Marcus of Pixel Pacas plays Carmageddon 2 and finds it incredibly gory, but ultimately lacking in the gameplay department.
VVV: "Those who lapped up Carmageddon Reincarnation on Steam Early Access are in for a tremendous treat: Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now, the smash-hit 1998 sequel to the original game in the notorious series where pounding pedestrians for points was a viable way to win a race, has had a fresh release on Steam, and is free-to-download for anyone who purchased Carmageddon Reincarnation on release. Otherwise, it will set you back £5.99."
By Shawn Knight
The year was 1998. It was Christmas time and I had just received my very first computer, an AMD K6-2 running at 333 MHz. Little did I know, from that day forward, my life would be changed forever.
One of the first such changes was my focus shift from console games to PC games. Just a few months after owning my computer, I added a Diamond Monster II 3D graphics card based on the 3dfx Voodoo 2 chipset. It was an absolute screamer and took my gaming experience to a whole new level.
We all know how the story played out for 3dfx, the graphics company that dominated the 3d graphics industry for several years in the late 90s.
Seeing Quake for the first time with the 3Dfx Glide patch was just amazing! POD also blew me away at the time.
Ahhh Memories!
I'm jealous! I remember that back then you needed 3 video cards to achieve 2-way SLI. That kind of setup would require 2 identical Voodoo cards a dedicated 2D card (which had to be of good quality, or it would become a bottleneck for the Voodoo chips performance).
Very expensive and completely out of my reach in those days. I had to make do with an ATI Rage (can't remember the specific model) for a number of years, and then switched to a Geforce 2.
I was never able to buy one back then and I was so jealous that my buddy had it, it was an amazing difference, huge improvements. :-)
These were the days! The birth of graphics whores was upon us. Two 3dfx cards!? Monster fx?! Sadly, it's all I cared about at the time. They were great old games though. Consoles? Pfff!
"That’s right, Carmageddon: Reincarnation has smashed right through the $400,000 milestone and will now be successfully funded, so all of you backers will get all of those tasty, tasty items!
In response to the news Neil ‘nobby’ Barnden decided to make a quick video thanking everyone on the great success of the Kickstarter campaign."
not a single kickstarter I've heard of has been worth supporting.
Until this one. hands are shaking.
indeed, which makes it hard to know which one to want to fund.
Carmageddon though is one of the perpetual underdog games that it too awesome to let the IP sleep. It won't likely pull a big publisher that won't do awful things to it and hopefully ends up a better game than the Twisted Metal reboot (in terms of Polish).
But even more than that is the games multi-player and leaderboards potential that I to this day don't understand why it isn't already on Xbox 360.
Stainless, we're all counting on you guys to make an incredible game. We know you can, and I can't wait!
Great to see they have smashed through the pledge target and are now trying for the stretch target of $600,000. I pledged and I am not sure which I am more excited for.
Whilst I can't wait to see a 21st century version of Carmageddon, I am looking forward to revisiting the original Carmageddon + Splat pack that is going to be "fixed" and given away free to all pledges about $25 (as well as being sold on GOG).
