Carmageddon

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Name: Carmageddon Year: 1997 Publisher: SCi Games Developer: Stainless Games Platform: PC Genre: Action Total rating: 74.6% - rated 504 times rate now: please log in to rate Submitter: Res Added: May 22 2004 Warez status: Abandonware

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Author: Rydian Date: Jan 29 2005 - 19:04 Score: 55 points

When you first start up the game, if you're horrified by the cursor being a disembodied hand that periodically spurts blood onto the screen, then this isn't the game for you.

Graphics
Fairly standard for a game of it's time runing in DOS. Just enough polygons to make it look like a real city, but not so many that your computer's strained. The textures seem a little lacking in color depth, though. Resolution on them's a big issue as well. In the sequal, the pedestrians are polygonal and you can knock off arms and heads and such. Not here, they're flat sprites, and one touch and they're dead. You can increase the draw distance and such, but it's still not enough to see what's coming up on you after you reach speeds in excess of 150 MPH.

Sound
Never really noticed any background music, probably because I'm not using te CD version. Don't really miss it though, the wrenching sound of metal on metal mixed with blood spurts and screams creates it's own music. They use voice samples for everything, but a far too limited number. After rolling over four times and hearing the same "oh shit!" each time, it gets annoying. Thank god they have screams for males and females you run over. Once again, after about half an hour you've heard them all.

Gameplay
Oh yes, the fun part. Driving around and shtuff. Three ways to win a race, finish all the laps in first place. Probably the easiest and most boring. Kill all the opposing cars. Medium difficulty, and not boring at all. Kill every single person in the city. Hardest, gets boring after a while. Some of the cars are hard to kill because you can go up against dump trucks and the like, very heavy and hard to slam into a wall enough. There's one weapon against pedestrians, the electro-bastard ray. None against other cars. And the lack of any traffic makes it boring as well. There's parked cars and cops that chase you, but the streets are pretty much deserted.

Replayability
When you go up enough places in rank starting from 99th, you can enter new races. There's lots of races, like 30 or so. The thing is they're all just different courses around the same freaking five places. After you kill enough cars and earn enough money (credits) you can start to buy off cars that you kill and use them, so it's a bit more added fun. Each car has good points, like a slicing metel thing on the front for people, or big wheels for egtting around, but some aren't so fast, or are to low to the ground to even get up on a sidewalk. I'd recommend just trying to have as much fun with this game as possible instead of trying to be the best racer.

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By SirFrozen - Aug 09 2009 - 19:46 And there you go...one of the most played, acclaimed, disliked, hated and buyed games of all times. It set a new standard of violence and a landmark for virtual violence(eg GTA). Although it was banned in many countries, for those who had a vision of reality and...mental  stability, it was a blow in the head. And...it is a legend for the mid-twentyish guys like me. One hell of a game.A must have.GET IT NOW!

By DOTT - May 25 2009 - 14:38 I dislike the drug-colours   But the game is awesome. I have played it and played it and played it and played it ... But the last three "missions" are crashing at my pc

By Pamishelizzz - Apr 20 2009 - 14:06 I like this game, though I didn't like the second part of it or the 2000 part, the original is the best

By Legendary - Apr 14 2009 - 20:39 Using Dosbox to try and run this will indeed make it lag. Either crack up the cycles, and if that doesn't work, use one of your old PCs if you're so eager to run this game. After all, that's what these games are designed for: running on old hardware.

By Patryck - Mar 09 2009 - 02:56 Try to play on Win98 It looks much cool and fast

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