FEATURED Midnight Club: Los Angeles – Xbox 360
- Progressive all star soundtrack with over 100 songs, including artist exclusives along with an online portal featuring Rate My Ride, shared photo galleries, leaderboards and monthly sponsored multiplayer races.
- A truly seamless open-world featuring a continuous driving experience, minimal menus and load times and multiple organic race starts.
- Incredible selection of licensed muscle cars, tuners, exotics, motorcycles and luxury cars with 100,000 polygon exteriors and interiors.
- Extremely deep level of customization including licensed aftermarket parts, decal creation system, and complete custom interiors.
- Most authentic and stunning recreation of Los Angeles ever created, larger than all of the previous Midnight Club maps to date.
Rockstar Midnight Club Los Angeles for XBox 360 Rockstar’s Midnight Club racing series makes its first appearance on next-gen consoles after a three-year hiatus. Instead of solely focusing on the nighttime racing scene, Midnight Club features a 24-hour day-night cycle set in densely populated Los Angeles.Powered by the same graphics engine used in GrandTheft Auto IV, the title offers arcade-style racing from either a behind-the-car perspective or a dashboard viewpoint with working dials and animatedsteering wheels. There are no longer menu screensto navigate or linear missions to follow. The entire city is available to explore from the start, so players are free to travel wherever they want, looking for opponents to challenge in races designed to test their driving prowess. Up to four players can compete simultaneously online via PlayStation Network. Reputation points earned from races canbe traded in for new vehicles, performance parts,and special race invitations. The digital versionof Los Angeles is the largest city featured in a Midnight Club game to date. Spanning an area larger than all three cities combined in 2005’s version, Midnight Club: Los Angeles has players switchingbetween an aerial perspective to plan routes and a street level view to prowl for potential events.Initiating races involves flashing the vehicle’s lights to signal an opponent and then driving to adesignated start point. Any damage received whiledriving or racing can be repaired at various garages. Multiple vehicle types are available from different eras and include motorcycles. Midnight Club: Los Angeles also features a licensed soundtrack by popular recording artists.The fifth game in the Midnight Club series, Midnight Club: Los Angeles brings the popular simulation racer to next-generation consoles for the first time. Developed by Rockstar Games, developers of the Grand Theft Auto series, it is packed with an incredible selection of muscle cars, tuners, exotics, motorcycles, luxury cars and an incredible selection of after-market performance parts and custom kits. Enter the ultimate world of Illegal street racing with no track, no load times, no rules: Welcome back to the Midnight Club.
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A Wide-open LA Like You’ve Never Imagined
Midnight Club Los Angeles drops players into a painstakingly recreated version of world-famous Tinseltown. Broken down into five distinct open-world gameplay areas, linked on the game map, cumulatively these areas comprise a massive area, much larger than anything ever seen in previous Midnight Club releases and possibly larger than any existing racer to date. Within these areas, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Mulholland Drive and Downtown LA, players are free to engage in mission play driving them to attain and customize a wide range of authentic world-class street racing vehicles, or to simply explore the city, taking on all comers in a variety of race types as they wish. Regardless, along the way they will experience not only the visual realism of the iconic boulevards, freeways, and landmarks made famous in TV and movies, but also the realism of the living breathing LA urban experience. Here traffic backs up then clears as people go to and leave work for the day, weather systems come and go and day turns to night, then back again. All the while the race goes on. It’s all part of the living, breathing LA. It’s all part of the Midnight Club.
Midnight Club: Los Angeles will feature an astounding selection of vehicles in the Muscle Car, Exotics, Tuners, Motorcycle and Luxury car categories. At the time of publishing only a fraction of the total list has been announced, but a good sampling of what players can expect at launch can be seen below. Click the links in each category to see screen shots of the cars:
| Muscle Cars Saleen S302 Extreme Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Dodge Challenger Concept Car |
Bikes Kawasaki Ninja ZX14 |
| Exotics Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster Ford GT Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder |
Tuners Volkswagen R32 Pontiac Solstice 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX |
Midnight Club Los Angeles continues the tradition of offering some of the deepest vehicle customization you will find in any video game. The hottest licensed cars and bikes in the world are at your disposal – kit them out, supe them up, and personalize them down to the last detail to make them all your own. Visit the Club’s in-game garages located in Hollywood and Santa Monica and let your imagination run wild – tweaking and fine tuning through the following three different types of vehicle modifications: Performance & Handling – To become a street legend, you’re going to have to tune your vehicle for maximum performance. The garage offers three levels of upgrades for virtually every component on your vehicle, but it’s up to you to craft the winning combination that will give you the edge on the competition. Exterior – For the Midnight Club, stunting is a habit and its clandestine Los Angeles garages have all the toys needed to ensure heads turn in this jaded town. From making sure your car is dripping in candy paint, to adding unique body kits and jaw dropping extras, the garage offers practically limitless possibilities to personalize your vehicle with aftermarket accessories and customizable options. Interior – Don’t embarrass yourself by pulling up with an outrageously kitted-up car that has a ‘me-too’ factory interior. Not a good look! You’re going to be spending a lot of time behind the wheel, so renovate and make yourself feel comfortable. Beware or Befriend the Local Competition
The street racing scene of Midnight Club is tough, but tight, meaning that everyone that you meet in expansive Los Angeles could just as easily be an ally as an enemy. One thing is for certain though, they are all willing to throw down at the drop of a hat. Just a few of the faces you’ll encounter out on the streets are:
 | Karol, Age 45 – A veteran of Moscow’s underground street racing circuit, Karol moved to LA in the 1990’s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you’re looking for cars, he’s your man. He owns two successful garages and claims to be able to get hold of any vehicle, no questions asked. He also sees himself as a philosopher and will bend your ear if you left him. He mostly races around Hollywood and the Beaches and his rides include a 1975 Datsun 280Z, 1969 Boss Mustang 302, 2006 Dodge Challenger and a 1971 Lamborghini Miura SV. |
 | Annie, Age 31 – Annie has a rep as one of the fiercest drivers in the city. She detests posers and wannabes, is intelligent and sharp-tongued and pulls no punches when it comes to cutting the competition down to size. She has been spotted in everything from a 1983 VW Golf GTI, 2006 Pontiac Solstice, 2008 Chrysler 300C SRT-8, 2008 Audi RS4 and a 2004 Ford Shelby Cobra Concept and can usually be found hanging out near Pink’s Hotdog Stand in Hollywood along with her crew. |
Rockstar Games Social Club: Join the Community
Being a Rockstar game Midnight Club: Los Angeles comes with a huge commitment to the gaming community. To take advantage of all the benefits that come with this players should ensure that they join the ‘Rockstar Games Social Club’ to extend their Midnight Club experience. Benefits will include, but are not limited to detailed player statistics, robust multiplayer leaderboards for all online games modes – plus a host of other special features, including in-game music download opportunities, to be announced at a later date. Simply create an account, link your Xbox 360 Gamertag, set up your profile and you’re in.
As of the time of publishing Rockstar Games has not confirmed the gameplay modes that will be available for Midnight Club: Los Angeles, but multiple multiplayer gameplay modes, in addition to a deep singleplayer mode, are expected to be available with the game. As the game’s launch date creeps closer please check back for further details.
Realistic….NO…..Best Racing Game Thus Far?? YES!!!!,
GAMEPLAY:
I have only invested a small amount of time in the game so far, I have no more then one car; (1998 Nissan 240SX), but in this short time invested, I can tell you that the handling far exceeded my expectations. The cars have a serious weight to them, and its an excellent balance between an arcade and simulation feel. There are some interesting features within the game as well that really stand out. For starters, you have the ability to purchase “special abilities,” these are things like “electro magnetic pulse, or EMP,” that allow you to temporarily take down the oppositions cars. Its really quite a neat idea I believe, and even thou I’m far from attaining those abilities, I think it will add a certain element of strategy to the game that we’ve yet to see in a racing game.
Is the game difficult you ask? I’ve been reading a lot about people complaining that they find this game a lil difficult… Well I gotta say, it certainly isn’t easy by an means. But it sure as heck ain’t terribly hard or impossible like some people would have you believe either. Yes you have to know how to drive, if you can’t drive in the real world, don’t expect to ace this game, its a challenge, you must make sure you pay attention to where your traveling, and also watch for traffic, it’s quite the intense experience I must say.
GRAPHICS:
Excellent in this department. I was surprised to find out that the developers used the “RAGE” engine that GTAIV is based off of. It runs very smoothly so far, and everything looks excellent. There’s also a great sense of speed in this game, which is a must for any racing game, but especially a street racing game. Each of the games 45 or so cars and bikes are excellently detailed, and they all include INTERIOR VIEWS!!! Heck yes, I expect nothing less anymore, and I really hope the next installment of FORZA Motorsport will include dashboards for EVERY car as well. The interior view is great and it’s the view I use the most. I must also point out that its a nicer seating position in the car then the latest installment of Project Gotham Racing. PGR3 had a great seating position in the car where you could clearly see the gauges, as well as where you were heading. But PGR4’s quite frankly sucked, at least in my opinion.
The city of Angels looks absolutely incredible in this game, and its; almost like being there. There’s a great amount of detail included in the city, and it’s just a joy to look at while driving around or racing by at 180MPH! Another interesting feature is the awesome way you transition between the full city map and the game. It’s very much like Test Drive Unlimited, and those that have played TDU will know exactly what I mean. Its extreamly smooth in it’s transitions between the map of the city and the game, and you get wisked from a real time birds-eye view of LA right back into your car at the touch of a button, magnificent!
CUSTOMIZATION:
I gave this area of the game its own heading, because there is simply so much of it that you can do and its generally a huge aspect of the game. Everything and anything on your car can be customized, from the body panels, to the doors, to the headlights and taillights, interior features etc, and of course performance mods. Here is a quick list of what can be done:
EXTERIOR:
– Body panels, front and rear, as well as side skirts
– Wide body kits
– Headlights
– Taillights
– Exhaust tip
– Rims
– Tires (branding and tread pattern, or tire model)
– Neon
– Ride Height
– Paint (Pearl, Metallic, Sparkle, Gloss, Matte)
– Roof and hood
– Carbon fibre panels
– VINYLS
INTERIOR:
– Colour scheme
– Seats
– Neons
– Gauges
– Steering wheel
– Floor mats
PERFORMANCE: all categories have three stages, and you may choose the brands of the parts you install..
– Intake
– Exhaust
– Suspension
– Boosted / NA (Turbocharge or Supercharge)
– Engine Internals strengthened
– Roll bars
– Brakes
– Tires
– Nitrous
(there are more, I can’t remember them all at the moment)
Another nice touch is that if you aren’t terribly in to tuning cars, then you may choose to have the game “auto tune” your car for you. It will select the best parts for you automatically if you choose, to take the guess work out of it for you.
CONTROL:
No problem here, like I mentioned in the gameplay section, the cars handle very nicely. You are afforded a modest amount of drift control around corners via the e-brake, or just turning in hard and asjusting the accelerator appropriately. I have remapped the right joystick to allow me freedom of head movement in the cabin, so I can look left, right, up, or down. Thats something else that deserves a mention, we’ve come to the point in console gaming it…
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|which console is it better on…PS3 or the XBOX 360 ???,
HANDS DOWN…XBOX 360…it almost looks like the difference between an original PS”2″ game and an XBOX 360 game. I had both systems set to the same HD settings on the console and my television(HDTV 57″) channels were identically set as well. The PS3 version just simply looked blurry and bland in color. The XBOX 360 version had much more detail and was crisp. I drove to the exact spot on both systems and my kids and I sat and watched the people walk by and noticed all the texture on the cars and pedestrians. The difference was noticable instantly. I wouldn’t have believed it was such a huge difference if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes.
However, I would have taken someone elses word for it. I hope this helps
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|Midnight’s High Octane Racer,
Never was a fan of the other MC games. My buddy actually put me on this one. I give it a 5 of 5 for graphics. And 5 of 5 for playability.
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