Carmageddon Smashes Its Way Onto iOS App Store: Free For 24 Hours!

Whether you live in LA, or are just a fan of video games, you’ve likely heard the term Carmageddon. The former of course (I hear), is a crappy closure on a huge highway that TONS of people take daily. The latter was a well received (and highly controversial) racing game from 1997.  Here we’re talking about the one that sounds more fun.

You may have also heard news this past year that Carmageddon developer Stainless Games had plans to reboot the series. A successful Kickstarter was launched back in May, and the company will now be bringing a new vision of the series to modern machines. One of the cool bonuses for the crowd-funding going so well: an iOS port of the original title.

The game launched in the App Store (iTunes link to the game) just a couple of hours ago, and as a thank you to everyone who helped out, the game will be FREE for its first 24 hours of availability.

I never had an opportunity to play the game when it originally released (I was 7 and Mario Kart 64 was the only racing game I cared about), but from what I’ve read, the game is a rather faithful port of the 1997 title. Stainless Games did a fantastic job a supporting all of what iOS has to offer too: the game features full support for the newly released iPhone 5, will sync saves automatically via iCloud (THANK YOU), and more!

If you were a fan of the game, or are just looking for a neat piece of nostalgia (or want to see what all the bloody controversy that caused the game to be banned from many countries) was about! The price is right, and the port is excellent (though again, the game is from 1997, so feels rather clunky today).