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Game Information
- Platform: Xbox 360
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Description
Platform: Xbox 360
Manufacturer's Description
"The best way to see Los Angeles is at 200mph.
Race at breakneck speeds through the streets of modern-day L.A. recreated in stunning detail. Drive the hottest range of real-world tuners, muscle cars, exotics and superbikes on the streets today. Customize your ride with the best after-market performance parts and custom kits. Illegal street racing with no track, no load times, no rules: Welcome back to the Midnight Club."
Product Description
The best way to see Los Angeles is at 200mph! Race at breakneck speeds through the streets of modern-day L.A. recreated in stunning detail. Drive the hottest range of real-world tuners, muscle cars, exotics and superbikes on the streets today. Customise your ride with the best after-market performance parts and custom kits. Illegal street racing with no track, no load times, no rules: welcome back to the Midnight Club!
- 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.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
After reading various reviews of this game, I felt compelled to add my 2 cents. I've never played a Midnight Club game before, but have always loved earlier versions of Need For Speed. Until the travesty that was Need For Speed Pro Racer - ugh! So I've always thought the next-gen consoles were lacking a truly great arcade racer (I don't class the awesome PGR4 as an arcade racer).
i took a chance on this as it was so cheap - the fact that it was based on the GTA4 graphics engine also seemed to appeal. Once I'd found a camera view to suit (I still veer between the "classic" view and the in-car view), I drove around for a few minutes. I was struck by how great the graphics were, the sense of speed, the lack of any graphical slowdown. Then I entered a few races. Within about 5 minutes I realised this was the arcade racer I wanted Need For Speed to be (but isn't). The handling is perfect - to make a difficult corner, all you need to do is slow down slightly.
Another thing that impressed me was the navigation system. Burnout Paradise was unplayable for me, as I never knew which sodding way I was supposed to go!! The navigation on this game, however, is nigh-on perfect. You cannot miss where you are supposed to go (apart from some later races where you might miss the odd tricky corner). Switching between objectives is also a breeze.
Lastly, as with many games, it gets better as you go on, unlocking better cars. The garage in this game strangely gives you the opportunity to test-drive the best models, so stright away you get a feeling of what it's like to drive the very fastest models.
In a nutsehll, I would urge any racing game fan to buy this. It hasn't got the advertising clout that EA has, with their (now defunkt) Need For Speed series. What it has got is a game that is developed, clearly, by very clever people. It looks as good as GTA4. The cars handle brilliantly. The game mechanism is so user-friendly. Most importantly, this game is pure FUN.
i took a chance on this as it was so cheap - the fact that it was based on the GTA4 graphics engine also seemed to appeal. Once I'd found a camera view to suit (I still veer between the "classic" view and the in-car view), I drove around for a few minutes. I was struck by how great the graphics were, the sense of speed, the lack of any graphical slowdown. Then I entered a few races. Within about 5 minutes I realised this was the arcade racer I wanted Need For Speed to be (but isn't). The handling is perfect - to make a difficult corner, all you need to do is slow down slightly.
Another thing that impressed me was the navigation system. Burnout Paradise was unplayable for me, as I never knew which sodding way I was supposed to go!! The navigation on this game, however, is nigh-on perfect. You cannot miss where you are supposed to go (apart from some later races where you might miss the odd tricky corner). Switching between objectives is also a breeze.
Lastly, as with many games, it gets better as you go on, unlocking better cars. The garage in this game strangely gives you the opportunity to test-drive the best models, so stright away you get a feeling of what it's like to drive the very fastest models.
In a nutsehll, I would urge any racing game fan to buy this. It hasn't got the advertising clout that EA has, with their (now defunkt) Need For Speed series. What it has got is a game that is developed, clearly, by very clever people. It looks as good as GTA4. The cars handle brilliantly. The game mechanism is so user-friendly. Most importantly, this game is pure FUN.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
Midnight Club Los Angeles is the fourth in the series of Midnight Club games and it is absolutely great! The city of angels is stunning to look at, with noticeable landmarks such as the Hollywood sign and Santa Monica pier on the way. Gameplay is varied with everything from point to point races to circuit racing and even a mode where you have to crash another car off the road! Sounds are good with everthing from rap to rock songs and some dance too. The only slight problem is that the game is rather difficult but nevertheless challenging as some race routes are a bit frustrating aswell as AI being a bit gruesome! But All in All a good game.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
I played this game first while visiting a friend. I'm usualy cautious about new racing games becase they are either a poor rip off of the need for speed series or they are not origional. At first I took a dislike to the game when presented with 3 bad cars to start out with.
However after about an hour or so of playing and a few tune ups later I had grown very fond of the car dubbing it the "Initial D car" this was only helped by the huge ammount of customization that is avaliable including the licence plates and weel dimensions.
I read other reviews saying how the crash system made it imposible to recover a race after the first crash. and i simply found this to be untrue. if you crash at everyother turn your likely to loose but if you keep an eye out and drive well enough you should be able to keep the other racers from escaping.People seem to look down on the crash aspect of the game but all i can tell is that they must be terrible at the game to lose on every ocasion they crash.
The pinkslip race system was very intuitive since the first attempt i made at the race resulted me losing my car. But when i returned with my "initial D" car seeing it as a make or break part of the gane i was relieved to see that the car i had lost could be won back.
Finaly the powerups. (my personal favourite Roar) never ceased to make me laugh when at the flick of a button you can send your oponent cars flying off the road into traffic.
However after about an hour or so of playing and a few tune ups later I had grown very fond of the car dubbing it the "Initial D car" this was only helped by the huge ammount of customization that is avaliable including the licence plates and weel dimensions.
I read other reviews saying how the crash system made it imposible to recover a race after the first crash. and i simply found this to be untrue. if you crash at everyother turn your likely to loose but if you keep an eye out and drive well enough you should be able to keep the other racers from escaping.People seem to look down on the crash aspect of the game but all i can tell is that they must be terrible at the game to lose on every ocasion they crash.
The pinkslip race system was very intuitive since the first attempt i made at the race resulted me losing my car. But when i returned with my "initial D" car seeing it as a make or break part of the gane i was relieved to see that the car i had lost could be won back.
Finaly the powerups. (my personal favourite Roar) never ceased to make me laugh when at the flick of a button you can send your oponent cars flying off the road into traffic.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
AI Cheats
This game could be epic.. the physics are awesome, the models look fantastic and the game play is imaginative, however it's absolutely unforgivable that the AI cheats... Read more
Published 8 months ago by dv1200xt
Horrible
Never recieved product, do not buy off these. I have been waiting over a month for the game to come, but it never has.
Published 9 months ago by JackMorrisX
Fun... but hard
Good game with a massive area to explore.
Races start to get very long and difficult though so wouldn't recommend for people who just like a quick blast. Read more
Races start to get very long and difficult though so wouldn't recommend for people who just like a quick blast. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Andrew from Aberdeen
Look great but...
Fisrt off, I am not just someone who enjoys occassionally playing racing games, i see myself as being pretty good at them (im not anywhere near a pro, but am more than competent... Read more
Published on 11 April 2010 by keeano
Great game but gets harder further you get.
The game is great in gameplay and the handling is really arcadey. The graphics are truly next gen and the city looks great at night. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2009 by Khalida Parveen
Brilliant
i got this game for christmas and it has to be one of the only games that took longer than a month to complete that i have so it was a good games to get. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2009 by J. baril
A bargain if ever I saw one!
Nowadays, racing games on all consoles are often over-rated and are far too often disappointing. Need for Speed has lost it's touch, it's USP and it's... Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2009 by T. D. Rodwell
Best Driving Game in every sense
Best Game Play (lots of variety of choices)
Slow Mow, Ram and funnel blast your way to the top (oh but you got to earn it)
Win Cars, Money and street Cred along the... Read more
Slow Mow, Ram and funnel blast your way to the top (oh but you got to earn it)
Win Cars, Money and street Cred along the... Read more
Published on 7 July 2009 by Douglas Turner
Midnight Club: Los Angeles Xbox 360
An excellent racing game that I bought for my 14 year old son. It kept him amused for hours with plenty of acton, car crashes and chases and you get to customise your own car! Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2009 by Mrs. S. Rogers
Cheating AI makes for an impossible game
I've never been quite so frustrated with a game as I have with Midnight Club: Los Angeles. It includes without doubt the most obvious "rubber banding" I've ever seen in a racing... Read more
Published on 26 May 2009 by J. C. Walker
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