I've seen this mentioned too, but carmageddon.com is still owned by Square Enix Europe according to a WHOIS search, so I'm not sure what to think.
This worries me intensely. If they can completely and royaly **** up the franchise that made their goddamn company (i.e. FF13) then what they could possibly do to a title obtained from a smaller developer is too horrible to contemplate
It's difficult to say. Square Enix have been supposedly taking a hands-off approach on some titles, and exerting their influence on others. Bear in mind that Square Enix are the owners of it because of the SCi->Eidos->Square corporate buyouts a while back. I guess the concern is still relevant in 2011 regardless of what companies are involved though, because of seemingly everything going multi-platform, mass-market and non-risk these days in the games industry. What that could possibly mean for a new Carmageddon game is difficult to guess at. Return of the green-blooded, censor-friendly zombies, I wonder?
quite possibly zombies. from what i remmber it wasnt really possible to win the race/level by driving quickly and going through checkpoints, i always ran out of time without the running over and hitting things... the cars all had massive oversteer, which didnt help... but the damage models where awsome
Just spotted this thread! I loved Carmageddon 2 and this has got me intrigued, looking a tthat website right now it has the timer on 06-05-12-38 so let's just say we've all got 6 years, 5 months, 12 days and 38 minutes to wait! Lol, it's gonna be another Duke Nukem Forever! Mark my words haha.
I remember as a youngster and after a particularly long session on Carmageddon 2 with the Splat Pack I was riding shotgun with my dad around the glorious paved streets of London town and I found myself really, seriously wondering why people weren't just crashing into each other. In my young mind I just thought 'it wouldn't be so bad - it might even be fun'. I remember thinking how stupid that idea was but it took a while to shake, so vivid. Awesome games..
Oh yes!! I have a solid Granite tuffy, how I longed for a DX10/11 pinball bouncing, cow mowing, splat packing mayhem... WIN!!
Because the fourth item decreases every second, the third item every minute, the second item every hour and the first item every day ?
Holy F-ing Jesus!!! On the subject of the running people over, who actually completed each level by racing? I dont think I ever completed one lap, this may or may not be related to the reasons I dont drive a car.
I've wondered why there wasn't a game to Jason Stathams "Death Race" movie.... Well the movie looked like a Game anyway...