Carmageddon TDR 2000

+ STRONG ⬤ Detailed map destruction, many little things to ram your car on and destroy, ⬤ Many different pedestrians with limps damage system ⬤ Huge Maps ⬤ Money Rewards, Upgrades and Many Different Cars to buy ⬤ Win by finishing the Time trial or Destroy your opponent ⬤ Bonus Time Clocks to collect ⬤ Easy to edit Car Textures - WEAK ⨀ Annoying Missions ⨀ Every race is a Time Trial + Destruction derby, No classic race ⨀ Music is bugged and plays only one truck ⨀ Fixable Crushes but you need to invest some time to fix them ⨀ Random unfixable Crushes at car selection ⨀ Bad camera in Missions, press F1 for regular camera, annoying if you play with gamepad ⨀ Time Limit is just enough to finish the trial, Recommended Difficulty Easy ⧇ PERSONAL ✪ Recommended only to people who want to invest extra time into it

I've never tried TDR 2000, so it's nice to experience an early 2000 game. This is the only Carmageddon game where your car doesn't feel like it's gliding on ice, but I don't really like the missions. So I only did a few free runs, or whatever it is called. The highlight of the game is when you see cars flying and crashing around you.

The physics are a bit floaty but thats understandable given the age of the game. Menus are quite annoying to navigate and whenever you save the "save successful" sign covers some menu options so you cant click them untill it hides. Lovers of good music rejoice! This game has one (1) track that plays both in the menus and during races and its not terribly good either! The best part about this are the powerups, there are fun weapons, fun speedups, fun troll pickups like hovercar and hot rod that mess up your steering and best of all silly NPC modifiers that can make them fat, tiny, give them weapons and so on. The racers / cars you get to choose from are also neatly designed and driving each one feels completely different. All in all it was fun for like an hour for me but a serious fan of the genre could get a lot more out of it. Also the difficulty selecting at the start of the new game is almost pointless since picking the right car has the most effect on difficulty.

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- still as fun as it was 20 years ago, games like this (Quake2 for instance) were more focus on game-play than just visuals and sounds, - car designs and skin are great, - missions are the weak spot, not very fun, even boring, no actual briefing ( we often don't know where is what and the best course to be in time to reach the target), need to improve and do them multiple times to be on time, - map is pretty useless, as all cars have the same icon, genius idea ! - for a racing game, it's weird this is not about racing at all ! Who care to finish 1st, just destroy everything and everyone around you is enough, that's unfortunate, you could race for fun but there is not enough carrot to push you to do it, better to grab the stick and punish the others, who doesn't care much too, as they always go for you wherever you are. - physics are very... approximate and some cars are barely drivable like the wheel, rough terrain doesn't help, I guess it was ok back then, but now, a little bit of smoothing would have been welcome, as cars usually spin for no good reason, especially when we're short on time, on some joint between parts of terrain, - there are a few stability issues (one crash pretty clean, another one nasty game window stay opened and mouse cursor did not respond at all on window, impossible to kill trd2k process and have to reboot !) - after completing the game, and as there is no actual racing, game become a lot less fun despite having all the vehicles for free including police cars and non drivable ones like the tank