Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
I'm driving a powerful car around a 3D cityscape, running down pedestrians and dueling five other people in some good old-fashioned car jousting. But it's 1998, and Grand Theft Auto III won't invent this genre for another three years - I'm playing Carmageddon II. Count the polygons. You can, you really can. 3D graphics are still somewhat in their infancy at this time, and going back to this makes me realise just how quickly things came on in the years that followed. It is undeniably chunky, but the car models make up for their lack of geometry with some excellent deformation and destructability. Anyway, we are in the business of old games, and period graphics are part of the deal. What's more important is how does this game play? The game starts and one of several Iron Maiden tracks plays at random. Engines rev, a countdown starts the race, and you're racing. Memories of how awesome this game was are in full force and I start racing around the course. T...