Carmageddon

by Aspyr

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• ASIN: B00001ZT3J
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,641 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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Carmageddon gives you accurate driving physics as you race through the 36 circuits and five race environments. Gain points for speed, racing style, and pedestrians. Ever heard of the Ten-Point Rule from the movie Death Race 2000? It's in effect here as you run down contestants, pedestrians, and farmyard animals. And, if you don't like the car you're racing, steal your opponent's vehicle.

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Carmageddon is a car-racing game - one where you get a thousand points for plowing down the guy waving the starting flag and you don't have to actually finish the race to win. Killing your opponents will suffice. You leave bloody tire tracks behind your screeching hot rod, fresh from the old woman who couldn't maneuver her walker fast enough to get out of the way. You plow a field of riot gear-laden cops. You detour through a crowded stadium or race in a mall.

The gore starts right from the get-go. The cursor you use to choose your driver, select options, and start the race appears as a blood-dripping, disembodied hand. And while Carmageddon relies on the time-honored drive-through-checkpoints-before-time-expires model, it awards you more time when you run down pedestrians, slam into other drivers, run over bonus barrels, or pull especially cunning moves (usually airborne, rotating flips off a makeshift jump).

You make repairs or recover from an overturn on the fly - other cars can't do that. Ram an opponent enough times and he's dead (thus out of the race). Kill all opponents and you win the race. Just watch out for the armored cop car; it's a beast, and very hard to damage.

As you cause carnage and complete tracks, you rise in rank, earn money to upgrade car parts, and encounter new tracks. Rise enough ranks and you can steal new cars from dead opponents. Carmageddon also features multiplayer games. Choose pure smash-each-other fun, see who can kill pedestrians first, or race through checkpoints.

As for longevity, Carmageddon is a quick high. It swallows you for a couple of weeks, plunging you into obsession, and then lets go. At a certain point the game becomes extremely repetitive. Kill, kill, kill. All work and no play... Another problem is the game's load speed. It's damn slow. Even after copying the entire game off the CD (347MB), loading tracks took way too long.

It goes without saying that Carmageddon is not a game for everyone. Small kids probably shouldn't even read this. And those fed up with the level of violence on TV will be offended. In truth, even after hours of solid play, we weren't tempted to actually kill anyone while driving, but the game definitely wouldn't make it past a V-chip.

However, Carmageddon is a well-designed game. We don't give marks for sheer gruesomeness alone. The game is plain fun to play. It's a port from the PC so there are a few bugs, and half the world has already played the game, grown tired of it, bought add-on packs, and grown tired of those. But it's a good port and brand new to us. To make it better, by the time you read this, Carmageddon should be supported by 3Dfx 3D cards (namely TechWorks' Power 3D). Those plasma-spurting Vesuvian corpses will be quite a sight. - Robert Capps

Good News: Gratuitously sick, addictive racing. Good sounds. Fun tracks. Terrific graphics.

Bad News: Car control is not the best. Play gets repetitive. Long load times.

Rating:3/4

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great 3D Action Racing Game, March 19, 2003

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MacMN (Richfield, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carmageddon (CD-ROM)

It is possible to get thru all the levels so you can pick any race or car you want but may take more than a day or two. You can get there faster by using the cheat codes. I love the Solid Granite Car effect, running down light poles and totallying out cop cars (major bonus points). Cheat codes are available at [...] if you want them. Halfwit Harry's car or the Pink Pulverizer are the easiest cars to drive. Carmageddon II is better but you need a 3D card to play it. Would like to have the full collection of this game!

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best car race of millinium, January 5, 2001

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vincevillani (tempe AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carmageddon (CD-ROM)

Best responsive control in the game feild ! trucks , municple vehichles, Tanks. On-demand repairs ! hidden tracks instant replay this game has it all if you can think it these cars can do it drive like the real thing an then some! Achieve realistic speeds of over 400 MPH :) must get this hidden gem !