| Midnight Club | |
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| Developers | Rockstar San Diego Rockstar London |
| Publishers | Rockstar Games |
| First release | Midnight Club: Street Racing October 12, 2000 |
| Latest release | Midnight Club: Los Angeles October 20, 2008 |
| Official website | rockstargames.com/midnightclub |
Midnight Club is a series of racing video games developed by Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios) and published by Rockstar Games. The games are similar to the Midtown Madness series previously developed by Angel Studios, focusing on competitive street racing in open world urban environments. Midnight Club however, has a greater emphasis than Midtown Madness. Throughout the series, players race through New York City, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, San Diego, Atlanta, and Detroit.
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| Title | Availability | Year | ||
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| Sony | Microsoft | Nintendo | ||
| Midnight Club: Street Racing | PlayStation 2 | None | Game Boy Advance | 2000 |
| Midnight Club II | PlayStation 2 | Microsoft Windows Xbox |
None | 2003 |
| Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition | PlayStation 2 Playstation Portable |
Xbox | None | 2005 |
| Midnight Club: Los Angeles | PlayStation 3 Playstation Portable |
Xbox 360 | None | 2008 |
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games, is the third game in the Midnight Club series. It is also the first game in the series to feature licensed vehicles and allow players to customize their cars and bikes with performance and visual upgrades. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox on April 11, 2005, and later ported to the PlayStation Portable in June of that same year. The three cities featured are San Diego, Atlanta, and Detroit. The name derived from a partnership between Rockstar and DUB Magazine, which features heavily in the game in the form of DUB-sponsored races and DUB-customized vehicles as prizes. The PSP version of Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition is the best selling racing game of all time on the PSP.
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix is a re-released version of Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, released in 2006. It is available as a Greatest Hits release on PlayStation 2 and a Platinum Hits release on Xbox. The game features all of the cities, vehicles, and music from Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, along with 24 new vehicles, a fourth city (Tokyo from Midnight Club II), new licensed music, new races, battle maps and online gameplay.
Midnight Club: Los Angeles is the 2008 addition to the Midnight Club lineup. It was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 20, 2008 in North America and October 24, 2008 in Europe. As the name suggests, the game is based in Los Angeles, featuring Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, San Fernando Valley, Downtown L.A., and most recently South Central. The designers used real street maps in developing the game. The game features online play and downloadable content. Licensed cars and bikes return, including new models and brands such as Ford and Mazda, which were absent in Midnight Club 3.
Midnight Club: L.A. Remix is the portable adaption of Midnight Club: Los Angeles for the PlayStation Portable. The port is developed by Rockstar London with Rockstar San Diego. The game features the map of Los Angeles used in Midnight Club II rather than the map used in the console versions of Los Angeles. The game also features the city of Tokyo, using the map from Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix.
Midnight Club: Los Angeles - Complete Edition is a revised version of the original MCLA. This edition has an extra racing area called "South Central" which adds 33% to the map. Along with that come several new cars, 26 new races, 12 new battle maps, 10 new delivery missions, around 100 new "Red Light Races", rims, vinyls, hydraulics, body kits, and music.
| Game | Review Scores | |||
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| IGN | Gamespot | Metacritic | ||
| Midnight Club: Street Racing | 86% [1] | 84% [2] | 78% [3] | |
| Midnight Club II | 91% [4] | 73% [5] | 85% [6] | |
| Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition | 92% [7] | 83% [8] | 84% [9] | |
| Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix | 88% [10] | 82% [11] | 85% [12] | |
| Midnight Club: Los Angeles | 85% [13] | 75% [14] | 82% [15] | |
| Midnight Club: L.A. Remix | 76% [16] | 75% [17] | 79% [18] | |
The two kanji letters that act as a subtitle, 湾岸, are translated as wangan, meaning "bayshore". This was taken from the name of the Tokyo to Yokohama route of the Shuto Expressway. The game was said to be named after the real life hashiriya gang, known as the Mid Night Club, who used the same route on a regular basis.
The name could also be confused with Wangan Midnight, a Japanese manga series which has been adapted into several arcade games (see Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune). Wangan Midnight is often written as "湾岸 Midnight".
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