Midnight Club: Los Angeles for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

It's a good arcade-like game. Don't look for realistic characteristics. If you want realism, try GRID. It is a much better game.

The game is an ok game. Here are some of the things that REALLY annoyed me:

1. Even if you buy the fastest car, challengers will be just as fast (even if they are in a 1998 Eclipse). The game doesn't reward you for purchasing fast cars. Competitors just get faster. I literally beat more events in a Ford Focus than in my Saleen S7. I even experimented by racing more difficult events in my Focus and WON. I raced medium difficulty events in my S7 and lost by miles!

2. The car list is weak. The only good rides are the S7, Lambos, and the Bikes.

3. This game is a huge commercial. Everyone corner you turn, there is an ad. I mean I don't even see that many ads in real life. And since when is there 4 Best Buys in a 1 mile radius? Seriously. Way to sell out.

4. Story is really weak.

5. You don't even get rewarded after beating the game. Usually in racing games you get a massive amount of money to spend. When you beat this game, the next thing you need to do is "WIN $1,000,000." This is the only game I've played that rewarded me with a horribly hard task after beating the game! How fun is that?

6. Even if you won $1M, you already have the fastest car. What else are you going to buy? A 1986 Golf?

Overall, it was a good game to waste time with. I'm glad I have GameFly because I'd be mad if I bought this game.

I'd recommend GRID over this 100X. If you already played GRID, play it again, because you will enjoy it more than this game, even the 2nd time around.

I play games to relax and defeat a minor challenge now and again. The thought of playing a game that makes you mad enough to hurl your remote through the TV is ludicrous! If I wanted one chance to fail/win odds, I'd play... life, which I'm trying to escape from momentarily in the first place so it defeats the purpose.

This game is beautiful, the rendering is awesome, the vehicles are great and the racing is okay. I find the AI to be a little tough however, and I'm probably an average racer. The thing that makes me volcanic is the propensity of the game to tank me in the last few seconds of a race. Come around a corner wrong, WHAM, you lose. Miss a turn? You lose. It's frustrating after you’ve raced a few minutes only to culminate in a loss.

One of the other problems is a lack of clearly defined progression. Everyone's cars seem to run a little faster than yours no matter how much money you dump in them.

It was a great effort Rockstar, but I have to recommend skipping it to anyone that reads this. I find the Need For Speed Series to be of the same genre, but much more forgiving and enjoyable.