A new patch promises to curb the difficulty of Rockstar San Diego's latest street racer.
I knew I should've made a left on LaBrea!I think there's a lot to like about Midnight Club: Los Angeles. It's a great-looking game with a nice sense of style, its abbreviated rendition of LA carries a certain dirty authenticity, the selection of licensed vehicles ranges from your unemployed cousin's beater to unobtainable supercars, and perhaps most miraculously, it manages to pack in the in-game advertising without seeming completely shameless. What ultimately ended up sabotaging the experience for me was that it doesn't provide enough guidance during a race, an issue that doesn't seem to phase your AI opponents.
As revealed in N'Gai Croal's recent interview with Rockstar's Jeronimo Barrera, a patch has been released for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Midnight Club: LA which tunes the game's difficulty by dynamically adjusting the AI's relative competence in navigating turns and intersections. This is great news for Midnight Club: LA, and it's a move that definitely inspires me to revisit Midnight Club: LA, though it's something the game could've used when it first launched. So many huge games have come out since, it'll now have to be content sitting at the bottom of a very large pile.
