Midnight Club 3 : DUB Edition (PSP)

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Once the player defeats Phil, Vanessa will challenge them again, this time, driving an upgraded Mitsubishi Eclipse GT-S. 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. But as far as ambition and total package, it's only got maybe one or two other handheld games in its league. I was excited te play one of my best childhood games but when I got the game I opened it up and there is a completely different game in the case. It could have been so great -- it almost is great -- but it's not at all tailored for the PSP, and the fit is ugly.

Neons are not as prominent as they are in EA's game (but they're also not as silly in their exaggerated glow effect), and rims spin into a blur instead of slowly ramping up and then spinning backwards stroboscopicly, but the parts and effects are all there, Even logos are incredibly sharp (I never expected the Dodge Ram to look like a ram in a tiny rear window sticker, but there it was), and if you get up close enough to a car, you can see some of the finer polygonal detail (such as the taillight lamps being modeled lights and not just textures) at work. The neon roller coaster is still big and bright, and the fighter jet is right up their on the aircraft carrier's strip as you go sailing over the military base.Tag never makes much sense (at least, not in a two-player mode), but Paint and Capture The Flag are both good runs that get even better when you get all six players going and have teams divided out. There are even other vehicles, including trucks and motorcycles that you can customize the crap out of. 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. Cut the track complications down, make point races more random and less specific, or even (and car nuts, don't kill me for saying this) cut the detail down on the opponent cars. A minute-long wait would have been irritating, but if everything else played right there in the game without loading, it'd be a great bus-trip game.

I chose the Mitsubishi Eclipse, but there are cars from nearly every manufacturer in this game, including Chevrolet, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Chrysler. There is the occasional mismatched road texture in a race start glamour shot, but that's too rare and fleeting to worry about. A familiar face from Atlanta comes to Detroit, Roy, who is a plot-affected racer but is never seen or mentioned.I grew up playing the game on my PS2 back in the 2000's and only recently I found out there was a PSP version and it's literally the full game. It's amazing that it all got on a system with just one stick and this many buttons, and there are times where you will wish you had three hands to hit one button more than you have spare fingers for, but the control set-up works well.