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Live play for Mad Tracks after all


Our friends at Xboxic delivered some good news today. Mad Tracks, the wacky pull-back car racer, has been delayed. The reason why a delay is good news: Load is delaying the game so that Live Multiplayer can be added. Some of you may recall from our earlier post that Live play was not originally planned for the game. See, boys and girls, sometimes delays can be a good thing.

Does this news change anyone's mind about buying Mad Tracks?

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1. Absolutely. Live play is always one more reason to actually buy a game...

Posted at 7:17AM on Aug 9th 2006 by Jan 0 stars

2. Yipee, I was going to avoid this game, but now live is added, I think its a chi-ching for Load and Microsoft!!

Posted at 7:37AM on Aug 9th 2006 by David Wright 0 stars

3. You....listened to us.

I'm DEFINATLY buying this game now, if only to support a developer that did the right thing.

Posted at 10:38AM on Aug 9th 2006 by Edge of Blade 0 stars

4. definitely! multiplayer makes any game a better deal

Posted at 10:40AM on Aug 9th 2006 by Aram 0 stars

5. Definitally. With live this looks like a great game... without it didn't.

Posted at 10:40AM on Aug 9th 2006 by Jay 0 stars

6. ooooooooooo cool, i was looking forward to this game, now even more so!!

Posted at 10:41AM on Aug 9th 2006 by Keef 0 stars

7. good move there. I still dont know if ill get the game (Ill have to play the demo and decid if not having a track editor is still worth it.

But at least now me, and plenty of other gamers are actually interested in the game and will download the demo for sure to try it out. Without live play, there would be no point to even testing the game out.

I can't believe some1 actually approved the idea earlier to cut live play to meet a release date rather then delaying the game for 2-3 months without live. Im just glad they fixed that up now and the game will have online play.

Posted at 10:41AM on Aug 9th 2006 by Mike 0 stars

8. They definitely did the right thing. This went to a "won't consider" to a "will probably buy right away" with the news of it being Live multiplayer.

Posted at 10:55AM on Aug 9th 2006 by Erik Novak 0 stars

9. I haven't really heard anything about this game, by the above screen, I'm not sure that it looks that interesting. Anyone know what this game is about and what kind of gameplay it will offer?

Todd
http://www.proxbox360.com

Posted at 11:00AM on Aug 9th 2006 by Todd H. 0 stars

10. I played the PC demo briefly Todd H and to me it's a very arcadey racer with powerups and weapons that reminded me of mario kart more than anything. There were also mini games like soccer and foosball using your car to move the ball around.

I had been looking forward to it when I assumed it was going to be online, then wasn't so sure when I heard they wouldn't be able to add the multiplayer (via XBOXIC as well), but now that it's back in it will be a must-buy for me.

Posted at 11:17AM on Aug 9th 2006 by MumbleyJoe 0 stars

11. Umm why did they have to delay it though. couldnt they just release it on schedule then update it.

Posted at 12:05PM on Aug 9th 2006 by J dog 0 stars

12. I hope to god, and please please could the author try to forward this to the devs, that they implement multiple Live Account split screen play that goes online too.

IE myself and the missus are both our own IDs and we go on splitscreen live to play my mate and his missues who're splitscreen too.

Distinctly lacking feature in Live games so far

Posted at 12:07PM on Aug 9th 2006 by edhe 0 stars

13. Definately agree with the surge of "yes, I want it posts". Developers that listen to fans complaints and rectify them deserve every cent I can give them; they've earned it.

Posted at 12:22PM on Aug 9th 2006 by Franky Digital 0 stars

14. When it was first announced, I assumed Xbox Live and wanted the game. When they announced it wasn't making the cut, I said no way I'm buying it. Now I'm back to wanting it.

Posted at 1:19PM on Aug 9th 2006 by Hoffer 0 stars

15. aw nice... totally brilliant. This is looking like its going to be my favourite Xbox 360 arcade game yet!!! I just hope that they don't raise the price just for the addition of Xbox Live... I mean we already pay for the gold subscriptions....

Posted at 4:21PM on Aug 9th 2006 by Ciaran Gallagher 0 stars

16. #9: You can find a hands-on preview with more screens here: http://www.xboxic.com/news/1347

Posted at 4:44PM on Aug 9th 2006 by Curry 2 stars

17. If this is similar to the gameplay in Mario Cart then count me in as well, I'll wait for the demo on this one. Thanks for the info MumbleyJoe!

Todd
http://www.proxbox360.com

Posted at 4:54PM on Aug 9th 2006 by Todd H. 0 stars

18. Definately in now. Hopefully it will be as fun as Revolt was on XBL beta for those testers that remember out there. That was a lot of fun, quick, pick up and play acadey fun.

Posted at 6:02PM on Aug 9th 2006 by Runciter 0 stars

19. Thanks for everyone's comments, I am forwarding all of them to the hard working team that is making this game a-live.
Got a question? Post on xboxic.com - I answer!
Cheers!

Posted at 8:06AM on Aug 10th 2006 by DenisDenis 0 stars

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