Midnight Club 3 : DUB Edition (PSP)

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It's certainly gotten a little more polish than your average licensed Activision release, but it’s still not worth your time.

Adding power-ups makes races a little more crafty, and the variety of power-ups is widely different from your standard kart racer pick-up set. Musical artists found in the game include numerous Army of the Pharaohs members, The Game, Paul Wall, T. None of the material contained within this site may be reproduced in any conceivable fashion without permission from the author(s) of said material.Obviously, it's really too bad that such an opportunity for party gaming is pissed away with the PSP version. There are still issues that I have with the game -- its framerate holds it back from being perfect, and as an exact port of a game many street racers already burned through, there's not much to get back behind the wheel for -- but the difference between 70 seconds of loadtime and 7 seconds of loadtime (still a substantial wait for a handheld game) would have been the difference between a clunker and a keeper. 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.

The game features a number of graphical views after the player crashes into certain objects, or travels across particular stretches of road. Some of the functions of the console game got shoved in where they fit in, but all of the special moves and car functions are still in the PSP game. On the other hand, the car engine sounds are all packed in tight, and that gonzo mass of music found in the console game is crammed in here as well -- even if you just turn on the rock or dancehall tracks (who in their right mind would turn on just dancehall tracks?We were disappointed to find that nothing much about your multiplayer stats are saved to the Memory Stick -- the game saves every other frivolous detail about how many miles you've traveled, how many wins you've racked up, and how many burnouts you've burned, so that's a missed opportunity there. And while I'm no tech expert, a few experiments with the game engine show that a much better game could have been plenty possible, if only the game had been given more time and a more focused approach to the port. S. automobile industry, and San Diego for its influence on the development of street racing culture. Sure, there are some framerate issues at times, but you’ll forgive that because you can race through three massive cities. Seeing as how even a few 3D DS games have achieved 60fps (and oh, what a difference it makes there), it's hard to watch a system with so much horsepower get throttled by even a game as hefty as this.