I had a chance to play a bit of Midnight Club LA Remix that’s released recently. The game really reminds me of GTA and Burnout Paradise, well go figure. After playing it for about an hour and a half, I called it a quit because I was getting bored and annoyed.
The game play, as I have mentioned reminds me of GTA and Burnout Paradise because back in the previous Midnight Club games, you would simply go through the story by beating your component(s). Midnight Club Los Angeles Remix allows you to roam freely in a city just like in the other two games, on the map there will be markers showing you where you can race opponents with green being the easiest, yellow is harder and red being the hardest. You flash your lights to initiate the race when you reach the parked area. Even the yellow level isn’t too much of a challenge, haven’t seen any reds though. Conversation between characters is done through a mobile device (T-mobile branded). I have also come across the garage where you can customize just about anything from styling your ride with fancy spoilers, rims, body kits to performance upgrade like intake and turbo etc. I would say the level of customization is quite impressive with so many things you can choose to mod your car.
The controls are a bit different and takes a bit of time to get used to, strangely the triangle button is now your brake/reverse, L is gear shift, R is your “drift” button while cross is your gas, square is nitro and circle is special ability which I had not had a chance to experience. I find the controls odd and inconvenient even though you can change them. You can also change the music by holding L and choose by pressing up or down key.
The graphics are in most cases acceptable and nothing eye catching but they look rather nice when at night with all the lighting effects. There is no damage to your car unlike Burnout, you will only see pieces of glass fly out from no where and your car will never be totaled, at least I wasn’t able to. If you manage to hit another car head on at full speed, the worst that will happen is slowing your car down which is really unrealistic. Unlike Burnout, Midnight Club LA does not have sense of speed at all, maybe because I started out with a somewhat slow ’98 240SX?
As you can tell, I am kind of disappointed at this new Midnight Club, at least for the PSP version, maybe because I was never a fan of this type of racing games and Midnight Club. But the game play and the graphics both contribute to why I managed to bored and annoyed of this game in less than two hours. Maybe its just me but I suggest you rent this one before you actually buy it for your PSP. Otherwise you might as well play GTA or Burnout Paradise instead.
6.0/10
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