In the end, I drove at him fast enough that he crashed straight through the windscreen. This, and the office workers in the building overlooking the car park calling the police, signalled that we'd 'got it in the can' for the reference material. Which I then drove up to the local windscreen repair shop with this bloody great person-sized dent in the glass. As Patrick casually lists, There was the shooting of the chandelier.
First with air guns, and then with a homemade rocket launcher. And the way we got the footage for whiplash on the PratCam - belting Tony around the back of the neck with the thick end of a pool cue.
And the computer equipment thrown over balconies while working late at night. And the placing of a microwave oven on top of a car that we'd set fire to the week before, filling the microwave with petrol and camping gas cylinders, taping oxyacetylene-filled balloons to it, and turning it on.
But we re a perfectly normal, sensible development company. Amazingly, the game did actually make it to completion, but getting it on the shelves was to provide an even greater challenge in the shape of the notorious British Board of Film Classification.
I had to attend a meeting at their London office with the late James Ferman, the man whose signature famously graced the BBFC certificate for many years, recalls Neil. When the game was submitted to them, they refused to allow it to be released. I admit my recollection of the details of the meeting is hazy. As we were about to go into Ferman's office, I noticed my flies were completely open, and spent the whole meeting preoccupied with whether the Great Man would notice this too and assume I was making some sort of grand gesture.
This, and what followed, made it a surreal occasion. They asserted that the idea of gaining reward for killing innocent people was unacceptable. In order to make their point that the game was morally bankrupt, they had one of their staff, a young guy, play the game in front of us all.
He was clearly having a whale of a time, going for 'artistic impression' bonuses, giggling gleefully as old ladies exploded across his bonnet. James Ferman stood with us behind him, straight-faced, explaining to us how this man was being 'corrupted' by the experience. And the young man agreed: 'Yes, it's really not Our explanation that the game was meant to be a surreal comedy experience fell on deaf ears," recalls Neil.
Without changes that would deal with their central objection, the game could not be given a certificate, and so would not be released. It was perhaps for the best that Patrick Buckland wasn't at the meeting. As he says, Neil did all that stuff, which suited me fine, as I would probably have driven a large vehicle through their building had I been directly on the receiving end of their double standards.
We once got a hard time from them because Ferman had spent 'all morning having to watch hardcore gay pornography'. Poor dear. I bet the twat was just embarrassed because it gave him a hard-on the size of a policeman's truncheon Back to the matter in hand, and both Stainless and SCi were faced with a problem, namely the lack of a game.
A compromise had to be reached and the concerned parties eventually agreed to replace the pedestrians with zombies, replete with censor-pleasing green blood. According to Neil, The zombies were created over the course of one long angst-ridden weekend as the solution to this impasse with the BBFC.
Already dead, and filled with nothing more offensive than pus, the zombies were deemed acceptable victims for the young homicidal racing-game fans of Great Britain. As Patrick remembers. They took out an injunction on us. The zombies were bloody irritating. If red blood is good enough for The Holy Grail, it's good enough for us. Carmageddon was finally released to critical and commercial acclaim and. Other more low-rent publications were less complimentary though, and the inevitable lazy tabloid backlash promptly ensued, something that Patrick found absolutely bloody hilarious!
One of the funniest was that Age Concern officially complained to us because we were depicting the running-over of old people". Similarly, Neil thought that the tabloid coverage was great!
Uninformed, bandwagon-jumping rubbish. Just the stuff to shift more units". And shift units it did, with the game hogging the number one spot like a blood-soaked Bryan Adams if only. Carmageddon also received the ultimate accolade, picking up the coveted Game Of The Year, as voted for by the readers. At a gala occasion at London's Camden Palace, the Stainless team joyously lifted the trophy, and were spotted revelling late into the night, drunk on success and cheap wine. Even Tony the stuntman got involved, doing a passable impression of Mel Gibson, who he has actually doubled for in the movies or so he claimed.
There was a third Carmageddon game in the shape of TDR Or, as Patrick puts it, Absolutely f But you really shouldn't print that. He still has fond memories of the original world-changing game though, claiming: It has brought violence more into the mainstream.
It has also shown that videogames can be genuinely hilarious - I'm not sure that any game before Carmageddon could reduce an entire room of onlookers to tears of laughter. I'm very proud of that. Overall though, the thing I'm really most proud of is that millions of people around the world have had a laugh because of what I've done. Not many people can go to their grave with that claim. As for Neil, he is similarly full of pride. I was talking to a friend recently about the idea of seeing something that someone else has made, he says.
Whether it's a piece of art or a book, a videogame, a film, a television series, whatever, and being so taken with their achievement that you can see no point in continuing doing what you do.
They've done such a perfect job, there's really nowhere left to go. I think you can be struck with this feeling, even if this achievement is in a field other than your own. I was discussing this, and told him that's what I expect to happen when Half-Life 2 is released. At that point, I said, I will finally be able to give up making games, because there won't be any need any more.
My friend's response was totally unexpected, and left me with a warm glow for the rest of the day. He said: 'But that's exactly what I felt like when I played Carmageddon? It was as natural as cottage cheese. If you'd ever played a driving game that included humans, you will at some point have tried to run one of them over.
You wouldn't have succeeded of course, since prior to May all videogame pedestrians were blessed with magic invulnerability shields that allowed them to pass through the body of your car unscathed. Alternatively, they would have these weird superhuman reflexes, making it impossible to catch the buggers and run 'em down.
Luckily one developer realised the potential to be had by reversing this situation - and didn't have any hang-ups about depicting it. Carmageddon was always going to cause outrage once it appeared. How could a game that gave you bonuses for stylish decapitations with your spiked wheels not upset people?. But no one guessed how bloody playable it would be, thanks to the free-roaming playfields and the oodles of secrets and bonuses and game-altering modes to unlock.
Controversy followed with the usual mass media suspects demanding outright banning of the game, castration of the developers and stoning of the gaming industry in general. Months of negotiation with the BBFC finally led to the game being released with the pedestrians replaced by zombies that left green stains rather than red ones when you hit them.
The annoying thing was that this somehow lessened the game's overall impact proving that the Daily Mail and co were probably spot on all along about us. Luckily for gamers everywhere a 'special patch' somehow made it onto the streets that restored the crimson. Just don't ask us how. You Will No Doubt Have Noticed that in last month's PC there was a small piece about Carmageddon in the news pages and an appetising but, alas, brief rolling demo on the coverdisk.
Were you intrigued, though? And did you want more? Well, you've got it, because this month the PC Carmageddon coverage continues apace with not only these two pages of fawning, but also with a playable track on the coverdisk. And I'm going to assume you have played it. And played it. And that you eventually stopped playing it, or else you wouldn't be reading this. I It's big, though, isn't it? Bloody gigantic, really.
And did you like the fact that you can drive down cliffs? And how the physics modelling is spot-on? And that you can actually Cfeel' the impacts, and see the resultant damage? What were your pedestrian kills like, by the way? Artistically viable or what?
Or did you just race the other cars, like a ponce? Which view did you use? But I'm running ahead of myself. You've had a wee taste of the game, I'm apparently slotted in to actually review it next ish, so how about we fade into flashback mode - in which I visit Stainless Software, the authors of Carmageddon, who live and work spookily on the Isle of Wight This one takes about an hour.
He sips his coke, puffs on a tab, and points through the gigantic ship window at an approaching hydrofoil: And that one takes 15 minutes. So the island's quite near then is it? I say. I'd always thought of the Isle of Wight as being quite far out to sea. Yes, it's very near, says Sam. You can see it, look. I, er, thought that was just a pokey-out bit of England. The Isle of Wight is just a pokey-out bit of England," says Sam, sagely.
It's just that there's a moat surrounding it. The island's near enough to Southampton to warrant a bridge or a tunnel, but the islanders don't want one built. They like the isolation. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3.
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Franchise: Carmageddon. Share Embed. View Community Hub. US Election Nightmare Special! Carmageddon is the driving sensation where pedestrians and cows equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. Play an adrenaline pumping bunch of game modes against AI opponents, or online against the rest of the Carmafan masses!
You can relive all the mangling mayhem with the built-in Action Replay System. Get your movies online and brag about your ped culling achievements. Carmageddon cars are specifically built for the job in hand — wrecking opponents and killing peds! Power, Armour, and Offensive upgrades are available for your car, along with other customising options, allowing you to personalise the killing capabilities of your rides.
A host of old favourites from the original Carmageddon make a comeback, along with some all-new faces.
Only ever seen before as low resolution mugshots, now you get to see them from head to toe well, head to knees in the case of Screwie in full HD 3D glory — usually as they smash through their windscreen and hurtle past or INTO yours! The new environments are amalgamations of the best bits from the numerous chunks of landscape that we all loved to tear around in Carmageddon.
The topography and detail in the locations is updated and enhanced, with even more fun stuff to smash into, smash up, snap off, and send careening into the poor pedestrian population. Joining them are some new faces — including cyclists, wheelchair users and peds on mobility scooters. Carmageddon is an equal opportunities ped slaughterfest! Challenge yourself to reach the top of the leaderboard using skill or brute force!
A suitably warped array of mad Feats and Exploits will garner you the rewards that every gamer dreams of. Challenges: Do the most stupid things, collect meaningless trinkets and waste hours of your life in the pursuit of ultimately pointless goals!
Check out the official Carmageddon comic series! Click on the image! Fancy a FAQ? Check out the known issues here: Go here! Mature Content Description The developers describe the content like this: This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content.
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