Midnight Club soon to hit the streets of LA

Rockstar has announced that the first next-gen installment of the popular Midnight Club series of racing will take place in the massive Los Angeles metropolis.

By Eugene Huang

Get ready to roar down Hollywood Boulevard early next year. Plans for the development of the fourth installment of Midnight Club have been announced today by Rockstar Games, longtime publishers of the successful racing series. The title is to be called Midnight Club: Los Angeles, and like the games before it, it plans to be an open-ended racing title deeply immersed in the underground culture of after-hours street racing.

Development duties for this next-gen title will be helmed by series creator Rockstar San Diego, and it looks like the studio's geographic proximity to the heart of the action may play a major part in recreating the vibe of the greater Los Angeles area. But at this early stage of development, series producer Jay Panek states that their first goal is to make the game appeal to as wide an audience as possible.

"On prior consoles, the Midnight Club franchise continually raised the bar for racing games, evolving from being the first ever street racing game to setting the defining standard for credibly integrating street racing culture with an intense racing experience," he said in a statement. "With Midnight Club: Los Angeles, our goal is to evolve on all possible levels and stay true to the hardcore gaming experience the series is known for, while making it accessible to casual gamers and car enthusiasts."

The company plans to release the title on both Xbox 360 and PS3 systems sometime in early 2008.

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