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| From: Interplay Productions
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $1.99
New (4) Used (10) from $1.00
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 15838
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Genre: Car and Truck Racing and Flying Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 2
UPC: 040421004591
EAN: 0040421004591
ASIN: B00001QEP6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | The popular (and slightly notorious) racing game with a twist. Like the old movie Death Race 2000, Carmageddon allows the drivers to accumulate points not merely by skill shown on one of the 36 race tracks, but by the amount (and type) of pedestrians the driver is able to run over while racing. | | • | Members of the public, you now have one minute to reach Minimum Safe Distance." Truly, that's one of the greatest opening lines of dialogue ever recorded for a racing game. | | • | Carmageddon touches that particular collective nerve that fuses the wholesome popularity of the All-American Racing Game with the homicidal singularity of the 70s cult film [Death Race 2000] into an onscreen experience that can only be compared to the kind of automotive mayhem that a five-year-old American male wreaks with his Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars. | | • | The object: Win the race. The motive: Greed. The Rules: None whatsoever. Clear all the specified race checkpoints, destroy all the opposing racecars, or vehicularly murder every last pedestrian bystander within a three-mile radius. It doesn't matter; nobody cares... with the possible minor exception of the pedestrians. |
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Product Description
Carmageddon uses a ranking system wherein players start at number 99 and move up, painfully and violently, in rank via a series of six-car races through more than 36 circuits - through the circuits, under them, and in some cases quite a considerable number of feet over them. The game is playable as a cockpit-view racer, but the third-person, follow-cam view is a vastly better way to witness the action, which ranges from the dead-on realistic to the absolutely ridiculous and back again without warning. From the go-flag, the competing cars are at each other (1,000 bonus points to whomever manages to cream the flag-waver on the way out), and for the first few moments the gameplay is usually little more than a dense column of outlandishly-designed 3-D vehicles (hopped-up hearses, low-rider Carz That Go Boom, banana-yellow stylized vehicular sharks, and nitro-burnin' dragsters, in addition to some 20 other types) all clashing and sparking and shrieking for pole position (the designers obviously channeled a lot of time into finding really unpleasant, metallic scraping sounds, some of which will put the sensitive gamer's teeth on edge with barely-formed thoughts of the dentist). Every car here can hit the century mark within a few seconds off the line, and the problems begin immediately.
Amazon.com Product Description
The popular (and slightly notorious) racing game with a twist. Like the old movie Death Race 2000, Carmageddon allows the drivers to accumulate points not merely by skill shown on one of the 36 race tracks, but by the amount (and type) of pedestrians the driver is able to run over while racing.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Once upon a time when games were creative.... February 7, 2006
Boz (USA)
A game came out for Dos call Carmageddon. Who could have thought that racing could be so fun? Mad Max and Die-Anna and you driving everywhere in a well detailed and varied enviroment, splashing the Ped(eststrian)s.Running up and down so many streets allowing for so many possibilities for ambush, for smashups and goodhearted mayhem.
And for those veteran players, remember the excitement when everyone was waiting for a promised 3dfx patch?
Carm2 was also well done in the same spirit, but unfortunatly Die-Anna was gone and Max was now polygons rather then a flesh and blood actor in a cutscene role.
The most sick, disturbing game... ever! March 16, 2005
Azpod (Madison, WI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
GTA can't touch this! Easily the game with the largest body count ever! If you're the type of sick bastard who'd enjoy squealing your tires on someone's internal organs, this game is for you! I first played it almost 10 years ago and I still occasionally pull out its old, dusty box and enjoy some unholy mayhem. Nothing made before or since has such realistic, yet enjoyable, driving physics. Nothing made before or since is as good of a way to blow off some steam!
I blame this game fo failing high school! It's the BEST !!! August 8, 2003
Loose Tongue (Sydney/Brisbane NSW/QLD Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this game. It's an underated arcade classic. And judging by the lack of reviews of it on this site, underappreciated. Maybe it was due to bad press. I know here in Australia they bad mouthed this on current affairs shows saying it encourage violence and road rage. Either that had a bipolar effect on the sales, I don't know, high or low??? Anyway this game made me fail high school because I kept on playing till the wee hours of the morning. Pure and simple - its a basic simple arcade classic with a simple concept and state of the art graphics. I love it, as without a doubt, it my favourite game of all time. Please make a PS2 version!
Excellent, but too hard near the end March 12, 2000
Tim E. (Winston Salem, NC USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Carmageddon is an excellent display of software writing. There is tremendous attention to detail, everywhere from the twisting of metal on cars that you are running into, to the splatter of guts as you run over a pedestrian. It is perhaps the bloodiest game ever made because it mixes the reality of driving a car with the freedom of being able to do whatever you want when you are behind the wheel. If you want to hit an old lady with a walker at 100 mph while honking your horn to alert her so that she can cry out in fear with the realization of her impending doom--you have carte blanche my good man. It is an excellent catharsis, and I greatly recommend it. My only beef is with the third level of play. I can beat the first two levels but the time limits on the third level are too short to really have any fun. Other than that you will surely enjoy many hours of gory delight.
 If you feel homicidal... February 12, 2000
Shadowfire (College Park, MD)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
...you should consult a psychiatrist. Carmageddon is perhaps the closest game to the ones the anti-violence groups decry. To say that it has questionable content is a gross understatement. There is blood, gore, and you get points for squashing people with your car. The language is vulgar and caustic. If you play this game to "blow off your steam" and you imagine your boss, or professor in place of one of the poor victims, I hope you don't live too close to me.However, if you play this game for the fun factor of high-risk driving rather than murderous instincts, you will discover a very potent racing game. The cars, parts, and other options are numerous and the objectives require great precision and accuracy. Try this game out if there is no one around who may be offended by the profanity your computer will spew into the air.
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