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Game entry

Midtown Madness

1999 · Racing, Simulation · PC · Microsoft

Midtown Madness is ranked no. 1,817 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,515 and 40% of duels won. The pairing that comes up most often sets it against Need for Speed: Underground: 3 duels settled, 1 to 2. Measured against its own family, it climbs to no. 55 out of 116 (1999).

World rank

no. 1,817

ELO score

1,515

Wins

40%

Duels played

80

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About Midtown Madness

Midtown Madness (also known as Midtown Madness: Chicago Edition) is a racing game developed for Windows by Angel Studios (now Rockstar San Diego) and published by Microsoft. The demo version was released via download on May 1, 1999 and the completed game was released toward the end of May 1999.[1] 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 and its objective is 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".[2] Players can explore the city via 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.[3]

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,515 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Midtown Madness sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 1,814 ZombiU 1,515
  2. 1,815 Ikaruga 1,515
  3. 1,816 Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return 1,515
  4. 1,817 Midtown Madness 1,515
  5. 1,818 Disciples II: Dark Prophecy 1,515
  6. 1,819 Dead Rising 2 1,514
  7. 1,820 The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan 1,514

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The standing

Where Midtown Madness ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Midtown Madness stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 55 out of 116 (1999).

Where Midtown Madness ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 1,817 5,110
Racing 85 259
1990s 244 655
1999 55 116

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