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CarnEvil is set in the fictional town of Greely Valley, Iowa. The main character (called "Jacob" in the manual) is riding a tractor-drawn trailer that serves as the transport of Spooky Sam's Ghost Tour. The tour embarks on a path through the town cemetery. According to local legend, if a golden token is inserted into the mouth of the jester's head on top of the tombstone of a Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker, a haunted and twisted amusement park will rise from the depths.

The main character decides to leave the tour with his friend Lisa to investigate this legend, where he finds the tombstone in question. He approaches the tombstone to find a golden token sitting in a small hole beneath it. Surprised, the main character inserts the coin into the stone jester's mouth. As described in the legend, the jester head comes to life and raises the legendary undead carnival from the ground. As the entire cemetery is transformed, the main character obtains a shotgun from the shooting gallery at the entrance to fight his way through hordes of monsters, zombies, and insects to escape.

The areas of CarnEvil can be played in any order, except for the "Big Top" area which is always played last. The Player visits all of these areas, one of which is "Rickety Town". A dangerous roller coaster called "Slay Ride" and demonic elves await him, along with a zombie bumper car mechanic, monstrous dinosaur mascots and flying bug-like creatures. "Krampus", a Santa Claus-like monster with huge claws and a bag of coal as weapons, serves as the end-of-level boss.

The Player also visits the "Haunted House" and battles through hordes of zombies, spiders, ghosts and bats. Amongst these creatures, he battles "Hambone", a large Jason Voorhees-like creature with a chaingun for his left hand. "Hambone" returns later on in a second fight with a skull launcher replacing the chaingun as his weapon. The boss of the level is a frightening ghoul named "Evil Marie" (apparently based on Marie Antoinette), who, after being defeated, is impaled by a spike on a tombstone.

The third area the Player visits is the "Freak Show", where he fights many deformed "freaks", makes his way through undead attractions and fights off tortured maniac zombies. "Eyeclops", a 2-headed ogre with eyes all over his body, serves as a mini-boss halfway through the level. After making his way through a twisted food factory, Jacob fights and defeats "Junior", a giant Frankenstein-like baby who is then electrocuted. An alternate boss for the "Freak Show" is "Deaddy", a giant zombie teddy bear, which was included as an extra option in case Junior was considered too scary for children. "Deaddy" can be accessed in the machine options.

The Player finally makes it to the "Big Top", a 3-ring circus with twisted versions of clowns, mimes, poodles and winged pig-people. Taking an elevator to the top, Jacob makes his way onto the airship floating above CarnEvil and finally battles Tökkentäkker himself on the deck. After destroying Umlaut the jester, Tökkentäkker is finally killed when Jacob shoots him off the deck and into the airship propellers. The airship then bursts into flame and the player is sent plummeting to the ground.

Jacob awakens the next morning in a pile of leaves in the cemetery, which has been restored to normal, next to Lisa. In front of him is the Tökkentäkker tombstone where he sees the token reappear in its slot. Ignoring Lisa's protests, he puts the coin back in Umlaut's mouth for a repeat performance.

Gameplay

CarnEvil consists of four levels, each ending with a boss fight. The first three levels can be played in any order, but the fourth cannot be accessed unless the first three are cleared. The players shoot enemies on the screen while progressing through amusement park-themed horror environments. The gameplay is considerably violent and features strong bloody scenes throughout.

Occasionally, Lisa will appear amidst a group of monsters as an innocent. Shooting Lisa when she appears earns a life penalty, but does not garner any long-term consequences or changes to the game.

Power-ups can be found throughout the game. These include a machine gun, shotgun, flame thrower, acid bath and an increase to the maximum number of bullets. They can be obtained by shooting floating icons, such as a shotgun cartridge or a tank of acid, and cannot be reloaded. Grabbing these power-ups also provides bonus points to the player.

Environments

Haunted House- A Victorian-style mansion surrounded by a graveyard and posing as a dark ride, filled with zombies, ghouls, spiders, bats, and other Halloween favorites. The player enters through the foyer and fights their way through the den, hallways, and kitchen before ascending to the second floor and onto the roof where one of the wagons knocks the players into the graveyard for the boss fight.

Rickety Town- A traditional carnival setting focusing on familiar sights such as roller coasters, a Ferris wheel, bumper cars, flat rides, game stalls, and even a food court. The most prominent ride is the Christmas-themed "Slay Ride" roller coaster which delivers the player to an ice skating rink to face the boss character.

Freak Show- A boardwalk-style sideshow of the bizarre and astounding featuring a host of deformed opponents which make this stage particularly disturbing. The player begins in the freak exhibition and from there fights monsters in a museum of oddities, a monkey cage, and then a Tower of London-themed torture exhibition. A macabre assembly line beneath the Chamber delivers the player to a gigantic playpen to face the boss.

Ludwig von Tökkentäkker's Big Top- An immense circus tent swarming with undead clowns, mimes, and circus animals - this is the main attraction of the nightmarish carnival. Ascending the big top by means of cannon, trapeze, and tightrope allows you to reach Ludwig von Tökkentäkker's zeppelin where the final battle takes place.

[edit] Characters

* Player 1 ("Jacob") - A local teenager and the protagonist of the game. After hearing the legend of CarnEvil, he takes Spooky Sam's Ghost Tour through the local Greely Valley Cemetery to see whether the stories are true. When he sees the professor's grave, he ditches the Ghost Tour and foolishly puts the token into the mouth of the Jester Skull. As Tökkentäkker and his minions emerge from the depths of the earth, the player learns that CarnEvil is beyond anything the legend described and grabs a pump-action shotgun from the shooting gallery, realizing that he must either fight his way out or die in the evil amusement park.

* Ludwig von Tökkentäkker - The creator and owner of CarnEvil and the main antagonist of the game, Ludwig takes on all challengers and won't back down. He's always seen in a ringmaster outfit and brown hair, his weapons of choice being a musket and the use of fireworks. Although he is mentioned quite frequently, Ludwig only appears during the opening cutscene and in the final level when you reach him and he becomes the final boss.

* Umlaut - A floating skull with a jester hat and sharp needle teeth; the game's secondary antagonist, he only serves Ludwig von Tökkentäkker and will answer to no one else. He is known for taunting the player with rhymes and poems during the loading screens and frequent images of him can be seen throughout CarnEvil. He becomes a sub-boss just before the final battle with Ludwig von Tökkentäkker.

* Lisa - A teenage resident of Greely Valley, Iowa, Lisa reluctantly agreed to go along with her friends on the "Spooky Sam Ghost Tour" through the cemetery. Little did they know that this would be the night that CarnEvil would return. She is now helplessly trapped within the twisted walls of CarnEvil until Jacob saves her.