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The story of Carmageddon is based on the 1975 cult classic Movie Death Race 2000 Starring Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine. Taking place in the (then future) year of 2000, a contest was held to race and pick up points by hitting pedestrians with their cars. The cars in the movie were also fitted with weapons such as Tommy Guns and Blades that extended over the length of the car body. Death Race 2000 is a cult action film directed by Paul Bartel in 1975. ... Sylvester Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. ... David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine on December 8, 1936 in Hollywood, California) is an American actor. ... The Thompson submachine gun, also known as the Tommy gun, was an American submachine gun (SMG) that became infamous during the Prohibition era. ...

This also spawned a short lived comic book of the same name. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

History

The game that became Carmageddon started out as "3D Destruction Derby", a banger-racing (stock-car) sim prototyped by Stainless . This was signed by SCi in 1995, but the banger-racing angle was soon dropped and for a while the game was to use the Mad Max license. This fell through, and was replaced by the Death Race 2020 license, as a sequel to the original film was at that time planned. This introduced the running-over of pedestrians into the game. Stainless Games is a game development studio that develops downloadable games for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox 360s Xbox Live Arcade. ... SCI may stand for: Safari Club International Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer Sanmina-SCI, an EMS company Scalable Coherent Interconnect Science (as in comp sci or bio sci) Science Citation Index Sensitive Compartmented Information Sequential Circuits Inc. ...

When this license also fell through, SCi and Stainless took the decision to proceed with the game anyway, without a license. The name 'Carmageddon' was coined, and development proceeded with the designers allowed unusually free reign with regard to the content of the game. SCI may stand for: Safari Club International Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer Sanmina-SCI, an EMS company Scalable Coherent Interconnect Science (as in comp sci or bio sci) Science Citation Index Sensitive Compartmented Information Sequential Circuits Inc. ... Stainless Games is a game development studio that develops downloadable games for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox 360s Xbox Live Arcade. ...

Description

In Carmageddon, the player races a vehicle against a number of other computer controlled competitors in various settings, including city, mine and industrial areas . The player has a certain amount of time to complete each race, but more time may be gained by going through checkpoints, collecting bonuses, damaging the competitors' cars or by running over pedestrians.

Races are completed by either completing the course as you would a normal racing game, wasting all other racers, or running over all pedestrians on the level before anyone else.

In many countries (including Germany and, for a short time, the UK), the game, when released, contained zombies or robots instead of people, as running over the undead was considered more acceptable by their respective ratings boards. Unofficial "blood patches" were rapidly released by members of the community to replace the zombie graphics and sound with the more gory versions. An official patch followed, once SCi won a high-court case against the BBFC, causing the ban to be lifted. A group of actors portraying zombies in a film A zombie is an animated human body devoid of a soul. ... ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ... Undead is a collective name for mythological beings that are deceased yet behave as if alive. ... The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is the organisation responsible for film classification (see Motion picture rating systems and History of British Film Certificates) within the United Kingdom. ...

In some countries, the game was banned completely, including France and Brazil^{[citation needed]}. In Australia the game was passed completely uncut with a MA15+ rating^[1].

The game was notable for its realistic and ground-breaking physics and for its in-game movie making features. It was also one of the earliest examples of go-anywhere 3D driving games, and may have influenced other later games including Driver and Grand Theft Auto III. Driver: You Are the Wheelman, better known as Driver, is a 1999 video game developed by Reflections Interactive, who had earlier hits with Destruction Derby on the early years of the PlayStation. ... Grand Theft Auto III (sometimes abbreviated as GTA III or GTA3) is an action computer and video game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North), published by Rockstar Games in October 2001 for the PlayStation 2 video game console, May 2002 for Windows-based personal computers, and in November 2003...

The game featured a music score version of Fear Factory's album Demanufacture. Fear Factory is a Los Angeles, California based metal band. ... Demanufacture is the second official album (not counting the previous EP Fear is the Mindkiller) by the Los Angeles groove metal/industrial band Fear Factory. ...

The instruction manual for the PC CD-ROM version included a tongue-in-cheek dedication on the first page, which read as follows: The founders of Stainless Software Ltd, Patrick Buckland and Neil Barnden, would like to dedicate this game to their wives, Janet and Pauline, and to Patrick's children, Julianne and Sean, who all suffered from the hours needed to put this product together. However, dedicating something so sickly depraved and violent as this diabolical piece of soul-poison to them just wouldn't seem a very nice thing to do. So we won't. Sarcasm is the making of remarks intended to mock the person referred to (who is normally the person addressed), a situation or thing. ...

Ports

Carmageddon was originally released on the PC (for DOS) in 1997, but was eventually ported to Microsoft Windows (1997), Macintosh (1997), PlayStation (1999), Nintendo 64 (2000) and Game Boy Color (2001). The PlayStation and Nintendo 64 versions of Carmageddon are more similar to Carmageddon II. The Altair 8800 was among the first microcomputers to be affordable by an individual, although it initially lacked peripherals and memory. ... Instructions on how to use the directory command. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... See also: 1996 in video gaming, other events of 1997, 1998 in video gaming, history of video games Events 3rd annual E³ (Electronic Entertainment Expo) October 4 - Gunpei Yokoi (1941-1997) dies after a double car accident. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... 1999 1999 in games 1998 in video gaming 2000 in video gaming Notable events of 1999 in video gaming. ... This section needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... 2000 2000 in games 1999 in video gaming 2001 in video gaming Notable events of 2000 in video gaming. ... The Game Boy Color , shortened to GBC) is Nintendos successor to the Game Boy and was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan and in November of 1998 in the United States. ... 2001 2001 in games 2000 in video gaming 2002 in video gaming Notable events of 2001 in video gaming. ...

Expansion pack and compilation

Carmageddon Splat Pack is an official expansion pack released in 1997. The expansion pack includes:

• 20 new tracks
• 15 new opponent vehicles
• 9 new environments including "HELL"
• New network levels
• 3Dfx graphics support
• Advanced Eagle 2, Hawk Deluxe and Annihilator 2

Carmageddon Max Pack, which was also released in 1997, bundled the original game and its expansion pack into one package. As a bonus, it also included a strategy guide, mousepad, and a leather car key chain with Carmageddon's logo on it.

Sequels

This game was successful enough to spawn several sequels. The other games in the series are:

• Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
• Carmageddon TDR2000
• Carmageddon TV (never released due to Gizmondo's demise)
• Carmageddon 4 (cancelled)

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Series downfall

SCi had originally planned Carmageddon 4 for a late 2005 release, but later postponed it indefinitely. Little to no news was released about the game prior to the announcement of its cancellation, with Eidos (whom SCi recently gained ownership of) putting development on hold for unspecified reasons. Rabid fan sites and discussion boards for the series retain a majority of information available on the game, however most amounts to nothing more than mere speculation. The fate of its development is unknown, as no new press releases or information have surfaced since its cancellation, with SCi and Eidos currently focusing on other projects. ^[2] SCI may stand for: Safari Club International Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer Sanmina-SCI, an EMS company Scalable Coherent Interconnect Science (as in comp sci or bio sci) Science Citation Index Sensitive Compartmented Information Sequential Circuits Inc. ... Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and computer games based in Britain. ...

See also

• Death Race
• Roadwar 2000

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References

1. ^ http://refused-classification.com/Games_A-D.htm#carmageddon
2. ^ Carmageddon 4 halted. Eurogamer.

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External links

• Carmageddon at MobyGames
• DMOZ directory