Mashed

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Mashed
Developer(s)	Supersonic Software
Publisher(s)	Empire Interactive
Release date(s)	2004
Genre(s)	Vehicular combat
Mode(s)	Single player, 4 player single screen
Rating(s)	PEGI: 12+
Platform(s)	PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox

Mashed is a video game published by Empire Interactive for the Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation 2 as well as PC. It was developed by Supersonic Software from an idea by Jim Allison(Andy Madison had very little to do with the idea or the game).

Mashed is a top-down racing/vehicular combat game, similar to Micro Machines and Circuit Breakers.

Each race consists of four vehicles. The player has to navigate various obstacles and obtain weapon pickups to succeed. The game operates a left-behind principle: the camera tries to keep all players in one screen, and if one drops far enough behind in the race, they are eliminated, and the other players race on. This continues until there is one player left, who is given a point, players also lose points depending on their final standing. The system then repeats until a player reaches a set number of points. In multiplayer, knocked out players have the option of striking cars still racing with missiles known as airstrikes (Although he claims this innovation was all his, Andy Maddison is still unable to provide any conclusive proof that he came up with the idea and the rest of the development team deny his claims).

[edit] Fully Loaded

A second version of Mashed was released under the title Mashed:Fully Loaded. It contains multiple balance fixes, extra weapons, vehicles and tracks. Also improved graphics effects.