Midnight in LA

Those crazy Kotaku kids ran a trailer for Midnight Club: Los Angeles today that caught my eye. Thought it might be worth sharing with ya, in case you haven't seen it yet. Take a look:

Looks interesting..

Looks pretty good but looks arnt everything.

true sharpshooter true

looks nice, im excited for it

Could be good, we'll have to wait and see. I only played a bit of the Midnight club series of games, and I didn't like it that much, but I could give it a second chance.

Looks very much like gameplay there, im a big fan of Midnight Club, and Test Drive Unlimited for that matter

I can't see it breaking any records for gameplay, I'll pass.

Guys, this isn't a new trailer. It's old. Hella old. As in August 22nd, 2007 old. 

Also, if anyone is interested, the track is "Idealistic" by Digitalism. From what the trailers have shown so far, the game's soundtrack is shaping up to be as good as the previous games. Mmm... electronica.

OK that trailer on the Midnight Club website looks a lot better. A lot more spit and polish on it. But I'm still gonna reserve judgement till I play a demo at least.

Meh.

They're going to have to try hard not to borrow from themselves on this one.

Looks like gameplay to me, or at least the majority of it does. Wouldn't surprise me if it actually did look like that.

Gah! you can see your own arms!!!!!!

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I more or less enjoyed MC3.  The only thing I didn't like is that I had no idea where to go in the city and I keep overshooting turns.

also i noticed the character models looked rather crappy, so it doesnt seem to be pre-rendered

I love the Midnight Club series, Midnight Club: Two was probably one of my favorite games. I think the Burnout series even borrowed heavly from Midnight Club. if you really think about it, Midnight Club was the last generation's Burnout Paradise, And eventhough it was going head to head with both NFS and Burnout, it managed to hold its own, which is pretty commendable. 

I really hope Midnight Club:LA doesn't dissapoint because it's on my most anticipated games list!

The arms in the cockpit view looked pretty stiff, but I've enjoyed the past Midnight Club games.

In the trailer that aurahack linked to, the game looks a hell of a lot more polished.  There is still some strange feeling of been there done that and it looked better stemming  from Burnout Paradise.  I know the original Midnight Clubs sort of pioneered the idea, but Paradise still looks better to me than these trailers.  Hopefully the single-player characters are interesting as hell or the online is really good.  I'll have to wait to play it before I can say much more.

Looks to be pretty good so far.

some of it looks like it could be gameplay footage but also a lot of prerendered.

this game will have access to the rockstar games social club, they might think of some cool things there.

It looks good, but I'm really hoping that a Hi def Trackmania will come around =)

I can only hope that is really what the game looks like and not prerendered crap.

I think the game looks really cool

looks awesome.
Cockpit stuff looks great.
Hopefully they can do something different enough with the gameplay.

also that was all definetely gameplay, i didnt see anything that striked me as pre-rendered. Its looks good, but not prerendered good.

I think....... I think.......... I think I don't really need this game. I'm gonna go play Burnout. Sorry Rockstar.

Looks good....i think that cockpit footage might be in game

I've loved the Midnight Club series since I bought the second one back in 2003. I can't wait to play this one.

I have high hopes for this game. I really hate the need for speed franchise but i always remain optimistic for the next installment. This game however, makes me go Need for what?

Dude, this is the very first trailer they've shown months ago. The new trailer from last week is this one:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37678.html

omg i want this game, been too long since the last one... 10 times better than need4speed.. roll on october baby!!

Also, the graphics look in-game. I think it's probably using the GTAIV engine; So I wouldn't be surprised if they re-use some of the modeled city in an upcoming GTAIV expansion/downloadable content.

It looks like gameplay imo

This looks like the Need for Speed I've been wanting EA to make ever since Test Drive Unlimited. Just needs to have non-shitty physics and ditch the stupid story and we're all good. "WHEY IS YUO HER??!? I ARE HEAR TOO REIS CAHRS!!11 MAN!"

Stories have no place in racing games. Unless it's Razor style. Codemasters did that whole story thing ages ago already and failed miserably. Waste of resources. A little less conversation, a little more action please.

I think this game will be pretty good.

I've played the hell out of all the Midnight Club games, and can't wait to get my online on when it comes out. The map of L.A. that's at the end of the newer trailer looks pretty similar to the map of L.A. in Midnight Club 2. I'm glad they kept the mountain roads.

Looks slick, that's for suree.

Yep, that looks like a street racing game

looks better that grid

Everything's better than GRID. Codemasters needs to reeducate the aliens who programmed the physics. On this planet there are things like friction and inertia.

looks cool, can't wait for it to come out

I am looking forward to it too :P

It might be cool. I never really was a fan of the Midnight Club series, but I'll give it a chance.

burnout paradise is fine. but i loved midnight club 3 so this is very promising. Rockstar has been doing open world driving for a long time and have solved alot of the problems burnout paradise was born with years ago. Also there is a much bigger focus on car customization in midnight club. In fact of all the xbox games ported to the 360 I wanted midnight club 3 the most, but it never happened. I still have my fingers crossed for that even though they aren't porting anything anymore. also for the record midnight club 2 and 3 did not have any goofy gta physics or cartoony city models so I don't expect they'll do that now.

Me rikey, love the Midnight Club stuff.  Will it beat the new Need for Speed though?