PS3 REVIEW: Midnight Club: Los Angeles
November 18th 2008 01:34
Console:
Playstation 3
Article:
Review
Score (out of 10):
9
Author:
Glen Atwell
Online Multiplayer:
Yes
Category: No Category
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
$89
9/10
MIDNIGHT Club: Los Angeles is a fast, flashy and furious racing experience.
After Rockstar reshaped the gaming generation with Grand Theft Auto IV, the superstar developer is back with a white-knuckle, illegal street racer that is destined to please.
Utilising a racing engine borrowed from GTA IV, Midnight Club: Los Angeles (MCLA) is a sharp, crisp and well-rounded title that sees you commence your driving career as a lowly pedal pusher.
To begin, there are no menus, and no excessively long cut-scenes. Before you know it youÂll be in-game, and your city contact will gift you a shoddy car to get you started.
From there, itÂs all about winning races, earning reputation and making serious money.
With that money, youÂll enhance your ride with thousands of customisations inside and outside the car.
As you delve deeper into MCLA the cars get faster, and bursts of NOS increasingly plentiful and powerful.
The Los Angeles city setting streams faultlessly, and even at breakneck speeds, the rendering is amazing.
Pizza Hut restaurants and billboard for iPods will flash by as you slip into intersections and slice between cars through impossible gaps.
But buyer beware, MCLA is far from a walk in the park, or even a cruise around town. The AI is ruthless and the computer drivers are very good.
Resist the urge to hurl the controller when youÂre passed moments before the finish line of an epic race due to a slight error.
It may have been a slight twitch of the analogue stick, a nano-second of indecision and itÂs all over.
Luckily, MCLA offers a start-button race restart with no load times and no race penalties.
Online multiplayer is fun, with a number of modes and reliable servers, but it is the career mode that harnesses the full throttle of MCLA.
YouÂll play Midnight Club: Los Angeles for countless hours and wonÂt rest until every single car is unlocked - just keep that controller attached to your wrist.
A certain stocking filler for the coming festive season.
Glen Atwell
Playstation 3 and Xbox 360
$89
9/10
MIDNIGHT Club: Los Angeles is a fast, flashy and furious racing experience.
After Rockstar reshaped the gaming generation with Grand Theft Auto IV, the superstar developer is back with a white-knuckle, illegal street racer that is destined to please.
Utilising a racing engine borrowed from GTA IV, Midnight Club: Los Angeles (MCLA) is a sharp, crisp and well-rounded title that sees you commence your driving career as a lowly pedal pusher.
To begin, there are no menus, and no excessively long cut-scenes. Before you know it youÂll be in-game, and your city contact will gift you a shoddy car to get you started.
From there, itÂs all about winning races, earning reputation and making serious money.
With that money, youÂll enhance your ride with thousands of customisations inside and outside the car.
As you delve deeper into MCLA the cars get faster, and bursts of NOS increasingly plentiful and powerful.
The Los Angeles city setting streams faultlessly, and even at breakneck speeds, the rendering is amazing.
Pizza Hut restaurants and billboard for iPods will flash by as you slip into intersections and slice between cars through impossible gaps.
But buyer beware, MCLA is far from a walk in the park, or even a cruise around town. The AI is ruthless and the computer drivers are very good.
Resist the urge to hurl the controller when youÂre passed moments before the finish line of an epic race due to a slight error.
It may have been a slight twitch of the analogue stick, a nano-second of indecision and itÂs all over.
Luckily, MCLA offers a start-button race restart with no load times and no race penalties.
Online multiplayer is fun, with a number of modes and reliable servers, but it is the career mode that harnesses the full throttle of MCLA.
YouÂll play Midnight Club: Los Angeles for countless hours and wonÂt rest until every single car is unlocked - just keep that controller attached to your wrist.
A certain stocking filler for the coming festive season.
Glen Atwell
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