Advertising Blurbs
titusgames.com:
The year is 2026 and fatal toxins have polluted the earth’s atmosphere. Those humans lucky enough to get to the ‘Climate Emulation Centers’ in time, live in fear of the souls left on the surface-the “undead”-. The World Government has recruited drivers to deal with this problem. It’s called ‘The Carmageddon™’, a death race in which drivers’ race against each other for the ultimate prize: a new life in the sun-drenched beaches of the off-world colonies. As well as a way of dealing with the “undead”, it provides entertainment for the dwindling human population. You take on this challenge as Max Damage, a psychotic, cold-blooded killing machine. There is no second place – just life or death. Drive to survive and let nothing and no one get in your way.
Carmageddon™… a crash course in survival !!!
- Training level to prepare beginners for the destruction !!!
- Over 20 slaughtermobiles.
- 30 fully explorable tracks.
- Power-ups and weapons.
- Hidden bonus areas to be discovered.
- Extreme multi-player gaming !!!
Contributed by Jeanne  (58434) on Sep 17, 2007.
Back of Box - N64 (US):
The year is 2026 and fatal toxins have polluted the earth's atmosphere. Those humans lucky enough to get to the "Climate Emulation Centers" in time live in fear of the souls left on the surface -- mutated, blood thirsty-zombies -- the "undead."
The World government has recruited drivers to deal with this problem. The solution is "The Carmageddon" -- a death race in which drivers race against each other for the ultimate prize: a new life on the sun-drenched beaches of the off-world colonies. As well as a way of dealing with the zombies, it provides entertainment for the dwindling human population. You take on this challenge as Max Damage, a psychotic, cold-blooded racing machine. There is no second place. Drive to survive and let nothing and no one get in your way.
- 30+ levels, including new mission levels exclusive to the N64.
- 3 different 2-player game modes to thrash out including: Driven to Destruction, Checkout Stampede, and Eliminator.
- A feast of hidden power-ups.
- 23 Slaughtermobiles (even an ice cream van) including 3 hidden vehicles.
- Bonus pick-ups to upgrade your car's engine or armor throughout the game.
- Training Level to prepare beginners for the havoc and destruction ahead.
Contributed by Joshua J. Slone (4625) on May 30, 2007.
PC Gamer magazine Vol 4. No. 7 - July 1997, pp.42-43:
THE CARMAGEDDON XV5:520 HORSES UNDER THE HOOD.
EVEN MORE PEDESTRIANS ON TOP.
"Impact Car of the Year." - Car & Pedestrian Magazine
"Best road-kill compacter in its class." - J.D. Cower & Associates
"It slices, it dices, it wipes clean in a jiffy." - Consumer Contorts
TRUE 3D, 360 DEGREE GRAPHICS ENGINE FEATURES USER-DEFINABLE CAMERA ANGLES, INSTANT REPLAY AND SVGA OPTIONS
25 DIFFERENT VEHICLES, EACH FEATURING ACCURATE DRIVING PHYSICS AND REALISTIC COLLISION DAMAGE
36 RACE TRACKS AND 5 DIFFERENT RACE ENVIRONMENTS FEATURE COMPLETE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
NETWORK PLAY INCLUDES 7 MODES AND 3 UNIQUE TRACKS
PEDESTRIANS = POINTS!
Some race for glory. Some for money. Then there are those who drive for the sheer ecstasy of crunching bones against their bumper.
Introducing Carmageddon. The racing game that separates the men from the grease spots on the road.
Drive whatever you want, wherever you want, over whoever you want. You make the rules.
ARRIVING JULY 1997!
Available on PC CD-ROM
Test drive the demo at www.interplay.com
Stomach-churning realism ... crash, crumple, burn, skid, and jump in glorious 3D!
Shift-on-the-fly 4-wheel drive means you'll never miss the big beach party again.
Power-assisted 4-wheel disc brakes, for maneuvering through pile-ups... or causing them.
High-tensile-strength steel body panels provide the durability you need, impact after impact.
CARMAGEDDON
THE RACING GAME FOR THE CHEMICALLY IMBALANCED
Product Information Number 198
Contributed by Pseudo_Intellectual (33533) on Jan 11, 2006.
www.nintendo.com – Nintendo 64:
The notorious crash-and-burn caper power-slides onto everyone's favorite home console.
After Carmageddon PC publisher Interplay came down with an unexpected case of the willies, French publisher Titus snapped up rights to bring out the N64 version. After being in development longer than The Phantom Menace, Carmageddon finally hits the N64.
In many ways your basic checkpoint-to-checkpoint arcade racer, Carmageddon PC raised hackles worldwide with the gratuitous featurette of having drivers run down pedestrians. For Carmageddon 64, developer Software Creations dialed back a tad on the mayhem. Now, the objects of your acceleration are swarms of lumbering zombies. Makes sense, too: What live human in his/her right mind wouldn't head for the hills at the sight of 4,000 pounds of thundering chrome?
The wordy intro recounts how, in 2026, freakishly high solar activity zombified the vast majority of humanity. Condemned to a world without cable TV, the sentient survirors while away the postapocalyptic tedium by mowing down the undead hordes and, whenever they get a chance, T-boning rival drivers. The authorities look benignly upon such fun and games, even rewarding particularly impressive harvests with one-way tickets to off-world colonies.
Despite the pop-eyed premise (which borrows heavily from '70s B-movie classics Death Race 2000 and Mad Max), Carmageddon plays far differently from your typical nail-the-A-Button racer. To squish as many zombies as possible, you'll find yourself backing up more often than a rookie outfielder trying to catch Mark McGwire's yard jobs.
The Pak boasts 10 characters rampaging through 37 levels in more than a score of vehicles. Power-ups include the Replusificator and Helium-Filled Zombies.
Extremely sharp corners, narrow tunnels and cliff-face roads without guardrails all put a premium on handling. Compounding your problems are the TNT canisters that litter the tracks. Even though the controls are extremely tight, the brake button plays a bigger part here than in just about any racer we've seen since NASCAR 2000.
Carmageddon offers three versus modes. In Eliminator, you compete to harvest a zombie quota. Obliterating your rival is the objective of Driven to Destruction, while the winner of Checkpoint Stampede is the first to clear all a course's checkpoints in any order. The 10 multiplayer arenas include a junkyard, a quarry, an amusement park and a snowy mountain.
One of the most controversial games of its time, Carmageddon is beginning to shows its age, most notably in the murky palette. The lack of an on-screen map makes it too easy to get lost, while figuring out how to use the power-ups is just too darn complicated. On the plus side, first-rate steering controls and the sensational premise should rope in a flock of mature gamers.
Contributed by Evil Ryu (31266) on Aug 15, 2005.
Back of box - Game Boy Color:
Unknown Source:
The most realistic driving game in the world - ever!
Pit your wits and wheels against 25 maniac drivers over 36 formidable race circuits in your quest to become the King of Carnage and the Prince of the Pile-up!
- Stomach-churning realism ... crash, crumple, burn, skid and jump in glorious 3d!
- Total freedom to explore every circuit in all its detail for hidden bonuses.
- Exchange credits on the move for automatic damage repair or better features.
- Collide with people you know in the frantic Multi-player modes.
Carmageddon ... it's hell on the streets!
Contributed by robotriot (6363) on Nov 02, 1999.
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