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It looks rusty, but there is some mindless fun to be had in Carmageddon: Max Damage for a while. It’s possible the developers were trying to replicate the retro style of the original, and the game would probably never have passed certification if it looked too realistic, but such dated graphics are unacceptable on modern hardware, even with the budget asking price.
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The improved performance comes at a cost to the visual fidelity, however: this is a game that looks like it belongs in the past, with low quality textures that make the environments look blasphemously bland, blocky character models and a level of fogging I don’t recall seeing since the PS2 era. Thankfully, Carmageddon: Max Damage isn’t plagued with the severe performance issues that made Reincarnation practically unplayable, but it does still suffer from inexplicably long loading times. Carmageddon: Max Damage fills the current void of combat racers, but faces the challenge of appealing to fans of the original and meeting the expectations of a modern audience.
Sometimes you want to break the rules and smash into your opponents, yet there aren’t many games that satisfy these destructive cravings anymore. However, not only is nostalgia in fashion right now, but with so many simulation games flooding the market lately, the racing genre has needed something that doesn’t take itself too seriously. What was shocking and revolutionary in 1997 isn’t necessarily the case in 2016: Grand Theft Auto V has already taken open world action games to new heights, and open world racing games are already starting to become stale this generation. Just as Independence Day Resurgence was a 20-year-late sequel that nobody asked for, you could argue that Carmageddon is no longer relevant in today’s market. Fans were eagerly anticipating its release, but Carmageddon Reincarnation was so poorly optimised that hardly anyone could play it – even on powerful PCs that were more than capable of running it.
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Carmageddon: Max Damage is essentially a port of Carmageddon Reincarnation originally released on PC in 2014 following a highly successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Nearly 20 years later, the series has made a fighting comeback on consoles with Carmageddon: Max Damage developed by original series creators Stainless Games.
The damage modelling was impressively intricate for the time, and the open world tracks were revolutionary in a racing game. It’s a shame, because Carmageddon had some genuinely revolutionary features beyond its gratuitous gore and puerile humour which were overlooked (you can read more about Carmageddon’s colourful history in our developer interview looking back at the series). Indeed, the series regularly appears in ‘top 10 most controversial games of all time’ list features for its graphic depictions of 3D pedestrian-pummelling violence that were genuinely shocking at a time when Grand Theft Auto was a tame-looking 2D game. When you think of Carmageddon, you automatically associate it with controversy.
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