ok, so 14th doesn’t sound so big but when you consider that London only comes 25th on the list, you get an idea of just how big Los Angeles is and then throw in that the racing area in Midnight Club: Los Angeles is at least as big as all three previous Midnight Club game put together! Now anyone who’s ever been to Los Angeles will no doubt have a half decent idea of the layout of the city, which is something like the world’s 14th largest city. That’s a humungous amount of detail but it’ll become clear why there’s so many polygons in each car in a little bit.īut this incredible level of detail isn’t just for the cars, it’s been taken out into the city itself too. But giving the car more than cursory glance shows that the Rockstar San Diego development team have gone way overboard with a, so I’m told, 100,000 polygon count on the cars. We started off with a scrolly-whirly view of the car we were going to drive which sat there in all its high polygon, real time reflections showroom state and it looked very, very nice.

So before the demo had even started rolling, Midnight Club: Los Angeles was going to have to pull out some stops to get me enthused, especially seeing as this is day three of tramping the floor and I was knackered.īut as soon as the game had loaded I could see that Rockstar, once again, had something special on their hands because Midnight Club: Los Angeles, from what I’ve seen, looks pant wettingly gorgeous… but before I have to change my boxers, let me explain. I’ve played Midnight Club: Dub Edition and whilst I enjoyed it I thought it was a bit, well, generic… that’s not to say it wasn’t good, it just felt like most every other arcade racer out. Sitting down with Rockstar at Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, I wasn’t too sure what to expect from Midnight Club: Los Angeles. Now in broad daylight and looking very, very cool

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