This game was on everybody’s naughty list. And that’s why everyone wanted to play it. It’s not the best racing game, with floaty handling, and moon inspired physics, but it was amazing with it’s localized damage model, and the option to win a race not by racing fast, but destroying your opponents or even killing every pedestrian on the map (but who had the time and/or patience for that?)
If you had A Voodoo card this game would look even better, with full 3D acceleration.
Aah yes the Stunning C… Err I mean the Cunning Stunt bonus.
Loved Pinball mode.
Carmageddon was great, as was the first Destruction Derby. The graphics aged like milk but at the time…man what a game. Especially the (partly crazy) physics and damage model were impressive.
This was such a fun game. I remember “Bonus for Artistic Impression” depending on how you splattered the pedestrians with a launched object.
Great game, remastered for both Mobile and current PCs
I remember buying this on day one. I took it home and downloaded the patch I think directly from the publishers. By default, you were running over zombies that had green blood. The patch put the normal red-blooded humans back in. In Germany, I think all the pedestrians were replaced by robots.
I’ll never forget the old grannies and their Zimmer frames, “I was in the war!” I loved searching the map for the bonus that turned your vehicle to stone and then hunting down that bastard-armoured APC police tank! One of my favourite vehicles as it was so tough.
The cherry on the cake was when the 3Dfx patch arrived! Lovely stuff.
I still recall a fateful afternoon in my early teens where I spent around 6h playing Carmaggedon. Not the actual play session but the weird feeling I had afterwards while I was eating dinner. It felt like I was not supposed to be playing that game and “killing” all those people; I felt somewhat hollow…
Only to finish dinner and go back at it (👁 ͜ʖ👁)
My introduction to American football
Hahaha! Where you get the best multiplier.
I managed a zombie kill win once. I had to acquire Stella Stunner’s car first. There is also a way to reset the zombies on a map, which doesn’t reset the kill counter.
Many an after school afternoon was lost to this game. It was definitely time well spent.
