GAME STUDIO DESCRIPTION: Rockstar Games has joined forces with DUB Magazine, the authoritative source on automotive lifestyles, to redefine of the racing genre once again with Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition. The series that took racing from tracks to the open urban streets is back, and the stakes are even higher.
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition delivers insanely fast, open city racing in Atlanta, San Diego, and Detroit, complete with 8-player online competition and the most comprehensive vehicle customization ever seen in a video game. Drive the hottest licensed real life SUVs, import tuners, muscle cars, choppers and luxury rides, and trick them out with the latest rims, trims, and upgrades just like in the pages of DUB.
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition has more speed, more choices, and more chrome than any game has ever packed under the hood.
PLAY: The first major hurdle is the waiting—the load times are unbearable. No matter what are you are going into
You get three cities to run wild in; Atlanta, Detroit, and San Diego. The platform is wide-open. There are lots of hidden shortcuts and jumps that you’ll only find with exploration. You can also earn extras from your search around the cities. There are a few different types of races from timed to head-to-head. If you can learn the shortcuts you’ll really start to burn anyone that dares to challenge you.
MC3 is completely insane so don’t expect to have a modicum of realism. Everything is about going big and going fast. The controls work perfectly on this port to the PSP.
There are some amazing vehicles to choose from; H2, Escalades, Ninja motorcycle, muscles cars and more. There are roughly 60 cars to choose from. Each car has its good and bad points. Obviously if you have an H2 it won’t go so fast but it will definitely knock some cars out of the way.
Career mode is the one and only reason to buy MC3: Dub. You start with $20,000 and start with a car and a dream to make it big as a street racer. There isn’t much more depth than strictly racing. No story mode, nothing like that will be found here. The races are timed, point-to-point, and checkpoint. There will be different races and you’ll need different vehicles for some of these so you have to work your way up and win in order to continue through the game.
As with the other platform versions you can customize your cars. You can add tons of different items from paint, body kits, decals, rims, and other performance enhancers like nitros, brakes, and exhaust.
GRAPHICS: For a handheld this looks very good. There is no sense of motion however and that hurts much of the game. The environments are very well done and the cars look fantastic.
SOUND: The sound effects are weak and sound as if they are repeated over and over. The soundtrack is quite good however.
FRANKLY: The career mode isn’t short—it could take you up to 20 hours to finish—not bad for a handheld video game. The problem is the load times can take over a minute just to go from a race to the menu or to the garage, etc.
+ Richie Wright
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