Midtown Madness
Midtown Madness is a 1999 racing game developed by Angel Studios and published by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows. The game is set in Chicago and offers an open world recreation of the city. Players start off with five vehicles; five more are unlockable. The available vehicles range from a Volkswagen New Beetle and a Ford F-350 to a city bus and a Freightliner Century truck.
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Midtown Madness is a 1999 racing game developed by Angel Studios and published by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows. The game is set in Chicago and offers an open world recreation of the city. Players can explore the city using one of several modes and can determine the weather and traffic conditions for each race. Players start off with five vehicles; five more are unlockable. The available vehicles range from a Volkswagen New Beetle and a Ford F-350 to a city bus and a Freightliner Century truck. Midtown Madness supports multiplayer games on a local area network, the Internet, or by serial cable connection. The Multiplayer mode was originally supported by Microsoft’s MSN Gaming Zone, but this service was retired on June 19, 2006. It is now supported by similar services such as GameSpy Arcade and XFire, via DirectPlay. Two sequels followed, with Midtown MAD Madness 2 released in September 2000 and MidtownMadness 3 released in June 2003 for the Xbox. Microsoft planned to publish sequels to racing computer games with the word Madness in the title, including Motocross Madness and Monster Truck Madness. The decision to only make half the cars available at the outset was intended to promote a sense of humor.
Microsoft received authorization from Volkswagen and Ford for the New Beetle, Mustang and Super Duty, and the Ford Super Duty and Ford Mustang were included in the game. The city was recreated faithfully to ensure that the game was mostly accurate, although certain landmarks were moved around to enhance gameplay. The developers obtained permission from the manufacturers to use the likenesses of several famous car chases in the films, The Blues Brothers and The Grand Budapest Hotel. The final version was released in April 1999 and received generally positive reviews from gaming websites. It was one of the first games that Angel Studios developed for the PC, and was released by Microsoft on April 30, 1999. It has been released three times since then, with the most recent version being released in October 2011. It can be played on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox One versions of the game, as well as the PC version of Midtown Madness 2 and 3 for the Windows operating system and the Mac OS X operating system. It also has an Xbox 360 version for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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