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Rivals in racing games

I've been thinking about the older racing games I grew up playing 2 decades ago.

Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) is still a great street illegal racing game and the game is 20 years old at the time I'm writing this.

But what I get to forget the most is the rivals from the Blacklist, except Ronnie, Toru and Razor.

As a guy who grew up playing some NFS games with a Career Mode, I barely remember Eddie and Samantha from NFSU1. Or Rachel and Caleb from Underground 2.

Kenji, Wolf, Angie and Darius were just okay in NFS Carbon.

Ryo Watanabe was the boring rival I've seen in Prostreet.

Aki Kimura, Ray Krieger, Karol Monroe and Nate Denver? Who the hell are those fellas? (At least, the soundtrack is nice)

What about Undercover? Welp, the player doesn't have rivals. He's an undercover police officer instead.

All I could remember was a mediocre story with this Inspector Maggie Q.

The story has a 2 Fast 2 Furious vibe. It just wasn't good with the handling of the car.

Let's see, Midnight Club?

While people said that the 3rd one considers to be the best Midnight Club game, I don't overlook how awesome the game was. Here's a photo of my car I drove back in 2009.

I just don't cherish the rivals or even remember them. Vanessa? Bishop? And Carlos? I don't even remember their faces before. They just mentioned their names on the game.

Those fictional competitors are from San Diego? Right.

Let's go to Atlanta. We have Roy, Dre, Cheng, Vito, Lamont and Naomi.

I don't even remember them...

As for MC Los Angeles, there aren't many rivals, except for Booke.

So…

I cherish the most rivals in Midnight Club 2.

Moses, Steven, Maria, Angel, Gina, Hector, Dice, Blog, Jewel & Julie, Primo, Stephane, Ian, Farid, Parfait, Shing, Ricky, Halev, Nikko, Zen, Ken'ichi, Makoto and Savo.

Seeing their facial animations and their voices are pretty cool.

Love Gina.

There isn't other racing game with interesting facial rivals like Midnight Club 2.

I almost forgot. I used to play R Racing Evolution.

I actually like Gina Cavalli. She was the only rival on it.

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