Rockstar San Diego

In November 2002, Take-Two Interactive Software acquired Angel Studios for $41 million and merged it into the Rockstar Games family under the San Diego banner, forming "Rockstar San Diego"; original founder Diego Angel left the studio in 2005 and returned to Colombia. Under Rockstar, the studio led the development of the Midnight Club and Red Dead series. They also operate the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), which has been used on all Rockstar games since Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis.

Logo (April 9, 2003-May 21, 2010)

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Visuals: The usual Rockstar shield, but colored purple.

Variants:

• Midnight Club II: There is a waving water surface in place of the shield. Then, the "R" shape fades in with the star turning white in a flash, while the water surface fades out. "SAN DIEGO" fades in below.
• Midnight Club III: The shield is formed by carwheel footprints. When it fully forms, a copyright symbol and "ROCKSTAR SAN DIEGO" in a new-age font appear below.
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles: The shield fades in moving from left to right choppily, while shadow copies of it move at a faster rate.
  • On Midnight Club: L.A. Remix (the PSP version), the animation plays at a faster rate.
• Red Dead Redemption: A spinning coil of a bar machine appears and presents the Rockstar San Diego logo (spinning in slower than the preceding Rockstar Games logo). The logo is shot and vanished in a small cloud of smoke.

Technique: CGI for the Midnight Club II and Red Dead Redemption variants, and 2D digital animation for the Midnight Club III and Midnight Club: Los Angeles variants.

Audio: Depends on the game:

• Midnight Club II: Water sounds.
• Midnight Club III: Car engine noises.
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles: A short hip-hop cue, which is taken from the game's intro.
• Red Dead Redemption: Western-oriented music with the sound of spinning machine and a gunshot.

Audio Variant: On the XBOX/PC versions of Midnight Club 2, additional seagull sounds can be heard.

Availability

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Media Title	Platform(s)	Date(s) of Release	Additional Note(s)
Midnight Club II MobyGames	PlayStation 2, Windows, XBOX	April 9, 2003
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition MobyGames	PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, XBOX	April 12, 2005	Also appeared on the 2006 Remix edition
Midnight Club: Los Angeles MobyGames	PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, XBOX 360	October 20, 2008	Also appeared on the L.A. Remix version for PSP, albeit sped-up
Red Dead Redemption MobyGames	Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, XBOX 360, XBOX Series X/S	May 21, 2010

External Links

• Official website (archived)
• Rockstar San Diego  on Wikipedia

Angel Studios

Rockstar San Diego