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They're all made up cars mind you, no licensed Porsches or Lamborghinis here, but the designs are pretty cool. In fact I think it looks pretty good for 1997, with the cars deforming as they take damage and the Prat Cam showing what you think about that. The two games are all about finding the fun in flattening pedestrians and causing mayhem, but this is a little more sophisticated graphically. It surprised me to learn that the game predates Grand Theft Auto by a few months, because I figured it must've been inspired by it.
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Though I got better with practice, and I eventually switched over to my Xbox controller and started handbreak turning and wheelspinning all over the place. It definitely felt like a 'driving aids: off' situation, but I don't stray into the deep end of racing games often so I'm not sure. I'd believe you if you told me they were good for the time, and better than expected for a game like this, but it seemed to be take an unusual amount of effort to get the car travelling the way I wanted it to. I wish I could say whether the driving physics are any good, but I don't honestly know. You can spend half an hour or more in each level just running people over as long as you're getting more time back than you're wasting, so it can become a test of endurance, to see how many you can get before you get sick of it and finish off the last few laps/cars instead. By the time I was exploring off the track and taking my time to eradicate all life wherever I went I was jumping multiple ranks in one race! Trouble is that if you get lured into hunting down the civilians it becomes a tedious collect 'em up. In fact it wasn't until I stopped trying so hard to be first and slowed down to hit a few pedestrians that I had any success at all. And it is kind of in that ballpark, except I severely underestimated how much freedom the game gives you to screw around and entertain yourself instead of focusing on winning. I'm not entirely sure what I expected from Carmageddon, but I guess I was thinking it was something like Destruction Derby except with less emphasis on wrecking cars and more on flattening bystanders. Max's inside view also has a big blade running across the windscreen though, which isn't necessarily what you want when you're driving. It's was bit of a surprise to me to learn that the car has a proper dashboard, and more so to learn that Max and Die's cars have a different look. Though I did find the cockpit view button, which has made it a bit easier to bullseye these folks up on the floor. I figured I should give Die Anna a go before turning it off and it turns out that I can't tell the difference between how they play at all. So the graphics may potentially be a little prettier than they were back in the day, but I wouldn't bother clicking the screenshots for a better view because they'll all be 640x480 resolution or less.
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I'll be playing the Carmageddon Max Pack from GOG, all packaged up to run on modern PCs with nGlide pretending I've got a 3dfx card. I've had enough zombies lately thanks, no more zombies. Or run zombies over if you're playing the censored version with the green blood, which I'm hopefully not.
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Plus I'm sure this is the one with a picture of a bloke in the top left of the screen that makes faces when you run people over. I'm also expecting to be driving a red car with spikes running down the middle.
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I don't remember much about this besides what I can pull from my fuzzy memories of old magazines, but I expect it to be dissimilar. In fact looking back through the archives it seems like the last one was Super Mario Kart all the way back in 2013. It feels like it's been ages since I've had a racing game on the site. This week on Super Adventures you can look forward to several words on the subject of PlayStation-era vehicular carnage racing game Carmageddon! Or is that supposed to be CarmaGeddoN? The oversized letters are throwing me off.