9 Games that Made Vehicular Manslaughter Fun
- January 07, 2009 19:07 PM PST
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You may not be able run over pedestrians in real life, but these games with great car kills make up for it!
One of the biggest reasons we play video games is to engage in actions that normally frowned upon in society. It is for that reason that driving and vehicular manslaughter has become a match made in gaming heaven. For every time you've cursed a clueless pedestrian from behind the wheel, these games have served a great purpose by allowing an alternative method of anger-management.
9- RoadKill
Don't remember RoadKill? Well, you're not alone. Despite being a blatant rip-off of Twisted Metal, this obscure combat-based racing game was actually quite good. Interestingly, the game that RoadKill imitated in just about every way you can imagine dropped the feature where you were able to flatten people under your car after the first Twisted Metal (remember those annoying bystanders who would shoot at your vehicle in TM1?). And if you're as sick in the head as us, it doesn't get much better than squashing innocent people in RoadKill to the 80s hair metal grooviness of King Kobra.
8- Excite Bike
Okay, colliding into other pixelated motorcyclists in the classic NES racing game Excite Bike isn't quite the same thing as making mush out of grannies in Carmageddon, but you're still running people over and it's still just as fun to do. In Excite Bike, smacking into a rival racer by getting in front of them and hitting them with your rear tire results in causing them to tumble over along with their dirtbike. Though not nearly as violent as most of the entries on this list, using your vehicle as a weapon in Excite Bike for the original Nintendo is a blast.
7- Halo series
There are plenty of fun ways to off your opponent in a multiplayer Halo match. You can snipe them, slice them with an energy sword, or just slap a plasma grenade and watch them suffer the inevitable. However, if you want to decimate your opponent without equipping an item, you might want to consider the Warthog. Sure, it may be a grenade magnet, but if you perform enough evasive driving, you'll soon learn that nothing's better than powersliding into an unlucky Spartan soldier to rack up the sweet Warthog kills.
6- Die Hard Trilogy
One of the forgotten gems of the PS1 era is Die Hard Trilogy, which packed three above average games into one title. While the light gun game and action shooter were good fun, the piece de resistance was the interpretation of Die Hard with a Vengeance. Now the actual goal in this game is to crash into bombs scattered throughout New York City, defusing them in the process (not exactly the plot of the movie, but we'll allow it). However, any virtual representation of the metropolis is going to be filled with panicky pedestrians, and Die Hard Trilogy allows you to mow them over without suffering any consiquences. As a matter of fact, if you switch to a first person perspective, hitting innocents with your car smears their blood on your window, which you can conveniently remove with your car's windshield wipers. Yippie ki yay, Mr. Falcon.
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- Jan 07 2009 at 07:48:43:PM PST
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Man 2 articals includeing Carmageddon in just a few week's make me miss the good old day's of running into that football stadium and running down the whole team. . . . Man I wish there was some way to find that game now a day's.
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Correction: Twisted Metal dropped the ability to kill pedestrians after the second game. I never played the first one, and I clearly remember running them down in the second.
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Either way, isn't it more satisfying to waste a baddie, or even just a random pedestrian, than shoot them?
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Running down people with cars in a video game = win. It got a little boring doing it for over an hour to get the Dead Rising achievement though.
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ah yes one of the first things I do in a GTA title is run down a pedestrian , a cop and hop out and check the damage on my vehicle. Oh the joy of it all
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Anyone remember a PC game from the late eighties called "Quarantine". It was a first person driving game. When you ran people over in that game, it splattered blood all over your windshield. You had to use your windshield wipers to get it off.
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