Essentially a re-release of PC-only Kickstarter Carmageddon: Reincarnation, Max Damage hits consoles with 40% more content and slightly improved visuals, and brings with it the deliberately inflammatory humour and Daily Mail-baiting mechanics for which the series has been known since its inception back in 1997. If the needled ever spiked above “gutter”, someone probably got sacked. It’s almost as if developers Stainless Games had some kind of meter going during the making of Carmageddon to indicate its current level of taste and decency. Which is why I should be forgiven for enjoying Carmageddon: Max Damage, a driving game concerned with very little other than senseless, over-the-top violence. I like to boot up a shooter or an RPG or an open world action game and go nuts, blasting and killing and swearing and generally blowing shit up. If I’m dead honest, I get the best results from violence, which is probably because I’m such a pussycat in real life. If games didn’t have the ability to chill me out after a tough spell, I wouldn’t bother. Nothing is better than unwinding at the end of a long day with a spot of blasting in Call of Duty or Destiny, a bit of sightseeing with Uncharted or an hour or so of banter on Rocket League. For a lot of people, myself included, playing games is a form of catharsis.

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