Motor City Online
In this online-only game, you buy classic cars, customize their performance to your liking, and race them against opponents around the world. The game was plagued with technical issues and met its end in…
Motor City Online is a racing developed by EA Seattle, released 29 October 2001 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Motor City Online is
Motor City Online is a racing game developed by EA Seattle and released in 2001. It was published by EA Games. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Motor City Online was a racing massively multiplayer online video game released by Electronic Arts on October 29, 2001. The point of the game was to buy classic cars ranging from 1930s to 1970s models, tune them up, and race them against other players. The game went offline on August 29, 2003 so EA Games could focus on their current online game at the time, The Sims Online. EA, however, developed a new online racing game, called Need for Speed: World. Many fans of Motor City Online consider Need for Speed: World a spiritual successor of Motor City Online, although EA has denied any direct link between the two games.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective.
How it was received
Motor City Online holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 1,167 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 28 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Motor City Online launched on 29 October 2001, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Motor City Online yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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