Midnight Club: Los Angeles

Hot on the tyre tracks of Rockstar's The Lost & Damned DLC for GTAIV, comes Midnight Club L.A.'s expansion pack set in South Central. Let us take you through the numbers that count before you splurge your hard-earned money on March 12th...

Just how accurate is Rockstar's new racer?

See that fast-approaching blur in the rearview? That’s Midnight Club: Los Angeles, about to pull into the garage of an Xbox 360 or PS3 near you. So rather than bore you with a standard hands-on preview, we broke MC:LA into 10 bite-sized chunks of awesome we found impressive. Give it a skim, busy reader. You’re bound to find something that gets your motor a-runnin’.

You might think it strange that in a game called Midnight Club, the time of day you race is important. But thats the case for the fourth in Rockstars racing series, set this time in just one city (guess which one). But don't worry, LA is the same size as all three cities in the last game put together. As ever youll be able to race bikes against the supercars, which are much quicker, but it doesnt take much to send you sprawling. Other cars seen in the trailer include the Lamborghini Miura,

Nov 9, 2007 Los Angeles: big (great), full of recognisable locations (great), but bloody boring to drive around (oh…). Think of America's grid-happy road system and you'd be right to question the thrill of a race solely comprising straights and right angles; which is why Rockstar were keen to lift the famous areas from the City of Angels and drop them right in the middle of a locale designed entirely from scratch. This Californian hotspot may not be realistic, but it was designed with