Midway Arcade Treasures 3 Critic Reviews

Bitchin' fun, dude! Takes you right back to the roaring road-rage days of the arcade.

Sure, it doesn't have 20 games like last year, but the quality of the ones included is considerably better.

A very clever, themed compilation. The $20 would definitely be worth it just for the Rush and Thunder games, though it is nice to see a bit of the company's origins.

Whatever else is coming, you'd best believe I'll be there with bells on... and you should as well.

In spite of a few hiccups, I'd say that this is a fantastic collection of games.

The games are a blast worth remembering. Old racing is the new hotness.

"Rush 2049" is the headliner of this year's pack, and even if it was released by itself it would still be worth the budget price that the Midway Arcade Treasures is known for.

Excellent port and great value for nostalgic gamers.

Too bad Midway didn't ship it with a freely spinning steering wheel.

While it may not be that fully complete in terms of history chronicling and emulating, it does manage to provide hours of fun on end- and at a $20 bargain price, no less.

Some games, like San Francisco Rush 2049 play perfectly on the Xbox and Hydro Thunder is still fun after all these years. Other games just don't feel or play as good as it use to thanks to the awkward control scheme.

Of all three Midway Arcade Treasures games, this is the one that probably has the most amount of games you won't want to play for any length of time.

The fact that Midway has pared down the number of games from previous offerings does not worry me nearly as much as how much they pared down the historical extras.

With the chance to post your scores on the net, this one has a lot of playability if you are one who thrives on those bragging rights.

For younger gamers weaned on more current games such as "Burnout," a rental may be all you need to sate your curiosity of how things were before bump mapping and light bloom.

You're not really going to find the arcade experience here, nor are you going to find the full presentation that you may remember putting quarters in so many years ago.

The highlights of the compilation are "Rush 2049," "Hydro Thunder" despite its lack of depth, and "Badlands" for its loveable devotion to the top-down two-dimensional look and surprisingly fun gameplay.

So many of the games included here relied so heavily on custom arcade hardware that they lose much of their appeal in the translation.

You could spend hours playing Hydro Thunder and the two other Rush games alone.

It's just disappointing that there are so many issues with the three main games that people are going to be interested in.