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And now in fanboi mode: Carmaggedon to return! +

Wednesday, August 03, 2011 posted by Rev. Dimmer in Pinch-Me! Play-Me! Reaping-Grimly Travel Wuv

No, not the silly LA closed freeway crap, the quintessential drive car fast / kill peds for points game!

Especially cool news: the original developers are back in the saddle, so forget the bad taste Carma 3 left in your mouth. And it’s not going to take “Forever” or suck like “Duke Nukem”, which does suck “Forever”.

PC version isn’t confirmed yet (whaaaa?) so I won’t start in with asking about a Mac version just yet. Since Carma. 1 was designed and developed on the Mac, and Carma 2. was released for it there must be some hope…

/drooling fanboy mode disengaged.

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Posted by Tapestry of Passion
08/04 01:54 PM

There seems to be a definate game nostaliga thing going on. The originator (to my mind) of the car combat genre Twisted Metal (circa ‘95) will be out at the beginning of October which should be fun to revisit. Carmaggedon came out around ‘97 I think. Car combat was the IT genre for a while…

Posted by Tapestry of Passion
08/04 01:55 PM

I beleive it has now been officially titled “Carmaggedon Reincarnation”

Posted by Tapestry of Passion
08/04 01:59 PM

I played a demo of Twisted Metal and developer SCE has recreated the same look and physics properties of the original but now with online multiplayer and other benefit of 15 years of game development.

Posted by Rev. Dimmer
08/06 12:32 AM

The Wiki on Carma agrees with you on the date for the first game being 1997, with Twisted Metal by two years. (I first played TW as the :Black version on PS2.

However, Twisted Metal was (at least originally) a vehicle vs. vehicle game, where Carmageddon placed racing and splattering innocents as equally fun things to do. The game was so “horrid” the UK version had to replace the pedestrians with “zombies” and change the blood colour from red to grey.

At this point, both games have been overshadowed by GTA type games, which, while fun, just ain’t the same. TM and Carma will need to be special to out-do the competition.

May they both turn out to have been worth waiting for!

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