What happend with Motocross Madness series...

MCM3 is Mx Unleashed they were orginally gonna name it tht but decided againstit..... MCM2 hasnt tottally died theres several guys around that still play including me and theres a couple guys still making tracks for the game.. But MVA is still going strong http://www.mxg-hq.com/forums/ and i am glad to be part of..

Its a shame but i left when all the sites went down, i think i remember turtles raceway or something? was only short lived, all the main sites seem to go down and looking back i can only find a couple of tracks i made on MCM Factory and theres no pictures, just zip's. I really miss MCM2 :(

I can answer this as I was around for all that (there a few of us still here). :) In fact, I used to race on the Zone as RBW_2Fast. At the end of MCM2, we were looking to do something different and potentially move towards developing something for the console market. The PS2 was just taking off and that seemed like a platform we could work with (previous ones didn't have the horsepower we were looking for). Remember, back in those days PC configurations had a lot more variables to deal with and we spent a lot of effort and time trying to get the game running on all these variations. We were curious what life was like on the console side where we could focus more on the game than the hardware variations. As we moved in this direction, Microsoft was still working on the "Madness" series of games (Motocross, Midtown, Monster Truck) and owned the name, so they kept it. That is where Sony and ATV ORF come into the picture. They offered us a chance to work on console development and continue on with a genre we had experience with while providing us with good support. We've bench raced with the idea of making an MCM3 over the years, but at this point MS still holds the rights to the name. Who knows, maybe they'll resurrect it in the future. If they do though, I doubt we would have anything to do with it unless it was multiple platform based. It was a great time for us and helped pave the way to continue making MX games. We're glad MS had enough faith in us to take a chance on a genre that didn't really exist yet. As for hiring, we post all open positions on our website and through sites like Gamasutra and such.

Yes...there was some cool tech in that game. In the end though, I think you're right robmx522...there is only so much you can do on water. Give me dirt!!!!!