IGN AU writes: "Midnight Club is the rock in the open-world street racing genre. It knows what it's about, and every time a new game in the series comes along, you know that Rockstar will take the fundamentals to the next level. Unlike a series like Need for Speed, which changes with every release – one year it's about underground street racing, the next it's about the legal scene, then you're an undercover cop trying to break crime syndicates by, erm, driving really fast - Midnight Club: Los Angeles (MCLA) follows a natural progression from DUB Edition. And because the series isn't iterated on yearly (in fact, there's been more than three years between the original release of DUB Edition and MCLA), Rockstar San Diego is really able to hone and perfect each installment.
For MCLA, the team has opted to focus on just one city – Los Angeles (the clue is in the title), and they've done an incredible job capturing the spirit of the city. All the major streets, suburbs and landmarks have been compressed into what is essentially a "best of L.A." map. In fact, this is L.A. as we wish it was – you can get from one end of the town to the other with ease (the freeways aren't gridlocked), the streets are lined with iconic locations and shops (not homeless people and long stretches of grey concrete), and you can actually see the buildings in the distance – there's a bit of smog, but that just helps make the blood-orange setting sun look cool. Even the city's ratty palm trees somehow look alluring."
Midnight Club: Los Angeles was a great swansong for the arcade racer, but now the genre’s a bit less packed, it’s time for Take-Two to bring it back.
Yes, yess and yesssss!!
I loved dub edition back in the day, had a killer soundtrack aswell.
LA was sick as well, cmon rockstar give the people what they want and being a classic back!!
Midnight Club 3 is the best Street racing game imo. Also Midnight club was the real start of waypoint racing. It really pushed the open world race design to the next level, Where you could race on roofs etc. We need it back asap
GR: "It has been far too long since we’ve got to play a new Midnight Club game. It has now been a decade since Rockstar San Diego released Midnight Club: Los Angeles for PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP. When its open-world racing title came out, it seemed like the natural evolution of the PS2-era street racing titles that were all the rage. The map of Los Angeles was massive (it was bigger than all three of Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition‘s cities combined), and there was more variety than ever before in terms of car customization and race types."
It’s time for Rockstar to make more new games period.
Ever since 2013, this major publisher hasn’t released a new game outside of releases. They’ll finally do so soon with RDR2, but that’s only one new game in 5 years.
We don’t even know what future titles this massive publisher has in the imminent future, which is unheard of for a publisher of that size or of any size. No other publisher could get away with that.
I definitely agree that we need a new Midnight Club, but I don't really trust Rockstar to be able to pull it off. The last couple entries were awful, and after seeing what the did with the dumpster fire that is GTA Online I can only presume they'll try to pull the same BS.
Midnight Club LA was not that great. If they make a new one, I hope they make something similar to Midnight Club 3. That game was the best in the series, at least for me.
A distinguished trio of Rockstar Xbox 360 titles are coming to the Xbox One Backward Compatibility catalog next week: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Midnight Club: Los Angeles and Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis.
Hell yeah! Gamestop has Table Tennis for $2.99 now, and Midnight Club LA Complete for $9.99, Guarantee the prices will rise tomorrow so get them now.