You'll be racing your fairly ordinary car (with perhaps a few pointy bits stuck to it) through various landscapes, each of which approach the Platonic ideal of uninspired design. It's just too bad that once those prompts leave the screen, it appears that the designers neglected to add any personality to the game itself. The tutorial UI is splashy and full of personality. There's a bit of hope as you get tutorial prompts. There's just a clunky main menu that dumps you into your first 'race' with no explanation or exposition. There's no splashy, hilarious intro video for these supposedly mad drivers who are going on a rampage for no apparent reason. Not only does this vehicular combat title fail to go big, it's practically stalled at the starting gate. I warned this might be the case a few weeks back. Your players are expecting South Park-style explosive gas, but they end up with nothing but a sad, wet fart.Ĭarmageddon: Max Damage disobeys that rule in a big way.

You can't go halfway, or it all falls flat. If you're going to have a game about wrecking cars and running over pedestrians, it's gotta be larger than life and deliciously insane. OK, so there's one rule that reigns in the world of 'twisted and wrong' video games.

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