MX vs. ATV


MX vs. ATV is an American racing video game franchise developed by Rainbow Studios and published by THQ Nordic that focuses on off-road racing, as a crossover between Sony's ATV Offroad Fury series and THQ's 2004 video game MX Unleashed. Early games in the series, starting with MX vs. ATV Unleashed, were published by THQ prior to its bankruptcy and liquidation in 2013. As the name suggests, the series' main focus is racing with motocross bikes and all-terrain vehicles, although other vehicles such as dune buggies and sport trucks were also featured in the games. Players can also fly airplanes and helicopters in some of the games.
On August 9, 2011, THQ announced that it would shut down THQ Digital Phoenix as well as other game development studios and not "actively pursue further development" of the MX vs. ATV franchise in a company re-organization. Nevertheless, the series endured THQ's demise, and in April 2013, Nordic Games acquired the franchise through the liquidation of THQ. Nordic Games then continued the series in 2014 with MX vs. ATV Supercross, then endeavored to bring the series to eighth-generation consoles, porting Supercross to some of them many months later and releasing another sequel for them in 2018, titled MX vs. ATV: All Out.

Games

The MX vs. ATV series is a cumulative crossover between Sony's ATV Offroad Fury series and THQ's MX Unleashed video game. Every game in the franchise prior to MX vs. ATV Reflex was available on the PlayStation 2.

''ATV Offroad Fury'' series

ATV Offroad Fury is a series of ATV racing games published by Sony Computer Entertainment that ran from 2001 to 2006, consisting of four main titles released on the PlayStation 2. The latter two games were developed by Climax Racing and ported to the PlayStation Portable under different titles.
The main titles of the ATV Offroad Fury series are:
MX Unleashed is a standalone motorcross racing video game developed by Rainbow Studios and published by THQ in 2004 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, one year before the first proper installment of the MX vs. ATV series, MX vs. ATV Unleashed, was also published by THQ.

Main series

After the release of the first three ATV Offroad Fury games and MX Unleashed, the MX vs. ATV series began in earnest with MX vs. ATV Unleashed in 2005. Shortly after the series began, the ATV Offroad Fury series quietly concluded with one last sequel, as well as PSP ports of its last two games.
Every game in the series was released on non-Nintendo consoles, with Untamed, Reflex and All Out also available on at least one Nintendo platform. All games support local split-screen multiplayer racing between 2 players on consoles and PC, while utilizing online multiplayer to support contests with larger player pools. Local wireless multiplayer among up to four players is supported on handheld versions of the games, except the PSP version of Reflex.