Midtown Madness

Midtown Madness
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
Series	Midtown Madness
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	NA: May 18, 1999[2] EU: June 4, 1999[1]
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.