Carmageddon 3 TDR 2000

by Xicat

Product Features

• Wild, extreme action driving game
• Drive fast, evade enemies, kill everything
• Tons of vehicles and weapons to choose
• Richly rendered graphics
• For 1 to 8 players

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000522CC
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,796 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Most people, crowded into tightly segregated, highly policed towns, where they could live without fear. These walled towns were called the subates. The cities were emptied until all that was left was the dross, the dregs, the poor and the scum.

From launchers in low orbit, multiple tactical nuclear warheads rained down on the old inner city scapes. Millions died.

The survivors, torn and twisted by fallout and mutation, held on. These beings were no longer classed as human.

But life did not leave the cities. The survivors grew in strength, and number, as they pulled themselves from the rubble.

The subate bosses built a wall around the inner-urban area. They constructed a radiation prison, a burning chemical nightmare, in which gangs were rife and murder commonplace.

Two worlds, but a universe apart, and no-one ever crosses between them.

It can't be done.

Until now.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Download the timer cheat and you will have fun., December 15, 2000

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H. A Huffman "haumf" (Mt. Prospect, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carmageddon 3 TDR 2000 (CD-ROM)

The graphics: Good. Better than the older games by far. The Sound: Again, much better than the older versions of the game. The gameplay: The same as in the other versions but with one exception: THE TIMER. You run out of time too quickly. Since I never actually play to win the race by racing (That's what other racing games are for) I was disappointed to find out that you get almost nothing for knocking down pedestrians or bowling over other drivers. What a rip-off! But once I downloaded a timer cheat the game became fun again.

25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars There IS no Carmaggedon 3..., March 27, 2001

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"shyarmyguy" (Ft. Lewis, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carmageddon 3 TDR 2000 (CD-ROM)

or at least, I wish there weren't. I'm sorry, but with the loss of Interplay and Stainless from the label, it would seem that the "true" Carmaggedon series of games has died. Anyone who's seen the movie or played the first two games will know what I'm talking about when I say that this game has lost the whole point of what TDR is all about. The joy that my friends and I have always gotten from these games has come from the pure unadulterated bliss of just instinctively plowing through masses of unassuming peds and heaping opponents cars into piles that make that 21 car rush-hour wreck on I-5 look like a shiny happy car dealership. Unfortunately, the games new creators apparently had a different idea in mind, as they have turned the third installment of Carmaggedon into a "quest" resembling more of a Tomb Raider on wheels. In the few actual races, aside from the fact that the timer is still there and now it's even harder to get any real time added to it (an effort by Xicat to get you to actually try to race?), they do still at least maintain a semblance of the originals. But the problem is that those races are so few and far between. For every 1 race, there are about 3 or 4 "intellectually challanging" missions that, especially towards the end of the game, just tend to become annoying. To say the least, the fun-factor of what was my favorite series of games has now been removed, and, even with the ped splattering intact, this game has basically been nuetered as a result. And speaking of the end, what was the deal with that?! Throughout the whole game, your given the impression that once you manage to bust out of the lower levels, you'll be allowed to break into those "high society" cities and wreak havoc on them. Sounds like fun, eh? Well guess again, once you break out of copland, apparently Mr. Max Damage grows a set of morals and a conscience, settles down with a wife and a kid, and becomes an advertising exec... or some other equally mundane fate. To say the least, I was "slightly dissapointed" when I very unexpectedly found myself reading credits as I was just getting geared up to smash suburbia!! ... Anyways, if you're looking to challenge your intelect with a series of overly complicated missions with the goal of completing your quest to become an upstanding member of the good citizens brigade, then by all means, have at it. But if you are like myself, and looking to Carmaggedon 3 to satisfy your craving for fast-paced instinctually driven carnage.... keep looking guys (and gals). Keep looking.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The horrible death of a previously outstanding series, December 22, 2002

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carmageddon 3 TDR 2000 (CD-ROM)

As a longtime fan of the Carmageddon series, I have been and remain quite disappointed with this third incarnation, no matter how hard I try to like it. Carmageddon has always been about running amuck on city streets, in construction zones, and through mountain communities, running over cows and men and grannies with stretchers, and pulverizing your opponents. Carmageddon is all about racing, "challenging" missions, and frustration. If you try to play the game as it is apparently designed to be played, you cannot possibly have any fun. You start out with a limited time and have to struggle to add any bonus time before your experience is aborted way too early. The map feature, which was quite good in Carmageddon 2, is cartoonish and aggravating. The powerups and surprise bonuses along the way aren't very impressive or extensive (although the designers unfortunately felt compelled to leave the silly Bouncy Bouncy feature in the game). The racing environments are nowhere near as extensive as I was used to, which is a further criticism I have of this game. The only new touch I really liked is the tendency of pedestrians to jump around on one leg after you put the other one out of commission; overall, though, running over pedestrians here is just not as much fun as it should be.

The fatal flaw here is the emphasis on objective missions. It takes so long to figure out the challenge race and somehow miraculously complete it that your disgust with the whole business overweighs any excitement you may have about finally getting a chance to race on a new track. It is hard enough to figure out what you are supposed to do, let alone do it in the minimal time allotted. Once you think you have it, another extra requirement pops up to dash your hopes; if you could save a race or challenge during the action, it would do much to help alleviate the problem. This game really betrays the wonderfully fun Carmageddon tradition and makes this a game quite unable to offer enough positives to outweigh the many negatives. The result is the death of a great gaming series.