Doing some google searchs, I found a very rare MTM1 beta warez review from 1996
Monster Truck Madness Beta 2 [21/21]
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Not bad. It's definately a beta, still swaps and pauses right in the middle
of gameplay, along with a couple audio glitches thrown in for good measure,
and it installed its own directX2 drivers without asking (quite unlike MS).
I'll like it a lot better once the final comes out. I do have to say that the
synth muzak flippin rocks though and the grafix are a lot better than
average. This will prolly be one of those "unbelievable directX games" I
talked about a couple weeks ago. As far as the juice of the game, you can
pick one out of about 10 of the most popular monster trucks to race with.
Theres 4 different types of races too. Drag (side by side car crush), Rally
(offroad enduro type), Circuit, and Tournament. You can set up suspension,
gearbox, and tires on your truck for the different types of tracks/races.
Don't have more than 4 other trucks racing against you when you first start
out tho, the traffic kinda sucks. There's many different resolutions,
textures, and toggles to optimize video/processor speed, as well as audio,
and joy/keybd setup. As a little side note, from what I gather about the help
files included, MS is planning on devoting a whole webpage to this game, with
possible tournament type netgames once the game goes final. This one will
definately be worth checking out!
** Points: 74 Some points off cuz it's a beta and has a couple probs.
And I found a guy who's selling the MTM2 beta CD
http://gametz.com/forum/Archive:General_Marketplace/topic/112653.html
Interesting...