Midtown Madness 3

by Digital Illusions CE (DICE)

Product Features

• Prepare for wide-open racing in two incredibly realistic cities -- more than 30 vehicles and 14 different racing careers to choose from
• Speed your way through over 50 missions as you speed along, looking for hidden routes, shortcuts and hideouts
• Choose a career as a limousine driver, pizza deliverer, taxi driver, secret agent and police officer -- each career has its own challenges, in incredibly in-depth city environments
• Advanced graphics, audio and voiceover effects for real racing thrills
• Challenge friends with online play and new downloadable content

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000086JXB
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 17, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,590 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Midtown Madness 3 provides gamers with madcap, over-the-top racing and driving excitement in two of the world's most fascinating cities: Paris and Washington, D.C.

Midtown Madness 3, the latest in the popular "Midtown Madness" franchise, allows gamers to get behind the wheel of more than 30 vehicles and compete in exciting race modes such as Blitz, Checkpoint, and Cruise. With a robust Career mode, featuring 14 driving careers, Midtown Madness 3 delivers the rush and excitement of street racing, while challenging gamers to put their driving skills to the ultimate test.

Product Description

Midtown Madness 3 puts you behind the wheel of the world's fastest racing machines for high-speed action and adventure!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun, highly addictive, appeals to all ages, September 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Midtown Madness 3 (Video Game)

This game is a hoot. Pick a car (and earn more cars over time), pick a city (Paris or D.C.), and start driving. You can just cruise around, or race (against yourself, against another player, or against virtual players), or do a job (deliver packages, be a limo driver, be an ambulance, be a police officer, etc.). The cities are huge and rendered with incredible amounts of detail, so even just cruising around is fun. And, everything is smashable so you can drive the way you've always wanted to. This software was obviously a labor of love. Quality is very high compared to most of the other XBox titles I have played.

I'm not a big fan of racing games normally, but I like this one because it it set in cities instead of a boring race track. I feel like I know Paris and D.C. thanks to all the time I've spent in them. By the way, you can visit the Louvre, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, etc. in Paris and the various monuments in D.C.

Everyone enjoys this game. That includes me (age 42) and my wife (34); my daughters (6 and 4), my father in law, and my father (who immediately announced plans to buy an XBox of his own).

I'm frankly puzzled at some of the negative opinions others have expressed. Every person I've witnessed playing this game has become an instant fan.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The *must have* game for Xbox Live enthusiasts!, November 30, 2003

By 

DarkDan "DarkDan" (Norman, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midtown Madness 3 (Video Game)

I have completed the single-player mode of Midtown Madness 3, unlocked all vehicles and play MM3 online at least 3 hours per day (yes you read that correctly). I am an avid Xbox and PS2 console player as well as an Xbox Live devotee.

Midtown Madness isn't your normal racing game. In fact, the series has become famous for its "fly by the seat of your pants" method of getting the job done no matter what the route, damage or life threatening moves you need to accomplish. The single player mode includes careers you can progress through in Paris and Washington DC from delivering pizzas to full on police pursuits. You can also select "cruise" mode and speed around the two cities looking for special paintjobs to unlock for each vehicle. But online mode is where this game really shines.

You do not need to unlock any vehicles to use them for online play, but paintjobs can be unlocked to use online and two secret, undocumented super cars are available if you have the patience to get them. In addition, the game offers numerous unique and interesting vehicles that can be downloaded free-of-charge, via Xbox Live. Once online, you can choose a standard checkpoint race, or a number of different variations of "tag" where you're it and must tag others, or the other way around. My favorite mode is where one player starts off as a cop in a patrol car, and must collide into other players turning them into cops as well. The winner is the last man standing, who usually finds an entire fleet of patrol cars chasing him/her across the city at breakneck speeds. The best part of this type of challenge is anyone can pick up the controller and understand "you've just gotta run from the cops." I've sold this game to friends and family that have tried it once at my house.

Midtown Madness 3 is the most exciting and interesting "non-serious" racing game available. The single player mode offers a variety of fun and interesting challenges, while online play ensures that you never have the same challenge twice. This game is a "must have" title for anyone who has an Xbox Live gamertag.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Race? What Race?, June 26, 2003

By 

Michael Bowen "cobb_at_mdcbowen_dot_org" (Redondo Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midtown Madness 3 (Video Game)

There's one problem with MM3, and that is you cannot get outside of your car, walk and look around. The driving play is so immersive and the environments so recognizeable that you can't help just driving around saying "Hey, I know that place!".

MM3 is silly driving and smash 'em up fun. I've been online a couple times and people are just happy to play in 'cruise' mode, with absolutely no objective to the game but to talk to each other while driving around Paris (or DC) wrecking into people, objects or each other.

The arcade style of the game is very much like Midnight Club but the controls are an order of magnitude better. I'll just say it: Midnight Club sucks as compared to Midtown Madness 3. It's fairly challenging and I'll probably get back to it, but the free roam driving is so much fun, I may not. Actually, 'free roam' is a good way to think of MM3. Think of the free roam mode of Project Gotham without the cones, add pedestrians and wreckable stuff, voila!

In MM3, if you are in the mood to go on a rampage of destruction, there are hundreds of lampposts, park benches, barriers, traffic signs, cafe umbrellas and tables and other objects to knock around. And if you're in a real Hulk mood, you can drive a garbage truck and take out some statues and kiosks.

The detail is fabulous. There's even an underground parking garage at what I believe is the Kennedy Center in DC complete with gates to crash through. There are also ramps placed at various places, like the Capitol Building so you can jump your vehicle over fountains, creeks and the like.

Now it must be said that the graphics are good, but nowhere near as good as Project Gotham. Control of your vehicle is comparable though and the layout of the controls are the same.

There's plenty more to explore in this one but it is, behind Gotham, the most laugh out loud driving game for the XBOX yet. Yes I like it better than Midnight Club 2, Crazy Taxi, Yakuza Mission, Rallisport, Sega GT 2002 but not as much as MotoGP2.

On the other hand, three cities would have been better, and people haven't really been racing with it online...