Carmageddon: Max Damage Critic Reviews

For console gamers or those approaching this fresh, this is an easy recommendation. It’s fun and just the right kind of depraved.

Short lived, but quite engrossing B-game with absurd ideas and over-the-top fender benders.

Carmageddon remains an unique game, worthy of your attention even if you weren’t there when the original one came out. It may be graphically not excellent, but Max Damage is full of modes, has a long campaign, three difficulty levels and a really working online mode. If you want to have fun in front of your tv without complications, although a few slow loadings may turn your nose up, Max Damage will surely do.

It’s really fun and challenging, but unfortunately, due to the crazy loading times -- and the fact I know the graphics could be better -- I have to give it the score it deserves, rather than the score I want to give it.

Sweet, blood-soaked, unashamedly offensive catharsis - Carmageddon: Max Damage has all of the above in spades.

Carmageddon: Max Damage ain't no Cadillac, but it's no jalopy either. Rather, it's just alright: fleetingly frustrating, often enjoyable, but never transcendent the way killing pedestrians should be.

Carmageddon is a enjoyable game which seems to have a lot of power-ups, foul language and silly driving. The singeplayer is fun for a decent amount of time but the multiplayer is the mode where the game really delivers. Unfortunately on the PS4 it is quite impossible to play due to the fact that there seems to be nobody online.

Carmageddon: Max Damage try to live with the old good days, but that's not always a choice. We expect something more from this reboot.

Subtract the long expired controversy and what you get is an old game that has almost nothing to offer to contemporary players.

Carmageddon: Max Damage is an ugly, annoying and downright tiresome game. Particularly so when played too much. But it's not without its charms. A strong variety in weapons, vehicles and maps. Crude humour that can work, at times. It's actually good in small doses, but not worth the current entry fee.

Carmageddon: Max Damage tries really hard to bring back the memories of the weird, yet successful Stainless Games series. Unfortunately, it reaches the goal: the gameplay is almost identical to the original (with very few fresh ideas), the AI is as bad as before, and the technical quality is definitely subpar. A mediocre game that will probably please the fans of Max Damage, and just them.

Carmageddon has not aged well unfortunately, and Max Damage mantains all Incarnation's problems. Some added content is definitely not enough to make this game a worthy experience for anyone, except the nostalgic fans of the original.

A messy, obnoxious but yet utterly loyal update to one of the industry’s most unruly red-headed step children, Carmageddon: Max Damage manages to elicit fun in occasional bursts but its general lack of polish and innovation means that it’s an effort that can only really be recommended to long-time fans of the franchise.

The mindless destruction is amusing, and it’s all presented in such a gleefully tongue-in-cheek manner that it’s hard not to chuckle at the absurdity of it all. The game is best enjoyed as an arcade-style time waster.

Max Damage is a collection of ideas that looked good on paper and sounded good in its Kickstarter pitch, but in practice it would only have been an acceptable sequel if it’d come out in 1999.

Carmageddon’s revival gets off to a sloppy start, though it gradually gets better with perseverance. Drawbacks such as the fickle handling and the so-so presentation become easier to overlook, but those first few hours can be a major slog.

Yes, it’s better than last years’, Carmageddon: Reincarnation, but a bit of polish and a few extra game modes can’t save was is a fundamentally flawed video game.

Carmageddon: Max Damage is an enhanced version of last year’s PC reboot, but a few addictions and more of the same gameplay simply aren’t enough to offer a high level product. Bad graphics and frame rate issues are the biggest things to complain about. The gameplay is loyal to the series, but 20 years later it just does not have the same appeal. It offers some big time fun moments, though.

Carmageddon doesn't impress or scandalize anyone anymore. Nostalgia isn't enough to sell a game filled with bugs and serious issues, where the only redeeming factor is the plenty of cars and gameplay hours it offers. Technical and gameplay issues may disappoint even the brand's most loyal fans.

It doesn't deserve your time and money.