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Carmageddon TDR 2000
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ired of being cut up by grannies in Rover Ascots and mini-cab drivers late for a pick-up from Hell? Vent your frustration in Carmageddon 10112000, a strong antidote to reality.
The aim of the game is to drive your way to freedom from a postapocalyptic prison of inner cities, disused dockyards and irradiated Australian oirtback landscapes. Complete a missions over nine of these fallout-scarred environments to leave the slum and the scum behind and start a better life in the idyllic white-walled community secured by and for the rich.
Advancing through the missions and landscapes can involve tasks like collecting pieces of a bomb, or simply winning races. But you can also move forward in the game by killing all the other psychotic drivers and pedestrians hell-bent on escape. Forget getting to the checkpoint on time: if you are the last vehicle still moving after all the head-on collisions and rear-end shunts, you win. Along the way you also get money for bashing into your opponents, which you can use to buy more vehicles.
There are 50 vehicles to choose from, including a host of cars, a tri-axle bonneted tractive unit, a front-end loading refuse vehicle, pick-ups (including one fitted out with a recovery crane), JCB-type machines and a huge mining dump truck. Oh yes—and a bath tub, on wheels with someone lying in it.
It's difficult to get enough money for the vehicle you might want, but it is possible to download a saved game file from the Internet which gives you access to all vehicles for instant kicks.
Although handling characteristics vary from vehicle to vehicle, they are not realistic. When did you last see a tractive unit do a loop-the-loop?
But this is to miss the point. The game is engineered for maximum fun, and it is fun—a huge amount of fun. Select the automatic gearbox and get bashing!
Vehicles disintegrate nicely, panels flying here and there, wheels spinning off and chassis bending or shearing in two, bleeding oil. You're dead to the World if it doesn't bring an evil smile to your face, or else in need of one of the weapons peppered around, like the Slaughter Mortar or Opponent Repulsificator—basically a big spring.
You can knock down traffic lights, damaging your vehicle in the process, and smash into the drone cars, buses and car transporters. Unfortunately these cars don't fail apart—the most you'll get from a head-on collision is them sounding their horn and switching on their hazards.
A replay facility lots you watch all the action as many times as you want, in incredible slow motion, and from no fewer than 12 different camera angles. You can also take screen grabs of your favourite moments with the game's built-in capture facility. Amazing!
Get too carried away too close to the cop cars and you'll find yourself having to contend with them as well. Oh well...
A controversial aspect of the game in its previous incarnation was the abil
ity to run over pedestrians and wheelspin in their blood as their intestines and dismembered limbs fell to earth. It earned the game an 18 certificate even after programmers turned red blood and screams into green gore and groans. Many wanted it banned. It wasn't, and this time around SCi has
written the zombie tack into the But it can only be a matter of before files are available on Internet to convert all the zombies Into humans again. Tut, tut. We approve of that surely?
Pedestrians—sorry, zombie., react differently. Some stand ground, some attack your vehicle Molotov cocktails and bits of pipr was sett defence. fflud), while 01 run away. Some of the animals are ticularly good at this, including thi mas, but you can catch them.
It certainly isn't like Mid Madness 2, where every pedestriai the gymnastic ability of a nine-yea Romanian on performance-enha drugs. You'll be able to get the zor in TDR2000 if you want to, and wat action replay.
If you don't get the job done pro first time, the zombies might themselves back on to the one leg have left and jump around, flailing arms. Show no mercy. Hunt monoped—sorry, monozombiedown. Extra credit is available for pensing with zombies in intere ways. A particularly satisfying exl the Billiard Bonus, which you can g using street furniture, traffic Ii boxes or anything else that happe be lying around to end the zon post-apocalyptic misery. Get ben that and find a Flame Thrower—e way, watch the replay.
The previous version Carmaggedon saw lots of people d aping "skins" for the pedestriar turn them into someone recognise Homer Simpson, for instance. The haven't quite got to work on this ve yet, but one web site does have a p whom you would most like to run m the game, one nominee being Mr Prescott. Now there's an idea.