Midtown Madness 2

Midtown Madness 2 is a racing game and the sequel to Midtown Madness, developed by Angel Studios and published by Microsoft in 2000. It was followed on by Midtown Madness 3, which was developed by Digital Illusions CE instead of Angel Studios, who by that time were sold to Rockstar Games.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) 2 new cities to play in, London and San Francisco, which are larger than Chicago from the last game.
 * 2) In addition to the 10 cars from the first game, 11 new cars are available, including a Classic Mini Cooper, a Double Decker Bus, and a London Taxi Cab.
 * 3) You can choose Automatic or Manual transmission, which can change the traction of your car.
 * 4) New gamemodes such as Crash Course, a career mode where you can choose to work as a Cabbie (London) or a Stunt Performer (San Francisco) with a pre-selected car.
 * 5) All the 4 main modes return (Cruise, Circuit, Checkpoint and Blitz, still choosing how much traffic, cops and pedestrians you can choose.
 * 6) Huge modding community, even larger than the first game. Featuring tons of mods such as the Manhattan, New York map from Midnight Club: Street Racing with few enhancements.
 * 7) Each race type has different races in both London and San Francisco, so there isn't any lack of variety here.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The vehicles can feel a bit arcadey at times and there is no physics slider, but thankfully there are mods out there that can fix the physics of the game.
 * 2) Even on powerful PCs, it lags a LOT. Even if you set the graphics on max, which increases the framerate in most cases, the game still freezes on every heavy collision you make with something.