Customer Reviews

MX vs. ATV Unleashed

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2 star:		(1)
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In an age of violent and downright odd games this is a breath of fresh air. I bought this for my son and I find myself playing it as much as he does. Graphics are good and game physics are great.It will play just fine on a system with the min specs. My hope is the all the fans of Motorcross Madness 2 dig into this game and get some serious tracks made since it comes with a track editor.

This is a great game with lots of fun tracks. If you enjoyed the Motocross Madness 1 and 2 series from Microsoft, this is the same team now developing for THQ. It includes fun Supermoto tracks, loads of activities within each track design (press ESC within a race and choose Activities), challenging courses, and a variety of vehicles including Monster Trucks, sand buggies, and even 50cc minibikes and golf carts. There's a track editor, but it's a hardcore editor. Nothing like the easy to use editor of MCM1. You'll need to spend days learning to use it and even more days/weeks to build your own tracks. The airplane and helicopter vehicles included are impossible to steer, so they are useless. The waypoint courses lack the natural flow of the waypoint races in MCM2. Also disappointing are that each race only includes a maximum of 6 riders and they don't have real rider names. You can set the race difficulty level (defaults to 80%) up to 125%, and it does make a difference, so you can continue to challenge yourself. The music jukebox is the usual nu-punk garbage, and doesn't allow you to select an MP3 directory of your own choosing, but thankfully you can switch it off.

I was really questioning the purchase of MX vs ATV Unleashed when I bought it. A friend of mine convinced 5 of us to all buy it so we could race each other online. At roughly $18 I thought, this game won't be worth it.

WOW was I wrong. This is a VERY fun game and my buddies and I have had hours of online fun playing this racing game. I am not familiar with lots of racing games...but I can tell you this one for the money is great fun.

Ok, there are some issues. Menu's. Wow, the game makers really liked having menu's. Too many....and every time you make a setting change you get a pop up menu to confirm. It does get cumbersome. And connecting online has given us some challenges....you connect through the Gamespy network, which is free, but can on occasion be a bit buggy. But we normally always manage to get connected and once we are in it's easy to do one race after another.

Basically for online gaming one of you hosts a game. Then others connect to you by searching for available games over the Gamespy network. It's all very easy to navigate. But if your looking for a one player game...I would probably not suggest this one. I didn't find the in-game racers very challenging...even at 130% difficulty. This game is really an online against your buddies game.

Great custom tracks to download as well. I think I have downloaded 25 tracks that people have made....and these can be raced with you and your friends online. Pick your racing colors, your number, and even put your name on your jersey....then hit the dirt.

For the money this is a very good game with good gaming staying power. My friends and I play it at least 3 or 4 times a week for some great competition online.

The graphics are amazing! It's just like being there. Great fun, lots of choices on everything. I will sit for hours and play this game.

this game is great. the graphics are very good and i love playing online with people all over the world.

This is an obvious port and not a very good one at that. Rainbow studios had some guys quit that were on the Motocross Madness 2 team and it really shows in this poor port.

The game is full of annoying things to click on in the menu system; such as, "are you sure you want to load this profile, click yes", "profile loaded successfully, click OK", "Are you sure you want to launch this race?, click yes", for online play via the crappy built-in GameSpy interface, "login successful, click OK".

Also, on my system the game will crash on a whim while using the GameSpy interface that comes with the game -- moving the mouse or clicking a button can send you straight back to the desktop with the infamous M$ error report requestor.

The online interface is pure garbage. You can't see who is already serving a game before you decide to do so, this means that you end up with 2 or 3 guys serving their own game with nobody playing because they didn't use the separate Search button to look for games ahead of time. You also can't directly chat after a race without having to use the SEPARATE chat window. Very annoying interface if you're used to anything above sub-par.

Don't get me totally wrong here, the game is fun but it has so many annoying features and actual bugs that it's a good thing this is a budget title. You'll be lucky to find 2 or 3 people serving games at any one time and don't waste your time with the separate Hamachi interface that can be downloaded elsewhere -- if you don't know the specific server names and passwords then Hamachi is totally worthless for playing this game.

Go out and buy it for the pure fun of playing, but be prepared to deal with the frustration factor, especially if you're used to Motocross Madness 2's interface and game play.

I bough this game and "hot rod garage to glory" at the same time and ive got to say they are both great but this one is realy great and very fun you can race a sandrail,atv,truck and more buy this game

the program looks fun but the software i recieved was corupt it wont load on any machine.