Midnight Club 3 : DUB Edition (PSP)

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The player begins in San Diego by meeting Oscar ( David Barrera), the mechanic of Six-One-Nine Customs, a tuning garage in San Diego. 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. It doesn't help that the sound effects are really milky on PSP, and provide little punch in the crashes or stunt effects. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition has more speed, more choices, and more chrome than any game has ever packed under the hood. Initially, the only city you can race in is San Diego, but within no time at all you’ll find yourself racing through the streets of Detroit and Atlanta.

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition delivers insanely fast, open city racing in Atlanta, San Diego, and Detroit, complete with 6-player wireless competition and the most comprehensive vehicle customization ever seen in a video game.If you're thinking that it's all of that heavy data streaming needed to create this vast, console-quality racing world that's holding the game up, think again. The PSP in your hands melts away and you’re transformed into the drivers’ seat of whatever ride you choose. Figure that out, and you'll fly into a rage every time that minute-long load pops up every time you start a new race -- it's already all there! THUG2 on PSP did reveal itself a little bit under closer scrutiny, but with the PSP version of Midnight Club, there are aspects of the game that actually looked better on PSP.

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. You, of course, have your nitros and your handbrake, but there's also your button for activating Roar/Zone/Agro. The game can't make use of some of the PSP's ultra-swank features -- it doesn't have online play, and there's no Game Sharing -- but the six-player span is truly outstanding (and, we might add, a big "FU" to EA's two-player cap in Need For Speed), and what's here is still fun for those who can spare the time and patience.Defeating them earns the player a special, rare 2004 Chrysler ME Four-Twelve (with "Zone" for Exotics being unlocked after the third race). Of course, it is a very, very big game -- how much slack can PSP gamers expect to give its technical shortcomings? If it weren't for some first-gen technical issues and a few really disappointing missed opportunities to tailor this into a PSP game, it would have been right up their with THUG 2 Remix in terms of offering the most bang for the buck you can get on a portable. It also has the total automobile customization ever included in a video game, with options ranging from the license plate (including state and number combinations) to the rim size.

Headlights are a disappointing effect (and is it just me, or is there no way to turn these things on and KEEP them turned on), but there wasn't much to the effect in the console game, and nobody's doing headlamps great this gen anyway.

Timing the game for regular play use, loads and races and all, only hit the battery for a four hour straight runtime. The PlayStation Portable release received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), [38] indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. The game has to load every time you start a race -- it's a big, open city, but you can't do anything in it without having to reload the whole thing.