For the uninitiated, TDR is a racing game, with added dollops of ultra-violence. As in the old games, you can win races by: a finishing first; b destroying all the other cars in the race; or c running over all the zombies that are wandering around in the middle of the road. That's right. The box version you're going to buy is inhabited by zombies and green blood.
If you must, then you can download a patch from the Internet and change the zombies back to pedestrians and watch the old crimson gush around the screen.
We repeat, if you must. That's the theory anyway. The truth of the matter is that once you've got past the first two races there's no way you can finish a race in the allotted time without earning extra time by wasting other drivers. But that's not all. After listening to criticisms last time around, the developers have added a storyline of sorts , which means that missions alternate with straight races.
To progress, sorry, to escape from the twisted futuristic nightmare of TDR, you have to complete simple tasks such as collecting parts of a bomb, destroying buildings and keeping clear of reconditioned WWII bombers keen on lobbing bombs on you. It helps to add variety to the gameplay, but some of the tasks are downright tedious and others are frustrating beyond belief. Funnily enough, we were due to review this game a couple of issues ago. In fact I spent the best part of a week playing through the 'review' code before being told that it wasn't actually reviewable after all.
Big changes were going to happen apparently, which would completely alter the score I was going to give the game. Big changes haven't really happened, although the graphics are smoother, faster and generally more polished. The cars degrade excellently, with doors and bonnets flying off left, right and centre, and zombies splatting in half in a moist and satisfying way.
That's not to say the engine is amazing. Far from it. TDR looks, at best, above average, and unless you take in the subtle nuances you'd be forgiven for proclaiming that it looks just like Carmageddon 2. Which it doesn't in any shape or form. Memories are just hazy old things. The way the game plays hasn't really changed that much either, although the handling of the vehicles is much, much better.
Ultimately, it just feels like a new, improved Carmageddon , although to expect more from a sequel these days is like hoping for a Coventry away win at Old Trafford. And then there's the humour. Or as we prefer to call it, the humour.
Now we're not ones to sit on racial stereotypes, but the developers of TDR are Australian, where the funniest exports can be found in Earls Court wearing corks around their necks and smashing bottles over women's heads. If that's your regular haunt on a Saturday night then you'll find the smatterings of adolescence go down well with a bottle of Hooch and a raw sausage.
During development, the first Carmageddon game had human beings and cows to run over, with red blood. Once the media furore and certification refusal started up, it was decided that a censored version was to be released instead. Many changes were made: The pedestrian sprites were heavily redrawn as zombies and zombie cows, the blood was changed from red to green, the sound effects screams, moos etc.
This was enough to allow the game to be released in several countries, but some countries like Germany wanted still more censorship. For them, the pedestrian sprites were redrawn completely, becoming robots, and the red blood was changed to black "oil".
These three versions have become known as:. For Carmageddon II , which version of the game you have can be identified from the box-art and the CD. A small box on the top-right of the CD cover shows four letters: The first two are the region release, the second two the version. The Blood version would end "BL". Patches are either available as a regular.
On the Carmageddon Splat Pack disc, the patch files are not even zipped, just in regular folders. The user simply extracts the files into the correct folders, replacing some of the existing game files. German versions may require a specific German Blood patch.
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