![]() You can fit your car with spikes, blades, flame-throwers and massive springs that allow you to leap into the air and flatten anyone below you. There’s a mod that makes them explode, another that makes them move in slow motion. There’s a vacuum that draws them towards your bonnet (or hood, for our readers in the US), or giant springs that literally punch them into the air. This is achieved in an increasingly mental variety of ways, from simply mowing them down to equipping mods and weapons that, for example, render them blind or inert, or cause their heads to explode as you drive past them. A standard race can be won in three ways: cross the finish line first, wreck all the other cars, or murder every ped in the stage. The Carmageddon event is a vehicular tournament that takes place in Bleak City, and sees a group of psychotic lunatics thrashing it out for the top spot in a series of high-speed clashes in which pedestrians (here just called “peds”) are used as walking bags of bloody points. ![]() Essentially a re-release of PC-only Kickstarter Carmageddon: Reincarnation, Max Damage hits consoles with 40% more content and slightly improved visuals, and brings with it the deliberately inflammatory humour and Daily Mail-baiting mechanics for which the series has been known since its inception back in 1997. If the needled ever spiked above “gutter”, someone probably got sacked. ![]() It’s almost as if developers Stainless Games had some kind of meter going during the making of Carmageddon to indicate its current level of taste and decency. Which is why I should be forgiven for enjoying Carmageddon: Max Damage, a driving game concerned with very little other than senseless, over-the-top violence. I like to boot up a shooter or an RPG or an open world action game and go nuts, blasting and killing and swearing and generally blowing shit up. If I’m dead honest, I get the best results from violence, which is probably because I’m such a pussycat in real life. If games didn’t have the ability to chill me out after a tough spell, I wouldn’t bother. Nothing is better than unwinding at the end of a long day with a spot of blasting in Call of Duty or Destiny, a bit of sightseeing with Uncharted or an hour or so of banter on Rocket League. For a lot of people, myself included, playing games is a form of catharsis.
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