

The game's city environment is modeled after Chicago, including many of its landmarks, such as the 'L', the Sears Tower (then known as the Sears Tower), Wrigley Field, and Soldier Field. The streets feature a number of objects the player can crash into, including trash bins, parking meters, mailboxes and traffic lights. In Cruise mode, other vehicles move in accordance with traffic lights, but the player is under no obligation to obey them. Midtown Madness supports multiplayer games on a local area network, the Internet, or by serial cable connection. The Multiplayer mode was originally supported by Microsoft's MSN Gaming Zone, but this service was retired on June 19, 2006. It is now supported by similar services such as GameSpy Arcade and XFire, via DirectPlay. The Multiplayer mode includes a Cops and Robbers mode, a capture the flag-style game in which players form two teams and each team tries to steal the opposing team's cache of gold and return it to their own hideout.
