Players who complete the crash-courses, however, become much better Midtown Madness 2 drivers. The challenges here are, at times, insanely difficult. One of the most fun new modes is the crash-course mission. However, this does not mean you're limited to only the old courses! Though the race concepts are still the same, depending on the mode, the new cities and vehicles available keep it all new. The sequel gives you all the same race types and drops them throughout the two cities, London and San Francisco. The designers can't be blamed since Midtown Madness offers such a wide variety of race types. Midtown Madness 2 does not stray much from the path of its predecessor in terms of gameplay modes.
This is the sort of detail that impresses before the racing even begins. People who have visited Hyde Park, Big Ben or the Golden Gate Bridge will recognize not only the landmark but the streets and buildings along the way.
The environments are much more than quickly thrown-together mock-ups of real places and are quite accurately detailed models. Landmarks abound in Midtown Madness 2 and not just the world famous kind. We're talking Panoz roadsters, Austin Minis, London taxicabs and city buses. Midtown Madness 2 delivers the same fiendish, insane glee derived from crazy driving stunts, insanely fast cars and flying pedestrians. So, what do you do? You one-up them by driving a flatbed truck on the wrong side of the Golden Gate Bridge - at rush hour! The craziest of drivers, no doubt, are those who drive the wrong way on a major highway.
The world has its share of crazy drivers but most of them aren't tearing up the lawn of Buckingham Palace with a big red fire truck or launching an Austin Mini over the hills of San Francisco.