Midnight Club

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This article is about the video game. For the cult street racing gang, see Mid Night Club

Midnight Club is a series of racing games developed by Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios). Rockstar San Diego also developed Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2, which are deemed strikingly similar to the Midnight Club series, by having the same free roam racing format within metropolitan areas, and similar vehicle behaviour and design.

The game focuses on competitive street racing and the import scene, as popularised by The Fast and the Furious movies. Fictional cars were used in Midnight Club: Street Racing and Midnight Club II, as few car manufacturers wanted to be associated with illegal street racing, and Rockstar wanted realistic car damage to be seen when racing in the game.

1 Midnight Club: Street Racing
2 Midnight Club II
3 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
4 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Midnight Club: Street Racing

Main article: Midnight Club: Street Racing

Midnight Club: Street Racing is the first in the series, developed by Angel Studios (now Rockstar San Diego) and published by Rockstar Games. The game is available for the PlayStation 2 and Game Boy Advance platforms, the former being a launch title for the platform. Players race through London and New York cities. The player begins with a relatively unmodified and slow vehicle. Through a series of races, each with different goals, they defeat other racers and win faster and more expensive vehicles.

[edit] Midnight Club II

Main article: Midnight Club II

Midnight Club II is the first sequel to Midnight Club: Street Racing, published for the Xbox, PC, and PlayStation 2. Players race through cities inspired by Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo. For the second installment, more realistic detail was added to ensure a higher likeness to the models of the real things. The game also features an online multiplayer component.

Dry, hilly suburbs and congested interstates can be found throughout Los Angeles, and just like Midnight Club: Street Racing, the city contains many landmarks, as well as numerous shortcuts and jumps. Paris is the home to cobblestone alleyways, monumental roundabouts, and the Paris Catacombs. Tokyo is a city of neon-glittering avenues and tight alleyways, and contains an equal array of tourist sights and attractions.

The vehicles in Midnight Club II all resemble real life vehicles, such as the Victory, which resembles an Aston Martin Vanquish, the Jersey XS, which resembles a Dodge Viper, and the Veloci, which resembles a Saleen S7.

[edit] Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition

Main article: Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games, is the third game in the Midnight Club series. 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-customised vehicles as prizes.

Players race through San Diego, Atlanta, and Detroit. Unlike previous installments, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition features licensed, real life vehicles, in addition to fictional creations.

[edit] Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix

Main article: Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix is a rereleased version of Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition. 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. The following features were added in the rerelease; 24 new vehicles, Tokyo, as a new city, new licensed music, new races, battle maps and online gameplay.

[edit] Trivia

The two Kanji letters that acts as a subtitle are translated as Wangan, meaning Bayshore after the Tokyo to Yokohama route at the Shuto Expressway. The game was said to be named after the real life Hashiriyas gangs, known as the Mid Night Club, who used the same route on a regular basis.

The font and design of the title is strikingly similar to the Wangan Midnight title design, with 'club' added to the title.