Customer Reviews for Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now

Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now
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Video Game Reviews of Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now

Customer Review: Classic! More Fun Than Any Vacation!
Summary: 5 Stars

You gotta love this game!

This is one of the most hilariously violent games I've played! With goodies like the opponent repulsificator and the solid-granite car, delight and laughter takes me over every time sit down to play Carmageddon 2.

Exploding pedestrians, pedestrian flame-throwers, the pedestrian electro-[...] ray... these are power-ups you can get in the game! Whether you turn your opponents into scrap metal or act a fool around the gigantic levels, the fun does not stop.

And the game has a way of scaring you. I recall being terrified at so many moments while playing this game.

Examples: Is that Hans Abba around the corner? Where is that vicious dump truck? My car is in awful shape and I can't find a repair power-up.

You can pop-wheelies and in certain cases go so fast that you can commit suicide. The game has incredible value because you can purchase your trashed opponents cars. If you get into it, you will feel the need to progress.

The game is about much more than destroying other cars. Some missions are wacky beyond belief. One I recall involves killing mental patients that have escaped from an asylum. That is one of the harder missions.

The game is long, there are plenty of missions, and if you don't feel like killing people, you can always race. This game is off-the wall. It's like combining Grand Theft Auto, Simpsons Road Rage, and Burnout 3. And it's over 5 years old!

This game is a classic. Let us not forget the kangraoo bounce power-up. Nor the low gravity mode. Nor the hand-brake... man I love the hand-brake. If you have the time, play this game until you get good enough to appreciate the madness within.

Oh yeah - the sound track is by Iron Maiden. This game is awesome!

Customer Review: meh
Summary: 2 Stars

I'm probably one of very, very few people who liked Carmageddon 3 better than the second one. The controls are poor. More often than not, the enemies would fight me a bit, then run away somewhere, usually getting trapped in some tight corridor where I couldn't get enough speed to destroy them, or the godawful water. I must've spent a third of my time trying to work underwater. Sure, it gives you an underwater ability powerup, but it doesn't help very much.
I guess killing peds is fun, but it gets old pretty fast. So does ramming your car into your oppenents over and over only to have nothing happen. No damage. No credits. No time bonus. Nothing. Even once I had built up a lot of armor, power, and offensive, I still had a problem with it.
There's a lot of flipping over in this game. A lot. Way too much. I got stuck upside down or on my side even from just hitting a slight bump. The enemies got flipped over a lot too. Not very fun.
The game was alright at first, but it got old really fast.

Customer Review: Not for the faint of heart
Summary: 5 Stars

This game is full of blood, guts, and destruction. If you're squeamish, if you're really young, then this game is *not* for you. Are you somebody who would relish running over people in real life? Then it's also not for you. However, if you're somebody who, when out on the open road, just wishes that you could do something about the problem of stupid drivers/pedestrians, this game is loads of fun. You must be able to separate fiction from reality, though.

You will probably never find a safer, more cautious driver than me, but this game lets the player let loose. The game is extremely gruesome, with flying limbs everywhere as you run through crowds of people. Pieces of the other race cars fly off as you crunch into them. Every pedestrian or opponent car hit gives you credits and time added onto the game clock.

The object is to finish the race by going through all the checkpoints the appropriate number of times (yeah, right!), run over all the pedestrians (very hard to do, especially on some of the bigger levels where there are over 1400 of them), or "waste" all your opponents.

You waste your opponents by running into them, running them into other objects, etc. It's a good thing that they can't repair like you can, though, or it would never end. There's nothing funnier then watching a car that's down to 1% health, all twisted and wrecked, go around in circles because it doesn't even have all four tires on the road.

The different locales in the game really make this game a visual treat. There's the Canadian northwest (with even Mounties!), a ski resort, a carnival, nuclear power plant, and many more. The assortment of opponent cars is also very nice, though some of them can be *really* annoying to try and waste (such as the plane).

The locales are much better than the first Carmageddon. The graphics are, too. In the first game, running over "peds" would just result in a gooey mass, but in this game, limbs go flying, bodies go flying, sometimes even heads.

The other improvement is the fact that you can get wasted. In the first game, you couldn't. In this one, you have to be careful. If you hit a wall too hard, or let one of those Mac trucks run you into a wall, you *will* be wasted and have to start the race over.

One downside is the lack of cops. Except for one level, where the object is to waste 12 cop cars, there are no cops interfering in the races. I thought they added a nice touch to the first game, where they provided a random element to the race and the other drivers. They were almost tanks, and nothing was more satisfying then getting a "solid granite car" powerup and wasting one of them. You could also push them off cliffs, etc.

The other downside is the lack of vocals. We got a real kick out of the female persona's "That had to hurt" and such in the first game, but in this game, there is none of that. It takes away a bit of the fun.

But make no mistake, this is a great game, as long as you have the stomach and temperament for it. It's not for the squeamish. It's not for kids. But if you can handle it, you'll have a blast.

Customer Review: Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
Summary: 3 Stars

Carmageddon II is a great game if you like driving games, It's very exciting and gory. You can run over people, animals, crash on buildings. You can do lots cool stuff with the powerups. The levels and cars are very cool. The things the car does are quite unbelivable, It can destroy a truck but it's a lot of fun. It is a lot better than the first carmageddon. The graphics are just average. The controls are very difficult, It is a bit hard to drive the car but gets easy after some time. A beautiful game with lots of blood and gory and not for kids or the weak hearted.