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Metropolis Street Racer

Publisher: Sega

Genre: Racing

Number of players: 1-8

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	2001-01-15		51012
EU	2000-11-03		MK-51022-50

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Metropolis Street Racer, known as Metropolis during development and frequently listed simply as MSR, is a racing game developed by Bizarre Creations for the Sega Dreamcast. Highly praised at the time of release, MSR was often considered to be the Dreamcast's answer to the PlayStation's Gran Turismo racing series, as it has over 250 circuits (set in real-world locations) and numerous officially licensed cars.

History

Development

MSR's origins date back to 1997 when Sega's Kats Sato was tasked with finding out who had developed the PlayStation games Formula 1 and Formula 1 Championship Edition for Sony Computer Entertainment. Reportedly Sato purposely pulled the power cable at a display at ECTS 1997 to see the game's intoductory credits, and, upon discovering the team was Bizarre Creations, a meeting was arranged with Kazutoshi Miyake in an attempt to get the team to produce games for Sega instead. Martyn Chudley of Bizarre Creations accepted the offer and work on MSR began.

Metropolis Street Racer had an extremely rocky development cycle, being announced well in advance of the Dreamcast's launch and repeatedly missing deadlines over the course of a year. It was reportedly the first Dreamcast project to be started in the United Kingdom^[2].

While initially aimed at the Dreamcast's western launch window (late 1999), the game did not materialise fully until November 2000, at a time when Dreamcast sales were on the decline. Development on a Japanese release was started but never completed.

Thirty hours of real-life footage from the streets of London, Tokyo and San Francisco were captured in order to create accurate representations of the host cities. Richard Jacques who had at this point composed many soundtracks for Sega, provided the audio for the game.

Release

Metropolis Street Racer originally launched in PAL regions with a number of bugs, so much so that the game was recalled and Sega felt the need to issue replacement discs (the later North American version is the bug-fixed version, although not all the bugs were actually fixed). A replay option, included in review copies of the game, was scrapped at the last minute due to time restraints.

Despite initially high expectations, MSR sold roughly 120,000 units, with 101,757 of those being in North America. In Europe 13,297 were sold in the first two days, meaning very few units were moved after the launch period. Martyn Chudley described releasing the game exclusively on the Dreamcast at this time was like "The Beatles exclusively selling The White Album on Mars". £1 million of Bizarre Creations' own money went into the project, and although the team was happy to port the game to the PlayStation 2, management at Sega declined the offer.

Bizarre Creations would use what they learned through Metropolis Street Racer to create their line of Project Gotham Racing games for the Xbox/Xbox 360 which are seen as a spiritual successors.

Promotional material

MSR DC US PrintAdvert.jpg

US print advert
FR print advert

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

576 Konzol (HU)

98

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Ação Games (BR)

65

^[4]

Bonus (YU)

PAL

95

^[5]

Click! (PL)

60

^[6]

Consoles + (FR)

PAL

94

^[7]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

100

^[1]

Dreamcast Monthly (UK)

PAL

90

^[8]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

96

^[9]

Edge (UK)

PAL

90

^[10]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

70

^[11]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

91

^[12]

Fun Generation (DE)

PAL

86

^[13]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

88

^[14]

Game Station (UK)

100

^[15]

Gamers' Republic (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[16]

Hyper (AU)

92

^[17]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

91

^[18]

Mega Fun (DE)

PAL

91

^[19]

Neo Plus (PL)

90

^[20]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[21]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

90

^[22]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[23]

Playbox (FR)

86

^[24]

Play (PL)

94

^[25]

PSX Extreme (PL)

93

^[26]

Power Unlimited (NL)

98

^[27]

Sega Magazin (DE)

PAL

93

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Strana Igr (RU)

95

^[29]

Video Gamer (UK)

80

^[30]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

82

^[31]

	90
Based on 30 reviews

Metropolis Street Racer

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Inlay

Dreamcast, EU
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, EU (White Label)

Disc

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 File:CVG UK 229.pdf, page 82 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 229.pdf_p82" defined multiple times with different content
↑ File:Arcade UK 07.pdf, page 13
↑ 576 Konzol, "December 2000" (HU; 2000-xx-xx), page 40
↑ Ação Games, "Fevereiro 2001" (BR; 2001-xx-xx), page 47
↑ Bonus, "9/2000" (YU; 2000-12-25), page 50
↑ Click!, "3/2001" (PL; 2001-02-01), page 24
↑ Consoles +, "Décembre 2000" (FR; 2000-1x-xx), page 88
↑ Dreamcast Monthly, "Christmas 2000" (UK; 2000-11-23), page 84
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 15" (UK; 2000-11-02), page 62
↑ Edge, "December 2000" (UK; 2000-11-02), page 98
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 2001" (US; 2000-12-05), page 193
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 131
↑ Fun Generation, "11/2000" (DE; 2000-10-18), page 58
↑ GamePro, "January 2001" (US; 200x-xx-xx), page 105
↑ Game Station (UK) (+0:00)
↑ Gamers' Republic, "December 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 69
↑ Hyper, "February 2001" (AU; 2000-12-20), page 44
↑ MAN!AC, "12/2000" (DE; 2000-11-02), page 52
↑ Mega Fun, "12/2000" (DE; 2000-11-02), page 38
↑ Neo Plus, "Grudzień 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 54
↑ Next Generation, "January 2001" (US; 2000-12-21), page 96
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-07), page 8
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "Holiday 2000" (US; 2000-11-28), page 86
↑ Playbox, "Décembre 2000" (FR; 2000-1x-xx), page 41
↑ Play, "Luty 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 30
↑ PSX Extreme, "03/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 38
↑ Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 9, Nummer 1, Januari 2001" (NL; 200x-xx-xx), page 42
↑ Sega Magazin, "Dezember 2000" (DE; 2000-1x-xx), page 12
↑ Strana Igr, "Dekabr 2000 1/2" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 48
↑ Video Gamer, "December 2000" (UK; 2000-11-01), page 46
↑ Video Games, "12/2000" (DE; 2000-11-02), page 102

[:File:CVG_UK_229.pdf_p82-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 File:CVG UK 229.pdf, page 82 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 229.pdf_p82" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:Arcade_UK_07.pdf_p13-2] File:Arcade UK 07.pdf, page 13

[3] 576 Konzol, "December 2000" (HU; 2000-xx-xx), page 40

[:File:AcaoGames_BR_160.pdf_p47-4] Ação Games, "Fevereiro 2001" (BR; 2001-xx-xx), page 47

[:File:Bonus_9_SCG.pdf_p50-5] Bonus, "9/2000" (YU; 2000-12-25), page 50

[6] Click!, "3/2001" (PL; 2001-02-01), page 24

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_107.pdf_p88-7] Consoles +, "Décembre 2000" (FR; 2000-1x-xx), page 88

[:File:DreamcastMonthly_UK_16.pdf_p84-8] Dreamcast Monthly, "Christmas 2000" (UK; 2000-11-23), page 84

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_15.pdf_p62-9] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 15" (UK; 2000-11-02), page 62

[:File:Edge_UK_091.pdf_p98-10] Edge, "December 2000" (UK; 2000-11-02), page 98

[:File:EGM_US_138.pdf_p193-11] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 2001" (US; 2000-12-05), page 193

[12] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 131

[:File:FunGeneration_DE_58.pdf_p58-13] Fun Generation, "11/2000" (DE; 2000-10-18), page 58

[:File:GamePro_US_148.pdf_p105-14] GamePro, "January 2001" (US; 200x-xx-xx), page 105

[gamestationuk2000-11-03-15] Game Station (UK) (+0:00)

[:File:GamersRepublic_US_31.pdf_p69-16] Gamers' Republic, "December 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 69

[:File:Hyper_AU_088.pdf_p44-17] Hyper, "February 2001" (AU; 2000-12-20), page 44

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-12.pdf_p52-18] MAN!AC, "12/2000" (DE; 2000-11-02), page 52

[:File:MegaFun_DE_2000-12.pdf_p38-19] Mega Fun, "12/2000" (DE; 2000-11-02), page 38

[20] Neo Plus, "Grudzień 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 54

[:File:NextGeneration_US_73.pdf_p96-21] Next Generation, "January 2001" (US; 2000-12-21), page 96

[:File:ODM_UK_12.pdf_p8-22] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-09-07), page 8

[:File:ODCM_US_10.pdf_p86-23] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "Holiday 2000" (US; 2000-11-28), page 86

[:File:Playbox_FR_01.pdf_p41-24] Playbox, "Décembre 2000" (FR; 2000-1x-xx), page 41

[25] Play, "Luty 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 30

[26] PSX Extreme, "03/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 38

[:File:PowerUnlimited_NL_085_200101.pdf_p42-27] Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 9, Nummer 1, Januari 2001" (NL; 200x-xx-xx), page 42

[:File:SegaMagazin_DE_85.pdf_p12-28] Sega Magazin, "Dezember 2000" (DE; 2000-1x-xx), page 12

[29] Strana Igr, "Dekabr 2000 1/2" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 48

[:File:VideoGamer_UK_01.pdf_p46-30] Video Gamer, "December 2000" (UK; 2000-11-01), page 46

[:File:VideoGames_DE_2000-12.pdf_p102-31] Video Games, "12/2000" (DE; 2000-11-02), page 102

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 MSR DC US PrintAdvert.jpg|US print advert

Difference between revisions of "Metropolis Street Racer"

From Sega Retro

Revision as of 18:05, 22 March 2016

Contents

History

Development

Release

Promotional material

Physical scans

References