Here Comes a Carmageddon Reboot, Probably [UPDATED]

Update:VG247 is reporting that Square Enix is actually, in fact, not producing this Carmageddon reboot, as was originally reported around the web. Squeenix had reportedly sold off the rights some time ago to the franchise, and Stainless Games is busy making other titles based on licensed IPs (like Magic: The Gathering and Risk).

VG247 claims that some mysterious independent benefactor is behind this reboot, and that the game will definitely be announced on June 1st. However, it also will not make an appearance at E3. At the very least, the independent factor does bode well for the quality of this reboot's metal soundtrack. Squeenix probably would have just loaded it up with Stone Sour songs or something. Uck. UCK.

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To you, I pose a question: which of the many long-dormant car combat franchises floating around in the vacuum of video game intellectual property limbo would you most like to see revived? If you said Twisted Metal, clearly you haven't been paying attention of late, as David Jaffe and company are already working on that update. If you said Road Rash, I'm right there with you, but it seems like EA is destined to just keep making promises for that one it will never, ever keep. If you said Vigilante 8, you apparently forgot about this awful XBLA remake from 2008, and also seriously? Vigilante 8? Really? If you said WWE Crush Hour, you're obviously just trolling at this point, and I hate you.

== TEASER == That pretty much just leaves Stainless Games' Carmageddon, the biblically-violent vehicular homicide franchise that originated on the PC back in 1997, and through various sequels and ports, also appeared on the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, and Mac. With the proposed fourth game in the series canceled back in 2005, neither hide nor hair of the series has been seen since... until now.

Over at Carmageddon.com--which apparently is something that exists--a countdown timer has begun counting down to something. Between the site being registered to Square Enix Europe (the current owner of original Carmageddon publisher, SCi), the appearance of the distinctive skull-and-crossbones on the countdown page, and the fact that the website is called friggin' Carmageddon.com, it seems altogether safe to assume that this is a countdown to some kind of announcement of a Carmageddon reboot/sequel/remake--or reseqmake, if you're into that whole brevity thing.

The countdown is set to expire at 5am on June 1st (Eastern Standard Time), which puts this presumed announcement a full week ahead of E3. That should give everyone a solid week's worth of time to argue tirelessly about what metal band's music should comprise the bulk of the soundtrack, before the deluge of everything else at E3 swallows this announcement whole. I'm going with Watain, personally.

Awesome, had so much fun with this game back in the 90s

I like how my friend always got pissed off at me for running over the dogs. Mow down the people but spare the poor doggies! He's a member of PETA now. 

I loved the original game, and the 2nd one, too.  I hope the possible remake is remotely as good as those two were.

Nevermind, i fail.

Me want.

  The countdown is set to expire at 5am on June 1st (Eastern Standard Time)

July, no?

Do want! Only if it has full gore though. I want it to give the new MK a run for its money!

Oh my

CANNOT WAIT. C1 and C2 were probably my favorite games ever. I used to make addon cars for C2, and spent many a year wasting my life killing peds.

Fan-feckin'-tastic!

OH MY GOD. I want this to happen so hard. Carmageddon 2 was so much fun. Bring back Mike Hunt.

Sweet. I've been thinking about how they should revive it for years now. I realize it'll probably suck.

Man this brings back some great memories.  There are two things I remember vividly about playing these games. Driving on to a football field while a game was going on, and getting the lightning power up and turning into a mobile tesla coil.

I am irrationally excited about this.  Carmageddon 2 was amazing and broken.

a racing game where i didn't necessarily have to drive better than everyone else, which was great.. coz i couldn't  =) 

Carmageddon 1 = super fun.
Carmageddon 2 = super fun.

@alex: reseqmake!? You can do better than that! A requel, perhaps? What if it is a prequel to the original Carmageddon? A prequoot? A brequel!?

A Reba!?

 

aww, no V8 love? the original was one of my favorite n64 games to bust out when there was four people over

Loved the first 2, also getting the pinball mode powerup then targeting things with the springs. 3rd Carmageddon was okay just something missing off it from being as fun as the first 2.

the first carmageddon on pc was awesome!

Unggghhh yessssssssssssssss.

@gkl

  The countdown is set to expire at 5am on June 1st (Eastern Standard Time)

July, no?

No

I had some fond memories of Carmageddon 1.  Never played any of the sequels, but for some reason running over civilians for points felt good back then even before GTA was a thing.  In fact, first time playing GTA3 at a friends house, I basically went into "Carmageddon Mode" in just driving on the sidewalks.

The real question is what direction are they going to go with their "relationship" with Death Race 2000.  I recall the first game having some cars that looked similar to those in the original movie (I think it even started based on the movie) but then kind of had to move a bit away from that look.

i got a cd of carmageddon somewhere , and yeah , id like a new one!

carmageddon and twisted metal both making a return , this is cool

Probably!

I like how my friend always got pissed off at me for running over the dogs. Mow down the people but spare the poor doggies! He's a member of PETA now. 

YES! Me and my brother had so many fun times playing that game over LAN! Oh the nostalgia...

@Metal_Mills: why would you want fulgore in your car combat games?

No love for Interstate '76 eh? That's the one there boys.

I think all I ever played was the demo on one map with one car, but I had a lot of fun with that game. Of course, I was like 10. Still, very interested to see what this is.

Oh...my...god...YES!

Interstate '76 was the only car combat game that was fun and classy.

Are you listening Groove?

Indeed, the Carmageddon PC games were a blast.  I hope the new one does them justice.

WAY TOO FUCKING HYPED

Let me just say fuuuuuuuck yessssssss

i've just soiled myself.

We need a new Interstate 76, it's time to stop messing around. 

Put me on the excited list.  Carmageddon was awesome.

"mysterious independent benefactor"

"mysterious independent benefactor"

For some reason that makes me think of some guy in a trenchcoat having meetings at midnight in parking garages. 

I'm pretty excited, though that Stainless aren't doing this one is a bit worrying. I hope the new team understands what made the Carmageddon games so great, so we don't end up with yet another Twisted Metal clone.

A new Interstate '76 would be great. It was a different kind of car combat game compared to the titles listed, it actually had a story and leaned more towards a simulation almost.
Alright, now I'm going to go play Interstate '76 again,  available from GOG.

Hell yeah! Carmageddon was the shit! Fond memories of just driving around and crushing dudes in the football stadium that you could access.

AWESOME!!!

Only my all time favourite car racing/combat game. Nothing's been able to come close. I hope they do not try to update it for the modern day. Just take the first game and give me updated graphics/sound and I'm sold. There's nothing else on the market like it, and Carmageddon nailed it the first time. The second was good, and the 3rd had some good mixed in with retarded ass mission stages. If it didn't have those stages it'd have been great too.

Haha! Could be cool.