Carmageddon Max Pack

Racing games always have a few things in common: The best graphics, fast cars modeled after real life, and a track or road where, if you drive off it, you are penalized in some way. In Carmageddon, the graphics weren't the best, even at the time of release. Cars are modeled more toward concept cars meet demolition derby. You have a track, but there is no penalty for driving off. You could even win the race by just sitting at the starting line and waiting. How could that be? Well you'd wait and demolish all the other cars as they finished laps. If there are no more cars you're the winner! This is a racing game that rewards those who think outside the track. You can buy new cars, each with certain traits, as you race your way to the end. I have to say there is a certain satisfaction in mowing down endless pedestrians on your quest to destroy all cars. Yes you can race, like a normal game, and finish first. You don't have to destroy other cars or go homicidal on innocent bystanders, but why would you do that? This game is about good ol' fashion winning, and I'm not talking about your Grandpa. I mean push the other kids out the sandbox and kick over all their toys makes YOU the winner ol' fashion. So why the hell are you still reading this review? Carmageddon is starting. Get out there knock over some innocents and show everyone who's the king of racing.

The game that became Carmageddon started out as "3D Destruction Derby", a banger racing sim prototyped by Stainless Software. This was signed by SCi in 1995, but the banger-racing angle was soon dropped and for a while the game was to use the Mad Max license. This fell through, and was replaced by the Death Race 2000 license, as a sequel to the original film was at that time planned (it eventually emerged as a comic book).[2] This introduced the running-over of pedestrians into the game. When this license also fell through, SCi and Stainless took the decision to proceed with the game anyway, creating their own IP. The name "Carmageddon" was coined, and development proceeded with the designers allowed unusually free rein with regard to the content of the game. With that said this is pure insta-buy!

I first played this great stuff at my age of 12 and I was very amazed. Why? Because I had never seen a driving/car game before. I tried several old-school softwares concerned with racing, however, they were very boring to me. But Carmageddon meant revolution, at least for me. This was the first 3D racing game in which you shouldn't have had to go circuits and keep the rules of driving competitions. Furthermore, you could kill whoever you want - with your vehicle. Although I'm not a psychopath, I really enjoyed to crash innocent football players or streetwalkers. On the other hand, I understood the main goal of Carmageddon: you have to make as many car as possible get wrecked and win the 'race' by destroying everyone and don't let the wreck you totally. It was very revolting experience after Need for Speed where you could not even crash your car if you collapsed into anything. And the former driving 'simulators' or arcade racing stuffs were so linear. In spite of these earlier car games Carmagedden gave you huge freedom and lots of fun. However there have been several products which wanted to beat and copy Carmageddon (like Crashday) but I think it and its second sequel Carpocalpyse Now are still the king of 'freelancer' arcade car games. If you haven't tried it then, it is time now! And of course thanks to GOG that it has released Carma at last!

been playing since the original pc game. one of my biggest irritations in life is that my new pcs wont play my old games... thanx to the team for updating it to new devices.