Midtown Madness

Midtown Madness
Midtown Madness Box Art
Box art depicting a yellow Volkswagen New Beetle in a police chase
Developer(s)Angel Studios
Publisher(s)Microsoft
Director(s)Clinton Keith
Producer(s)Jay Panek
Designer(s)Frédéric Markus
Programmer(s)David Etherton
Artist(s)Kate Bigel
Michael Limber
Composer(s)Paul Lackey
SeriesMidtown Madness
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Midtown Madness (also known as Midtown Madness: Chicago Edition) is a 1999 racing game developed by Angel Studios and published by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows. The demo version was released in April 1999. Two sequels followed, with Midtown Madness 2 released in September 2000 and Midtown Madness 3 released in June 2003 for the Xbox. The game is set in Chicago; the object is for the player to win street races and obtain new cars.

Unlike racing games that restrict the player to a race track, Midtown Madness offers an open world recreation of Chicago. This setting was said to provide "an unprecedented degree of freedom to drive around in a virtual city".[3] Players can explore the city using one of several modes and can determine the weather and traffic conditions for each race. The game supports multiplayer races over a local area network or the Internet. The game received generally positive reviews from gaming websites. Angel Studios developed another video game featuring open-world recreations of cities, Midnight Club: Street Racing.

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  2. ^ "Midtown Madness Releases". GameSpot. May 18, 1999. Archived from the original on March 20, 2002. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
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