Though you can use the keyboard controls to pilot the vehicles in Unleashed-and naturally customize the keyboard mappings as you see fit-your best bet will be using a USB controller, preferably one with dual analog sticks. This may sound like great fun, but the controls for some of these vehicles-particularly the airborne ones-are frustrating and unresponsive, a stark contrast to the majority of the earthbound racers. The game tosses everything but the transportation equivalent of the kitchen sink at you-golf carts, dune buggies, monster trucks, helicopters, and biplanes are only a portion of the available rides. ATV Unleashed, they are far from the only machines available to race. Though motocross bikes and ATV four-wheelers are at the heart of the rides found in MX vs. The take-off was fun, but the landing is going to sting. ATV has been 'unleashed' onto PCs and, because it's a fairly literal port of the console game, the same sense of control and amenable fun is left well intact, along with a few PC-only extras. ATV Unleashed found success on the Xbox and PlayStation 2 last year with a fast-paced and approachable style of dirt racing that had you piloting everything from MX bikes to souped-up golf carts.
