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	Ever thought BATTLE MODE on Mario Kart needed something more? How about 40 cars, road rage, and a whole lot of bloodly carcasses hanging from your exhaust pipe?

What would a car combat be without a ludicrous amount of wild vehicles to party with? Carmageddon 2 presents the player with an unprecedented FORTY vehicles to choose from! Vehicles have their own statistics, obviously, with some faster, some slower, some with better handling, and some with better armor (if you've tried to take out that Semi in the demo you know what I mean…). In the single player game you can use accumulated points to modify your car on the fly, adding armor or speed when you need it most: on the road.

The vehicles themselves are as varied as can be imagined. The standard vehicle types are present, like the Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari, VW Beetle, and so on, but a more determined and unstable brand of driver is racing this time around. Vehicles like the Combine Harvester can grind pedestrians into neat little cubes, and a wingless plane chases them down and turns them into paté. All told, only seven contenders from the original have survived to do battle in Carmageddon 2.

Another improvement to the vehicles is their new personalities. Some drivers are only interested in finishing the race and are not easily goaded into combat, while others are slightly more unhinged, ready for battle at the drop of a hat. Any hat. CB radio transmissions give you deep insights into your opponents moods, and if someone yelling "You're a dead man!" at you isn't enough of an indication, there is also a special status bar for your opponents indicating their car's condition and their driver's disposition.