EDSA EXPRESS

EDSA EXPRESS puts you in the driver's cab of a Manila MRT-3 train at dusk, running the elevated line over EDSA from Ayala to Ortigas. The whole run is set to one infectious city-pop groove — and the song is the timetable. Every loop of the track is one station cycle: pull away on the departure beat, chase the amber target marker up through the verse, hit 65 km/h as the chorus lands, then feather the brakes into the platform exactly as the loop turns over.

Stop the cab on the 0 m board and the conductor grades you — GREAT within 8 metres, GOOD within 25, plus an on-time bonus when you stop with the song. Overspeed the cab and the alarm nags you; overrun a platform and the ATC slams the emergency brake for you.

Watch Manila slide by: glowing tower skylines, jeepneys and buses streaming along the highway below, neon billboards, the river crossing at Guadalupe, and lyric boards that float up from the horizon and fly past your windows on the beat. Six real stations, a live LED transit board, a full cab dashboard — mascon, speedometer, distance meter, route ribbon — and a rank at the end. Ingat po, driver.