Yo legit. I am a person who would hate a censor version or radio verison of songs to the bone but this game made me give the censored version of Real Big a pass due to how much it was such a childhood song for me playing this game. Still love it to this day
@@Juanguar I think for me its the visual customization and the map. It's better then most nowadays and it's alive with racers and cops but to be fair the cops suck lol. Not gonna lie a lil bias cause I lived half my life there and visit all the time it's pretty accurate. But hopefully the rumors are ture that there is a new one in development.
I remember some youtuber saying that NFS Underground presented early 2000s car culture as shown by The Fast and the Furious while Midnight Club presented 2000s car culture as it actually was in real life
THIS 100%. MC3 was whacky and embraced the uglier trends while also showcasing all the Cool trends as well. From Lowriders, Crotch Rockets, Choppers, Slam Vans, Donks, and more...legit ahead of it's time.
NFSU was more tuner car culture when midnight club was more mainstream car culture. Both great games I really can’t pick between em cuz both games were the first of their kind. Kinda unfair to compare them.
R* Caring about the community? Fuck no. Literally the xbox 1/ps4 GTAV doesn't even work properly anymore, i guess fuck anyone too broke for a series or who can't find a 5 eh?
@@logandehaven8537 Yeah the special abilities were awesome I remember one scenario during a race, I was speeding my way down to the finish checkpoint in a Camaro in 4th place, thinking I was gonna lose then I used Roar just at the right moment and sent them all flying into side roads, and I won What a game 😁
I still can't get over how a 2005 Midnight Club game has *working, functional* butterfly valves on the bug catcher scoop. Yet 17 years later the latest Need for Speed games still don't. Then there is recolorable trim, exhausts, NITROUS. Louvers, Mud guards, WHEELIE BARS that *actually impact your launch with a muscle car.* MNC3 was just way ahead of its time, if 17 years later games still haven't caught up.
Don't forget the hydraulics!!. It still amazes me that this game had SUVs, trucks, and motorcycles, and hot rods. Till this day, most racing games don't have all of them one
Also, some cars like Murcielago, me-4-12, slr etchad active wings that would pop up at 100 and pop down under braking.Some cars like diablo, f355 had headlights that would pop up under tunnels and dark alleys
I remember in each city there's at least one race where it literally was only the finish checkpoint and it testing your ability to find the shortest path to get there. Sure you can check the map mid race but that doesn't always translate to a win
@@Rudenbehr nah, the hardest were the open-ended checkpoints where you had to find the fastest route to chain them together and make it to the finishing checkpoint after doing so.
the fact that this game was so ahead of its time game-design wise (unlike nfsu2) and still manages to show 2000's culture like few other is just so amazing to me. truly one of the best racing games of all time
@@Hoboken90what are you talking about, midnight club 3 remix had 4 cities, and while the cops didnt do anything in free roam, at least they still had an effect on races. the remix edition had 94 vehicles compared to nfsu2 which only had 31, and there were even. mc3 had so many cool features like the abilities (agro, roar, and zone) and the unique types of races like the unordered races and autocross. nfsu2 is a great game, but clearly you dont know what the fuck youre talking about 🤦♂️💀
@@Hoboken90 Not even close NFS have the tunning options that MC3 has. Reducing bodykits as tunning options is just stupid. Midnight Club 3: - 4 cities. +80 vehicles options - Infinite customization options +100 musics on playlist - Not cringe bs story - Insane sensation of speed. -Variety type of races. NFSU 2: - Riders on the storm.
It is one of the very few games of that era that I would say has aged well No cringy story, just a nice, simple context to adress the great gameplay The fact that they took most of if not all the realism away for the sake of fun is the reason this game is so good to come back to still today. My favourite supercar of all time is the 1st gen murciélago because of this game Also, really would like to see you reviewing and/or playing some of these old racing games.
The lack of a story or tons of cutscenes for SURE has helped it age better and prevented it from "Dating" itself too much to an era. The era is presents becomes charming instead of "Cringy" because it's not "in your face". Less is more!
I’m glad I grew up with this era of gaming. The games were challenging enough where once you finally beat that difficult level or race, you felt a since of accomplishment. Midnight club 3, NFS hot pursuit 2 and underground are some of my favorite games of all time
One thing that I love from the original Midnight Club trilogy (not just the third one) is traveling through cities across the world. Modern day games have huge maps but it’s only one city. For instance, in Midnight Club II you travel from the U.S. to Europe to Asia. They’re so different that you simply cannot to this naturally in one big city map. And it’s just so cool.
I loved these last two videos, can really see how passionate you were making them especially this one. Seems to be the time again to setup a PS2 emulator and play Midnight Club again because I'm hooked now. PS: You were my most watched creator last year.
I appreciate your support. I needed to hear it ngl. Specially In a time where I feel like I'm past my YT "Glory days" I'm still doing my best to make content I'm excited about!
This truly was the golden era of racing games. NFS is catching back up and aren't bad right now, but holy shit; Midnight Club or something similar to that really needs to return. I don't think it will though.
So many childhood memories with this game. One distinct memory I have is me spending hours in the garage with "Ratt Pakk - Spaced Out" playing in the background whilst I dump all my cash into customising my Eclipse, then once I left the garage I remember the mechanic complimenting how good my ride looked. Oh yeah and I can't forget some of the nostalgic chill tracks that played like Hi-tech Jazz, Jupiter Jazz, Jaguar and Quetzal. Or especially "Get your Shyne on" when you get a prize car.
I have a memory where I found out it had split screen for my cousin after moving back to my home town. Was so happy. Also the eclipse was so fun to customize.
My family had an original Xbox about fall 2004. On it, me and my dad would play Project Gotham Racing 2. That was, until Midnight Club 3 released around my birthday in 2005. An earliest memory of mine was seeing an early promotional trailer of the game, with the new for the time Chrysler 300 and various other cars - had to have been Holiday 2004, because of the anticipated ip that was GTA San Andreas . I would spend nights on end playing the game even when I wasn’t supposed to.
This game was actually the best racing game I ever played. Not to shit on any other racing games but prime Midnight Club Dub Edition Remix on the PS2 is untouchable to this day.
I would throw hands IRL against someone saying Midnight Club 3 was worse than literally any other arcade racer. Shit, I'd rack my shotgun for that. My favorite, and probably the least reproducible parts of this game nowadays are 1. How hard the game is, and how despite that you ALWAYS want to keep trying and DO eventually get it, and do so without gimmicks like rewind. And 2. The soundtrack, ESPECIALLY/PARTICULARLY in all the menus, loading screens, event triggers, and the garage. If they took FH3 or maybe Dirt 3 or the original Race Driver: Grid and reskinned it to be a remake of Midnight Club 3, keeping all the songs and menu stuff, but adding new cars, more detailed locations, and more customization; I'd drop a legit $100-$150 on it for whatever ultimate edition they came out with. Just leave the stupid microtransactions and DRM out and don't push the physics closer to the Sim side than the Horizon series. And add car meets within active multiplayer. Like 50+ player car meets, I want a whole fucking SEMA/Street Car Takeover/Texas 2k event or whatever in my free-roam racing game. *EDIT:* 7:03, dude the Bugatti Veyron was SO fuckin ugly, too. No comparison against the F1, that thing is a modern 7.5 or 8, and a classic 9 or 9.5 compared to the Veryon being like... a 4. Bugatti really stepped it up with the Chiron, to the point where if I was given a Veyron, I'd probably just sell it since it was so ugly and buy a Calvo Motorsports CM1600 or higher Viper, instead. 16:00 or w/e: Yeah, I've heard this game be called "The Dark Souls of racing games" and I have to agree, but with the caveat I stated above about how you ALWAYS want to keep trying.
3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>LA I'm bouta rip LA a new asshole. MF game was a tech demo for GTAV, still a good game, but not great. Much like NFS Unbound. 3 though? Literally on a tier of it's own.
@@BladedAngel Yea I played MC3 in childhood days and only played MCLA for the first time in around 2013 and to be honest it wasn't that good and didn't get me hooked like MC3 did, I do appreciate it had cockpit view and interior customisation though, what really put me off the game was the weird car handling that just felt delayed and the game just didn't feel as crazy fast as MC3. I tried MCLA Remix on PSP instead and it's pretty much MC3 in Los Angeles map of MC2 - I liked it more.
I played a demo in Best Buy, and IMMEDIATELY had to buy it. There is no song that a game introduced me to that stuck around with me longer than 'Real Big.' I STILL listen to it, from time to time!
Finally someone else who thinks mc3 is the best racing game ever made, loved watching this video this is exactly how I felt playing this game as a kid. Never actually finished it, just kept doing whatever races I wanted to lmao
I put so many hours into this game growing up. I remember renting it and played it nonstop. Later on I got it for my birthday and that was a wrap. The soundtrack alone had me playing this game, then you have dope cars that you can customize however you want? Yeah, this game had me in a chokehold.... Good times ♥️
oh man. i remember replaying this game a couple of years ago and being blown away by the menu just like you described. the intro scene gave me chills like i was 5 years old again. i remember being COMPLETELY blown away by the fact that you can even change the color of the trim on your car, nothing that came after it can match the customization options this game had. undoubtedly the best racing game ive played and ever will play, most wanted being a close second. though im surprised you didnt talk about the soundtrack in depth, its so perfect (as per rockstar tradition), the game had the best songs of every popular 2000s genre under its sleeve. it really had everything
Imo The most timeless games of all time for the PS2 era are: - Midnight Club Dub Edition Remix - NBA Street Vol. 2 - Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 - Test Drive 2002 - Freedom Fighters
the fact that u made a whole video about this game and used the tekken tag 2 customization song in the background just made this video so much better. u have some good ass taste in games my man
A more accurate title would be "The most complete racing game ever". Does it have the best story, driving, graphics, content, customisation? Maybe not, but it has all of it
This was my favorite PS2 game that I ever played, and still is. I love the difficulty that it has compared to Need For Speed Carbon. It's been years since I last played this game and watching this video makes me want to play it again.
i remember playing this and the remix version of MCLA on the psp. damn i still remember the 'wacky but optimal for me order' of the checkpoints on some of those unordered checkpoint races lol
When it comes to having fun this game knew exactly how to keep kids occupied without getting sick of the unoriginal "Race everyone to climb up the ladder" plotline through different arcade modes. My friend and I would spend the whole day just playing Capture The Flag with the AI and it was gas😭🔥
This was THE game I played! This was my favorite racing game. I loved everything about this and spent years beating this game and free roaming. This remains the only game I ever got to 100% and I agree it's the best tuner racing game ever. I WILL DIE ON THAT HILL.
Recently replayed this and played through MC Los Angeles for the first time in December after a loooooong stint of playing through NFS Underground 1-2/ Most Wanted (2005)/ Carbon/ Undercover and… Midnight Club just has that “zing” to it that NFS (other than MW and Carbon imo) just doesn’t have! MC3 Dub Edition (OG & Remix) & LA just has this balls to the wall-ness to them that makes you want to actually struggle through them! To this very day, I have a complete blast replaying through them with different cars and even toying around with different types of customizations! I can’t say the same with NFS post-Undercover…or even just Undercover itself 🤷🏽♂️ Edit: my only gripe with MC3 is how you can’t customize the ‘94 Impala SS or any of the Exotics very much. They completely won me over in MCLA when they allowed me to apply bodykits & a widebody to it while MAKING THE NEON/INTERIOR FREE TO CUSTOMIZE*!!! *except for the seats, steering wheels, and gauges, which you have to buy
Yall remember that one race in san diego (i think it was from one of Vanessas race) where a viper just comes out of nowhere and just stops. Honestly favorite racing game of all time I loved taking those jumps and just doing back flips and landing them
I do remember that race! It was called “Rev Limit.” The Viper that always appears in it is actually a reference to the second game, whose first boss drove a car that resembled a Viper.
I love the races where it's literally just a single checkpoint on the other side of town. It feels like an all out brawl to get ahead, whatever that means in the context lmao
Gosh so much nostalgia with this video. I remember doing races where its only the red checkpoint and you just have the freedom to go wherever as long as you get there first. Damn this game was so ahead of its time and is still my favorite racing game.
I played this game as a kid but, since I didn't speak english at the time, I didn't even know there was a "story" line. I'd just play ramming into traffic, tipping buses around to make road-blocks (for no reason), and I had sooo much fun without even knowing you could actually race.
Never played a game with the checkpoint system like this. Always found one ai breaking away from the others and always followed that guy, because you know what he's upto..
This is my favorite racing game of all time, to this day no racing game has done what Mc3 Remix has done imo and its sad, i ow so much to it, im grateful to have gotten the chance to play it as a kid, it shaped who I am today edit: i also love McLA and gets very close to Mc3 the only problem i have with it is the car list, compared to Mc3 theres so much to be desired but still great game nonetheless
this game was my childhood and I'm glad, every second spent in this game has a vibe that it lives up to and you really feel like every frame had care put into it. the game feels so special.
im tired of this colourful rainbow lameo type racing game theme like Forza or The Crew. We need something cool and dark like Midnight Club3. Might even make it Rated M But I'm tired of all this "friendly" wanting to include everyone and be all happy and rainbows
the handling alone of this game is a different genre of racing game compared to any NFS game, NFS handling is semi-realistic, MC3 is hyper arcade more suitable for arcade machines.
I LOVED this game. I'll never forget how hyped I was in 4th grade waiting for this game to come out. I wish I kept the Gameinformer magazine I had with it on the cover. My hot take is that MCLA is better all around, but this game was such a building block for the series, and I had an absolute blast with it. Not to mention when the Remix came out with another city and more cars. And the car list in general was just amazing for it's time. If MCLA had 3's car list, MCLA would've been a 10/10. I'll be forever waiting for MCLA's sequel, but I'll check your MCLA video when it drops!
I had two racing games growing up with the PlayStation 1: NFS Porshe Unleashed and Test Drive 6. They both just came with the console, I got it used, and between the two, NFS was the one I had the most fun driving around in. Test Drive had great presentation, and I still listen to the amazing soundtrack to this day, but I could never enjoy the driving in it. I never figured out the handling model, and so I just gently and carefully drove around the levels to see what was in them. NFS however, not only handled much better, I had a very inviting and helpful tutorial, where you had to avoid orange cones, drive down a piece of road, turn around and drive back. I understood the controls and managed to win some races. The game was prettier too, to this day I'm very impressed with what they did on the PS1. So going forward I had this imprint, Need For Speed just meant quality to me, and I couldn't be bothered to look anywhere else outside that franchise. Other racing games just didn't exist.
Midnight club 3 city feel big is due to the fact rocket star used the map unlike other games that will keep u in a current street or area in a city multiple time. Midnight club did something lots if games fail to due and that was utilizing everything
This was my childhood racing game. So good, I had to watch this video to be reminded about how good it is. So good it was the benchmark I had already known but didn't realize I held so high.
I’m so glad I found a midnight club game at eb games a few years ago I’m going to go play it again because of this video thanks for reminding me about this great series bladed
The customization was so much fun in this game and the severely under estimated drifting mechanics. Where if you shift to the 2nd highest gear like 3rd gear with a 4 speed or 5th gear in a 6 speed while drifting you get a stupid amount of speed boost from it to the point you reach the game's speed limit. This game was just underrated by everyone
Midnight club 3 is the game where me and my cousin will all gather around to play since the 2000s It's the game we talked the most about from that era, just after GTA SA Since our ps2s broke down through the years. The game stayed on our memories for years The cousins and my brothers moved on to different games, while I stayed with other racing games Last year, I heard the ps4 does have an actual emulator for ps2 games It's just that it's locked and only used for just a few games The only way to unlock it was with jailbreak I had it jailbreaken, midnight club run surprisingly well and not only that. My youngest brother who never seen the ps2 played His cousin of similar age where coming almost daily to play it, to the point they are making a mess around I had taken the ps4 with the good old boys and we had a good amount of fun Especially when we were waiting for others to gather to hangout Last week, got a Xbox ss Since u could emlate ps2, running ps2 games a lot better than ps4, since u get actual options to modify the emlation Because of this game, I got my old cousins replaying good old ps2, got my youngest brother and his cousins into this era Heck sometimes he would choose midnight over new games on the Xbox I wish it would get remaster, but I don't want it if it's gonna turn into a cash grap like GTA trilogy Hope the legacy never gets burned down
Please, please, please revive the playtrough you started on CarTaku. I played this game for the first time last year via emulator and I absolutely love it.
Tbh, a couple years ago, and still even today, I'm still thinking that how the race system in this game is still the most realistic in terms of street racing. It's just felt like it's actually an illegal street race, no barriers, no limitations, just checkpoints. You had to know where you'll going through the city or you just gonna get lost. This system just kicks NFS races out of the window. The track layouts also just felt high speed. There just a little moment of having to slow down in the race. Sure that some tracks had quite a sharp corner, but I didn't mind it. Then some of them had some kind of special moments going on, which made the races feel less bland (well, even though sone of them are more annoying rather than entertaining). Some events had the moment where there will be bunch of parked cars on the sidewalk, which is one of the praise point in the NFS Unbound. Like, bruh man MC3 already did this 17 years ago. And if you think it only appears on the race, then just check the MCLA instead. The tracks also give you oppertunity to take some shortcuts, which just adds a cool point for me. The physics in this game was also good (maybe not a lot, but still). Tuners felt balanced, muscle and choppers felt drifty, exotics and sport bikes felt grippy, and else. Altough most of the time I always went to drifting, the thing about drifting in this game is that it just felt satisfiying when it pulled off perfectly. And the combination between the tracks and how physics work just made the races felt so adrenaline. About the AI, so far the only thing I found stupid is that they can use the cars that just WAY faster than yours, while you can't. Overall, they seems fine to me. One more thing I found is that it just felt dangerous whenever I hear the AI start using their nitrous. And I have to anticipate on how things will go. So this just makes the nitrous can be an actual treat against you rather than just helping the peformance of the cars. So yeah, this game stay as my most favourite, even more than MW05
18:10 just look at the exhaust of the lambo, it wobbles in place, love that detail! Ah how I miss this game. I had even the DUB edition for my icy silver PSP at the time. Man my heat hurts right now…
Ahhhh the memories. I remember playing the original Dub edition (none remixed), and always having a blast. And always starting with the 64 impala... and that made me actually try to look at getting one whenever I first got my license lmao. But I'd say MC3, GT3/4, and the NASCAR games really defined my childhood.
Been playing Midnight Club 3 since I was 4 in the early 2000s my tiny brain couldn't comprehend why music went so hard. Rockstar really put me on some good ass music (I'm also playing through again with PCXS2)
I still listen to music from this to this day. This game is what influenced my love of cars and it's criminal that they haven't made a new one in forever!
Man this video just summed up every single feeling i had of the game and never heard anyone speak of, and the freaking jokes you throw in are hilarious. This video must live through eternity. It's imperative.
Another thing I wanted to mention about old racing games in particular is how unapologetically provocative they were. Back then, there were girls posing on top of cars in the most revealing outfits left and right. Nowadays, we have to settle with, well whatever the hell Tess was wearing cuz everyone is too afraid of getting canceled.
This was a banger in Mexico, we have stores called "tienditas" and in those tienditas there were arcades with xbox games such as GTASA and Deffjam FFNY, we spent hours playing inside those tienditas, golden memories. Best racing game in history
Bruh I made the Mille factory go 250 miles per hour with three nitro slots and zone to avoid crashing to much. The muci I sold after like 20 minutes of beating the game I definitely have to say that Lamborghini has become my all time favorite car I loved this game so much like I never played anything else besides this 💙
I wish I played this growing up (or at all) because it honestly looks better than NFS Underground. This game looks like it has way more Character than NFS. And 80+ vehicles is amazing for any game to have nowadays let alone back in the day. Also bonus points for Your Sunset playing in the background 😎
Midnight Club 3 was the best Midnight Club ever including L.A. which I sold shortly after I bought it brand new. If you buy midnight club L.A. then prepare to be disappointed. It looked SO good. I was really excited about everything I knew about the game going in and it actually was sort of fun even knowing I couldn't just outskill the A.I. because it's a Midnight Club game. The first three games in this series were the pinnacle of arcade racers and the third one added real cars and in depth customization which Midnight Club L.A. actually expanded upon. The customization was on the next level, it is actually worth checking out just for that. So why did I put down Midnight Club L.A. and never play it again? Well I was progressing through the game at a pretty steady rate for a while, then I encountered a race that was just kicking my ass... and I was fine with that, even with all the rubber banding that was going on. I would get way ahead and the A.I. would magic-boost right up to me and pass me near the end and I was like yeah, I know "Midnight Club" it'll let me win eventually. But then one time I got so far ahead so close to the end of the race that I knew I was going to win... then a civilian car materialized in the middle of the road as I slammed into it in a T-bone collision. I don't think I ever came closer to snapping a game in half - not even Stunt Man (which is one of those frustrating games that you LOVE even as you joyfully fantasize about destroying the disc because you always feel like you're just one more try away from nailing the stunt). I'm fine with "magic-boost" rubber banding, I'm fine with A.I. slamming me into walls, that's all supposed to be part of the game but you don't materialize civilian cars two inches in front of me as I'm about to win as a rubber banding tool. That is something you just don't do. I've always suspected that kind of thing had something to do with the series dying.
Midnight Club will forever be a goat amongst all the racing games. And tbh, I'd still play this over any NFS newer than 2010 besides Hot Pursuit Remastered as well as any Forza & Gran Turismo.
I played NFS carbon and underground 2 and I also played Gran Touristmo before the Midnight Club franchise. I still fell in love with MC above the other franchises. The Open Maps were designed the best, very nice cars, great tuning. I loved the story. I loved the Race designs even more. I loved how in Races the track isn’t limited. If you missed a corner you could try to find a different route to the checkpoint. The music was A tier ! Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition was my favorit. LA was great too. MC is to this day my fav. I 100%ed 3 Dub Edition 6 times. And btw I don’t think it’s that hard. I really love the speed in this game
After playing MC3 and hearing that MCLA was announced, I was hyped as hell. When I could finally order the game I was so excited that I couldn't sleep the 2 nights until it arrived. I had so save my allowance to buy it but it was totally worth it. I would pay 100€ for a new part with this quality.
This game is so nostalgic. Short story time. My brother and I were both home from school because we were sick so he started playing this game. I was like 10 and never played a video game in my life. He let me customize a Nissan 350Z because that was my favorite car. Taught me the controls went to the bathroom to vomit and I played a little bit and I was instantly hooked so it was literally the first video game I ever played
Played all midnight clubs, they are all great games in there own right and would totally understand why some people pefer different ones in the series. With that said, midnight club 2 is my favorite of the series
I played through the story mode and left a bunch of side races to race. So once I finished all the races I had over a million dollars to just customize all my cars. I was so happy as a kid.
Back when Rockstar was thirsty and go above and beyond. Sometimes I do wish for this game to come out with another sequel but with how modernized games are nowadays, especially if Rockstar do a remaster of this game and it get the GTA Trilogy definitive edition treatment. My heart can't take the thought of that.
Three letters express my excitement whilst playing this game... XLR, the Cadillac XLR to be exact. Favorite car of the game after I modded it within an inch of it's life, won countless races, enjoyed jumping 100s of yards... good times, good times.
Owned this during the ps2 run and still have my copy of the game! I love how you brought back all the nostalgia. Great work and you got a subscriber out of me
Really wish this game would get a remake!!! Some of ps2 games hit harder than todays games but I really loved this game and you can have a lot of cars you were not limited to 5
I just finished a playthrough today. The game has so much replay value because of the car choices and AI, it's ridiculous. And I love what you said about the player actually learning the city. Hit restart race until you understand the shortcuts of each race well enough for you to drive like shit and end up in 6th in the middle of the race and say, "yeah, I can still win this". And then you do! Man, great game and a great video
