I forget where I bought the disc for this, but for whatever reason I remember that it actually ran on my (old) laptop.

Surprisingly, it was a fun game. I wasn't really expecting a need for speed - esque game with some cool and detailed customization, but there it was. The map was pretty nice too, if a bit linear by design. Unfortunately...

Definitely don't buy it. Nothing about this game works properly and it can't be fixed. And nobody capable of fixing the problem cares enough about it's existence to do it for you.

Some day I would like to see this game be playable, but that is a day that is probably never going to come.

I spent all of 3 dollars on this at sale value and I wasted about that much worth of my time just seeing if there was anything I could do. Valusoft doesn't care. And that's time I'm never getting back. There's something to be said when an old game gets completely abandoned and there is no way to play it without having to revert to obsolete technology, but I honestly can't blame them.

If the game looks cool, you aren't mistaken - underneath the unplayability, this is still a fun street racing game with a ton of stuff to enjoy. But it can't be played it. It's a universal issue with most of the people playing it, especially on new hardware.

What else is there to say -

The car list in the game is quite small, but each car handles differently and gives you plenty of variety. Your starting selection had you pick between a Civic hatchback, a BMW and a Ford F150 - each with their own line of upgrades and a ton of choice in how each vehicle looked. By no means was this anything exceptional, but there was a lot of attention put into how this was handled (in the case of the starter cars - then, there is the cars that you see your opponents drive - I don't want to talk about it).

Then there was the narrative, which doesn't do much more than push you into the next thing to do. And the soundtrack - you'll hear all of it pretty quickly. It isn't bad, but if you were into completing the game, it got repetitive pretty darn quick.

That's really all I have to say. Don't buy it unless you still have an old system kicking around that might be able to run it.

well,for some reason,this game works for me on my AMD FX 8320 and my dying HD 7850.
As for the game.You need to set all .exe files (yes this game has like 5 .exe files) to win 98 comp mode WITHOUT admin rights.I don't know how that works,but if you set it to run with admin rights,same crashes too.
It's a pain to run on modern systems,but if you get it working,you have quite good racing game.Alot of bugs,for sure.On modern system sometimes the road starts to fade away,but can be fixed with extreme nitro.I'd give this game 10/10 because it has pimpin' rides and xzibit type of customization,and more story than The Last of Us.


but,really,If the game works,I give it a 6/10 ok get it when it's like 99 cents.

I tried various fixes but the game simply crashes everytime I try to start the game. Luckily, by the looks of the reviews it's not a big loss and I can safely put this game into the 'hidden games' on Steam.

Does not work on Windows 10, tried all kinds of compatibility settings but it won't start. I hope someone can come up with a solution to play this on Windows 10.

This is my review of this game titled: Midnight Outlaw 6 Hours To Sunup.

Ok I want to start off by saying that I indeed bought this game on steam and when proceeded to download and install and launched I was quite surprised to find out that another game similar to this is named - Top Gear RPM Tuning and is exactly the same game. Now both games have issues working proper on modern day windows/systems (beware people) and mind the other reviews on here about this one because whatever issues it has with newer operating systems (as mentioned) they are very true. However I did get the game to work with no problems but you must jump thru hoops in order to do so, skipping the video intro sequence by pushing the "return key" on the keyboard is a essential action to do so then the game won't crash (most times) and setting compatibility modes are necessary. Now the biggest issue as far as running this game on the current hardware that I have "when actually playing it" is the maps graphics walls/structures/scenery seem to disappear at will, almost seems like the game is drawing the stuff on the map on the go? But again that alone is a sign of a very old game the way it was created. The way this is fixed as a quick solution is by hitting the cars nitro, as this lights up the screen and somehow that triggers the drawing of the game's graphics to render faster then the track and everything around you comes into full view again (for a couple of seconds) and then you must hit nitro again over and over each and everytime the graphics/track disappears just to rectify that problem. Aside from those issues mentioned above here is some good things about this game, surprisingly for how old this game really is it did recognize my Logitech wireless controller which I thought it would never be able to do. Also this is a fun street racing game to play, for its generation and considering back in the day it might have been impressive to look at at one point. If you see the screenshots and videos of this and you think it looks cool - Your not mistaken. Infact to be honest I actually played it (quick race mode) for a little while (despite all the problems mentioned above) and it did keep me entertained for the most part. Underneath all the huge unplayability factors is a nice little street racing game "that needs to updated majorly to fit today's standards" with lots of cool features to have fun with. Valusoft prob won't do any updates anytime soon with this game anymore since the company might have went belly up out of business a long time ago, and if someone had the time to fix it (as a personal project) they would have already done it by now a long time ago. But the problem is no one really cared about this game when it was abandoned so a lot of time would be put in to rectify all the above and I guess no one feels it is important enough to follow up on. Some of the creators that are still around are prob very aware of the universal issues with the different hardware and the game's compatibility issues with newer windows and such, but they do not feel its something they must do to try to make a competitor out of this with the current market of "newer" racing games with nicer graphics and gameplay that are relevant and available these days - I honestly don't blame them.

What else is there to say?

The cars handle well with good comfortable arcade like style physics/controls. The maps are nice but a little bland for my taste. The music being played per race is catchy and pretty standard dance tracks (not sure if they are real dance tacks or just composed by a random person). Then there is the other cars you see your opponents driving that look powerful and fast enough to win by a landslide but the AI in this game proves that theory wrong. The amount of cars available in this game to drive are not a vast whole lot to choose from so its really up to you how you wanna tune them and that part I found really innovative though as there a are at least 3 or 4 different upgrades for each tier of car parts. Like I said there is a hidden gem here but only if someone has the time to find it and remodel this gem.

BTW: I do have RPM Tuning as well it is on Abandonware site for download. The only thing is the graphics glitches (mentioned above earlier) which I will try and see if I can tinker with that. With that all being said I really hope that one day someone can update this game to be working on newer hardware as intended but that day won't come. Leaving this game as it is with the graphics glitchy - it looks like the whole city got hit by an atomic bomb.

I won't recommend this to anyone to download just because the fact it has not been updated/formatted to work on modern systems and the price tag of this should be a lot lower if not, even free dare I say. Its a nice fun street racer game but really old and games that are this old should not have a heavy price tag on them just because of the universal compatibility issues alone.

Another mid-2000s street racing game. Although its physics aren't the best the game isn't bad, but can be seen as medicore.

it works on my mothers ♥♥♥♥♥♥ pc
this game has the most extreme bodykits i have ever seen no joke.
if you want to play it just emulate RPM tuning and done, same game with a ♥♥♥♥ soundtrack, just that it actually starts up.
i did get this game to run on my modern pc, but cant fix the resoloution sadly, just set every exe to win98 compatibily mode and done.
otherwise a solid game with a decent story.
i give it a 6.5/10

Game is better than i thought, reason: works better with older GPU driver. Max res 1280 x 1024, overall bloom enabled but NOS bloom disabled in order to avoid the extreme screen flashes.

Also the road distance draw bug no longer present with old driver. No longer do i need to use NOS just to see the road ahead.

Better then NFS Underground & Underground 2 in physics (crashing into walls or other objects slow you down or stop you instead of bouncing you) and cutscenes which are animated and voice acted. NOS bloom effect is too bright so you need to play this in a bright room in order to minimize strain on your eyes. It can be disabled but that would trigger a bug that cause part of the road to disappear unless you use NOS. It won't work however unless bloom is also enabled. So you have to bear with excessive bright NOS if you want to avoid the bug. There is no replay view like in NFS Underground 2.

Here is a recent Twitch stream. Just a short test to see if it can be streamed properly.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/873207048

Sorry about the non-working links. Twitch one expired and the YT link below this one no longer exists because i deleted my channel. Here is a new working link:

https://youtu.be/kgbtnCA5LYM

Runs on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit without needing any compatibility setting. Slight problem with the start-up flash screens; right side is cut off.

No Anti-Aliasing supported in-game, had to force it in Radeon Crimson driver setting. Not sure if it makes any difference. Runs smoothly at 60fps. Highest top 2 resolutions are 1280 x 1024 and 1280 x 768.

Seems to be glitchy with random crashes but rectified that by unloading unncessary processes and services. Will update later if random crashes still persist.

One cutcene encountered so far with missing sounds that maybe due to missing sound files.

Very similar to NFS Underground 2 except that there is no replay but the cutscenes are fully 3D rendered using game engine and with voice acting.

Cars are recognizable to real world models but only approximated. No dashboard view. Not as arcady as NFS series which is notorious for their strong autobrake under low throttle. Damage modelling cannot be turned off; dunno if it's only visual or have physics impact.

From the Main Menu there is Quick Race, Adventure and Tuning & Race modes. Adventure mode is subdivided into Tuning, Cars, Free Roam and Story modes. Haven't tried other modes yet except Free Roam and Adventure modes. In Free Roam there doesn't seem to be anything to do other than explore. I have not seen any hotspots like workshops or car showroom in Free Roam like in NFS Underground 2. Maybe because it's too early in the Adventure mode?

There is only one savegame where you can use autosave or manual save.

Graphics look okay for its age but some building textures look horrible. You'll notice that especially in the cutscenes. Reflection and lighting effects are quite nice. Again they are similar to NFS underground 1 & 2, i think. There are several camera views during race but some aren't practical because they are placed in front and to the side making them risky to use while driving. The cameras can only be cycled with the Tab key and the default camera view is too close to rear end while its narrow FOV makes it a bit difficult to see what's up ahead going into corners. There is another slightly higher chase view which has marginally better FOV.

There are many race music tracks but they are typical of hard driving rythmic music similar to most NFS 2 to 7 series. There is no media player control to select or deselect music tracks, it plays tracks at random exept in the menus in which only one track is looped. Thankfully the menu music is quite nice and not so monotonous.

Overall it's quite fun and there is a lot of depth to car customisation. The story mode is better than NFSU 2 because it uses fully 3D animated characters within the game world with good voice acting. For the above reasons and the slighly better than NFS driving physics i give it 7/10. However the lack of replay brings it down 6.5/10.

Not sure how i got this game, maybe in a bundle so it's a nice surprise.

Here is a sample gameplay for the first 15 mins or so.
https://youtu.be/xOAG1WI_rKU

Game has this glitch where the road doesn't seem to load -- you can see on the radar where the road is supposed to be, but the game never seem to 'draw' it. I bought this game in a pack of old, abandonware type games, and wish now I had saved my money for games that still had a community and were ported/maintained better.

It worked immediately on my system (Ryzen 5 2600, RX 570, 16gb, Win10), but you still shouldn't buy it, because it's a really bad game for 5 euros. And the freeride fog makes this game impossible to play.