“Carnage Accumulator mode” speaks for itself
I don’t have a soft spot forCarmageddon, and I probably never will, but I’m weirdly into the idea of the gory racing series melding withWreckfest, a game with good bones.
With a free Carmageddon Tournament update out today on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox,Wreckfestis adding Bleak City, Devil’s Canyon, and the Eagle R “special” car.
Oh, and yeah — there are lots of gray-skinned ghouls and even cows to mercilessly plow into. Thankfully, the art direction here is borrowing from the originalCarmageddon, so the misty green explosions of blood and bones are a bit less tasteless given their crude look.
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These two new “censored” death-race tracks support free-roaming (how many bodies — err, points — can you wrack up in three minutes?), while “Bleak City also has a reverse race layout as well as a dedicated demolition arena,”according to Bugbear.
This match-up feels like the best of both worlds, in that you don’t necessarily need to be obsessed withWreckfestorCarmageddonto get something out of their crossover.
For anyone who needs it, here’s some racing gameplay courtesy ofSmooth Driving:
Am I really this much of a sucker for low-fi graphics? Do they really give me that warm-and-fuzzy feeling? Yes. Double yes. Again, I don’t even likeCarmageddonthat much in theory or execution and still I feel a tinge of nostalgia watching this footage. Imagine if they could somehow get aBeetle Adventure Racingtie-in sorted. If only.
I could see a lot of potential in doling out more of these cross-series hijinks as a way to rope in new players and keepWreckfestrelevant for a long time.
