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[nenjin]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stainlessgames/carmageddon-reincarnation?ref=live



Oh dear, here we go again.

Funded Goal: $400,000

Current Funded Amount: $597,961

Days remaining: ZERO

What to say about Carmageddon? Well, for starters, it was an unapologetically violent racing game, where killing pedestrians and other racers with your war car while doing laps around the city was more important to winning than what placed you finished in. The faster you're going, the more people you hit at once, the crazier and more exotic way you maim, cripple and kill, the more you win. Crude? Yes. Kind of disturbing? Very yes. Pathologically fun? Absolutely. It spawned a sequel which was decent iirc, and then it faded into obscurity.

The game was actually in the middle of getting a re-boot about a year ago, but apparently it's caught Kickstarter fever. The rewards are pretty meh, and even poking fun at the whole idea of it. Still, a racing game with Carmageddon's sensibilities (or lack thereof) in 2013 is something I've been wishing for.

[buckets]

Oh man, this game dominated my childhood.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

If only I had 10,000 dollars.

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[Levi]

Heh, I don't think I'll be funding it, but I'm glad to see its being done.  I had a ton of fun with Carmageddon as a kid. 

[nenjin]

I remember doing burnouts in piles of corpses would get you bloody tire marks that went on for miles and miles. I was actually kind of creeped out by the realism of people bouncing off the hood of your car in GTA4...so part of me is curious what kind of gore they'll be going for. So over the top you don't really take it serious, or more realistic with full rag dolls and all that.

[Cthulhu]

It said they have full ragdoll and physics-based power-ups, there's an implied "grantie car" powerup, maybe making your car really really really dense?

[nenjin]

Oh good. Carmageddon actually had really good handling for its days, which made all the difference when you were flipping your car over crowds of people and what not.

[Scelly9]

I love their video.
"The pope tried to have our game banned, we are extremely proud of that achievement"

[Virtz]

I'm curious how they'll go about the actual car destruction physics. In 2 they had like highly deformable plus being able to dynamically tear apart (like you can see at one moment in their vid). I don't think I've seen any other game go for that level of dynamic destruction. Most have used the okish GTA3 model where you have like 1 other state for each detachable car part rather than actual deformity. I guess mostly because the deformable stuff tends to look a bit glitchy (like if the car roof gets bent over the driver and passangers). But I'd still love to see something of that level of detail.

[Sordid]

Oh yeah, the car destruction was superb in C2. The only thing that bothered me was how easy it was to cut your car in half on those indestructible edges of windows.

[Darkmere]

Anyone remember the powerup you got (I think it was "suicidal pedestrians") that made every person on the map swarm and dry hump your car?

I laughed for HOURS.

[LoSboccacc]

Oh good. Carmageddon actually had really good handling for its days, which made all the difference when you were flipping your car over crowds of people and what not.

True that. It was one of the few arcadey titles with actual 3d terrain, free to roam and decent suspension model for cars.

[alexandertnt]

Anyone remember the powerup you got (I think it was "suicidal pedestrians") that made every person on the map swarm and dry hump your car?

I laughed for HOURS.

Yes. Best childhood memories ever.

This game serves as an excellent example of how video games dont corrupt children. How many new drivers do you see attaching giant mechanical springs onto their car to shoot at random pedestrians? Exactly.

[postal83]

AWESOME!  Yeah I used to play the crap out of this game.  It really was badass for its time.  The handling, vehicle deformation, ragdoll physics, huge maps with plenty of things to find.  (Carma2).

[Sordid]

This game serves as an excellent example of how video games dont corrupt children. How many new drivers do you see attaching giant mechanical springs onto their car to shoot at random pedestrians? Exactly.

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