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Mad Tracks xbox360 Game Reviews
Mad Tracks
Critic Score
Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.5 out of 10
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[Xbox Live Arcade] Mad Tracks is a racing game that takes its inspiration from the pull-back-and-go toy cars of gamers’ youth. Races take place in everyday environments such as toy stores, mini golf parks, and restaurants. Extra challenges add to this car arcade party game's fast-moving fun. Play with friends on a split-screen, and gather up to 12 crazy achievements. Six races, 9 mini-games and up to 12 original achievements will keep you racing. Twelve different cars and 12 different power-ups, including rockets and oil slicks, keep the racing fresh. There are lots of ways to play including Arcade Mode (both Solo and Split Screen), Championship Mode, and 4-player Live Mode complete with in-game audio chat, multiple leaderboards and weekly resets. There's a try before you buy demo, 2 free Gamerpics, and soon, 2 new craze-packed downloadable add-ons of 15 challenges each. [Microsoft]

PUBLISHER: D3Publisher of America
DEVELOPER: Load Inc.
GENRE(S): Action, Arcade, Party
PLAYERS: 4
ESRB RATING: E (Everyone)
RELEASE DATE: May 30, 2007

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85
Team Xbox
For a small-byte Xbox Live Arcade title, Mad Tracks packs some serious horsepower under its hood. The single-player campaign and multiplayer areas are closer to what you would find in a standalone title, and the amount of event types and variance among them keeps Mad Tracks fresh, yet it’s still easy to pick-up-and-play in true party game fashion.
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80
Official Xbox Magazine
Multiplayer is a blast, even if it's a hassle to re-invite everybody after each game. For 800 Microsoft Points, the goofy racing variety of Mad Tracks gives you excellent milage. [June 2007, p.72]
80
Games Radar
A worthwhile purchase. Early on you may find it hard to justify, but give the game a chance - and a few online matches - and chances are you’ll soon be a fan. Can’t wait to download some of the impending expansion packs.
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80
Official Xbox Magazine UK
It IS "Micro Machines," right down to the dinky size of the cars and power-up based racing buffoonery. [Aug 2007, p.101]
75
Console Gameworld
Pick this one up if you know some of your friends are going to also. It's fun in multiplayer mode. Otherwise, be sure to try the demo before you grab the full version.
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70
AceGamez
Mad Tracks is an excellent little game. Though it's short, it offers a whole lot of fun, especially in multiplayer mode where I can almost guarantee you'll be either badly humiliated by you friends, or you'll humiliate the heck out of them.
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70
Game Over Online
A standard kart racer with a bunch of well-done, but hollow mini-games tacked on that gets old quickly in single player, but has its life extended with multi-player, where the added competition adds a great deal of fun to the proceedings.
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68
IGN
If you enjoy local multiplayer and have a few extra controllers, Mad Tracks is worth looking into.
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65
Digital Entertainment News
Mad Tracks makes for a nice distraction, but it’s doubtful that you’ll want to play this for more than ten minutes at a time.
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62
My Gamer
Mad Tracks starts off fun, and each level will entertain through the first play through, but the replay grows flat sooner rather than later.
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60
Planet Xbox 360
Mad Tracks is an underwhelming first effort from Load Inc. Xbox Live Arcade titles are understandably held to looser standards than their retail counterparts, but this title needs some polish in its graphical and audio content.
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60
Xbox World 360 Magazine UK
The actual racing is sluggish and generally skill-free, but the mini games are top fun. [Sept 2007, p.96]
55
Talk Xbox
Overall, the single-player is a boring affair. Online multiplayer is not worth the hassle.
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50
Gamers' Temple
Mad Tracks is pretty short on gameplay, which is probably a good thing since the gameplay that is there isn’t very exciting.
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50
Xboxic
Mad Tracks goes to show the limitations and constraints Microsoft put on XBLA developers with the 50 MB limit, which sadly Mad Tracks had to comply with. And you can tell.
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50
X360 Magazine UK
Two quid too expensive, seven years late and lacking the 'aw' factor if its predecessor. [Issue #22, p.114]
46
GameSpot
Mad Tracks is the sort of idiot-simple game that you'll forget about five minutes after you play it.
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42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
In the same way, Mad Tracks—a very simple racing game where spring-powered cars race on toy tracks—looks and acts fun, but it fails to catch the imagination.
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40
Extreme Gamer
Mad Tracks is a missed hit.
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40
PALGN
Mad Tracks not only feels like a game that's designed to get as much money out of consumers as possible, it also lacks a real sense of speed and feels uninspired.
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30
EuroGamer
If you want to play with chums, you're going to have to reselect your gang for every two-minute game, as the interface will dump you all back in the wild as soon as it's over. Easier is jumping in with strangers, but none of the tracks/games hold enough allure to inspire much of this.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Aaace5 gave it a7:
Basically a cheap Mario Kart type game for xbox live...just not as polished, and not as fun. It's a decent game - but it's not something I could see myself playing for a couple hours a day. Try the demo before you buy!

Kezza gave it an8:
Tons of fun, little short on the single player gameplay ( easy gamescore points), but the multiplayer more than makes up for it, For now this is my favorite xbox live arcade game, be sure to download this one very addictive.

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