

The arenas made popular by Destruction Derby also make a welcome appearance. Endurance league lives up to its name since you have to finish first on every one of the ten tracks.

As soon as you hit the pros nothing less than numero uno will do. While in the lower leagues you only have to finish second or third, points wise to progress. Besides there’s more than enough arcade mode challenges that allow you to indulge in such activities (especially “Chicken”). While this diminishes the fun somewhat it does make the game a lot more challenging and gives it a longer lifespan. This means lurking around a dodgy corner and nailing cars doesn’t work and you get zero points for the old favorite “drive around the track the wrong way and smashing into opponents head-on” tactic. ) the position you finish the race in is also crucial. While you still earn points by damaging the other cars ( destroying them, starting fires, spinning them around, smashing them into walls and each other etc. Of course, most of these must be unlocked by winning the leagues and if you were expecting to breeze through these like in Destruction Derby you’re in for a bit of a surprise.

Demolition Racer offers ten tracks, eight cars, five leagues and several arcade modes to demolition racing aficionados.
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The people over at Pitbull Syndicate seem to think that the world is ready for some more motor vehicular carnage and obviously paid close attention to what made the Destruction Derby series so popular. An updated sequel added some new options and features, but after Gran Turismo took over the racing scene it’s been a bit quiet on the crash ’em up market. For the ultimate in wrecking thrills there were also a few enclosed arenas where your only goal was to be the last man standing when the smoke and debris cleared. In fact, completing the race became secondary to seeing how many of your competitors you could take out before biting the dust yourself. As for your own player character, you were treated to their gurning face in a little webcam-style window in the corner as you played, which seems weirdly prescient now that videogame livestreaming is a thing.The original Destruction Derby carved a niche for itself in the crowded racing genre by allowing you to wreak havoc on the cars of your fellow racers.

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Meanwhile the crunching vehicle on vehicle impacts required to eliminate your opponents and win a ‘race’ showed off an impressive deformation system that often left your opponents grinding to a halt with a banana shaped chassis.Īnd those opponents were a motley crew of some of the most colourful characters in racing game history, including a rogue android in a futuristic Japanese coupe, a bloke in head to toe fetishwear driving a green Countach and pair of undertakers in a hearse called ‘The Stiff Shifter'. The dystopian environments were huge, varied and lavishly detailed automotive playgrounds, which ranged from a toxic chemical plant to a slippery ski resort. When all the fuss had died down, the big surprise was that Carmageddon was actually a fun, technically impressive driving game.
