Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now

Follow-up to Carmageddon, continuing the vehicular mayhem. Insanely over the top "racing" game where you drive around large open levels and get points for winning the race....or taking out opponents, and people, and cows, and elephants. With a huge spring shooting out of your vehicle, amongst other things.

Overview

Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now is a racing game, where you can beat most levels in three ways. Race, kill every living thing, or destroy all your opponents.

Developed Stainless Games, and published Sales Curve Interactive, it comes for both PC and MAC. The game features several different levels, which have different laps in different races. Levels are unlocked in sets, where you have three races followed by a mission. This must be solved to advance to the next set.

Racing, or killing?

In Carmageddon 2 there are as stated three ways to beat a normal level.

Racing: Every race has a set of checkpoints you must race through in order to finish the level. Number of laps depends on the level. Time is usually scarse in the beginning, and it is hard to beat a race without running over pedestriants, or crashing into your opponents.
Kill Every Living Thing: Wipe out all the pedestrians and animals on the level. There are usually about a 1000 pedestrians on each level, which makes this approach somewhat hard.

Destroy Every Opponent: To win this way, every opponent must be totaled. Some cars are easier to waste, while some need a lot of work. Once a car has been totaled, it can also be bought after the race. This is the only way to get new cars.

Races usually turn out to be a mix of these. Luckily, you need not decide what kind of race you want to run at the beginning, you simply chose to do what you want. Trying to finish the race by checkpoints often turns into a killing spree.

Cars

This was one of the few games at the time which contained demolishable cars. Not only having a health system, they also got deformed, bent and crashed realisticly. You can actually bend cars almost double, and slice it in half. The latter was fatal, but if you where airborne when the car was sliced, you could repair it before you hit the ground.

You can repair cars in game, and also "recover" to a safe spot. This costs money, which you can also use to upgrade cars. This carries over from car to car.

There are many different cars in the game, from normal race cars to a bulldozer. There is even a grounded Stuka plane available.

Controversy

Like the first Carmageddon game, this got criticized for its level of violence. This led it to be censored in some countries. Pedestrians was switched to zombies, red blood became green slime, and animals was removed. You can also remove animals from the game in the options for the game.
"Blood patches" was released online, which made it possible for people with cencored versions to un-cencor it.

This is a bloody game.

Modding

The game has seen a lot of new cars made by modders, as well as skins, maps and other mods.
The Spray Shop and WASTED! are two such sites.

Music

Carmageddon 2 features music from the popular heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Some of the tracks included in the game are Man on the Edge, Aces High, Be Quick Or Be Dead, and The Trooper. In addition to Iron Maiden Carmageddon 2 also contained a few edited instrumentals tracks from Sentience's album "An Eye For An Eye".

PC Requirements

Windows 95/98/Me/XP;
Pentium 166 (Min.), Pentium 200 (Rec.);
4x CD-ROM Drive;
16MB RAM (Min.), 32MB (Rec.);
DirectX 6.0 compatible 2MB graphics card (Min.);
DirectX 6.0 compatible sound card;
200MB free hard drive space;
Mouse & Keyboard.

Game Name	Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
Platform(s)	PC Mac
Publisher(s)	Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd. Sold Out Sales & Marketing Ltd. Virgin Games, Inc.
Developer(s)	Stainless Games Ltd.
Genres	Add a new genre Driving/Racing Vehicular Combat
Themes	Add a new theme Comedy Crime Post-Apocalyptic
Original US Release	Nov. 30, 1998 need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	know the real date?
Aliases	Carmageddon 2

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