Rockstar Games may be best known for itsGrand Theft AutoandRed Dead Redemptionfranchises, but once upon a time, the studio made other games, too. Alongside its heavy hitters were smaller projects likeRockstar Games Presents Table Tennis,open world school gameBully, and ultra-violent stealth-action gameManhunt. Rockstar also used to make its own racing game series back in the day in the form of the well-receivedMidnight Clubseries, though the franchise has been dormant for quite some time.
The lastMidnight Clubgame was 2008’sMidnight Club: Los Angeles, which received mostly positive reviews and was well-received by fans. Rockstar Games ended up re-releasingMidnight Club: Los Angelesa couple of times, including a PSP version calledMidnight Club: L.A. Remixand the PS3/Xbox 360 gameMidnight Club: Los Angeles - Complete Edition, the latter of which featured the base game and all its post-launch DLC on one disc.
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It’s been over a decade since the lastMidnight Clubgame released, and withRockstar Games busy withGrand Theft Auto 6, it’s quite likely that fans won’t be seeing a new entry in the racing game series at any point in the near future. However, YouTube channel TeaserPlay has decided to create a concept video imagining what aMidnight Clubremake might look like if the game was built using Unreal Engine 5.
TheMidnight Clubconcept video mimics the gameplay and aesthetic that fans of the series should be familiar with, but with improved visuals. One would imagine an official newMidnight Clubgame would be similar, delivering gameplay fans are familiar with, but modernizing the graphics to better-match today’s standards. There’s been an entire console generation since thelastMidnight Clubgame, so it’s safe to say the leap in graphics quality would be quite significant if such a game ever materialized.
As previously mentioned, Rockstar Games is busy makingGrand Theft Auto 6at the moment, but that doesn’t mean a different studio can’t take the reins of theMidnight Clubseries in the meantime. In fact,Take-Two hinted that theMidnight Clubseries could be making a comeback, though nothing more concrete has been shared at the time of this writing.
The rumor is thatdeveloper Visual Concepts, the studio that makes theNBA 2KandWWE 2Kgames, could very well be working on a newMidnight Clubgame, though nothing official has been announced just yet. While fans wait for news on a new entry in the long-dormant racing game series, they can check out TeaserPlay’s concept video and imagine what such a project could look like.
