If I mod the GOG version, and then just copy the game folder to my NAS and everyone pulls it down and thus has the 32 Player modded version will that allow the starting grids to all work? This will be on a single 24 port Gb switch and everyone in attendance will have modern machines. Are there certain maps I should take out of the rotation? I don't have a way to test until LAN day with that many people. I know some of the guys won't have much patience for a bunch of bugs in a game - they'll just say we should play something that doesn't crash. Most of the guys already have a copy of it on steam but the six player limitation was terrible. I'm going to purchase a copy of the GOG Carmageddon Max Damage even though I already purchased it on Steam so that I can share it for the LAN party. We cut our teeth on LAN parties with Carmageddon, Carmageddon 2, Carmageddon TDR2K! We LOVED all these games. Many of these issues can, of course, be dealt with by suitable updates, without which this flawed game is likely to flounder.Trent, I'm hosting a LAN party in July of 2018 with a bunch of old LAN party buds that have played together for years. Killing your opponents is doable as is finishing the race, but I would suggest you give up trying to kill all the pedestrians: your likely to die of frustrated boredom before you can finish. The car seems to have almost no traction and will slide around at the most inopportune moments. You have the usual accelerate and break on the shoulder buttons and the ability to pick up power-ups along the way, but you’re going to find this somewhat difficult. For a game whose aim is to sit back, shooting the sh*t while gleefully mowing down pedestrians and opponents, the car should be easy to control in fact it’s pretty much the reverse. The biggest problem with the game is the car's handling. The game would have been better served if the developers had gone for a more comic look, then the graphics short comings could have been turned into knowing irony. The first is the graphics, which are not as sharp as they should be. Occasionally they can get a dose of the stupids and block you in, ending in a situation where no one can move.įor all of its best intentions there are a couple of things which let the game down. So, for the most part you will be playing against AI drivers, whose one intent is to turn you into scrap metal. There is an online multiplay option, but for all the time of review play I was unable to get a game and even when there were games available it’s a ridiculously low number. Oddly, there is a massive zero where the local co-op play should be, which is a real shame as the chance to play against other real people is a little limiting. The second mode of play is the freeplay option where you can tailor activities to suit your own tastes. In career mode the game offers up sixty-three activities, which should be enough to keep most players happy. In career, games can be won in three ways, either you eliminate all the opposition, run down, or otherwise kill all the pedestrians on the map or actually finish the race, which will require you to do some of the former work just to get enough time to win.
So all that piffle aside, what is the game like? Well, on the plus side the environments are vast and open for you to roam across. The garage offers some limited customisation you can change the colour of your car as well as its rims and as you complete chapters enhancements become available. The game comes with three levels of difficulty. The default camera setting is chase and thankfully you can change this to in-car cam or bumper cam, both of which improve the game experience. For some strange reason you can change the colour of the blood between red green and blue. You can configure the HUD, although the default settings are just fine.
There are three configurations for the controls, but no way to assign actions to buttons, so once again a game which uses both sets of bumpers, making playing it on Vita remote play a remote possibility.
Partly funded by Kickstarter, the game updates a series which has been running since its original PC incarnation in 1997.įrom the main menu you can choose to play in career mode, in fact you are forced to play the first level of this before the game will unlock the freeplay and multiplayer options Ever watched Deathrace 2000 (the good one with David Carradine, not the watered down sequels) and wanted to join in? Well, thanks to Stainless Games's Carmageddon: Max Damage, you pretty much can.