Like GTA, MCLA also blurs the line between online and off at your command, employing a sponsored PDA to switch to online cruising, where you can propose races with friends or randomers. You can also slipstream other racers to get a short speed boost, although you're more precarious when you sacrifice clear road ahead. The structure rewards sensible driving by keeping you shiny if you keep it clean and charging up special abilities, like 'Zone', which gives you a short span of Bullet Time, and other offensive upgrades for frying rival electrics or smashing through traffic. Partial repairs are possible out in the field, and nitrous can be topped up by driving through petrol station forecourts. All of it can be automated, but it's simple enough to operate that you'll probably do it by hand, while an optional customisation suite wrings a lot of detail out of the vehicle models, with tons of options for vinyls and paint schemes. Midnight Club: Los Angeles sets a blistering tempo, and when you come unstuck, even late on, you just want to begin again and get it right.īuilding up rep and winnings from races also allows you to buy up performance upgrades and abilities, and the game's parsimonious approach to money and pink-slip races means you get time to love your rides, outfitting them with nitrous, improving brakes and other elements. It's hard not to approve of this, but it contradicts your instincts.

In an attempt to offset this, Rockstar San Diego issues reputation points - experience, basically - for failure as well as victory, and there are numerous ways to obtain them: evading the cops (it's particularly enjoyable to pull over and then accelerate away as a cop gets out to walk to the driver-side window), racing opponents you encounter while cruising to the start of the race proper, and of course coming second, third, or anywhere in the field.

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