For those who experienced the Microsoft game publishing boom in the late 90s and early 00s remember how many great games they released.
Including the Madness games, which had three distinct series - Monster Truck Madness, Motocross Madness and Midtown Madness.
MX Vs ATV Unleashed gives you a spiritual follow-up to Motocross Madness and Monster Truck Madness on GOG, DRM free and is more closely related to those games than you think.
Why? Because Rainbow Studios developed Motocross Madness and MX Vs ATV, and Unleashed was the first time they released any of their games on Windows again, with Motocross Madness 2 being their last PC game and having made a career of developing console extreme sports titles.
Anyone who played those older games will feel at home with this. Firstly, if you go out of bounds, you get that classic cannon sound effect and the sight of your vehicle being flung across the map.
As the kids say these days, pure cinema.
On top of that, you have multiple event types and vehicle classes, set in an open area where you pick the levels you want to do. There are special events that feature all forms of off-road vehicles and even a plane.
This is where you find the monster trucks.
Once all the vehicles are unlocked, either by playing the game or using a cheat code, you can use them in multiplayer and this is where the true carnage begins.
Want to race motorcycles against monster trucks? Go ahead.
Yes, future games have better graphics, but they slowly removed some of the content that you would get in the whole package.
There's even a track editor, which is something I have yet to try myself.
There's something special about MX Vs ATV Unleashed, and I hope you get to try it out to see why.
