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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Rockstar Games is giving the Midnight Club Los Angeles faithful a chance to run riot in South Central next year with a free expansion to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 street racer.
Rockstar has issued a new title update for Midnight Club: Los Angeles, adding “improved AI balance to adjust dynamically to user skill level.” Wait… does that mean less expletive/controller hurling, thanks to sane AI-controlled drivers?
Midnight Club, now in its fourth major release, lands on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, giving us Rockstar San Diego’s first foray into flashy, illegal street racing on current-generation consoles. The series heads to the west coast with Midnight Club Los Angeles, bringing with it a new, realistic representation of southern California’s smoggiest city, which happens to also be Midnight Club‘s biggest location to date. With a more open-world environment, “next-gen” graphics and extensive online integration, has Rockstar given us a reason to renew our membership to the Midnight Club?
Rockstar has sent through the Oz box art for its upcoming racing title, Midnight Club Los Angeles. Unsurprisingly, it contains a shot of a car and… a Classification Board sticker! Heart-pumping stuff, I know.
I’ve included a larger shot after the jump, if you’d like to use it as a centred wallpaper or something.
I’m happy to see that Midnight Club: Los Angeles looks every bit as impressive, as it sounded in McWhertor’s in-depth hands-on with the game.
When we last saw Rockstar San Diego’s Midnight Club: Los Angeles, way back at the Leipzig Games Convention, we walked away impressed. Pissed that we weren’t allowed to actually drive, but impressed. Thankfully, E3 wasn’t a total bust, given that we got to spend a good hour playing the Xbox 360 version of the newest Midnight Club.
It’s really too bad our illegal street racing skills weren’t up to the challenge. Sprinting through Sunset Boulevard in a Mazda RX8, then through the Hollywood hills in a late ’60s Ford Mustang Boss 302 showed that, while we were thrown a couple of “REP” points here and there, we have a long way to go before actually having a respectable racing reputation.
Fortunately, we looked pretty good, even when finishing fourth.
LA traffic can be a real bitch, so who can blame Rockstar if there two newest Midnight Club games are a little late getting there? Originally scheduled for a September 9th in North America and September 12th in Europe, Midnight Club: Los Angeles and its PSP companion Midnight Club: LA Remix are now scheduled to pull into stores on October 7th in the states, with a European release three days later.
The press release doesn’t explain the reason for the delay, or for that matter even call it a delay. In happy PR land this is just a new release date, possibly even better than the last! I’m assuming it’s the usual last-minute bug-stomping, extra polish sort of thing. That or they just really like October more.
Rockstar Games announces new release date for Midnight Club: Los Angeles on the Xbox 360® and PLAYSTATION®3 and Midnight Club: LA Remix for the PSP® system
Open-world street racing series debuts on October 7th and 10th in North America and Europe, respectively
Another game joins the Rockstar Games Social Club this September as Rockstar announces the release dates for Midnight Club: Los Angeles and its baby PSP brother, Midnight Club: LA Remix. September 9th is the date that North American players will be blazing down the streets of a fully recreated Los Angeles, with our European friends receiving the game three days later.
The headline really says it all. The Rockstar Games Social Club website is now open for pre-registration. First announced back in March, the Social Club will not only act as a glorified leaderboard, but as a social experience for the teeming masses. Right now the page is teasing a card game called Beat It! – the statistics card game – coming soon to the Social Club, as well as Midnight Club Los Angeles, which will also take advantage of the site’s features. There’s even a spot reserved for the music downloads you can purchase via the in-game ZiT service. Looks like they have plans for the Social Club far beyond GTA IV. Head on over to the site and get signed up before the site fully opens on April 29th! Rockstar Games Social Club [Rockstar - Thanks Everyone!]
