Carmageddon

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Name: Carmageddon Year: 1997 Publisher: SCi Games Developer: Stainless Games Platform: PC Genre: Action Total rating: 74.6% - rated 483 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 Nanaki_Xii - Jul 02 2006 - 10:12 Wasn't that great when it came out, still isn't as great, it's fun for awhile but I just find it dreadfully boring.

By Rob223 - Jul 01 2006 - 21:33 I must be the only person here who bought this game. IT ROCKS! It's an 18 and i had it when I was 9!

By Eyesofwar - Jun 19 2006 - 18:46 Nice game very bloody and finally found it.

By Baldarov - Jun 05 2006 - 05:20 In regards to the getting the HIRES graphics part to work, it states in the readme.txt file that you need 24 megs of extended memory and VESA compliance for this to work. Scitech's Display Doctor seems to allow my pc to support VESA modes but I can not get more than 16 megs of xms in Windows XP for any of my Dos games. Even when set to AUTO it will not show more than 16 megs. Anyone know of a way to bump this up some? DOSBOX is not a solution as I'm running this on a P3 700. Can't use a 3dfx wrapper either as my 3d card doesn't seem to like them.

By Morgue13_2 - Jun 01 2006 - 18:32 I adore this game! It's so much fun! What I find amusing about the AI is, when you're not even moving, and a pedestrian walks into your car, and Explodes on contact!!! ^_^.

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