The Masterpiece Rockstar Left Behind 

This is what games these days needs. Atmosphere, vibe, map that feels alive. Rockstar please! Bring a new MC

I love how James edited the cutscenes like a flying kitty ytp💀

This game was a gem, had so much fun playing this especially NFS Undercover was released around that time. I miss the old rockstar

Midnight L.A Aged like fine wine. Remember when I booted it up for the first time on the Xbox 360 and it was a freaking blast. It's incredible how much fidelity people put into this map and the whole vibe in this game is so spot on that made me feel I was there, even thought I never been in L.A in my life. That's what I call immersion. Exhilarating gameplay, Great car list, Dialogues that does not feel cringe and fantastic soundtrack. Clearly one of the greatest hits from Rockstar Games back then.

For 2008 this game was amazing. I remember my dad being blown away by it.

42:30 I remember getting scared a bit after telling you to back out to save the livery. I knew you would of been fine, but part of me was like "What if it doesn't work."

I love the YTP-esque editing in the cutscenes 😂

I love how the other racers would shout at you for crashing into them. Adds some authenticity.

This game is genuinely amazing, I am glad that you are covering it!

The car customization has really shown how far we've come in car culture.

Midnight Club is technically Rockstar's first racing game, but it's a little more complicated than that. Angel Studios made Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2, among other things. Rockstar partnered with them to create the first Midnight Club game (with the same game engine as Midtown Madness 2). Not long after that, Angel Studios was acquired by Take Two and renamed to Rockstar San Diego.

Man, it's crazy how many spots in this game reamind me of GTA V, it really shows that they didn't have to go too far for inspiration for Los Santos

Honestly, I love MCLA's California atmosphere and sense of life. There's just something about watching the time of day change and the other racers driving around the city that feels so alive. And also the sense of building up a wicked garage slowly and earning money and reputation to unlock stuff. Having to work to earn cars and upgrades is so much better than Forza Horizon's wheelspins.

This game is still my favorite racing game today. Not only was the cockpit view and functional gauges ahead of its time but Rockstar even made working Odometers. It will track all the miles you put on a car, and most even have a trip meter that resets when you go back to the garage. The licensing for real brands from Borla and Zex to Apple, T-Mobile and Pizza Hut made the game feel very immersive. This game needs a remaster or the modding community needs to take it over

It's such a nice game with so many little details (there's an achievement for pulling over and escaping from the cop during the cutscene, when they try to approach your vehicle, which was a fun little thing). I bought it from Xbox Live years ago, there's a digital copy on demand. It really has GTA vibe in dialogs and characters, which makes it so much more alive, even though the story is pretty basic.

this guy is 100% right, midnight club LA felt alive, driving on the streets, the traffic felt so realistic, and the vibe too..

Youre literally the younger KuruHS, the way you talk and and explaining things while actually racing through the whole video is enjoyable to watch and i also share most of your opinions! Sehr guter content, mach weiter so :D

whoever edited this video did an OUTSTANDING job, 10/10

This game also had an amazing soundtrack, not one but TWO songs by my favorite band NIN. Not too mention all the other amazing songs like Miss, Day n Nite, Electric Feel, Red Mist... I could go on. So many great artists, definitely one of the best licensed soundtracks in any game.

I'm replaying this game this week and damn... It is just sad that this Midnight Club was WAY BETTER from the NFS titles that came out, had that whole street racing vibe and still rockstar abandoned the title on their wall of abandoned titles

One of the greatest arcade racers, belongs in my personal Top 5, and I only played this for the first time 7 months ago.

That was one hell of a jump @ 55:05 You got lucky as hell.

Fun fact: Did you know that in the settings for MC:LA you can actually change your convertible top to go up and down? Personally it's one of my favorite little details lol

You gotta love the dynamic between "Player" and Booke. Mixed with the atmosphere of Los Angeles and the detailed car list made this such a great game.

I always loved the roar special ability in this game because you could instantly dismount motorbikes, so if ever you raced against them they didn't stand a chance :)

This and GT5 are THE GAMES I miss playing on my PS3 (that's now broken, sad times) Such fun and complete games!!

Wow, look at that traffic density! How could NFS Unbond have such a dead and empty city, if even a 360/PS3 can handle all this traffic? Also, I have to play this game

This game to me is a mix of emotions. I really like this game because of its good level of customization which actually, this is one of the games that made me start trying to make liveries of my own, sure they were eyesores back then but to have the creative freedom to do so especially when by the end, you basically are given full freedom over what car you buy and customize. The races were exciting, the dialogue during races are funny and just how much detail this game has. Like cops paying attention to traffic violations, or how racers will not race you to the start when cops are nearby, cruise control to help you stay under the speed limit when cops are nearby, being able to drive away during a traffic stop and just how densely packed the city is. Honestly i spent my entire playthrough avoiding getting cop trouble and just cruise around the city following the traffic laws until i reach a racer to challenge (which made going to the racers more difficult XD) because the cop chases in here were quite intense at times especially since I believe you're not allowed to have your car reset when you turn upside down during a chase and its an insta bust, dont get me started on the bike. I also loved the payback mission more than delivery, but both have different levels of fun. On the other hand though, this game was very frustrating to play especially on later stages, i remember having so much trouble at the DUB tournaments and especially the Time Trials. Luckily i knew the trick in time trials to make them easy but purposely going at a slower time because the time will always be beaten the first and second time. Regardless though, I had a blast when i played this game, and i even played it twice. The vanilla version on xbox360 (which sadly broke) then the complete version on ps3. I really wished they made more midnight club but like you said in the video, its better for the series to end on a high note than turn into a senseless cashgrab rockstar keeps making games into these days.

To this day no other game beats midnight club LA’s driver seat view. In most games the steering wheel looks like it barely turns

7:02 -- "I prefer this version cuz I'm using a better controller" 9:40, 13:22, 15:33 -- Please reconnect controller I've played midnight club 1 and 2, had so much fun with them, but I never played the others. I've been missing out cuz this game looks like a bunch of fun. My love for waypoint races and pink slips came from this series!

I remember playing Midnight Club 3 for the PSP and my god it was a game that I was bad at. I still loved it though, it's a childhood game that will never be forgotten

I just wanna say thank you to the editor who did the YTP edit at 3:20

One thing I really liked was the auction house where other players could show of their cars and you could buy copies of them. 14 year old me was stoked to find someone's hex edited Rx7 with green lights for sale.

Looking at some of the cars added to GTA Online you can see they still have a love for real cars, I hope they eventually make a new Midnight Club.

I still play this game and the customization was insane you can add window tint, change interior color, interior neon, two tone your paint and add fins to your lowrider

This game had soooo many details that were genuinely amazing for its time.

can't believe they ditched smugglers run as well, that series was awesome

GTA 4 and MCLA were two of the best childhood experiences Rockstar provided us during 7th gen console era. Unforgettable

This game was a key part of my younger years, I miss the fun, the mods, the friends. Good times, thanks for making a video on this!

What a really time capsule of last great racing games. Forever stuck in 2008 Hip Hop DUB culture, but the Graphics, Gameplay still holds up until this day.

Even though the Midnight Club games weren't simulation games, you felt like you were driving a car. In today's (arcade) racing games you feel like you are driving an arrow and not a car. No game has given me the online experience that I had playing at Midnight Club Los Angeles. It is simply the best street racing game to date. The game was awesome but the online racing was insane and despite its arcade driving, your skill was rewarded. Not like now, racing games have too many aids for those who have no skill.

Always playing through this pretty well, especially, the Lamborghinis dominate the endgame with their AWD drivetrain, making them very grippy in handling, which i always face the same AI with those when maxed out. Also many users use the Ninja ZX-14 or 1098R due to how overpowered they are, that they can accelerate faster and maintain high speeds on sharper turns to compensate for their very high risk, which makes you get thrown off when hitting traffic, being less durable, and taking a lot longer to get back on after being off the bike.

One nice detail is, that gas station repairs will replace broken body parts with others that have just a Grey basecoat

I remember buying a racing wheel just for this game, being immersed in last place.

sad that this game never got a PC release, I love to play it on my PS3 but the 30FPS and the agressive Motion Blur kinda annoyed me back than. It often feels slugish do to 30FPS. The PSP Version is also really fun and technically a masterpiece

this game brings back so many memories, there was nothing like playing this on a saturday morning in 2009. i was 7 years old, im 20 and halfway through college. time flies man. my favorite racing game to this day, the atmosphere, the music, the online mode, rate my ride. unlocking the audi r8 through the social club "driving test" was pretty cool too lol. one of the biggest things that made me love this game was the city, it felt alive. there was so much traffic and pedestrians every where. it felt like a REAL city, and not an empty playground like current NFS games. the races didnt feel repetitive cause of this, the amount of random traffic helped with replay-ability so much. the difficulty in this game felt good, i remember losing like 2 of my cars to pinkslips and having a friend come over to get my cars back when i was younger lol.

Already looking forward to this once I get back home from work! Thanks for all the quality content!

I'm so glad that this game works via Xbox backwards compatibility and I could pick it up digitally too. I've always been a fan of it but never got to play it up until this point. Definitely a splendid racing game which we can cherish some more this way.

I'm so glad you played and loved this game! It's such an amazing game and series. LA was a game I put so much time into. I especially loved the editing. The YTP style phone calls and cutscenes were such a fun surprise 😂

Bully is the masterpiece they really forgot

That wonderful feel when you see a new masterpiece DustinEden video. Props the the editors too, they always do a lovely job!

Dustin I have been binging your content for a couple days and I literally last night looked through to see if you had done a video on this game yet. Little did I know it was coming so soon. Fuckin Wonderful

Game is more alive than Forza Horizon 5

The dialogue scenes edited like ytp is my new favorite thing. Good job editor!

What a great video! Thanks for the time spent editing :D

Thank you for showing this game to the Public and bringing it back to popularity :)) I played it when i was a kid and loved every second of it. Thank you for bringing back those childhood memories :))))

Midnight Club: Street Racing was my first racing game that I played on the PS2 back in the day. I also played a ton of Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition, especially in split screen mode with a friend of mine. Fun times and great games.

Loved playing midnight club LA back when I was 12. I recently booted it back up and the nostalgia was real. One thing I really loved about it was when you were in cockpit view and you look behind you, you’ll actually look through the back glass of the car, from my recollection I’m pretty sure this was the only game that utilized the rear glass view.

i gladly watched this whole video this is by far my favorite video game of my childhood, amazing video man love it!!!

This game reminds me of when I grew up in Santa Monica. Before the homelessness and drug crisis, it was a nice place to live. We would go all over LA and not fear being robbed or stepping in crap. Thanks for reminding me that this game exists. Really takes me back to those good times.

Loved Midnight club the customization was great making changes even down to the color of your gauges it's insane to think it came out so long ago. I'd love to see Midnight Club return, imagine if they returned and gave us Japan just surprising everyone including NFS the Crew and Forza Horizon

This video opened up to me just how much attention to detail this game has. The traffic sounds, the realistic car rev vibration, the dirt in the air as you race (dirty Los Angeles), the crash physics, and especially the sky coloring and clouding. It’s no wonder this game still feels so immersive

This is one of my most favorite racing games of all time. I almost want to boot it up on PS3, as my laptop isn't quite up to the task of emulating it, at least on RPCS3. Great video. Subscribed.

MCLA predicted the Hellcat/Demon 😮‍💨

This game was a massive part of my childhood. Thank you for covering it. The map lives on in a way thanks to GTA V.

James had a lot of fun editing the cutscenes lol

Bruh ive been waiting for a midnight for years, these games were my childhood and my all time favorite racing games. Ive bought mindnight club LA several times on different platforms over the years and havent regretted it once. I love it.

It's so interesting how close the gta 5 map is to this map, if you know the gta map layout then you basically already know where to go in this game

I truly believe that there are people within Rockstar who want to do another Midnight club and know that considering how dead racing games are they'd make money but whenever they mention it the Top brass just tells them to put their ideas in GTA.

So so so happy this game still has appreciation because this is a core memory of playing from childhood to now it’s just so amazing to play to this day and the memories made that developed a personal love for cars and driving games overall especially when this was really my first game I ever played on ps3 too with my dad

Man I just found your channel, and the humour is insane 😂 Love all the way from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼🙌🏾

Always found this game way too hard when I was younger. Only just recently started actually playing it without mods or just endlessly free roaming, looking for cheat barrels

This game is truly way ahead of its time, decades ahead of its time, its just so amazing

About the discussion of reviving midnight club, I think the perfect comparison has been made. As Civvie said about duke nukem forever; “you can give randy credit for saving the duke if you want. But sometimes, dead is better.”

I love that you have saints row 2 pause music playing while painting the eclipse purple lol 😁 nice touch

The logic i can think why mid night club is no more is that GTA5 basically have extremely similar race elements that surely are taken from this game, and they would say it's a waste of resources to have two games doing practically the same purpose even if midnight club can be more detailed and focused on the racing aspect, maybe if gta5 was not successful we would still have midnight club around.

Still probably my favorite racing game. if not definitely top 5. Still get on it every now and again.

Congratulations for reaching 50k subscribers Dustin!

I came here from your Midnight club 3 No Buying cars challenge , it was amazing 🙌

God, I miss this game so much. So many good memories ;-;

MCLA was such a challenging and enjoyable game, I was lucky enough to find myself a copy of the Complete Edition👍🏻

best thing of this game is that when you race, the checkpoints are far away from eachother and you can basicly choose your own route to the new checkpoint without getting respawned or something. I hope they will bring it back in the new game

I prefered midnight club 3 tbh

I found this game at a flea market And The box art was The original but The disc was The complete edition lol

Man it is neat to see where a lot of the inspiration for the car updates in GTA V came from! Bennys custom was literally a splash of midnight club with a select few lore cars.

Good video! Thanks Dustin and James

I tried playing this on RPCS3 but as usual the Xenia emulator runs most emulations better. I listened to this games soundtrack for years before finally being able to play it :) The starter cars also suprised me, instead of the Golf there should be a Muscle car so you have EU/ JP/ USA choice to begin with. The game holds up well :)

whoever edited the cutscenes did a fantastic job

I put on for my cityyyyy! This game a skate 3 made me love that song.. great video ♥️

I remember when I first went in on this and DBZ Burst Limit through video horizons back in high school during the warm summer days at my dad's old house hooking my 360 up in my Parents guest bedroom...man it was a fire time to be hooked on those two games and I practically convinced my parents to buy me MCLA after giving it a few go arounds . Very hooked on it and hard to put down.. I felt all the atmospheric vibes it was giving off and it made me better at my jokes IRL due to the phenomenal personality of the characters in the cutscenes.. it felt like I was actually there with them engaging in conversation. ❤ Awesome funny editing James and epic playthrough Dustin you earned a sub and that sweet like. 😊

Midnight club had such a good run. It's just unfortunate that rockstar games killed it

A little over 3 minutes in and it turned into an old ytp

Dieses kurze RU-vid Poop Editing am Anfang bei dem ersten Charakter Dialog = Perfektion 👌😂

Midnight Club LA is what turned me on to Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf coffee, literally the best I've had out there

James is a god-tier editor

This was such a great game. Probably my favorite racing on the 360 for sure - I never really got super deep into it, but I loved some of the detail that was in it. Hell, one of my favorite thing was being able to throw the adjustable weight around in the back seat to really help with cornering and such. It was so much fun, and really felt very responsive and kind of innovative in that regard. I know it's such a small detail but it's one of those things I wish I saw in more games.

One of my favorite racing games of all time, so glad you enjoyed it.

Amazing video Dustin!

Hey Dustin have you checked out Raycevick’s recent video on racing games and their modern mediocrity. Feels like itd be right up your alley with you always checking out racing games from the good times

midnight club still canceled soz