Carl Williams writes, "Carmageddon is a classic vehicle based action game with horror overtones. If you remember Death Race 2000 then you know the basic idea of Carmageddon already. Not content with just being a homage game to that classic movie, Stainless Games Limited went further and created a phenomenon in gaming. Spawning a few sequels and remakes on computers and consoles over the years, the original Carmageddon was never really bested. Several years ago, we saw an Android and iPhone port of this horror racer and life was good. Now, the publishers have released the Android version freely to the world but things have changed and not for the better apparently."
THQ Nordic today announced that the acquisition of the intellectual property “Carmageddon” has been finalized with Stainless Games, based in Newport, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
Mmmm in my opinion THQ Nordic it's expanding too much too quick, you gotta be careful especially if your games turns out not exceptionally well like Darksiders 3. You gotta make money to survive after all.
I doubt that Darksiders 3 cost THQ Nordic that much to make, especially considering they opted to barely market the game. I don't think they are going to have to sell an exceptional amount to cover their costs. While we have heard that it barely made a dent in the UK, you have to remember that Hitman 2 and SoulCalibur 6 (a game that seems to be selling well) bombed in the UK as well.
Hellblade's costs (under $10m) were covered by just 300,000 copies. Darksiders 3 is just too expensive to most people at $60. I think the game will be OK long-term but I could be wrong.
THQ Nordic's business model is to have a hold on the AA portion of the games industry. They may be expanding and funding a lot of projects, but most of these projects are relatively cheap or even dirt cheap compared to AAA games.
Spot on. Its not stretching it to say that THQ has big plans on its market share position of all these aquisitions are anything to go by.
That said, although I love the Carmagedon series its a relic by todays standard and I can't see a way for this IP to get up to today's standards.
Agreed. I think the DS3 reception would have been much better if it had a price tag to match it's budget. Nice to see devs still putting out AA games.
You played darksiders 3? Just curious because I have and you can tell it doesn’t have the budget of the first 2 but it’s far from a bad game
I'm quite interested to see where they take this. I loved the original games and although wasn't impressed with the last one released they could do a heck of a lot with this IP.
I STILL play the original port on my phone! I would really like to see what THQ can do.
Same here, I also have the collection via Steam and still fire it up from time to time.
There was one in 2016 called Carmageddon: Max Damage. Haven't played it myself though.
I still remember running over old people using walkers in the original though, lol.
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umm graphics by far are better on n64...It is like saying I like the graphics of ps1 over ps2
The N64's graphics have aged badly. Like, really badly. Developers were chasing 'photorealism' at a time when it simply wasn't possible. The textures are known for being horribly fuzzy too.
2D visuals are often more abstract or artistic, so they don't age as badly. Particularly on the 16-bit systems.
Actually it’s not like the difference between ps1 and ps2 at all. If you go
Back and look at games from snes and n64, the snes games hold up a lot better especially in art style. There were some nice looking games on n64 but most looked really rough.
Not just the N64, but that entire era houses mistakes; every generation does. The 5th Gen is the benchmark of what we primarily game on, and like an old yearbook we tend to look back to shake our head at our mistakes, choices, or revel in it.
