When comparing Carmageddon: Reincarnation vs Spintires, the Slant community recommends Spintires for most people. In the question“What are the best Driving games on Steam?” Spintires is ranked 3rd while Carmageddon: Reincarnation is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Spintires is:
You do not see games like this much, it is kind of niche product. As going trough rugged terrain with hulking Soviet machines tends to be a pretty niche genre/style of game.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great damage mechanics
It's possible to thoroughly damage and destroy each vehicle in the game. And the game highly encourages such behaviour with one of the more commonly achieved winning conditions being to destroy the competition.
Pro Public beta released
As of February 14th 2015 the public beta has been released for Carmageddon: Reincarnation. This includes all cars, levels and multiplayer, the full game.
Pro Unique title
You do not see games like this much, it is kind of niche product. As going trough rugged terrain with hulking Soviet machines tends to be a pretty niche genre/style of game.
Pro Has Steam Workshop support
You can get all the mod's etc through Steam Workshop, which creates a community where one can enjoy the added elements brought forth by the available mods.
Cons
Con In early access
The game is currently in pre-alpha development stage and as such is poorly optimized, buggy and unstable.
Con Camera can be unweildy
There is no cockpit camera view in the game, the only camera view is this odd over the shoulder camera that can make it tough to see what one is doing while driving. It does help when trying to hook up to and pull another truck out of the mud, but an additional camera view would be helpful for driving in particular.