There is a police presence, which can and will chase you down if it sees you're up to no good. You'll also have missions where you must render payback by damaging target vehicles and deliver cars across town unscathed in an extremely short amount of time. There are time trials, checkpoint races around the city, freeway races, and races from point A to point B-pretty standard stuff for the genre.

When you find someone, you flash your lights, and in most cases, race to the starting line. There's certainly such a thing as too much advertising, but it's not overdone here (not every gas station is a 7-11, for example), and having these real-world businesses in the game world helps immerse you in the experience.Īs with most street racing games, you drive around the city looking for people to race. What's really neat about the city here is not only how many recognizable landmarks there are, such as the 3rd Street Promenade and LA Convention Center, but also the branded buildings, such as 7-11, Pizza Hut, Holiday Inn, and even billboards for iPods. This slightly scaled-down City of Angels covers everything, including the beaches of Santa Monica, the Hollywood hills, and downtown. The frame rate is steady, the action is fast, and the game's re-creation of LA is absolutely gorgeous. Day or night, rain or shine, the city looks fantastic. Some days are cloudy, and every once in awhile, the clouds unleash torrents of rain. The game has a day/night cycle so you're not stuck racing at one time of day the whole time. There's a bit of a story, but it's the bare minimum to get you in a car to race around the streets of LA. Now Playing: Midnight Club: Los Angeles Video Review 1 By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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