Midtown Madness' Tips & Hints
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If you get into a bump-and-grind situation with an AI car, you'll find yourself losing most of the tussles, even if you have the bigger vehicle. The best tactic is to quickly sideswipe the car, and then swerve away. If you time it right, you can bump the car into oncoming traffic or a building.
The AI-controlled drivers always stay on the road, which means that you'll have great opportunities to cut a few corners here and there (remember, Chicago has plenty of parks!). When you're off-road driving, slow down a bit and try not to make any turns. If you try anything wild on the soft grass, you'll probably spin out and lose any advantage you might have gained.
Vehicle damage is your enemy! There are so many things to hit during the course of the race that you'll often find yourself with a wheelless, smoking hulk of a car before you can finish the race. Try to save your damage points for when you really need them (such as making that jump across Navy Pier) and avoid hitting too many lampposts.
If you're finding traffic hard to navigate, get off the road and onto the sidewalk. Most of the vehicles can drive quite nicely on the sidewalks between the guardrails and the lampposts, and you'll find a clear path (this works very well out on Navy Pier). Also, don't worry about crashing into those massive checkpoint posts on the sidewalk--they're invisible (collision-wise) to your vehicle.
To win a race, especially a Checkpoint race, you need to know the course. Take on the course in one of the heavier vehicles with no cops and limited traffic, and you'll maximize your chances of making it through the course and learning all of the possible shortcuts. You won't win, but you'll gain vital knowledge that will help you when you go back into the race with a performance vehicle and full obstacles in place.
To win a checkpoint race in professional mode: Drive the bus and try to get into a head on collision with everything else on the road. You won't be following the main course at first since you'll need to "intercept" all the other cars, but you'll have time to hit the checkpoints later. This doesn't work too well if there's a lot of F-150's in the field. - Submitted by Chemito "Pterodactyl" Rodriguez
In cruise mode , you can actually move the ramps by the river and other places when you hit them hard enough with a heavy vehicule. I doubt that this would be usefull at all because it takes forever to move them a foot, but its a fun fact. - Submitted by Fat Angus
If you are alongside another AI vehicle very slowly steer into him he will not notice and offer no resistence. You can normall push them sideways slowly. This is usefulif your near a fence, you can nudge him just so one side of his car smashes into the fence but you keep going you can often disable them this way! - Submitted by Fragman.
If you're having trouble winning a checkpoint race, just sit and watch the map while the AI races and see if any of the cars take a different route. This can help not only time wise but also It helps you stay out of the traffic of the AI. - Submitted by Matthew.
If you are using automatic, when taking a corner, press "z" to put it in to reverse. It will slow just right to take the corner really well. After you have taken the corner press "a" to go back into "drive" again. - Submitted by Oli Hodgson.
On the road just north of the mall, there is a ramp that is placed by default in front of the river. Use the entire road for acceleration, and in the small cars you'll be able to jump the river...if for some reason you need to. The cars don't usually take the 130MPH hit into the building on the other side very well! - Submitted by Chris Graham.
If you've been driving along the interstate at high speeds it's likely that when you come to the traffic lights and there's no way out, you tend to slam on the brakes and smash into the back of someone and then someone else goes into the back of you. To prevent yourself from smashing into the back of someone at the lights it's quite easy. All you do is as you're coming near to the lights on an interstate or mormal road simply 'pump' the brakes on and off, by doing this once you actually come near to the car in front you'll be able to bring your car to a complete halt rather than; slaming on the brakes and skidding into the back of a taxi or putting on the hand brake and going into a spin. This process works for me every time. Usually when the lights are on red and you're on a road you can simply overtake - but on an interstate you can't because of the central reservation so this is your best plan - bringing your car to a halt and leaving it in one piece. Brilliant!! - Submitted by Alex Bouton.
