Product Description

With Metropolis: Street Racer, you can drive 40 licensed vehicles from 14 manufacturers including: Mercedes, Toyota, Renault, Rover, Mitsubishi, Alfa Romeo, Peugeot, Honda and Ford. Two hundred different routes though Tokyo, London and San Francisco offer 15 square miles of 3-D scenery created from more than 40,000 photographs and 400 hours of video footage. Play in several game modes, including street race, timed run, head-to-head, model street race, model championship, challenge and championship. Race solo, against a friend via the split-screen mode, or see how you compare against online speedsters by uploading your performance in the Internet hot lap to get rated in a league. Road-handling dynamics and car physics are affected by changing weather conditions including fog, snow and rain. "Real World Time" allows gamers to race at the correct time of day in each city. Metropolis: Street Racer's authentic engine sounds were recorded from a wide range of cars, but if motor purr isn't enough for you, you can listen to techno, dance, rock, jazz or country while racing through the city streets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7910 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2000-11-03
• Platform: Sega Dreamcast
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .33 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Ever wondered what it would be like to drive around London, Tokyo or San Francisco at breakneck speeds? Well, that's what M-SR is all about, giving you the chance that you never seem to get, to burn rubber in the city.

Not your average console racing game, Metropolis Street Racer, or M-SR to its friends, is no pick a car and pick a circuit game, but instead offers you the chance of racing road-worthy cars on the streets of London, Tokyo and San Francisco. Based around earning Kudos, your task is not only to show that you can drive well and fast through these streets, but that you have the class and style to do so. The more Kudos you earn, the more points gained, the more points gained, the better cars you have access to, starting with the likes of the MX-5 and ending up with the new Vauxhall VX220. Where the game excels, however, is not the fact that you have over 40 cars to race or even that you have 25 chapters with 10 races per chapter over the three various cities, but the extent of detail offered in the game.

Every city has been painstakingly mapped out with intricate detail, whether it's the layout of Parliament Square in conjunction with St James Park or Pacific Heights in San Francisco. If this wasn't enough to keep you happy, Sega has used the Dreamcast's internal clock to set the time in the game. Race in the UK in the evening, and London would be in darkness, while San Fran would be experiencing midday and in Tokyo you would experience the morning sun.

Forgive the pun, but Sega seem to be turning the corner with this title, giving us what they promised a long time ago; a driving game with passion, a driving game with choice and most of all, a driving game with great Kudos. --Stuart Miles

Customer Reviews

Compelling
More than TOCA , more than McRae , more than even ( whisper it ) Gran Tourismo , there has been one driving game that kept me coming back for more . That game is MSR . The graphical depiction of real-life cities , with accurate mapping . The fact that depending on what time you play the game , it could be a foggy morning in San Francisco , a humid evening in Tokyo , or a wet afternoon in London . The addictive qualities of the Kudos system - where a target for a race could be met not only by your position in a race , but the style in which you drove it . The betting system - the lower a target you set yourself , the higher the Kudos you won if you were successful . A complete race game . Buy it ! If you can't get it , buy it's big brother Gotham Street Racing 2 on Xbox - more of the same , only more .

Challenger to Gran Turismo
MSR truly rocks.
The handling is TO DIE FOR,
The graphics are RETINA-RUPTURING,
And the gameplay is quite frankly B****Y BRILLIANT!
I can't be bothered to write a long thing so I'll just review certain features.
LIFESPAN-Took me a while to complete... 91%
GAMEPLAY-Thanks to the handling, great fun... 93%
GRAPHICS-Perfectly recreated streets with lovely everything else... 95%
SOUNDS-Just listen to that engine purr!... 96%
OVERALL-The best driving game for a long, long time... 94% BUY!...

WEH HEY!
Weh Hey! indeed. Wecome to a driving game with a clever slant. "IT'S NOT HOW FAST YOU DRIVE, IT'S HOW YOU DRIVE FAST" is the slogan and i can't sum it up any better than that.

There are many great driving games such as the grand turismo series and colin mcrae's, but this ones an original! No longer can you take a hairpin at 200mph, no longer can you get away with using your opponents as a crash barrier....well not if you want to be the coolest kid in town anyway.

MSR is based on a imaginary points system "kudos": this represents your reputation in the world of street racing. Power Slides, clean laps, overtaking manovers all score you big kudos, as well as lap times. It's no use breaking records if your breaking bonnet as well, coz that jus' won't fly in this game.

This is a very complete driving experience with loadsa skill levels each boasting different challenges. These range from Championships to One on Ones, and from top speeds to overtaking, giving the game some nice variations and adding to lastability. not that it's needed as you'll never get bored of this one. The graphics are clean and crisp with endless levels and options to keep you going. But this games strongest point is the gameplay, the key with driving games is the handling and they don't handle any better than this. With analog triggers as well as joystick at you disposal, every slight acceleration ,brake or turn is deadly accurate. where the d-pad and buttons are either on or off the analog is everywhere in between. So with a bit of practise you'll be flying round roundabouts and powersliding corners like a joyrider on redbull.

Overall MSR is one of the (if not the) best driving games on any platform. Brilliant graphics and loadsa options coupled with outstanding gameplay will mean this one will go down in dreamcast history, even if that is sooner than we'd hoped. Get it while you can........and thank me later. Sid XXX