PSP Game Review: Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition

This is a good street racing game for the PSPyou. This little feature comes in very handy while
system. There is high energy arcade type racing thatracing. The learning curve in this game is very realistic.
can be very exciting. The career mode is very inIf you crash once or twice you will still have a chance
depth. There are 3 full cities to race through. Theto catch the lead, because realistically your
graphics are great, and you get to choose fromopponents will probably crash once or twice as well.
more than 60 types of cars, all of which areYou also don't have to worry about some car
customizable. There were a few downsides to thiscoming out of nowhere and passing you if you have
game that I have come across. The load times arebeen doing really good. Most of the game is played in
less than desirable. The voiceovers are kind ofthe career mode where you start with about 20
cheesy. The multiplayer part of the game was notthousand dollars. The career mode starts in the
anything special. Other than these few downsides Igarage where you pick out your first car. The career
really like this game. This game like the other Midnightmode is focused on the racing. There is not a lot of
Club games before it gives you the ability to race in astory attached, you are basically just trying to get to
totally open city setting. You start in San Diego, afterthe top of the street racing scene which is done by
a few races you will open Atlanta as a usable city,beating certain people and groups. You start off
and soon after that Detroit becomes available. All ofchallenging a few people that are milling around the
the cities are full of back alleys, shortcuts, and jumps.city. Each of these people usually have a series of
There are also Rockstar logos in a few places; youabout 3 or 4 races. Once you beat these races you
get a special bonus for finding these. The cruiseget invited to race with specific car clubs, with bigger
mode is good for this, you can cruise around any ofseries and better prizes. For these special car club
the cities to get to know the tracks better and lookraces you have to have the specific type of car that
for the shortcuts. The races in this game areeveryone else is racing with...i.e. a tuner or a muscle
checkpoint based. The checkpoints are scattered allcar and so on. You could go and buy the car you
over the place leaving it up to you to decide whichneed, but usually you will be presented with the
ways to go and which ways are fastest. This isoption to participate in a tournament where the
another good reason to take advantage of thewinner just happens to receive the car that you
cruise option. There are a few point to point andneed. It's actually quite convenient so you can save
timed races which provide some variety, but mostlyyour money to build up your cars. There are also
just checkpoint races. This game is very arcade styleraces that aren't connected to any tournament or
in the sense that it is less than realistic. You get bigseries and these are called city races. City races are
air when you go off jumps, you can turn corners atgood for earning extra cash to build up your vehicles
unrealistically high speeds, and the crashes are huge!too. I really enjoy customizing my cars in this game, it
There are a few different kinds of cars you canis easy to do and for those people who are not very
choose from. There are tuners, muscle cars, trucks,car literate it is not confusing at all. Your vehicle
SUV's, motorcycles, and luxury cars. Each type of carstarts with all stock parts. As you play upgraded
has its strengths and weaknesses. The cars inparts will start to become available. You can then buy
Midnight Club 3: DUB edition have some special movesthem to boost your car's acceleration, top speed,
that make this game unique. There are 3 types ofand handling abilities. You can also customize the
special moves that the different car classes have. Bigoutside of your car with body kits, decals, custom
cars like the muscle cars have the ability to knock allpaint jobs, rims, just about anything. The career
the traffic around you out of the way. Anothermode is the biggest part of the game, but it is not
special ability is "agro" this ability allows you to inflictthe only part. Midnight club also comes with an arcade
more damage on the cars that you hit. The fastermode which has all the races available in career
cars like the tuners can use "zone" which allows youmode; it also has a few multi-player races. The
to slow down time so you can make a sharp turnmulti-player races offer some fun; there are
easier or maneuver around traffic easier. There isvariations of capture the flag, tag, and a few paint
also an ability that all the vehicles have; this ability isgames. Overall this game does have a few downfalls
automatically available as soon as you start playing.but it is still very enjoyable. I would give it 7 out of
This is the method of using a slip stream to boost10.