Midway Arcade Treasures Vol. 2

Gamespot review featuring more mention of flaws...

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Mortal Kombat II has flickery shadows and Mortal Kombat 3 has flickery shadows and muffled sound. In Mortal Kombat 3, music continues playing during and after a fatality, which just sounds sloppy, and more importantly, it isn't accurate to the arcade original. Wacko is missing some sounds. Also, there appears to be something weird going on in all three versions of Hard Drivin', because in a couple of instances our car freaked out, lifted into the air, spun around a few times, and then blew up. As you go down to the PlayStation 2 and GameCube, you'll notice some frame rate trouble here and there, even in the oldest game of the bunch, Wizard of Wor. Also, on the PS2, Hard Drivin' is significantly slower, Pit Fighter runs strangely faster than it should, and MK3's sound is even more muffled and irritatingly trebly. The GameCube versions of MKII and MK3 keep up reasonably well, but the GameCube's button configuration simply isn't well suited for either game. Additionally, Wizard of Wor on the GameCube plays all the wrong sound effects, and some games look slightly blocky when compared to the other two versions.

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Also, only online scoreboards for XB version.

So, let's see... no real-time online anything, no Stun Runner, no MK1, all this crap above... and it took how long to come out?

My enthusiasm for this collection has dropped considerably.

Any word on which is the "definitive" version between systems? Or, at least the one with the least amount of problems?

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Originally Posted by Super-Eggroll

My enthusiasm for this collection has dropped considerably.

Any word on which is the "definitive" version between systems? Or, at least the one with the least amount of problems?

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Sounds like the XBox to me.

As with the original, it looks to be the least of three evils. At least scoreboards are in, but SHEESH are those some massive fuck-ups.

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I just got off the phone with my local EB Games manager (a friend of mine) and asked about Midway Arcade Treasures 2. He told me that they weren't arriving until Wednesday, but he also shared something else with me...

He said they just received news that a large number of the Xbox games are defective and are giving DDE's. He called over to the local Gamestop manager (they are friends) and he said he got the same news.

In fact, the Gamestop manager headed over to GameCrazy, which DID get the game today, and bought one for himself...and it didn't work at all.

So make sure that you TEST your copy of the game in-store before leaving with it. You might save yourself a return trip an hour or so later.

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And I was looking more forward to this than even vol 1 =/

How hard can it fucking be to port these old ass games?

Mame it is. Fuck Midway.

After reading that, I think I'll wait for a second printing.

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Originally Posted by Super-Eggroll

My enthusiasm for this collection has dropped considerably.

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:nod:

If Capcom, the epitome of programming laziness, can fit ten perfectly emulated and moderately enhanced Mega Man games onto one disc, then there is no excuse for Midway's second collection to suck this bad.

An arcade perfect Total Carnage with dual joystick control is terribly tempting, but I find it difficult to support such developmental ineptitude.

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As a goof I sent an email to Midway. If they bother to reply I'll post it here.