![]() ![]() ![]() Now, you might not always be able to see where you're going: but not to worry, the vehicles that you zoom around in are all made out of some kind of indestructible alloy. The challenges that you face vary from picking up wounded patients in an ambulance to making deliveries and racing through checkpoints dotted around the city. But the current look does force you into a constant squint while playing! It also makes you wish you had a high-falutin' handset that's capable of playing the 3D version of the game that's available for mobile phones, which is a completely different experience to this. ![]() We're not saying that it would be possible – or even desirable – to model all the detail that MM3 Mobile crams in to its virtual Paris streets in 3D, given today's technology. Pedestrians are therefore reduced to tiny yellow blobs, traffic lights to tiny multi-coloured blobs, and so on and so forth. If you take a look at the screenshots you'll see that everything is viewed from a birds-eye perspective, and quite a high-flying one at that. The first thing that strikes you is the in-game visuals. So has MM3 Mobile managed to live up to its potential? Well, not entirely. It's also one of the first of a crop of games to use the new software extensions known as EGE (see here for more info), which is one of the ways that the gaming industry is trying to enhance the pocket gaming experience. Originally released on the consoles and PC, it was perhaps inevitable that the game should end up on our favourite format sooner or later. We suspect that those kinds of thoughts were going through the developer's minds when they crafted Midtown Madness 3 Mobile. Instead of popping out for a pint of milk and getting stuck in traffic, you would swerve your souped-up car through the queues, barely scraping the paintwork, capture armed villains en route, and end up getting your daily pint plus a £100,000 reward. If only real life was exciting as it is in video games. ![]()
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