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Play an adrenaline pumping bunch of game modes against AI opponents, or online against the rest of the Carmafan masses! Progress your Career through the Carma ranks or have a MultiPlayer romp in a Car Crusher, Fox 'n' Hounds (always been Stainless MP game session favourite!), Death Race or Checkpoint Stampede event - all frenetic fun, featuring Carmageddon’s trademark over-the-top violence, crazy PowerUps and non-stop laughs…
The Car Is The Star! Carmageddon: Max Damage features a wide and varied range of cool, crazy, custom killing machines; each with its own highly distinctive “character”. Carmageddon cars are specifically built for the job in hand – wrecking opponents and killing peds! Nearly 20 years ago the original Carmageddon invented the whole concept of videogame physics and real-time damaging of cars and scenery, and so it’s obviously been our responsibility to bring this technology BANG up-to-date with a brand new state of the art car damage (and repair) system. Crush, bend, twist, and completely mangle your opponents’ and your own car – smash parts off, or split it in two; the original game was all about wrecking motors and pummelling pedestrians, and today we take this to a whole new level! Power, Armour, and Offensive upgrades are available for your car, along with other customising options, allowing you to personalise the killing capabilities of your rides.
A host of old favourites from the original Carmageddon make a comeback, along with some all-new faces. Only ever seen before as low resolution mugshots, now you get to see them from head to toe (well, head to knees in the case of Screwie) in full HD 3D glory – usually as they smash through their windscreen and hurtle past (or INTO) yours!
The new environments are amalgamations of the best bits from the numerous chunks of landscape that we all loved to tear around in Carmageddon. “Bleak City”, "Devil's Canyon", “Dusty Trails”, “MagNuChem” and "Snowy" levels all return in updated forms, with their memorable landmark features such as the Loop ’de’ Loop, acid pits and Football Stadium. Everything is reassuringly surreal; hell, we’ve even managed to incorporate a giant food mixer into a level!
Once again, the game features a varied mix of adult pedestrians of all ages, shapes, persuasions and species. Classic pedestrians are back, such as old lady on a Zimmer frame and old man with his stick, with their famous cry “I was in the war!”, plus bikini babes and swimming trunk hunks, fat bastards, and herds of cows in improbable locations. Joining them are some new faces – including cyclists, wheelchair users and peds on mobility scooters. Carmageddon is an equal opportunities ped slaughterfest!
PowerUps are back and this time they’re even funnier, surrealier, hurtier, and messier than ever! Lots of the classic PUps return in super-enhanced form, such as Repulsificators, Kangaroos & Solid Granites. Then we have all new PUps like "Pelvic Thrust" and a variety under the heading “Tossers”! Combine PUps to create hilarious combo results like Groovin’ Helium Filled Peds, or Peds without legs at a Temporary Rapture!
Leaderboards. Challenge yourself to reach the top of the leaderboard using skill or brute force!
Achievements. A suitably warped array of mad Feats and Exploits will garner you the rewards that every gamer dreams of.
Challenges: Do the most stupid things, collect meaningless trinkets and waste hours of your life in the pursuit of ultimately pointless goals!
Smelly Bushes: We’ve hidden a variety of these specially fragrant Easter Eggs throughout the game to keep you busy and entertained!
CarMODgeddon: The whole game is MODdable for your MODding pleasure!
Posted on: February 12, 2020
idbeholdME
Verified ownerGames: 732 Reviews: 68
Good at first glance.
Everything seems to be in place for a faithful Carmageddon remake. Nice looking graphics, new maps, great looking cars, more power-ups. Seems like a dream come true. That is until you start looking a little more in-depth at the damage system. It unfortunately works on the basis of "Tag, you're it". If you haven't touched an opponent within like 5 seconds, you are basically indestructible. You can ram straight into buildings at the speed of sound and only come out with a slightly damage engine. Now do the same with the only difference of an opponent gently touching you along the way to the building wall and you will be absolutely obliterated and annihilated because you are tagged and receive massively increased damage from everything. Ram a wall at 60 km/h? Nothing happens. Ram a wall at 60 km/h shortly after an opponent touched you in any way? Your entire front will explode upon the slightest contact until ~5 seconds pass. It only leads to constantly swapping periods of near immortality when just cruising around and horribly unfun ridiculous damage spikes coming out of nowhere when you are fighting opponents. The perfectly good damage system from Carmageddon 2 was tossed away for no reason. There you could easily die to opponents as well as your bad driving. It was consistent and you could get the "feel" for it. Here, it is just 2 extremes constantly swapping with each other with no in-between. You are either completely unharmed or wrecked the next second. Also, it tries too hard to be like Carma 1 without taking into account the improvements made in Carma 2. Most notably, the ability to repair yourself even when you are fully destroyed. When you remove the danger of being eliminated from a race, it honestly becomes boring after a while. The system of "stealing" the cars is also very unnecessary and random and they should have just made it so you can buy the cars you wrecked after the race like in Carma 2. 7/10. The horrible damage system eats 3 points.
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