Midtown Madness 1 PC Game Free Download

      Midtown Madness is a racing gaming developed for Windows by Angel Studios and published by Microsoft. Unlike many racing games, which restrict the player to a race track, Midtown Madness offers an open world recreation of Chicago. Players can explore the city via one of several modes, and can determine the weather and traffic conditions for each race.

Midtown Madness features four single-player modes Blitz, Circuit, Checkpoint, and Cruise. In Blitz, the player must reach a destination within a time limit; in Circuit, the player races other vehicles; in Checkpoint, the game adds the complication of other traffic, such as police cars and pedestrians; and in Cruise, the player simply explores the city. Players have a choice of up to ten vehicles, although only five are available at the start. To unlock the other cars, players must achieve goals such as winning a certain number of races etc. Midtown Madness supports multiplayer games via local area network, Internet, or serial cable connection.

Midtown Madness puts you in the driver's seat, straps you in, and lets you know you're in for something special. Midtown Madness is set in a cleaner, friendlier Chicago. Cars actually signal before changing lanes, wait at reds, and obey traffic laws. You'll get a dose of reality however if you cut someone off, drive too close, or run into them, with the other drivers hurling insults and exclamations your way. The non-player drivers do act like normal motorists, ignorant to most of the stuff happening around you. If you're racing, however, you'll be looking to outsmart your opponents, not just outdrive them. Opponents will split off on side streets trying to find shortcuts, attempt to bang into you to knock you out of commission, and try everything in their power to get across the finish line first.

Midtown Madness has 10 vehicles:-

1. Volkswagen New Beetle

2. City Bus

3. Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe

4. Ford Mustang Police Cruiser

5. Ford F-350 Super Duty

6. Ford Mustang Fastback

7. Ford Mustang GT

8. Panoz Roadster

9. Panoz GTR-1

10. Freightliner Century

In Midtown Madness car damage is slightly realistic. After the player crashes into traffic cars, police cruisers or opponent's cars, there is a visible damage on the car. After too many collisions, the car's tire starts to spin in the wrong way. After another few collisions, the tire will pop out and the car will remain unusable for a few seconds, before it regenerates, except in Checkpoint Races, in which it results in Game Over. This is same for police cruisers, there is no evade or bust meter, you can only destroy them to evade them. I love Midtown Madness.

Types of Racing in Midtown Madness

Cruise (Free Drive around the city, in demo is restricted to downtown and a passage road to highway)

Checkpoint Races (A race over the city with marked checkpoints, you can pass them any way you like)

Circuit Races (A closed track over the city roads with certain number of laps. 5 completed races unlock Ford Mustang Fastback)

Blitz Races (Time race with only player as a driver. The player has to complete the race in the ordered time to pass it)

Midtown Madness requires some pretty powerful hardware in order to look its best, and even at its best it doesn't look as good as it might have and often suffers from choppy frame rates. With all its options turned on, the vehicles look nice and shiny although at times a little too flat. They get damaged in Midtown Madness when they run into things, although this effect isn't entirely convincing either. Other details really stand out, like the bright traffic lights and the different weather and time conditions that manage to evoke a particular beauty about the city through their sheer variety. But while it's great to see Chicago's landmarks and its smaller streets modeled so carefully, it's too bad that most of the storefronts in the game are generic and often repeated, even on the same block. Thus Midtown Madness approaches, but doesn't actually reach, that meticulous level of realism and detail that driving games must necessarily strive for.

In Midtown Madness one of the main drawbacks, however, was that the map was the same for the whole game. You started and finished and took different routes throughout the city, but it would have been nice to go in some other settings. I can predict a slew of Midtown Madness add-ons in the near future.

Midtown Madness was plain fun to play. I didn't need force feedback to shake while playing. I used the Microsoft Freestyle Pro joystick, which allows you to physically move the joystick to move the car. Turn the joystick right, the car moves with you. I found control extremely smooth and the cars easy to maneuver. If you like on road racing you should try Need for Speed II special Edition.

Midtown Madness in Action

 

System Requirement (Midtown Madness)

1.     Pentium III 500MHz Processor (850MHz Recommended)

2.     256 MB RAM (512MB RAM Recommended)

3.     300 MB Hard Disk Space Required

4.     32 MB 3D Accelerated Video Card

5.     Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7

6.     DirectX-compatible Sound Card