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If you were a PC gamer between 2000 and 2004, there’s a good chance you have a specific memory burned into your brain: The sun setting over the Arc de Triomphe. A siren wailing. A Mini Cooper flying off a ramp onto a moving train. And the announcer yelling, “Smoke screen ready!”

But here’s the twist: At least, not the way you think. The Nostalgia Trap Let’s rewind. In 2000, Microsoft and Angel Studios (the team that would later become Rockstar San Diego) released a sequel that blew the doors off the original. MM2 gave us two massive cities, full traffic systems, weather cycles, cops that actually chased you, and a “Cruise” mode that was basically an open-world sandbox before Grand Theft Auto III made it cool.