Rather a shame as it was quite a cool effect. The only slight niggle I have from playing in the first level is that thedemo featured a rickety wooden bridge in the desert area which moved up anddown as you drove across it quite realistically. You’ve heard my comments on the graphics – if you have the spec. Still, I’vebroken the bank by upgrading my PC to the spec at the bottom of this reviewand it does play damn well. When I first heard about this installment being in development it wassaid that economies would be made so it would run well on low-end machines,but given the minimum specs above that clearly hasn’t happened. When I played Carmageddon 2 upon releaseI’d only just upgraded my PC and it was straining a little then – just afterI’d got the first game to run like the wind. You’ve seen the above system requirements, but the box does staterecommendations of a Pentium III (266Mhz) or an AMD K7/Athlon (500Mhz)and I can well believe it. There’s 50 totallydestructible vehicles, over 48 missions and races to complete, 9 3D single-player environmentsto explore and destroy and 7 multi-player game types in 9 custom maps. ![]() ![]() However, all you need to know is that the plot is more of the same. There’s a pointless storyline about the third millennium beginning and a plague of mutantsevolving from the result of dropping nuclear bombs on a town where all the human scumballswere shoved – sounding rather like the ‘New York’ in Escape From New York – and you’rein the middle needing to escape. ![]() You don’t get the same amount of time for each personthough as in previous games, but the extra seconds depend on how well you despatch ofthem, such as punting them far and wide when you hit them.Īnd most importantly, since this version contains no video footage then the BBFC don’tneed to be involved and I was pleased to see, upon installation, that it blessed me withthe ‘English Blood Version’. Instead, just running through checkpointsisn’t the half of it – you need to smash your opponents up and gain extra time byrunning over the pedestrians. Dom Robinson reviews Carmageddon TDR 2000for PC CD-ROMDistributed by SCi Limited Ĭarmageddon TDR 2000has been two years in the making and continues the popular series of the driving gamewhere gentlemenly conduct never wins the race.
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