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[Grand Theft Scratchy]

The PlayStation 2 brought with it a lot of great games, from Final Fantasy X to Metal Gear Solid 3 to Resident Evil 4 and even God of War. But then you look at your DVD copy of The Fast and the Furious and you get the urge to do some illegal street racing after sundown. What was your go-to favorite game in said situation? Specifically if you were to choose between the following two games:

Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004)
EA Black Box




Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (2005)
Rockstar San Diego




I think Midnight Club 3 was superior, always enjoyed the different vehicle types and three city maps, but I often see more discussion on Need for Speed: Underground 2.

 

[Eimran]

Burnout 3 did it for me but if I had to choose. NFSU2 would be the winner for me.

 

[Magik85]

Project Gotham Racing 4 ;-)

 

[EGOMON]

It's NFS really no competition

 

[dezzy8]

Midnight Club 3 is the goat.

 

[F31 Leopard]

Neither. Both are lame ricer games that capitalized on the lame FnF ricer movies.

 

[LemmingWithaParachute]

While Burnout 3 is life...

NFS U1/2 came along at the height of the FnF1 buzz and back when the EA label meant something.

Speed, Customizations, Nos, music. When your menu opens up like this, It was no competition in my college.:



Seems mods are still being done for NFS U2

 

[Senua]

Underground 1, it's like 2 but without the incredible tedious task of driving to each race location.

 

[MMaRsu]

 

[LemmingWithaParachute]

Anyone play Juiced. I quite liked it.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

I'm going to be an asshole and suggest a completely different game. Split / Second.

 

[Spukc]

juiced was a killer those pink slip races holy shit man

 

[Senua]

Anyone play Juiced. I quite liked it.

Terrible driving model sadly.

 

[Escara]

Gonna come out and shill for NFS Most Wanted instead.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

The rubber band a.i. effect makes most NFS games unplayable to me.

 

[Shin]

Tokyo Xtreme Racer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[EverydayBeast]

BTW NFS Underground games were great on the PS2.

 

[Insane Metal]

NFSU1 actually.

 

[Breakage]

I preferred NFSU2 over MC3. They are both average racing games, though.

PGR, Blur, MotorStorm and the PS2 era Burnouts would be my go-to games for non-sim motor racing action.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

The Project Gotham series of games were the very best street racers.

 

[bucyou]

why would you not use a poll?

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

why would you not use a poll?

Oops. There is now poll. EVERYONE VOTE!!!

 

[LemmingWithaParachute]

juiced was a killer those pink slip races holy shit man

Dark Souls of racing imo.

All or nothing. I dont think any other game in that genre did the pink slip thing.

I remember effectively breaking my game as I lost my car of which I spent all my money on and ended up without enough cash to buy a new one or even (I'm sure this was a thing in juiced) bet on a race. Had to start a new game.

 

[DiscoJer]

I really liked Juiced myself (I liked the team racing aspect), but it didn't have free roam and it's car customization was arguably too realistic, because certain cars were just better than others.

I could never get into Midnight Club 3 as it was way too crazy in terms of things like jumps and such. The original NFS:U was a bit in that direction, but the NFS:U2 was mostly realistic - at least no 200 ft jumps. It also had a better soundtrack.

 

[LOLCats]

So a goat themed racer, would it be like mario kart?

 

[009EspadaSageJay]

Both games are tied tbh both of them captured early 2000s car culture with ease. Both games have killer osts tons of unlockables great location everything.

 

[Bullet Club]

What about NFSU1 with ray tracing?

 

[Spukc]

What about NFSU1 with ray tracing?

that looks fugly
srsly what a terrible example of RT that is xD

 

[Tesseract]

project gotham

 

[Constant Flux]

NFSU2 by far. Although while we are on the subject, why the fuck haven’t we got a new entry in the Midnight Club series since L.A.? I’ve been wanting one so damn bad, but it just seems to never be on the horizon.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I loved Midnight Club just for the exploration, including ramping up onto secret areas.

While we're at it, WHY NOT SAN FRANCISCO RUSH?!? Dunno if that actually qualifies as street racing, but I have those stupid "russhhh" and "IT'S DANGEROUSS!" noises stuck in my brain permanently.

 

[JimmyJones]

Midnight Club 2 and Burnout 3: Takedown are the best ever.

 

[Closer]

NFSU1 actually.

Can't beat that GOAT soundtrack. (Maybe Daytona)

 

[Breakage]

Blur needs more attention. It's basically WipEout with real cars from the studio behind PGR. I love the dream-like, futuristic visuals:

 

[hououinkyouma00]

The correct answer is Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3

 

[ShirAhava]

MC is the obvious choice.....NFS hasn't been good since Windows 2000 was new

Blur needs more attention. It's basically WipEout with real cars from the studio behind PGR. I love the dream-like, futuristic visuals:

The BEST arcade racer of that generation

 

[EightBit Man]

I've chosen Need for Speed: Underground 2, even though I prefer the first game.

Never liked the Mightnight Club games. Thought the first game was absolutely terrible, a work of amateurs in fact. And the subsequent games were IMO way "too over the top" when it came to presentation and car selection. Never liked the "bling bling" stuff.

 

[Gamer79]

Anyone play Juiced. I quite liked it.

I did but it was really generic. Love the Underground/most wanted series better.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Midnight Club was annoying with the open world checkpoint races instead of closed street courses. I don’t want to look at a map or get lost in a race.

The NFS UG games were amazing arcade racing and released at the right time. Then Most Wanted was great too. Now the genre is just Forza Horizon or shit built around online micro transactions.

 

[Elektro Demon]

I never really understood the big deal with nfs underground series.
But I absolutely loved nfs most wanted. Best racing game ever.

 

[R6Rider]

NFSU2 and Burnout Paradise are among my favorite arcade racing games.

 

[BusierDonkey]

Blur needs more attention. It's basically WipEout with real cars from the studio behind PGR. I love the dream-like, futuristic visuals:

Blur really suffered from not being PGR5. People wanted PGR and Blur is not PGR. It tanked and Bizarre went down with it. Now Blur is really only seen as the game that killed Bizarre Studios which is unfortunate as it was a fun game.

 

[Breakage]

Blur really suffered from not being PGR5. People wanted PGR and Blur is not PGR. It tanked and Bizarre went down with it. Now Blur is really only seen as the game that killed Bizarre Studios which is unfortunate as it was a fun game.

Perhaps, but I'm happy they tried something different.

 

[RAIDEN1]

Never played Blur, I'll add that to the need-to-checkout, list..

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

Midnight Club 2 and Burnout 3: Takedown are the best ever.

I like Midnight Club II as well but the Remix edition of Midnight Club 3 also includes Tokyo as a location which was pretty cool. I played the second game, 3: DUB Edition and 3: DUB Edition Remix. Never played the first game or Los Angeles.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

I never really understood the big deal with nfs underground series.
But I absolutely loved nfs most wanted. Best racing game ever.

I really enjoyed Most Wanted and by that I mean the 2005 release, not Criterion's version. You ever play the sequel Carbon? I'm kind of curious because at the time I skipped it, then played Pro Street, skipped Undercover and then played Shift. I think Shift 2: Unleashed might have been the last really good Need for Speed (not sure if Heat is any good or not).

 

[Elektro Demon]

I really enjoyed Most Wanted and by that I mean the 2005 release, not Criterion's version. You ever play the sequel Carbon? I'm kind of curious because at the time I skipped it, then played Pro Street, skipped Undercover and then played Shift. I think Shift 2: Unleashed might have been the last really good Need for Speed (not sure if Heat is any good or not).

I did play carbon. It's not bad, but it's definitly not most wanted. Most wanted is just on a whole different level.
I tried Heat at my friends house, played for about an hour and then quit. It's horrible. I like the use of Frostbite, it really looks amazing but everything else is shit.
Also that night and day mechanic is cool but terrible in execution. The cops fuck you in a heartbeat. And you have vehicle damage. Not cool.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

I did play carbon. It's not bad, but it's definitly not most wanted. Most wanted is just on a whole different level.
I tried Heat at my friends house, played for about an hour and then quit. It's horrible. I like the use of Frostbite, it really looks amazing but everything else is shit.
Also that night and day mechanic is cool but terrible in execution. The cops fuck you in a heartbeat. And you have vehicle damage. Not cool.

Yeah, it's the same with Need for Speed (2015), the graphics look good but it's no Underground and they made some dumb decisions like always-online and the inability to pause.

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

Midtown Madness 2

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

OP, are you poor or something?

Why do you keep making threads about games that cost two dollars to buy nowadays? Get with the times, dude.