solo and with a friend in co-op - mostly on the SF map (having lived there for a few years). It's amazing how our imagination would convert those pixels to real-world images. And I was an adult at the time (I'm probably older than your parents). If you haven't already covered it, I would love to see a video about Crusader: No Remorse. I still remember how amazing it was to be able to shoot and destroy boxes and walls - that was a huge milestone in gaming. Cheers!

[@oliverbarnes-morgan3172]

The Mustang being junk to drive is the most realistic part of the whole game

[@bond1j89]

I didn't have a problem with it.

[@andrewdupuis1151]

I still have it. its great. i was disported Midtown Madness 3 never came to pc

[@CEO100able]

They originally planned to release it for Windows operating systems, but because they wanted to promote the original Xbox, it was cancelled.

[@AymanTravelTransport]

What's worse is it's not even backwards compatible on later generations of Xbox (360 and One) and emulation is still not there yet for this game, so the only way to play MM3 is on an Original Xbox!

[@Matt-di6nb]

@@AymanTravelTransport I remember my Mum bought me that for my 360 years ago now. My Disc got laser burnt which meant it crashed that games a lot also the mods I had didnt help. Anyway I put in my 360 and an error came up saying that the disc wasnt supported. Im glad because the magic wasn't the same at all if you not what I mean.

[@hamzahetewi8572]

I was playing this game everytime when I was child :( last 10 years

[@crisfrey2753]

My all time favorite videogame. Thanks for making such a complete review of it

[@Silberling86]

I loved this game. Friend of mine had this back then. Most of the time we didn't race but tried to stick to traffic rules, played as a bus and planned a route and "picked up nonexisting guests". First game I played with a steering wheel. Awesome game. Awesome past.

[@thdremily]

Dude, I love that it featured the Audi TT on the front cover, icon of the era!

[@Audiojack_]

This, along with MM1 was my childhood on a CD.

[@Zwiebi]

Ah, all the time I spent pushing police cars in the water at the San Francisco docks where there aren't any railings...

[@hyanehighoctane]

Thanks goodness for giving the links for making the game compatible with modern hardware ! I can finaly play MM2 on my PC ! Yay o/

[@medicindisquise4271]

This was one of my favorite games in my childhood. This was one of my Mom's favorite games, mostly because she loved seeing the cars barrel into the ocean/river and seeing the text pop up. Now I feel like installing it again..

[@SDK2K9]

I remember Midtown Madness 3 that was one of the games that came with my dad's original Xbox.

[@CEO100able]

It was the first original Xbox game I ever played.

[@NikateeN]

Been waiting for this one! Thanks man!

[@sylvur]

Jebus... $50 on Ebay if you own just the jewel case and CD-rom... $200 IF YOU HAVE IT WITH THE BOX!!!! My gawd... $150 just for cardboard. I still have this CD-Rom in my collection, but like most gamers from the 90's and early 2000, these PC boxes took up so much room we ended up just throwing them in the trash and placing the jewel case in a CD rack.

[@danyoutube7491]

Holy shit are you kidding? I dumped it about 5 years ago I think. :(

[@richardgoddard5412]

what are you on. i saw it for $20 bucks with the boxs

[@IPlayTerribleGames]

Man I played the hell out of this game when I was younger. One of the only old racing games I can consistently go back to and still have tons of fun

[@CodecrafterArtemis]

Wow. For a 16-year-old game, this doesn't look half bad. The building textures could use a facelift, but everything else looks nice!

[@michalzustak8846]

Well, the building textures had to be lower res. The mainstream graphics card in 2000 was 32 MB.

[@DjangoFlaherty]

Wow, this brings back so many memories. Midtown Madness websites were some of the first places I visited on the internet, painstakingly downloading cars and mods over dialup. It was so rewarding though.

[@BiCornejoxP]

Somebody is still playing this game? I want multiplayer too :(

[@kobalt_ren01]

I'm really late, but the software GameRanger usually has MM2 players around.

[@LightTheUnicorn]

Your reviews are always awesome! I love this game, had no idea there was still a community for it and patches made. The bit on the game engine was neat, just pure plough-through-everything fun!

[@speecbeen2572]

Every time you play/review another game your should say which one of your PC's you use to run it. Just mention it real quick in the beginning. I think that would be really interesting.

[@MrLule96]

This brings back memories. I had this game when i was 4 and i played it on a computer with windows 98 that sounded like it was going to explode any second.

[@AceD500]

I loved that game! After another boring learning using Microsoft Excel in CS(computer science)class Teacher told me and my classmates You can play the games or surf the internet until bell rings. So ive decieded play the games, and Someone installed full version of Midtown Madness 2 on my used computer COOL! Ive always enjoed plowing traffic with Freightliner big rig :) when some nearby friends ask me name of game, Ive joked Its Driver 3 :D but Driver 3 or Driv3r are not made in 2002 yet. Anyways I never had this game at my home besides demo version, But ive enjoyed Midnight Club series, Mostly 3 Dub Edtion Remix :) hyper tuned chooper motocyle freeroaming streets of Detroit awsome, Besides chopper, ive had fondness to Mclaren F1 its my favorite sportscar from childhood. if any game had playable(Or offer mods to bring that car) Mclaren F1 I must drive it! :D

[@sesimsons]

I spend hours to get the color of my F1 right :D a nice combination of green and orange with some small decals. This was so great. I also loved the hydraulics, neon lights and minor details as changing the depth of the wheels. Pure awesomeness!

[@acvarlik]

I was 12 when it was first release and let me tell you the story of a turkish kid at that time.. At year 2000 i had my circumcision surgeon done. In turkish culture if you had circumcision , your parents usually give party to the relatives and friends and you usually dress as a wizard and lie down on the bed, face the stupid jokes such as “did doctor cut it all or just tiny a bit?” And so on. During this party, relatives and friends give you some money so you can buy things. Ofc with the help of my lovely family i bought a hp pc and sidewinder precision racing wheel. I was a pc noob cause it was my first pc and didnt know how to connect it to the usb. It was so obvious none of my friends were asking me the question but i was connecting it to another port. Probably printer port i dont remember. It doesnt even fit i m so stupid. Anyway, when i finally connected it my life has changed. I played it A LOT. 5 hours a day, whole week. Oh btw, i was a good student either. My parents are lovely they let me play it as much as i wanted. Then i discovered to download car skins and played with them as well. Sf cruise mode was the best and ofc cadillac eldorado was my fav. Ahhh midtown madness 2 i truly miss you...

[@ORLY911]

Gonna review the 3rd one? That's the one I played

[@SoFZlodei24]

Oh man, this brings back so many memories. I remember how I was deleting players folder to gain access to all of the cars and how there was one building in SF that you could climb and then jump to several other roofs and many many more stuff about this game.

[@still_dre_]

too bad they don't make games like these anymore

[@valletas]

They dont make because people dont buy them

[@trolatrolatrola]

The modding scene was insane for this game. I remember driving around San Francisco on a DeLorean and going up stupid ramps and onto floating platforms everywhere. Good times.

[@megadark12]

Monster Truck Madness 1 and 2 next please :)

[@Innov8vMike]

This was my childhood. Downloading new cars and car models. New textures for traffic. New traffic AI. Oh and the sites like MM2Xtreme! So many memories!

[@still_dre_]

Will we see a MM3 review soon?

[@InfinityR319]

Believe it or not, bus enthusiasts in Hong Kong used to use MM2 for their bus driving simulation until OMSI came out. That's how I learn about the existence of the game

[@roieshalom6478]

Same about me. Used to have a constant bus route in the game and ride it everyvday

[@faizanqamar2797]

still better physics than cyberpunk 2077

[@pdub7562]

This brings back memories, 'cnr' with City Bus getting stuck down some alley I think may be the most fun I've had playing online. Knew the maps by heart, the hours I would spend being a bus just doing a commute. A few years ago I through out all my games, boxes were long gone, nothing of collectable value, but MM2 was alone in surviving the cull and watching this and reading the comments I think I made the right choice. I'll probably never play again but my god it was good.

[@JacksonJacoy]

8k veiws in 1 hour!? wow LGR is getting big. it makes me kinda sad.

[@Ekornbiff]

Why sad?

[@MRTOWELRACK]

As long as the quality is kept up, I'm happy for LGR. Clint puts a lot of work in and I appreciate his efforts for it.

[@LGR]

More views means more resources for me to make better videos. Can't say I find it sad at all!

[@gordlord561]

I don't know, above 500k subs is a pretty big deal if you ask me, but LGR deserves way more in my opinion as no reviewer I've watched puts this much effort into their reviews, at least now, old Angry Joe used to be my favorite.

[@praveensharma9893]

ganymedeIV4 yeah sure... My cringed little ass

[@farmhousemedia3000]

Oh man! Am I the only one who LOVES image textures in these old PC games?

[@Larry]

Christ, those "British-isms" in the game are cringy as fuck. Borderline Xenophobic. :S

[@fastbreak333]

I apologize on behalf of our country. We didn't know any better.

[@TheMoogleMaster]

I guess they were trying to go for an Austin Powers feel but failed.

[@MyManiacGamer]

Larry Bundy Jr I love the british-isms in the game not cringey at all haha

[@capt_nugget]

Larry Bundy Jr oh hey there didn't expect to find you here!

[@Banzay27]

Borderline xenophobic, my ass. Take a joke, Junior. Hell, the surfer dude for San Francisco is no less parodical.

[@Geforcefly]

I remember playing this game for countless hours back when the MSN Gaming Zone was a thing.

[@8bitMicroFan]

Played it a lot when I was younger. Midtown Madness 2 and Crimson Skies were included in the software package that came with my first PC, that I bought in late 2001. It was also the first game I modded. I loved to drive through San Francisco in a moon rover!

[@rodrigopinchiari4027]

GOD! I LOVE your videos man! Nostalgy for life! Greetings from Brazil!

[@camotech1314]

I remember this game, had the demo on a PC gamer disc!! Menu music is exactly what was huge in England at the time, we loved our Jungle and DnB!! 😁😁😁

[@KoopalingLarry]

I've always loved Midtown Madness 3 as it was the game that introduced me to the franchise and have had it for my original Xbox since the game came out. But it's very intresting to see this first sequel and the original game, Chicago Edition, and what they had in store that eventually lead to the third game I'm so fond of. Excellent reviews, LGR!

[@cameronfarley5910]

1:16-1:40 "Sorry mom, and thanks for putting up with our crap." LOL (my computer didn't do the base justice; I never noticed it.) Oh man, this was one of my favorite games growing up. The Panoz Roadster was my favorite car to drive in this game; I just loved driving it everywhere with reckless abandon. So much so my parents would vow I would never be getting a driver's license after watching me play for a few minutes.

[@zepto5945]

Chicago - San Francisco - London. Same as Watch Dogs.

[@DemoniteBL]

Holy shit I'm having massive nostalgia right now. i forgot this game existed but just randomly saw Midtown Madness 1 just now and thought to myself "Wait, don't I know this?"

[@GTAMADDOG]

I spent a lot of my early PC years (born 1991 - no PC until 1998) playing this multiplayer via Zone (MSN Games). We were on dial-up 56k internet and I used to get shouted at by my dad if I didn't reconnect to the internet by the 59th consecutive minute or if I tried to connect when he was using the house phone. I remember a lot of people (me included) using modified cars and it was always amusing seeing the classic Mini flying around the map at breakneck speeds if it was a car you hadn't downloaded because the mini was used as a place holder. There was a skyscraper in San Francisco that was full of slanted windows on one side, if you could get on to those in a fast car you could use the entire building as a giant ramp. I haven't thought about most of that in years, so this has been a great rememberence comment for me 😂

[@WWELoWM]

Hey LGR! I couldn't help but notice the big blue box Racing Madness in the background of your intro, I bought a exact same one just a few weeks ago still unsealed and I'm surprised to see another copy of it. They must be hard to come by, hope to see a review of it soon!

[@HilltopGaming]

I explicitly remember this game being featured at a Gateway store when my parents got their first computer together. Luckily x many years later I finally found it again and gave it the proper love (and of course, some mods) that it deserved!

[@CosmicLatte]

THIS WAS MY FAVORITE! I'd always be in school telling my friends how much I wanted to drive when I got home. I didn't even race, I just used to cruising option. I loved this game.

[@Peter-nj5mv]

I used to play this online. Usually it would be like a king of the hill where we all tried to stay on and push others off that tall building near the coast in SF. With mods it became even more crazy, roads everywhere in the sky. It was so amazing

[@metalmaniac759]

Really cool seeing this game again. Remember playing it all the time on the computer. On cruise mode as well. Seeing certain locations again really gives back memories.