![]() Do you complete the laps and win, kill every single pedestrian, or smash the living daylights out of all of your opponents? You do have another mode, where you have the kill the target pedestrian. Still, you get to smash the target with your vehicle of choice. There are a variety of motors you can unlock by wrecking the selected target before a race. You can get wrecked also along the way, but so long as you have the funding, you can continue playing. The time limit does seem irrelevant as you will never run out of time, due to the bonuses from multi kills. So the pressure to keep on top of your time limit and work hard to succeed is nowhere to be found. But given you may want to kill every single pedestrian in a race, the generous time you can accrue will be valuable. The little bugger scan be hard to find when you are down to the last dozen. Speaking of pedestrians, there just seems to be far to few on any map. Which is a shame, given to their low resolution, there could have been a lot more for some serious carnage. At least Stainless haven't held back, and you can eviscerate nuns and those that are wheelchair bound. Morals well and truly thrown by the wayside. and so are some of the names that pop up on screen. I will not be typing them up here, as the vulgarity may not be to everyones taste. It would be one thing if the art style was cool this, however, is not the case.īut needless to say, if you have a dirty, or open mind to filth, Carmageddon will most certainly appeal to you. The art style is ugly, uninspired, and it looks like it was slapped together by amateurs. How the game looks wouldn’t matter so much if the game played competently. But it seems like Carmageddon: Max Damage tries its darndest to hinder your racing ability. The cars are all slow for the most part, and acceleration is a tricky beast. Turning in the game is atrocious it isn’t responsive at all, and so your instinct is to push the left analog stick all the way to the left or right. The game, however, snaps to attention after about half a second of holding the stick, so your car will do an unrequested 180°. I called in my little brother to play the game for a match and to tell me his immediate thoughts. His first words were “this controls horribly”. Once you get used to it, it isn’t GAME BREAKING, but it remains annoying. There is no story in Carmageddon: Max Damage. It gives you no setup for why or how you can be mowing down all of these people. Granted, a game like this doesn’t really need a story. Ultimately, what this game boils down to is its “classic” mode. Wait no, you try to kill all of the other cars. ![]() Actually, scratch that, you try to kill all of the civilians. Ignore everything- you pick whatever you want to do and go for it. For me, this was borderline idiotic and genius. On one hand, who in their right mind would actually try to kill all of the civilians? It’d be much easier to do the other tasks. On the other hand, why the hell not try to kill all of the civilians? This game put me in a “screw it, I’ll try everything” kind of mood. And that, I believe, is where I actually had fun in this game.Īll of my complaints aside, I (in a sick sort of way) enjoyed the ridiculousness of Carmageddon: Max Damage. ![]() I realized how terrible the game was almost instantaneously. But dang it if there isn’t something maniacally enjoyable about getting a power up called “Mostly Armless” and then proceeding to sear off random civilians arms. Dang it if there isn’t something enjoyable about driving around in half a car. Dang it if I didn’t enjoy launching my opponents sky high for no apparent reason. Throughout my experience with this game, I kept pointing out the flaws of this game to myself. The load times are atrocious, the gameplay is not up to par, blah blah blah. But I also continued having “Haha WTF that was awesome” moments for a while there. While these were few and far between the more I played, they were definitely present. ![]() Therein lies my conundrum with this game. It is categorically, inherently, and objectively bad… but I kinda liked it. I don’t understand it, and I tried to explain it as best I could in this review. Should you play Carmageddon: Max Damage? No. Well, yes, if you’re willing to burn $39.99. If this game was $4.99, I’d tell everyone to buy it. It’s cheap and quick fun, and it should be priced that way. I would personally wait for a hefty sale on it. ![]()
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