About this site

Welcome. This site is about the racing game Midnight Club: Los Angeles (MCLA). MCLA is available on the Microsoft XBox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 platform.

MCLA is a racing game. One of the finest in 2008, in my opinion. The game has originally 45 achievements/trophies (now 55, with the recent South Central game add-on), totalling a 1000/1250 GS points.

One of the hardest achievements to get is the Goal Attack achievement. For this achievement you have to meet the all the goals for every single race in the game, and do so in a single race. These goals are:

  • Finish 1st of (usually) 4 opponents
  • Finish the race with less than 25% damage
  • Finisht the race within the target time given

Of these goals, becoming 1st in the race is usually the easiest...

Missions

Races are unveiled by completing the career missions. When you open the Goal Attack Menu in MCLA, the races are listed. Icons next to the race name indicate which of the goals you have already met.

However, there is not a single screen or menu that shows your progression on all races. There are Ordered races, Landmark races, Circuit races, races in different areas of the city, and so on.

Therefore, I decided to write this small website.

How to use this site

This site enables you to track your progress, while working on the Goal Attack achievement. Unlocking this achievement can take you weeks, or even months!

Use this site to your benefits as described below.

  • Register for an account. You only have to pick a username and a password. Your registration is confirmed by e-mail.
  • Log in to the site and go to the My Races page.
  • When you have completed a race, simple click the Completed! button, and your progress indicator will update.
  • Once you have reached 100%, you have completed all races and the achievement will be unlocked on your gamer account!
  • Optional: when you have completed a race, you can record the date and the time you set to beat the target time. You can also leave a comment. This can help other users that are still on the hunt for this race. Check out the comments others have already written!

What this site is (and what it's not)

I originally wrote this site for my own pleasure, in March 2009. Being a writer/programmer/webdeveloper, this is a hobby project. When I learned others also struggled with the Goal Attack achievement, I decided to add a small registration/log-in function to the site to make it a multi user application.

Hence, this site is very simple.

If you have made a mistake while recording a completed race, you cannot undo this. For example, if the target time for a race is 02:12 and you told us you have completed the race in 02:16 (which of course is impossible), it's perfectly OK as far as the site is concerned. The application doesn't bother. Nor does it check on date input or comment input. If you submit a wrong date or time, it's simply ignored.

Reset

If you have made a mistake, you can reset the race. This will delete any previously saved progress on this race from the database. Then, you can click the Completed button again and enter new details on date, target time and comments.

Leave a message

If you have a suggestion or a comment or found a bug (or just want to say Thank you :-), feel free to contact me. Due to my work (did I mention this was a hobby project?) and the amount of email I recieve, I cannot guarantee a personal answer. However, all your comments are read, and time permitting, I will use them to update this application.

Thanks for reading - enjoy your races!

Achievement Unlocked!