Mad Trax

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Mad Trax
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Developer RayLand Interactive
Publisher Project Two Interactive BV
Platform Microsoft Windows
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows
  • NA: December 11,1998

Genres Racing, Action (Vehicular combat)
Modes Single-player, multiplayer

Mad Trax is a 1998 video game developed by RayLand Interactive and published by Project Two Interactive for Microsoft Windows. It is a futuristic racing video game.

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Gameplay

Power-ups can be purchased by spending coins collected throughout courses, and include abilities such as invincibility, and weapons including missiles and land mines. [1] [2] Mad Trax features a multiplayer mode over a local area network or the Internet. [2]

Development

Mad Trax was created by a six-person team in French development studio RayLand Interactive, [3] created in a six-month period between May to November 1998. [4] The studio originally developed Mad Trax as a tech demo to showcase the capabilities of the Voodoo 2 graphics card, [5] showcasing it at a 3dfx booth at Comdex. [3]

Reception

Several previews of Mad Trax unfavorably considered the game resembled other futuristic racing titles, [6] [7] with PC PowerPlay writing that the game seemed to lack new or innovative features to distinguish them from the large number of games in the genre. [8] IGN faulted the game for the simplicity and lack of variation in its tracks, and the sensitivity of its controls. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Kanarick, Mark. "Mad Trax". Allgame. Archived from the original on 17 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mad Trax". Ultimate PC. No. 19. p. 90.
  3. 1 2 "Mad French game". PC Zone. No. 60. February 1998. p. 19.
  4. ↑ "Exclusive Interview: Rayland Interactive". Beta News. 28 June 2000. Retrieved 18 October 2026.
  5. ↑ "Videogame Creation Under the Microscope". Edge. No. 55. February 1998. p. 120.
  6. ↑ "Mad Trax". Ultimate PC. No. 18. January 1999. p. 42.
  7. ↑ "Mad Trax". PC Accelerator. No. 9. May 1999. p. 119.
  8. ↑ "Mad Trax". PC PowerPlay. No. 31. December 1998. p. 56.
  9. ↑ "Madtrax". IGN. 25 March 1999. Retrieved 18 October 2026.

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