Midtown Madness (Windows)

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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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Alternate Titles

• "疯狂城市飙车" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

Part of the Following Groups

• Automobile: Ford Mustang
• Automobile: Panoz Esperante
• Automobile: Volkswagen New Beetle
• Genre: Open world driving
• Microsoft's Madness series
• Midtown Madness series
• Setting: City - Chicago
• Theme: Street racing

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 (4617)	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)

Critic Reviews

Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	May 28, 1999		100
PC Joker	Jun, 1999	86 out of 100	86
PC Games (Germany)	Jun, 1999	83 out of 100	83
GameStar (Germany)	Jun, 1999	82 out of 100	82
Power Play	Jun, 1999	82 out of 100	82
Score	Apr, 1999	8 out of 10	80
Gaming Entertainment Monthly	Jun 02, 1999	78 out of 100	78
GameSpot	May 27, 1999	7.7 out of 10	77
Computer Games Magazine	Jun 03, 1999		70
Player One	Jul, 1999	60 out of 100	60

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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

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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.)