So I found my old Carmageddon CD yesterday, and through DOSbox was able to get it running again. I was 12 when this came out. I played A LOT of this game. Now playing it again, I think it's still a good game.
Just being able to run over all of the pedestrians to win the race or take out the other opponents was a thrill. You could upgrade your ride. I don't think I really ever beat a race by racing anyone...
Anyone else hold the same nostalgia for this?
What was Carmageddon?
- A racing/carnage game inspired by Death Race 2000 (the movie)
- It was released in 1997 for DOS, then ported to Windows later, enhanced for 3Dfx
- 3 Ways to Win a Race: Run over all pedestrians, Destroy all Opponents, or Be First Across the Finish Line!
DOSbox - Standard VGA:
DOSbox - 3dfx:
Extras:
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I had way too much fun running little pedestrians over and finding places to jump my car. I actually have my CD laying around here somewhere.
That ball chain thing was the best power up. Also, I don't think I ever beat a race either.
I remember this game SO HARD.
Can we talk about the football stadium? It's like...what are all these people doing on the field? Who gives a fuck? Squish. Points.
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I played the hell out 2. Such a sweet game.
Why hasn't a game company done something similar these days with this style? Other than a graphical update, the gameplay is solid and should provide hours of fun!
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Yeah I always drove in there and tried to take out one whole team going as fast as I could down the line. You get so many points that way.
Carmageddon was truly a game that "gave you points for running people over".
There's also a newer, terrible one, right? 2000?
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I had always hoped they would redo THAT game. It was sorta GTA I/II with guns mounted to your car.
That sort of reminds me of a game called Quarantine. You were a badass taxi driver instead.
Great article in EDGE about Carmageddon here http://www.stainlessgames.com/news/go/75 (click the 'open pdf link at the bottom).
But...
What...
Sir, I posit that you are some kind of alien, and should be captured and dissected for further study.
But really, in Carmageddon it is impossible not to hit a pedestrian. And you get points for it. The numbers, they go up.
And there's just something classy about driving through a crowd, then popping your doors open to get more peds, and then getting EXTRA STYLE BONUS for it.
The physics for this game are way ahead of it's time, it's what I loved the most of it.
"BONUS POINTS FOR ARTISTIC IMPRESSION!" :^:
So. Good.
Carmageddon was such an absolute blast to play. "We're throwing you some extra points because you killed this guy in a particularly entertaining way" is something that more games should include.
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good times
Just make it for Wii and they'll be all over it like white on a Wii Wheel!
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I think Carmageddon and Carmageddon 2 are my favorites. I think TDR2000 was really bad.
I think I'm gonna capture video of some of the other races. I wish I could figure out how to get the 3dfx portion to work, that would give me higher resolutions.
I'm pretty sure I also remember finding some way to launch my car over a building, crash landing it into a gas station, and hitting a flamethrower or something to blow everything to hell. So awesome.
That powerup was awful. Because it was completely responsive to physics and heavier than most cars. Especially dickish on the part of the devs was the level where they place that powerup in a tunnel, then immediately after it, place the pinball powerup. The ball slowly starts bouncing, then quickly starts bouncing, then your car starts bouncing, then you fucking explode.
Fuck that was hard. Most people gave up at that point.
I loved that part. I thought it was hilarious.
I think I beat it once, then I didn't save or it crashed or something stupid happened. I know I had to do it again and had to give up.
Living in Mexico, it was impossible to get any new/cool PC games. But after successfully downloading the demo off my modem, I played it forever and ever, specially when I found out that if you edited some files (The whole game was pretty much programmed in hundreds of .txt files) you could make powerups give you huge time boosts, remove the demo time limit, and even drive the other cars that were in the demo.