When comparing Driver: San Francisco vs Carmageddon: Reincarnation, the Slant community recommends Carmageddon: Reincarnation for most people. In the question“What are the best PC arcade racing games?” Carmageddon: Reincarnation is ranked 8th while Driver: San Francisco is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Carmageddon: Reincarnation is:
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.
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Pros
Pro Ability to switch between cars while driving creates interesting gameplay opportunities
The game's protagonist can Shift (teleport) between cars by possessing drivers driving them. This ability can be used creatively to avoid obstacles, getting closer to a goal or just to listen in on conversations.
Pro Good story
The game's story consists of multiple twists throughout, interesting characters in the form of a buddy-cop movie duo Tanner and Jones and their antagonist Jericho as well as a well executed thriller style presentation.
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.
Cons
Con Car's handling can be challenging
The cars can be difficult to handle as it's easy to make them drift out of control while avoiding incoming traffic.
Con In early access
The game is currently in pre-alpha development stage and as such is poorly optimized, buggy and unstable.