

But who doesn't love a good street race? The city of Los Angeles is nicely rendered, but it should be obvious, and I'll make clear that this is not L.A.: It's a deftly refined in-game implementation of L.A. Gameplay in Midnight Club: Los Angeles is much the same, for better or worse, as previous iterations of the franchise, so you're going to have to like Midnight Club, or at least street racers sans realism, to enjoy this title. The title's graphics engine, updated and redefined for the newer consoles, is a marvel of just-enough detail married with the horsepower to carry the urban speed thrills and steelworks carnage of over-the-top street racing.

On this point, the inclusion of high-end video and audio into the series, Midnight Club: Los Angeles does not disappoint.

Rockstar's Midnight Club franchise has a storied history on the previous generation of consoles, although, prior to this new Los Angeles title, it has not made an appearance in the HD era.
