Games PC CARMAGEDDON II User Manual

CONTENTS

System Requirements 2

The Quickest Quick Start Guide 2

Quick Start Guide 3

Objective 4

What's It All About? 4

New features of Carmageddon II 7

Some Extra Features You Ought To Know About 10

Network Play 12

Playing a Network Game 13

Additional Controls 14

Credits 15

Technical Support 17

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

320x200 256 Colours Windows 95 or 98 Intel Pentium 166Mhz CPU 16Mb RAM 200Mb Free Harddisk Space DirectX 6 supported Graphics Card with 2Mb RAM DirectX 6 supported soundcard 4 x Speed CD-ROM

Recommended Requirements

640x480 16bit Colour Windows 95 or 98 Intel Pentium 200Mhz CPU 32Mb RAM 200Mb Free Harddisk Space DirectX 6 supported D3D Graphics Card

with 4Mb RAM

vary from card to card)

DirectX 6 supported soundcard 8 x Speed CD-ROM

Multiplaye Game

LAN Network Only As Recommended Requirements IPX Network 2-6 Players (Number of players will vary from network to network) 1 CD per player

Supported Hardware

Microsoft Direct Input devices I-Force compatible force feedback devices Steering wheels – Thrustmaster, Mad Catz and Performa Also includes a native 3Dfx version for Voodoo 1 & 2 graphic accelerators.

(D3D performance will

Installing the game

Place the Carmageddon II – Carpocalypse Now CD in your CD-ROM drive, if Carmageddon II has not been previously installed on your PC the Installation program will launch automatically.

NOTE: If the Autoplay option has been disabled in Windows double-click on the “My Computer” icon. Now double-click on your CD-ROM icon and run the “Setup.exe” file.

The Setup program will guide you through the installation process and copy all necessary files onto your PC. During installation you will be asked to select the folder to install Carmageddon II to.

When the game files have been installed the installer will start the installation of Quicktime 3 which is required to view action replay recordings. Once this has finished the installation program will ask if you want to install DirectX 6. For optimum performance Carmageddon II requires DirectX 6 and you are advised to install this. The DirectX 6 installation may require you to reboot your PC, the program will prompt you if this is necessary. Carmageddon II is now installed – may the carnage begin!

The Quickest Quick Start Guide

Click on the Carmageddon II icon on your Start menu – click on Launch,

watch the brilliant movie …and then click Start……and cause mayhem.

Quick Start Guide

Controls

(The keys and other controllers can be altered to suit your own preferences at the start of a new game in the Configure Controls screen in the Main Menu).

Key: Action:

Keypad 8 Accelerate Keypad 2 Brake/reverse Keypad 4 Turn Left Keypad 6 Turn Right

Spacebar Handbrake Z Wheelspin (useful for getting out of tight situations) Backspace Repair (double-tap repairs fully) Insert Recover (for when you land on your roof)

Tab Map View Toggle on/off Delete Buy Armour

End Buy Power Page Down Buy Offensive

Cursor Keys Camera Control (press left + right to centre the camera) C Cockpit View toggle on/off

T Target lock toggle on/off Y Target cycle

H Horn (scares pedestrians) M Mini Map Toggle on/off Ctrl + A Abort the Race/Mission Ctrl + Q Quit Game

(cursor keys can move the camera over the bonnet)

(changes the locked opponent)

Keyboard Operable Powerups:

[ and ] Select Powerup Alt Activate Powerup

Objective

There are 3 ways to complete a ‘race’ in Carmageddon. Drive faster than anyone else does. Smash all the other cars in the race Kill all pedestrians in the race.

What's It All About?

If you’ve played Carmageddon I, you might want to skip this bit and read about the New Features of Carmageddon II. For those of you who think you have just bought a racing game, it is suggested that you read on.

Rules?

Rules? There are no rules, except that you have to complete each mission before you can progress to the next part of the game. The races between missions are an opportunity for you to do whatever you want, whatever really turns you on.

Carmageddon II is a free-for-all ‘race’. You can do what you like, when you like. Each race has a series of checkpoints and a lap count. If you complete all the laps, then the race is over and you’ll receive a time bonus. However you don’t have to take any notice of the checkpoints or laps if you don’t want to (you’ll notice that many of your opponents don’t). There’s more fun to be had by ramming other cars and mowing down the masses. There’s a timer at the top of the game screen, which counts down. If the counter reaches zero then the race is over - however even this doesn’t really matter too much, as this doesn’t mean that the back and have another go at that race.

You will undoubtedly notice that there is no display of your position in the race. This is because you don’t have one, and it doesn’t matter anyway. Your opponents will cheat at least as much as you will, and it doesn’t matter one iota who gets to the ‘finish line’ first - it just matters how much damage you did and how many internal organs you liberated on the way.

game

is over, as you can always go

The important thing is to do whatever you want and to enjoy doing it. If your opponents are being boring enough to go around the race circuit, racingly, then why don’t you go around the circuit the wrong way and put a little spice into their lives. Hitting other cars and splatting pedestrians adds time to your timer and gives you credits. Doing so in imaginative and novel ways gives you extra bonuses. Try to think of new and humorous ways of pulping pedestrians - you’ll more than likely be rewarded for it. When hitting other cars, remember to keep your pedal to the metal all the way until impact - wimps are not rewarded.

Destroying all your opponents or killing all pedestrians also finishes the race - but with a juicy bonus. Alternatively you can always finish the race yourself by hitting Control-A. Remember that you are never penalised for the race ending, whatever the reason there was for it being over, so if you feel like a different race, just bail out of the current one and go for it. Remember that if you abort a race, then you will lose anything that you gained during that race. This prevents you from collecting some easy money, and then getting out before you’ve even made an honest attempt at the level.

You start the game with an amount of credits (dependant on the skill level you chose). You build up your stash and use it for in-race repairs and for buying better parts for your car. This process is explained later on, in the bit about shopping.

Your aim in the game (other than to enjoy yourself and cause as much damage and death as possible) is to drive, race, and smash your way up to the final mission in the game. The game is arranged in 10 groups, each containing 3 races and 1 mission. Each time you complete a mission, you progress to the next group, where you will find a new environment has been opened up for you. When you move up to a higher group, you will not be able to go back and race on tracks in a lower group, unless you revert to a previously saved game.

You can pick up temporary powerups during a race by driving into crates, barrels, gas cylinders, trash cans etc. Most of these will contain a random goody that might be just a few extra credits or a time bonus, or it might be something quite useful like complete invulnerability for 30 seconds.

In the missions you are up against the clock, and you cannot gain extra time from hitting pedestrians or your opponents, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun by hitting them anyway.

It won’t take you long to notice that all your opponents have the mentality of a sexstarved bull. If you ram them, there’s a good chance they’ll see red and go for you (which can be great fun if you’re on the edge of a precipice and you time it right). Just remember to give as good as you get - they do frighten, particularly if you rise to their challenge and simply hit them back even harder. However, don’t be surprised if the next time you share a race with that opponent, they seem to be making a career of trying to kill you.

During your assaults on your opponents, and your inevitable close encounters with walls, lampposts and the hard bits at the bottom of sheer drops, your car will become damaged. There is a status screen, which shows you the state of your car’s systems. As they become more bent, they start to malfunction or fail altogether.

After a race, your car is fully repaired automatically and for free. However you might not want to wait that long. You can repair your car at any time during the race by holding down the repair key (default Backspace). The longer you hold it down, the more your car is repaired - but the more it’ll cost you. For speed you can also double click the key for a full repair.

You will soon discover that sometimes your car lands on its roof or its side. In this case, hitting the recover key (default: Insert) will recover your car (at a cost) and let you continue. Alternatively, if your car lands on its side or its end, you can rock it by hitting the wheelspin key (default: Z).

Above all, do whatever you want to do. The game will try not to get in your way (unlike your opponents, who will often try to get in your way at 150mph in the opposite direction). During races you will never be forced to go in a particular direction or to conform to any rules. If you treat the entire race with utter disrespect and just try to be disruptive - that’s fine, you’ll even be rewarded for it!

Of course you can also race around the pre-defined circuit, complete your laps, and take your bonus if you want. Just don’t expect to be invited to any good parties if you do.

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