The starter car in both the first Midnight Club game and the second one. In the first game, you start off in a pitifully slow taxi, complete with dents and graffiti all over it. In the second game, it does get a little better. However, you still start with one of the slowest cars of the game without any nitrous. Later in the fourth game you get to choose from one of three used cars sitting in the parking lot across from the bus stop you arrive at, complete with dents, missing hubcaps, and primered replacement body panels. Tom Bramwell (August 1, 2008). "Midnight Club Los Angeles Hands On: Poise in the hood". Eurogamer . Retrieved September 6, 2014. Midnight Club: Los Angeles Review (X360)". GameTrailers. October 24, 2008 . Retrieved September 7, 2014. Toned down in Los Angeles in which the body kits and spoilers are actually designed with each individual car in mind and the AI mod their cars more tastefully. However, the player can still invoke this trope if they want to. Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine

Do Well, But Not Perfect: In the time trial races, the second and third rounds are based on your previous time so doing too well in the previous round can make the target time for the next round next to impossible. Mitch Dyer (November 18, 2008). "Midnight Club: LA Remix Review". GameSpot . Retrieved September 7, 2014. Support the software developers. If you like this game, BUY IT! Midnight Club: Los Angeles SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:a b Martin Korda (October 21, 2008). "Midnight Club: Los Angeles UK Review". IGN . Retrieved September 7, 2014. For the best Midnight Club: Los Angeles PC experience, however, we recommend having a system equal to or better than the following specifications: On the PlayStation Portable version, it uses the same introduction showing Los Angeles as on console version, but it is not the exact same city as in the Xbox 360/Playstation 3 versions. Instead, it is the version of Los Angeles featured in Midnight Club II, in addition to Tokyo, also reused from Midnight Club II and Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix.

Expy: Owen, the British inspector who is after Farid in II, is clearly based on James Bond. Owen's car resembles Bond's Aston Martin Vanquish. Leigh Alexander (October 20, 2008). "Review: 'Midnight Club: Los Angeles' (X360)". Variety . Retrieved September 7, 2014. Big Fun: Moses in II, who insults you a bit, but is nevertheless willing to show you (a new driver) the ropes, help you out of a cop chase, and encourage you as you rise up the ranks. Edge staff (December 2008). "Review: Midnight Club LA (PS3)". Edge. No.195. p.86. Archived from the original on November 21, 2012 . Retrieved August 19, 2015.a b Aaron Thomas (October 21, 2008). "Midnight Club: Los Angeles Review". GameSpot . Retrieved September 7, 2014. Optional Traffic Laws: Usually, but if you break the road laws with the cops nearby, they'll go into Hot Pursuit. Midnight Club II and III only had cops present during races. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix is an updated version of Midnight Club 3. This edition has an extra map of Tokyo updated from Midnight Club 2 which adds new missions to the game. Along with that come several new cars, new races, new battle maps, rims, vinyls, hydraulics, body kits, and music. The first game starts with the player character driving a taxi, which is a joke reference to Luc Besson's Taxi series. On the related topic of Wangan Midnight, one of the available aero-kits for the Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 beginning from Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 is nearly identical to one of the aero-kits for the same car in Los Angeles.

Midnight Club: Los Angeles is the first game to feature a speaking protagonist. The protagonist is voiced by Matthew Metzger. Hoist by His Own Petard: Exercise caution when using Roar. It's easy to get wiped out by traffic you just blasted.a b Cam Shea (October 21, 2008). "Midnight Club: Los Angeles AU Review". IGN . Retrieved September 7, 2014. It is the first game in the series to be released on the PlayStation 3, previous games are now also available on PlayStation Store. It is also the first game to be released on the Xbox 360. Midnight Club 3 has the 1999 Dodge Charger R/T Concept, a car that was well received and displayed at car shows as late as 2004 but never made it to production. The game even lampshades the fact that it is a concept car. The Chrysler ME Four-Twelve and Cadillac Cien and Sixteen concept cars also show up, with the Cien actually being the cheapest exotic category car. You can also buy are also cars that were sold to the public but only in very low numbers, such as the Mercedes-Benzy CLK-GTR, of which only 26 road-legal examples were built.

New York Is Only Manhattan: The first game starts off in New York, but is limited to Manhattan. The only evidence that the other boroughs exist is that one of your rivals, Larry Muller, proudly states he's from Queens.

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Pimped-Out Car: A key feature of the games. 3 and LA even have prize cars that had been pre-pimped by DUB Magazine. You can also have a Nissan Skyline in America. note The Skyline GTR was a sought-after import at the time, helped by the fact that it was featured in Gran Turismo among other things, but it wasn't until 2008 when Nissan would formally release the GTR outside of Japan.