Improved version, with added glide wrapper, meaning you can play games designed for 3dfx Glide API without the need of having a 3dfx graphics card. The 90s :)

If you go to your Steam Library and look for "Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now" then right click on it you will only find "Play Game..." and "View Player Manual" There is no option to configure the glide wrapper aka "nGlide" You have to do it manually go to your SteamApps/Common folders and inside "Carmageddon2" you fill find the "nglide_config.exe" so you can configure correctly the wrapper.

Also when the game was released (Late 90s) it came with ipx support so for this release (Prolly the GOG version have it too) they added an ipx wrapper, that wraps IPX packets into UDP, so modern OS can run this legacy games with multiplayer support.

About the music, The amazing soundtrack is still here, this time is compressed using Vorbis (Lossy compression) The original release of Carma2 came in a CD, it was an Enhanced CD (Yellow Book CD-ROM + Red Book CD-DA) where the 1st track was the Data (The video Game) and the rest of tracks were the music, meaning your were allowed to put your Game CD in your CD Player and listen to the music, of course if you played the 1st track the one that contains the game data you will only hear random noise. While writing this review I was listening to the songs and found out that track Number 8 "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden at the 3:04 there is an error in the song prolly the CD was damaged/scrached, and you guys ripped it anyway, Lazy Stainless :P

Excelent Game, lots of fun.

Fast cars + kill everything that moves + Iron Maiden = Best game ever!

Still fun, even after 17 years.

one of the most awesome games i played as a teen

If you're like me and already own the game, and hope that this port was fixed for modern windows, you will be disappointed. In reality this is just a really lazy upload of the game to Steam, without fixing any of the games problems. Sounds still don't play sometimes, the music STILL hasn't been patched to work without the cd, and the ped animations are still broken on windows xp onwards. Even basic functions such as changing resolution still require modifying the config files. Honestly, this could be a great title to add on Steam if they put even a little bit of effort into it instead of just dragging and dropping the contents of the game CD into Steam. Very rarely do I actually think that I could do a better job, yet I could here.

Just one of the best game , ever.
And it works on Windows 95,98 SE,ME ,XP, Vista, 7 & 8 , 10.
EA still working on NFS series to figure out how to make a real funny driving simulator. Btw , my game STEAM time does not represent reality, I have hundreds hours played since 1999, when that game was running on my rig Pentium 200Mhz , 64 Mb ram, 3D voodoo 2000 PCI 16 MB(bought voodoo 4 4500 after, becouse of NSF Porsche 2000). I miss old days.

BTW, thanks to Mr MO, Carmageddon 2 working, just do this:
Remove "wsock32.dll" and "winmm.dll" from the game's folder.Is working with no problem after that.

I grew up playing this game, it is amoung the first games i've played, 10/10

tldr: Is awesome car combat game (with a twist), buy it.

Pros:
-Is Carmageddon
-Runs smoothly
-Is also Carmageddon
-Car Combat
-Carmageddon
-Driving is genuine fun
-Carmageddon
-You can murder innocent people with a car and be cheered on for doing so
-Multiplayer
-Is fun
-Driving model is excellent
-Car Deformation is still the best
-Fun ways to screw around
-Is Carmageddon
-Limitless replayability with mods (Even without mods you can still easilly clock about 50 plus hours on this)
-Awesome game
-Cheap

Cons:
-You probably haven't bought it.

Kill people + fast cars + metal songs = Best game ever!
10/10 iGN

Back then, roughly 20 years ago this game was huge. I mean HUGE! 3D games were generally ugly - we could see this was the future but controlling a soccer player in FIFA with its almost cube-shaped head was not very promising. Carmageddon was the same: it looked acceptable but its fun came from the gameplay itself (not from the graphics) as it was all about causing mayhem and destruction.

Carmageddon is not your typical racing game. A race can be completed by doing the usual laps in the given time OR you can eliminate your opponents by crashing into them OR you can kill all pedestrians (often more than a thousand in a level) by carrying out some well-timed hit-and-runs. Even better are the many power-ups that help you in doing so. Kangaroo jumps allow you to quickly escape just before the enemy hits you head-on, lightning can be cast to kill those civilians that cannot be reached by you and you can even turn yourself into a granite car that destroys even the biggest trucks that join the race.

Back to the graphics a little bit: its 3D engine was amazing at the time (in fact, it was ahead of its time). Due to the accidents you have and the hits you receive your car slowly deteriorates. You can see the falling debris and after a while your car behaves in a different way. If there's an issue with the wheels steering is more difficult. The game tries to match real-life scenarios in these cases - such car behaviour is completely normal (in fact, it is a must-have) nowadays but this was back in 1998!!!

Stages are grouped together: there are always 3 races (objectives can be completed in the already mentioned ways) but there's a 4th and last mission that requires a little finesse from your end. For instance, some civilians hide in the control tower of an airport. You immediately see the ramp taking you up but it is not aligned well so it is impossible to enter the building this way. No worries - landing atop you can find a kangaroo jump power-up that allows you to make an entrance (perfect timing is almost a must, therefore, this mission remains just as aggravating).

I wanted to see if this game runs under Win 10 and I was glad to see that it does so. In fact, it has a config file that allows us to pick one of the many modern day resolutions. But that's all there is regarding any graphic enhancements (for the rest mods can be utilised). Unfortunately, the game's metal soundtrack does not play and this is a Win 10 issue - be sure to check the community forum for a solution.

Carmageddon 2 is a blast! It is also the best in the series - while number 3 looked even better they picked a darker theme and pedestrians were replaced by zombies. Some of you have probably tried the new games (let's call them remakes) that were released in recent years. I have yet to see these - until then this game is perfect for a bit of nostalgia.