Velocity: Midnight Run

Velocity: Midnight Run is a street-racing game about building a car as you race through escalating traffic, police chases and changing weather. You compete against a field of 100 cars, tuning your car’s built-in boost controller in real time to shift power between acceleration, grip and speed. Slide through tight corners, side streets and alleyways at high speed, take down pursuing cops or lose them by leaving the highway at an off-ramp.

Midnight Run

Start with a stock car and work through the field, aiming for first place or risking a wreck. Thread gaps, hold drifts through cloverleafs and tuck into slipstreams to earn Style toward the next level. Each time you level up, choose one of three upgrades; taking the same part again raises it by a tier, up to tier 5. Rivals, cops, roads and rain escalate as you race.

Stash and strip

When you break off a chase, you can take your car to a multi-level parking garage. Its technical drifting course, laid out by your crew and rival gangs, winds up to the roof. Slide through the course and park at the top to keep the car safe for another race.

Cars you stash can be taken to the Chop Shop and stripped for parts. Parts are rare in the city, and putting them to good use is part of building your ride.

Build your car

Swap collected parts onto your main car and choose an ability for the night: Nitrous, EMP or Police Siren. You can fit 14 aftermarket parts and choose from eight tire compounds, then adjust the boost controller to direct power where you need it. Customize the car’s paint, finish, rims, underglow, window tint, decals, bumpers, hood and side mirrors.

The car roster includes vehicles with distinct handling across FWD, RWD and AWD. You can fit three abilities.

Races and multiplayer

Stash the right car and a rival can put a hidden ride on the line in a pink-slip race. Winning adds that car to your garage. Solo mode lets you set up quick runs across five districts, with more districts to unlock as you climb the ranks.

You can lead a Crew room and invite friends to private multiplayer, queue online for matchmaking, or race a friend in local split-screen versus on one screen. Pink-slip races and parts wagers against other players are described as planned if enough players join.