Midway Arcade Treasures 2

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Midway Arcade Treasures 2
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Developer(s) Digital Eclipse
Publisher(s) Midway Home Entertainment
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube
ReleasePlayStation 2 & Xbox
  • NA: October 11, 2004
  • EU: October 29, 2004
GameCube
  • NA: October 11, 2004
Genre(s) Various
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Midway Arcade Treasures 2 is the second collection of classic arcade games published by Midway Home Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, Xbox (not compatible with Xbox 360), and GameCube. This compilation includes 20 games that were not in the 2003 release of Midway Arcade Treasures . Unlike the previous game, it was rated M for Mature instead of T for Teen by the ESRB.

Contents

The game plays similar on all three consoles, though the Xbox version has the exclusive ability to upload scores to an online scoreboard. The Xbox version is not compatible with the Xbox 360. The special features on each version of the game are the same. These include game histories, developer interviews, and other documents.

Games

The collection consists of the following 20 arcade games: [1]

This collection is the only arcade classics compilation title on sixth-generation consoles to be rated M by the ESRB, largely because of Mortal Kombat II and 3, and NARC. With all the other games, the compilation would have received a rating of a T (for teen) or lower. Primal Rage was rated T by the ESRB when it was previously ported onto fourth- and fifth-generation consoles. Rampage World Tour is also featured as a bonus game in Rampage Total Destruction on GameCube and Wii, which is rated E10+ by the ESRB.

The compilation was planned to include all three Mortal Kombat titles, Steel Talons and S.T.U.N. Runner . [1] The first Mortal Kombat game was moved to the extras disc in the limited edition version of Mortal Kombat: Deception , while the other two games were omitted entirely because of developmental problems. Kozmik Krooz'r and Wacko were added instead. [1]

The first Mortal Kombat later appeared in other compilations from the Midway Arcade Treasures series: Extended Play for the PSP, and Deluxe Edition for the PC; while S.T.U.N. Runner appeared in Midway Arcade Treasures 3 .

Reception

Midway Arcade Treasures 2 was given average to favorable reviews from game critics. On the review aggregator GameRankings, the compilation has an average score of 73%, [2] while the average score is 74 out of 100 on Metacritic. [3] Criticisms are the weaker selection of titles when compared to the previous volume, minor and major emulation glitches, the omission of the original Mortal Kombat and for some of the interviews and documentaries for being grainy and unrestored. [9] GameSpot also criticized the inclusion of the original Mortal Kombat 3, as opposed to the superior Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 . [10]

Due to button mapping issues with the start button, in Mortal Kombat II random character select (Up+Start) cannot be used and Smoke (Down+Start at the Portal stage while getting a Dan Forden shouting out the: "Toasty!" message) cannot be fought.

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