Mad Dash Racing is a racing game for the Xbox

Xbox

The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...

 and was released as a launch title in November 2001. It is a spiritual successor to the PlayStation

PlayStation

The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...

 video game Running Wild

Running Wild (video game)

Running Wild is a racing video game released for the Sony PlayStation in 1998. The player can choose characters from an all-animal cast, In this game characters do not use vehicles, but instead race on foot. Each character has their own stats and abilities...

, though it doesn't come from the same developers.

The video game features the voice of Billy West

Billy West

William Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival...

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Plot

On a little island on Trem Land, a crazed wizard named Hex, plans to take over the world using RED METEOR CHUNKS. He can't do this on his own so he plans to set up an event to get all the METEOR CHUNKS and return them to Hex.

A number of nasty characters have signed up to the event, think that they have the guts to find the METEOR CHUNKS. All the characters don't know of what Hex is doing, so he waits until all the METEOR CHUNKS have been gathered for world domination. Hex mentions that for the one who brings back all the METEOR CHUNKS, will win a pig. Not according to the contract, one of the contestants named Sid, said that they win a Magic Sceptre. One of the Tremmals (Hex's Henchmen) saying agree with it, so Hex did. This is where the game begins.

Characters

The Characters are split into four different groups. Bashers, Dashers ,Gliders. and Bosses They are:

Bashers

These characters are able to break through certain objects.

• Chops
• Big Blu
• Betty
• Roscoe

Dashers

These characters are able to gain quick boosts.

• Sid
• Clawdius
• Spanx
• Synder
• Gex

Bosses

These characters have all three powers

• Tremlord
• Hex

You can collect 10 GREEN METEOR CHUNKS and become a Tribird. A Tribird you can have Bashers, Dashers and Gliders with just using one character.

Unlockables

Synder- Complete all Time-Trial challenges on every track

Tremlord- Collect all the shortcut medals from every level

Roscoe - Collect all 20 Hex Bux on each level

Hex - Complete the game with the three main characters - Chops, Sid and Zero-G

Tek-9 - Complete the game with any playable character

Gex - Using one profile, complete everything that is needed to get.

Tracks

There are 9 tracks all together. They are:

• Tiki Village

The first and easiest level, consisting of a series of huts and caves.

• Ruins

Ancient jungle ruins riddled with traps and secret passages.

• Dino Oasis

A dinosaur graveyard with tarpits and landslides.

• Mt. Magma

A giant volcano with hot molten lava pools and caverns.

• Pipewerx

Underwater series of pipes and machines.

• Biotech

Organic looking level where machinery and life have become one.

• Alpine Cup

A snowed in town with steep slopes and killer hippie penguins.

• Fortress

First boss level consisting of many secret passages, lava

Lava

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 and explosives.

• Castle

Second boss level consisting of traps and a giant reactor

Reactor

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Music

Numerous licensed music tracks were featured in the game:

• The Crystal Method
  The Crystal Method
  The Crystal Method is an American electronic music duo that was created in Los Angeles, California by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. The Crystal Method's music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video games, and advertisements. The most prominent is the US television...
  
  : "Roll It Up"
• Fatboy Slim
  Fatboy Slim
  Norman Quentin Cook better known by his former stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, electronic dance music musician, and record producer. He is a pioneer of the big beat genre that achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s...
  
  : "Acid 8000"
• Juno Reactor
  Juno Reactor
  Juno Reactor is a musical and performing act known for the cinematic fusion of electronic, orchestral, and global music. Central to the project is Ben Watkins and his collaborations with a constantly changing ensemble of musicians from across the world, including percussionist Mabi Thobejane from...
  
  : "Nitrogen Part II"
• Mad Dash: "The Mad Dash"
• MDFMK
  MDFMK
  MDFMK was an industrial rock band formed by two members of KMFDM, Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold. Lucia Cifarelli, formerly of the band Drill, later rounded out the trio.-History:...
  
  : "Control" and "Rabble Rouser"
• Meat Beat Manifesto
  Meat Beat Manifesto
  Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK...
  
  : "Fragments", "Number Four"
• Mephisto Odyssey
  Mephisto Odyssey
  Mephisto Odyssey is an American House music group from San Francisco California who have been credited with helping to pioneer the San Francisco house music sound. The group went on to release a number of self released singles until doing tenures at City of Angels and Warner Bros. Records from the...
  
  : "Jump", "Some Kinda Freak"
• Moby
  Moby
  Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...
  
  : "Honey
  Honey (Moby song)
  "Honey" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released as the first single from his 1999 studio album Play. It peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart....
  
  " (note: This is mislabeled in the game as "Insecocutor Dub", and vice versa for "Honey")
• No Use For a Name: "Soulmate"
• Overseer: "Insectocutor Dub" (see note for "Honey"), "Stompbox"
• Propellerheads
  Propellerheads
  Propellerheads were a British big beat musical ensemble, formed in 1995 and made up of electronic producers Will White and Alex Gifford. The term propellerhead is slang for a nerd, and when Gifford and White heard a friend from California use this in a conversation, they thought it the perfect name...
  
  : "Bang On"
• Überzone
  Uberzone
  Überzone is Anaheim, California native Timothy Wiles, is an electronic musician. He has also been known as Q, named after the popular character in the James Bond series....
  
  : "Rhythm Device"