#Video carmageddon series#

Instead, its controls are sluggish and clunky. Not only are none of the turns especially sharp, but if this was a good arcade-style racing game, with good controls, having such wide tracks would make it way too easy to take these turns.Įxcept that Carmageddon Max Damage isn’t a good arcade-style racing game, and it doesn’t have good controls. No, the thing that ruins Carmageddon Max Damage is it deeply flawed, sometimes dated, and borderline broken fundamental mechanics.įor starters, most of the tracks in Carmageddon Max Damage are so wide that it undermines any challenge they may have presented. I like dumb jokes and senseless violence as much as the next person. But if this was the only thing wrong with Carmageddon Max Damage, then I might’ve enjoyed this game. Especially given how the game also has such a low-brow, juvenile sense of humor. Now, you might be thinking that killing pedestrians makes Carmageddon Max Damage seem a bit immature. Not only can events be won if you kill them all - which is tricky given how there’s usual hundreds of these fools walking around - but you also earn more time and other points for every one you run over.

#Video carmageddon series#

You can also pick up cash, which you can use to repair your car’s damage on the fly or to flip your ride when you crash and land upside down.īut what has always set this series apart, and does so again with Carmageddon Max Damage, is that the tracks are also populated with pedestrians you can run over. And this is true whether the event is a straight multi-lap checkpoint race, or in such spin-off events as the ones where the checkpoints randomly appear around town, and the winner is the one who hits ten of them first.Ĭarmageddon Max Damage also populates its tracks with a variety of power-ups, which range from the typical (like speed boosts) to the unusual (like the one that tosses large anvils at your competition). But while you can win races by coming in first, obviously, you can also win them by literally destroying your competition. In it, you race through city streets and other urban locations in crazy-looking sports cars that look like they were customized by the cast of Mad Max: Fury Road. Like previous entries in this series, which started back in 1997, Carmageddon Max Damage is basically Need For Speed meets Twisted Metal Black. Which is how I feel after suffering through the combative, arcade-style racing game Carmageddon Max Damage ( PlayStation 4, Xbox One), a game so infuriating and fundamentally flawed that it’s nearly unplayable. You can also check out reviews of the latest in fiction and nonfiction.Some games are so bad that you don’t play them, you endure them. Still need more reading inspiration? Every month, Book World’s editors and critics share their favorite books that they’ve read recently. And if you’re looking forward to what’s still ahead, we rounded up some of the buzziest releases of the summer.

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