Midtown Madness 3

Midtown Madness 3 is a 2003 open world racing video game developed by Digital Illusions CE on the Xbox. It is the third game in the Midtown Madness series.

Midtown Madness 3
Developer(s)Digital Illusions CE
Publisher(s)Microsoft Game Studios
Producer(s)Johan Döhl
Andreas Axelsson
Designer(s)Andreas Roman
Programmer(s)Joakim Grundwall
Mattias Gruvman
Artist(s)Robert Runesson
Writer(s)Andreas Roman
Composer(s)Olof Gustafsson
Platform(s)Xbox
Release
  • NA: 17 June 2003
  • EU: 27 June 2003
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

The game was developed by Digital Illusions CE and published by Microsoft Game Studios. This marked a change from the developer of the first two games, Angel Studios, which had moved on to work on the Midnight Club series. The Xbox-only release and change of developer heralded a significant graphical improvement to maintain the console's graphical standards.

Gameplay

As with the previous games in the series, the player drives any of several different vehicles around open world maps modeled on real-life cities. Midtown Madness 3 recreates the cities of Paris and Washington, D.C. in the game. The city maps cover smaller areas than the real-life cities, though they are larger than their comparable counterparts in Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2. In single-player mode, the player can freely roam, race, or complete objective-based missions. In "Cruise" (free roam) mode, the player can modify the number of pedestrians and amount of traffic, change the weather and season, the time of day and the season, and collect car-specific paint jobs, in a car selected by the user. In "Blitz" races, the player goes through all the given checkpoints in any order and races to the finish line before time runs out. In "Checkpoint" races, the player goes through the checkpoints in any order and gets to the finish line before their opponents. In the "Work Undercover" mission mode, the player attempts to complete driving-based objectives that vary for each city: in Paris, the player works as a delivery guy, taxi driver, chauffeur, security guard, ambulance driver, police officer, and special agent, while in Washington, D.C., the player works as a pizza delivery man, rental car driver, limo driver, car salesman, stunt driver, police officer, and private eye.

The game supported Xbox Live for online multiplayer gaming, and featured a split-screen mode for offline multiplayer. Extra downloadable content was available via Xbox Live to expand the game's original premise. "Capture the Gold" is a mode where gold is stashed around the city and the player must take it to a hideout. Other players will attempt to steal the gold. "Checkpoint" has players race against others on pre-defined tracks around the city. "Cruise" is a free-roam mode around the city with others. In "Hunter", one player starts off as the Hunter and everyone else in the game is Prey. As the Hunter captures Prey, they in turn become Hunters, and the last person who is Prey stands alone as the winner. "Stayaway" is a mode where whoever holds the rabbit for the longest time wins. "Tag" is a mode where players chase each other and try to bump each other's cars.

Development

Midtown Madness 3 was announced as being in development in April 2002 as an Xbox-exclusive title, with a tentative release date of late 2002.[1][2] An early development build was showcased to the public for the first time in May 2002.[3][4][5]

Reception

The game was met with positive reception, although slightly less than the first two games. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 80.24% and 76 out of 100.[6][7]

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