Customer Reviews

Motor City Online

5 star:		(35)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(13)

 

 

I have been on racing for three months now, almost every night (very addictive). Yes, there is a ...[monthly] fee to play this game, I read the whole box before I purchased it so it was not a surprise and as it turns out it's worth every penny. I was not in Beta, but after the last 3 patches all issues posted here previously have been addressed and it has turned the game into an excellent racing community. I recommend this game to all ages, yes there are always a few exceptions, but because of the small monthly fee to play you'll find most racers are mature and just there to have fun racing a 57 Bel Air or a 32 Ford at 140mph through an old dirt road. If your a classic or muscle car buff, you'll think they wrote the game just for you.
This is the Racing Game of All Racing Games...

All I can really say is that I can't tear my 9 yr old away from the computer because of this game he loves it! You race others online and win money to buy your own cars and if you ruin your car then you can buy new parts from others or a junkyard they have all kinds of great stuff for you to do. You can sponser teams and get paid a salary and lots more! O fcourse the money is only fake online money but they make is seem so real and all the things you can do keeps my kid interested and that's a hard enough accomplishment!1

This game is like most. Strong advertisement, sells you the idea that you will get a real game with hours and hours of un-repetetive fun. Hardly. 2 weeks into your 30 days free trial (oh yes...its ($$$) there after to play...no offline play available) you will have seen all there is to see. And if you are lucky, you will see the cheats too. The guys who will offer you what seems like a fair trade only to find out they know alot more about MCO than you ever will, and you give them your trade and get zero in return. Then they change names and you never hear from them again. MCO has General Managers online, but they will not interfere with these types of problems.
To race is to earn money. But the real problem with MCO is that there is only one track which produces more money and more points (to the next level). To race against humans is stupid. You only win at the most $200, and only gain some 20 points. However if you race a sponsored car (not the one you have pointedly been saving money to soup up) at the Bel View track, you can consistently earn $300-$400 and about 80 points. That is the only track that is consistent and it takes about 4 minutes to run it, and it gets older than 3 hour old chewing gum. Whats the future in it? NONE. You just race that one track. If you race against humans, they will quit on you if they are losing. Blah. Same immoral responses we've seen in any other online game, except this one is ONLY online and to play it...you cough up ($$$) dollars every month to endure the pain.

When MCO first launched it was a wonderful game. It was fast paced and very challenging. Being able to tune a car was every bit as important as driving skills and purchasing dream rides from the auctions was almost as much fun as mastering the many tracks. However, it did not take long for the hackers and scammers to seperate the online community into the elite, rich players who always won races from the honest players who played just for fun. The economic system eventually evolved so that only high level players with inside scam information could afford the fastest cars and this allowed them to set the fastest times, receive all the bonus money, and win all the races. EA made a few feeble attempts to fix the many loopholes with patches but by the time they were aware of a problem the damage had been done and the hackers were on to bigger and better scams. EA is finally pulling the plug and abandoning Motor City August 29, 2003. Since this game is a ONLINE ONLY offering with no offline play at all, giving your money to EA for the CD is pointless.

It was a great concept with lots of potential, but greed both inside the game and out (EA tends to put the bottom line of profit above all else when it comes to online games... remember Air Warrior?) turned Motor City into a ghost town in just over a year.

If you love cars you have got to get this game. It features cars from the 1930's through the 1970's. There are 1000's of parts you can customize your car with in addition to many different paint schemes.

The physics model for racing is the best I have every played. I honestly have not touched another racing game since I bought this game.

I highly recommend trying this game out, it's [reasonably priced] and if you are a car enthusiast I gurantee you will be hooked.

I found Motor City Online to be a very good game but, I did not think the monthly fee was worth it. I mean if you BUY the game that should be all the fees there are but instead they need to drain all the money possible out of you. So bottom line if you want a Decent racing game with litteraly thousands of mods for your cars and are willing to pay the web site service fee then its a great game, but not for me.

I have no problems with the fees it is the issues with the game it self I have a system that exceeds the required min and have never been able to get it running. The mco message boards are full of people who can't! I have been treated bad by EA tech support and they really don't seem to care if you can actually play it or not!!! It is a complete waste of money!

It was one of the greatest games I have played online and not just for the playability and graphics but for the friends I made from the time of Beta til the death of MCO...and if MCO does return from the grave..I'll be there ;)

i just happened to think of this game and i ran a search to see if maybe by some chance this game was going to come back. the only things i found on it was old message boards and cheat codes. motor city online was an amazing game, too bad it was canceled.

Hi. Motorcityonline is no longer playable. Electronic Arts pulled the plug on it on Aug.29,2003. I know because I was playing Motorcityonline until the very end. I don't know why Amazon.com still has it listed.