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MS sorry for leaked Midnight Club DLC News

Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese

14 January, 2009

Microsoft has said sorry for accidentally leaking the first batch of Midnight Club: Los Angeles downloadable content onto Xbox Live Marketplace yesterday, and warned those sharp enough to grab the content before removal that they should delete the files pronto.

"The Marketplace team has mentioned to me that a batch of Midnight Club: LA content went up accidentally on Xbox Live Marketplace this morning. It has since been removed, but you may have had the chance to download it while it was up there," said Graeme "AceyBongos" Boyd, Xbox community manager for Europe, on his blog.

"If you did and if it's sitting on your hard drive you should delete it - reason being that it was being tested when it was mistakenly put live and therefore it may not work properly, the Achievements won't register and could cause you problems with your Midnight Club: LA game saves.

"Sorry for the mistake and sorry for the hassle, but if you did download the content best thing to do is delete it," he added.

According to fast-fingered NeoGAF members the downloaded content had no effect on Midnight Club: LA and changed nothing in-game anyway.

The desired effect of the DLC will be opening the brand new South Central area of the polluted city in "early 2009" for free, said Rockstar in December. The leaked pack, incidentally, had a slew of brand new vehicles plus extra races and missions included.

There's also a pair of premium car packs planned, which will feature vehicles like Ducatis, Aston Martins and Cadillacs.

We've dropped Rockstar a line to narrow down dates and prices.

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Rash'
14/01/09 @ 09:25
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Ah, Midnight Club... the game that saved Paradise from many disgruntled Burnout fans. Crazy fools!
kestral
14/01/09 @ 09:40
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Still got to play it eeps
LeeroyJenkins
14/01/09 @ 09:44
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Bloody good game Midnight Club. Should have sold more than it did. Coincidentally, it's down to bargain prices at a few places.
Aggesan
14/01/09 @ 09:53
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Haha, Microsoft! What a bunch of amateurs.
mfnick
14/01/09 @ 09:59
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Excellent didnt even know DLC was coming out. Cant wait to get my hands on it. MC LA is a great game.

The Burnout team could learn a hell of a lot from it. Either that or go back to what made Burnout great in the first place - proper races on proper tracks. That would be even better.

But i digress, looking forward to the proper release for this.
mazzl
14/01/09 @ 10:00
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have the game, really hard! only have one car ....
will play this more!

Beano
14/01/09 @ 10:03
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Anybody bought Midnight Club?

Amazing since BOP was far better and showed how to pull off a smooth open-word arcade racer. More of that, please!
chrisjm
14/01/09 @ 10:48
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Didnt like Burnout paradise but Midnight club is great
LeeroyJenkins
14/01/09 @ 12:18
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I only played Burnout Paradise for a few days when it came out. I just find it so unrewarding to me, the driving model is too forgiving (compared to Burnout 1 and 2), it just didn't do much for me...

... on the other hand, Midnight Club kept me occupied for weeks and weeks, and I wasn't achievement hunting either. I just loved it.

I think with Burnout if you overload the player with all that colour, explosions, carnage and speed, they just become numb to it all... In effect one of the most visually impressive and colourful games out there, actually ends up feeling bland.
shotgun44
14/01/09 @ 12:22
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Awesome game. Maybe my GOTY! I want this DLC NOW!
samk
14/01/09 @ 12:37
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"You Burnout tools need to give it up, Burnout stoped being good at Takedown."

Indeed. I had previously completed all Burnout games, but I gave up on Paradise after 2 hours. Thought it was shit.
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Beano
14/01/09 @ 12:39
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@Coin-Op : You are drunk - otherwise what you write doesn't make sence :)

BOP : 88% (and that's before the FREE bike update!)
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/9...

MC:LA : 82%
http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/9...

I rest my case :D
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BBIAJ
14/01/09 @ 12:50
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BOP blows when compared to MC:LA, and that's after the free DLC has been added.

It's very much a lifeless one trick non-restarting pony.
mfnick
14/01/09 @ 12:50
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We all know how much to trus those reviews dont we?

metalangel
14/01/09 @ 13:01
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Hurry up and release this already! This game has the most exciting races I have played in years... Burnout is superior for stunts, though.
RedSparrows
14/01/09 @ 13:22
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holy fuck, i must need my head examined, I loved Paradise!

OH NO I AM SUBHUMAN
v3rtigo
14/01/09 @ 13:50
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Midnight club really surprised me with how damn good it is and how genuinely thrilling the races are.
MUCH better that Burnout Paradise which quickly waned for me. Technically MC is much more impressive and better looking too.
It's a shame it didn't sell nearly as well as it should of.
Looking forward to the DLC, but it's pretty huge anyway!
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14/01/09 @ 18:01
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I'm generally not a big fan of these sorts of games, but when I realised it allows you to play your own music I persevered with it and think its great.
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15/01/09 @ 13:51
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Great game just need to play it more!

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