Midnight Club 3 : DUB Edition (PSP)

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If you enjoy this free ROM on Emulator Games then you will also like similar titles Midnight Club 3 - DUB Edition and Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition Remix. Thank the Lloyd that the game doesn't require you to reload the game every time you have to restart a specific race -- now why can't the entire game just cruise along and move quick from task to task just like that? After defeating all racers and tournaments in San Diego, the player is introduced to Vince ( Kiff VandenHeuvel), a mechanic from Detroit. As high as the PSP raises the bar for handheld gaming, there are standards set down by portable games that still have their purposes. If you could have picked points to race to in multiplayer, or had an in-game menu of modes to jump into while in Cruise Mode, it would have been a killer party game.

If you can stand the wait, there's a lot of fun to be had behind the wheel once you reach the end of the line. The mixing of the background music, the sound effects, and the car noises is also never ideal, always just sounding like a big hodge-podge of sound. Even the E3 build of Burnout for PSP, which spun off of a series that's always fit like a love glove, the developers admitted that they still had a lot of tuning to do with the analog controller. We were disappointed to find that nothing much about your multiplayer stats are saved to the Memory Stick -- the game saves every other frivolous detail about how many miles you've traveled, how many wins you've racked up, and how many burnouts you've burned, so that's a missed opportunity there. There are still issues that I have with the game -- its framerate holds it back from being perfect, and as an exact port of a game many street racers already burned through, there's not much to get back behind the wheel for -- but the difference between 70 seconds of loadtime and 7 seconds of loadtime (still a substantial wait for a handheld game) would have been the difference between a clunker and a keeper.There are even other vehicles, including trucks and motorcycles that you can customize the crap out of. Amazingly, these are aspects that I was actually able to get over -- play it for a couple of hours, and might get to hardly notice the chugging. The owner, Apone (Dexter Tillis), introduces himself, but is distracted by his most prized possession: a 1964 gold painted Chevrolet Impala that he customized and is constantly tinkering with. Like previous installments in the series, the game is an arcade-style racer and focuses on wild, high-speed racing, rather than realistic physics and driving.

The game features a number of graphical views after the player crashes into certain objects, or travels across particular stretches of road. The player begins with a choice of six cars: a 1964 Chevrolet Impala, a 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, a 2004 Dodge Neon SRT-4, a 2004 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT-S, a Volkswagen Golf R32 Mk4, or a 2004 Volkswagen Jetta ( Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix added the option of a Scion tC). According to the developer Rockstar San Diego, the three cities present in the initial 2005 release of the game were chosen due to their significance to the game's automotive and racing themes. The same goes for multiplayer -- if you want to challenge an opponent to a rematch, most modes require you to reload the whole game every time.

I'd even go as far as arguing that this is the very best entry in the series and closest to the original vision of what the game could be, though some may disagree. Every button can be mapped to any function in the game, so if you're used to the Xbox version of MC3, you can toss the gas and brakes up on the triggers (and if you really feel like it, you can go with digital steering instead of the analog controller.

Couple this sense of speed with really, really tight control that allows you to make very precise movements through traffic (even with the PSP’s notoriously nearly universally hated analog nub) and you’ll find yourself addicted to racing in no time. He later points to a Lamborghini Murciélago and says it is the prize to whatever car club turns out the best street racer. Even with this loading problem, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition is a great game that you should add to your collection. Adding power-ups makes races a little more crafty, and the variety of power-ups is widely different from your standard kart racer pick-up set.Initially, the only city you can race in is San Diego, but within no time at all you’ll find yourself racing through the streets of Detroit and Atlanta. If you enjoy this free ROM on Emulator Games then you will also like similar titles Midnight Club - L. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It was released on December 19, 2012, on PlayStation Network for the PS3, but was removed after a passing of time due to licensing issues. It took me a long, long time to warm to this PSP game at all; I wouldn't expect most other gamers to give it that much time.