| Mad Trax | |
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| Developer | RayLand Interactive |
| Publisher | Project Two Interactive BV |
| Platform | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | Microsoft Windows
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| 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.
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]
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]
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]