Carmageddon TDR 2000

It is much different than the previous entries by Stainless, and on its own I really like it. You have to actually pay attention to the timer, and although it's very strict, going up only to 4 min, this keeps on your toes and puts up a challenge as you scour the map in search of bonuses or race for the checkpoints, along wrecking the opponents. The game is varied with plenty of bizarre vehicles and locations, nice graphics and atmosphere. There is a greater focus on missions compared to C2 and I found them to be a nice change of pace. My major complains are two: The pedestrians are not as satisfying to run over as the other titles and are very hard to kill. They give only 2 seconds on your timer and without a flamethrower or zapper its very difficult to increase. Not to mention they can literally destroy your car... The greatest and most infuriating problem in this game for me are the many physics glitches that can ruin your race in unpredictable ways. I had many instances where the car just blew up seemingly at random, and after spending up to 30min collecting upgrades and credits you can imagine how bad can it be.

I personally could not get behind it but I'll admit the introduction was actually super sick! Not for my personally, but then again I have never played any of the other games in the series.

It usually crashes at launch, has boring gameplay, the models and graphics are bad, the sound effects and soundtrack are mediocre, and the racing maps are poorly designed. Avoid it.

... and this is a huge turd.

Loved this series back in the day, but this is way too janky for me to really enjoy now no matter my nostalgia. Perhaps modern games like Mad Max have ruined me. The steering is pretty bad in this game and the graphics are terrible even for the time it came out.