{"id":1985962,"date":"2026-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1985962"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:00:00","slug":"carmageddon-rogue-shift-a-videogame-stuck-in-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1985962","title":{"rendered":"Carmageddon Rogue Shift: a videogame &#8220;stuck in neutral&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>If you\u2019re greying at the temples, regularly suffer from back pain and your knees click when you stand up, you might recall the name <em>Carmageddon<\/em> from the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With its focus on marmalising pedestrians, this violent sci-fi driving game managed to generate more tabloid column inches than a Beckham family fallout. Don\u2019t get too excited, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>This new entry, <em>Rogue Shift<\/em>, is a <em>Carmageddon<\/em> game in name only. For a start, you\u2019re actually expected to finish races in the top three, rather than just reducing your opponents to scrap, which is surprisingly inconvenient. It\u2019s also lacking the sense of humour the earlier games had and emphasises weaponry rather than neck-snapping high speed collisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while it might seem odd to complain, given that the game is literally set in the post-apocalypse, the tracks feel utterly lifeless. Bad news for <em>Carmageddon<\/em> true believers awaiting a sequel, <em>Rogue Shift<\/em> is stuck in neutral. <em>\u00a340, Xbox\/PC; \u00a333, PlayStation<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re greying at the temples, regularly suffer from back pain and your knees click when you stand up, you might recall the name Carmageddon from the 1990s.\u00a0 With its focus on marmalising pedestrians, this violent sci-fi driving game managed to generate more tabloid column inches than a Beckham family fallout. Don\u2019t get too excited, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1985962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}