You can put it back in by finding a rip and putting the files in the correct places, but combined with the other issues people tend to have just running the game that's a lot of extra steps for a fairly middling game. Finally, they removed the soundtrack from this version of the game. There is also more of a focus on the power ups and weapons than usual, and sometimes story missions don't tell you exactly what you need to do to complete them. Car damage is also really high once you get a few upgrades into your car and repairs are cheap, so it's usually more practical to wreck opponents than actually race. I suppose you could, if you were persistent enough and used ped zappers but it would take longer than it would in another Carmageddon game.

You can't realistically win by bashing peds the timer caps out at 5:00 and peds frequently take more than one hit. This isn't like the other Carmageddon games.

If it doesn't, should you play this game? That kind of depends. I wasn't affected by some of the other crashes that plague the forums. So, will this happen to you? I have no idea. Confronted with the possibility of having to replay almost the entire game, I'm through. I even tried installing the MAX PACK that includes a bunch of community content and a trainer in an attempt to get the game to work, but in the process made my save files incompatible. After a couple hours of troubleshooting, I'm done. And no, this would not be any of the crash reasons you'll find in the steam discussions, but a separate issue I encountered on a mission over 70% of the way through the game. I had a lot of fun for about 6 hours, but I ended up hitting a point where I could no longer progress in the game due to undocumented technical issues. To be perfectly clear, I do not think this is a bad game.

Carmageddon 2 soundtrack