Midtown Madness (Windows)
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Microsoft Corporation

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Platform

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Genre

Perspective

1st-person, Behind view

Interface

Direct control

Vehicular

Automobile, Bus, Street racing, Truck, Vehicle simulator

Setting

Contemporary, North America

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Description

Drive around the streets of Chicago in a series of races, or just try the various timed challenges! The entire city is recreated, with more landmarks and major streets drivable, complete with pedestrians and traffic cars! Drive your "common" cars like Cadillac Eldorado or Ford Mustang, or go superexotic like Panoz Roadster, or drive a super-though F-350 HD pickup... Or even the Detroit City Bus and/or a Freightliner truck... Lots of variety, lots of scenary to admire, lots of challenges to attempt... And when you get bored, try the multiplayer, including tag, football, cops and robbers, and many more modes.

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Screenshots

Midtown Madness Windows Flying over town in a car...

Midtown Madness Windows If you use the bus, you could create a total mayhem in the streets!!

Midtown Madness Windows This car is not good for nature...

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Alternate Titles

"疯狂城市飙车" -- Simplified Chinese spelling

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User Reviews

Nice city racing, but poorly executed	Silmarillion (80)
Rampant fun, but little else	Cyric (50)	unrated
Fun game, but something is really missing... The rewards	Kasey Chang (4613)	unrated
At last... freedom to drive wherever you want.	Steve Hall (352)
Mid town WHAT?	jay marsden (5)
A good but flawed driving experence	Grant McLellan (622)
"The Crazy Taxi of PC Gaming!"	Unrealist (197)
A fun racing game.	Blackhandjr (104)
A fun racing-style game	Thomas Backman (21)

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Critic Reviews

Bravo Screenfun	Jun, 1999	1 out of 6	100
Hacker	Jun, 1999	92 out of 100	92
Jeuxvideo.com	Jun 07, 1999	18 out of 20	90
PC Joker	Jun, 1999	86 out of 100	86
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Apr 27, 1999	85 out of 100	85
GameStar (Germany)	Jun, 1999	82 out of 100	82
Score	Apr, 1999	8 out of 10	80
Gamesmania.de	1999	80 out of 100	80
PC Gaming World	Jun, 1999		60
QUICK-SAVE.de	Jul 03, 2019	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

Inaccuracies

There is an error when referencing one of the vehicles on the North American (and some European) cover art. (See extra cover art for example.) It states the Classic Ford Mustang Fastback as a "67 Mustang Boss 302". However, the Boss 302 did not enter production until 1969. It is correctly stated what Mustang it is in the game.

Pricing

In the Netherlands Midtown Madness got sold for the half of the normal retail (like $20) price to see if this could reduce the illegal copying. Afterwards they didn't try this with any other game, so probably it didn't work.

Awards

GameSpy
- 1999 – Racing Game of the Year

Information also contributed by DOS Boot

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Related Web Sites

Angel Studios (Developer's Web site)
IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)

Thomas Backman (21) added Midtown Madness (Windows) on Oct 03, 1999