Crashday Demo

Oh yeah, I've been waiting for Crashday's release for years now, my friend first introduced me to the project about 3-4 years ago if I remember correctly.

I'm a huge fan of the legendary Stunts, I tried a demo of the first Trackmania when it came out and pretty much puked, that was a horrible game, I also tried the demo of the second TM and that sucked too. All my hopes of a real Stunts like game had since then been on Crashday's shoulders. So finally the demo of was released 26th of January 2006, I just had to download it immediately.

The music was ok, I got the feeling that it might suit well to some of the game modes, but I like to play with no musics on when I'm playing car racing games. At least the in-game musics were a hell of a lot better than what the music was in the old Crashday game engine test videos. Some horrible techno crap...

I don't know what demo many of the people here have played, but as you can clearly see, the demo features TWO different cars and two different game modes. I like both of those cars, the 4X4 Power Pick'Em'Up V8 car that is slower but is easy to handle and then the fast Ironhorse Motors V8 race car that is very good for stunt driving and normal racing.

Since the first videos and screenshots I had worried about the miniguns and missiles, because I only care about racing and stunt driving, not Carmageddon like shooter on wheels, but I have to say that I ended up liking the guns game mode a lot, it was fun to hunt those other drivers. :)

Graphicswise the game looks really great, car models couldn't look much better and the scenery is very detailed. The team sure has had some good graphics people working on the game!

The game does have some physics bugs that could be fixed with additional patches, Crashday is coming out in a month so I don't believe that they have enough time anymore to do changes to the final release.

In conclusion I can surely say that I'm sold. Roger Clemens and his team have travelled a long road to get to this point and I like the game that they have created. I will buy Crashday as soon as it's released.

My demo review in reply.

Runs like crap for me, athlon xp 2100 1gig ram 9700 aiw pro

"A required security module could not be loaded" WTF?

Gaddam safe Disc or Securom or whatever this game uses. How do i get past this?

My review in reply

Would be cool if they brought it out for the 360 then i could play it in all it's high res goodness. Just lowered the settings and tried it, not a bad game really

They released a video 3 years ago of this game's progress and it looked like it was going to be Stunts with guns.

3 years went by and 3 different Trackmanias came out and totally nuked the appeal of a Stunts remake.

All this game has left going for it is the guns angle.

/loads demo

Ouch, this is really unpolished on the stunts side. The guns side is a sloppy Twisted Metal/i76 wannabe with bad physics.

/unloads demo

Can't wait to try it...been waiting for it for a looooong time! I believe a lot of the people behind STUNTS were involved in this as I remember!

Question... Can i total mustang sleds over and over cause their so fugly and lose 1/2 there value once you drive them anyway? If so im so gonna download this.

Hooorj! Won my first wrecking match. I still don't get the stunts mode, but that's ok, because I prefer stuff exploding.

I'm looking forward to the hopefully inevitable Carmageddon mod :)

Bots in the demo or online only?

I am all over this game! Pre-order will be done! THANK YOU GODS OF GAMING!

Hay devs, how about not having annoying angsty music going during the fullscreen'd installation. Thankx.

I'll be loading up TMS when I get done with some other stuff today. :)

It was kinda fun.

Some things:
- "This demo does not reflect the quality of the final game."... why even release a demo then. Jesus.

- For the Wreck mode of the game (basically deathmatch), weapons were kinda funky. Sometimes missiles would lock on... other times they'd just fly straight. Seems like I'd take 3 times more damage from enemy missiles than I would to them. Additionally, only getting the last hit in counts as a kill... which kind irks me.

- For the stunt mode... it's pretty fun. But I feel like you need more control of your car in mid-air. The stunt map felt like something out of Tony Hawk.. which is fine... but whenever I'd try to link stunts or jump up some of those ramps, and land back on the ramp (Tony Hawk Style), I'd end up jumping past the ramp or jumping to the side. They should put in some kind of like in-air "Fin Control" or something... where little wings/fins pop out of your car in mid-flight to give you limited control.

Anyway, okay as far as demos go. Worth a download if you're on a phat pipe.

HAHAHA I Love It! I haven't had this much fun with a demo in years. Ran smooth for me (Athon64 3500, 6600GT, 1 gig mem) at 1680 x 1050. Controls were fine and fit the combat. Why some of you are griping is beyond me, its just fun.

Aww man, you guys! I've been waiting for this game's release for years, and now you're all saying that it sucks!! :(
I was hoping this would be the PC answer to Burnout

*sigh* Oh well. I'll install it and pout about the suckage when I get home tonight.

Other items of note: It's set to "Hard" by default.

Music during install = not cool.

Can anyone connect to the master server? Or is that perhaps their way of disabling multiplayer? :( Anyone wanna try out connect to IP for some multiplayer goodness?

I have been waiting for this game since 2001. I've played the demo a few times during this day and... I dunno... it's overall kinda "meh" and I was a huge Stunts! fan back in the day.

Downloaded...installed...played...uninstalled.

color me not impressed and it wasn't fun. the car physics seem wonky and weird the camera zips around like a bee on crack and the cars in the demo really suck.

I like it.The combat is fun and explosive, and the graphics are definetly up there.

The issues with the demo are, as some said, the sluggish car and the (few) times the camera can be odd. Overall, though the camera wasn't an issue at all.

I'll definetly be picking this up on the 24th.

Seems like it could be fun, but the demo car is horribly sluggish and the camera is madly annoying in the stunts mode. With this a month away, I doubt we'll see a camera improvement though.

OMG I've been waiting for this for ages....

Wow this looks cool as hell! I've been wanting a game of this nature on the PC for ages. Not only that, this screenshot http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/crashday/Crashday/2/thumbs/012606_crashday_6.jpg brought a HUGE smile to my face : )

uh.. what? omg I need this.

Looks awesome. Might have to try this out.

Instead of being time limited or expiring after a certain date, this demo will cease to work after 50 starts

Umm whew! Thank goodness for that, i thought maybe after awhile it wouldn't work anymore or something??? wtf

Skyline? Check.
Gatling gun attached to side of Lambo? Check.

Bookmarked to download! =)

SWEET! I've been waiting for this game for AGES!

Hopefully a reinstall and registry cleaning will let me start more then 50 times. ;)

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