This is the absolute apex of the arcade racer

why did this series completely drop the ball after the first one?

Dead? Can you still play this online?

I'm convinced that everyone at Codies who worked on it was either sent over to the DiRT team or left. I got 2 for free a while back and picked up Autosport recently. AS isn't actually that bad; no team building AGAIN and there are some pretty obvious cut corners (like one single voice on pit crew telling you that THEY told your teammate to do whatever, instead of the host of different voices you'd have chattering at you the whole race in Grid 1 [and they never made a pit crew sound as into the race as the first game, either]), but the handling is about on par with 1 and it feels good to play. Plus, Ravenwest fucking shits taunting you in first place from the get-go.

Grid 2 is not only a bad racing game but one of the worst games I've ever played period. I tried powering through just so I could say I finished it. Made it a few seasons in (about 11 hours worth of gameplay, according to Steam) and just fucking gave up and quit.

>MC3 moves alot better, cars handle more precise and you can fine tune your handling
the midnight club series is one step above kart racing. tuning means nothing with gameplay like this.
>besides everything in the cities from shortcuts to jumps are better connected than anything in 2
so many of the roads in MC3 felt like fucking five lane highways, there was no bottleneck on a bridge with two lanes full of traffic that you had to bash your way through or hop up on two wheels to navigate. too easy.
>in this case it does equal better, its not just more cars its more types of Cars with their specific race types and tournaments, this was a great way to have to player try out all the different that where available instead of just going to a faster car
i'll grant you there was more diversity in classes of cars but at the end of the day you're still just upgrading to fast as possible.
>i never cared for the cringy ''tough guy'' dialouge in most racing games, keep that shit to the start and just let me race
that's half the appeal of this series. there's a reason they brought it back for MCLA.
>also better racing events
i will never forgive how MC3 limited the unordered races to only having 5 checkpoints when MCII on average had way more than that. you actually had to know the city to be able to hit them all first.
>better graphics
every time the weather was anything less than clear the game drops frames like crazy. and that was on xbox.

This. MC2 was pure kino.

Xenia can emulate LA pretty decently now.

F1 has been their main series since 2009

Codemasters has like 3 internal teams, F1, DiRT and GRIP/whatever.

yeah but I believe the F1 team now takes most of the resources since they have to release a game every year and it's the ones that make the most money
also a grid: alonso is coming out in a few months

>grid: alonso
laffo
didn't they mention his team was supposed to be the big baddies and final race or something? i guess they rolled back on that because a more recent interview mentioned ravenwest are back and the top tier racers in each area