#FLATOUT 2 REVIEW DRIVER#

We could compare polygon counts and dynamic lighting systems, but all you really need to know is that Ultimate Carnage takes one of the best-looking racers of the last generation and makes it one of the best-looking racers of this one. However, where other developers would be content to slap an extra layer of polish on the Xbox version and release it like that, Bugbear has taken the opportunity to make a kind of uber-FlatOut a FlatOut with everything turned up to eleven. This might not sound like the foundations of a great arcade racer, and neither will the fact that FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage is essentially a reworking of FlatOut 2, but for the Xbox 360. Think of FlatOut, then, as the sort of game that Jeremy Clarkson, Quentin Tarantino and Johnny Knoxville might come up with if they had been put in charge of the Burnout franchise. Carving your way through it isnвЂ™t just a vandalistic pleasure вЂ“ itвЂ™s also a way of earning vital supplies of boost, and the same goes for smacking into rival cars. Each track is festooned with rickety buildings, fences, oil tanks, carelessly abandoned furniture and scrapped vehicles, and the vast majority of it is designed to be knocked about, wrecked and destroyed. At its best, Burnout is all about the near-miss about plotting your way through the traffic, taking calculated risks, chaining boosts together and avoiding collisions. Of course, this doesnвЂ™t really do justice to either game. In fact, last yearвЂ™s FlatOut 2 aped BurnoutвЂ™s slick presentation and shouty music soundtrack to the extent that it was getting difficult to tell which was which.

#FLATOUT 2 REVIEW DRIVER#

And while Burnout has its Crash mode, FlatOut has its destruction derbys and stunt modes, where players compete in a series of bizarre events centred on throwing the driver through the windscreen at high speed towards a set of skittles or a series of flaming hoops.

It copies BurnoutвЂ™s boost system with a similar gauge powered by damage caused to the environment and inflicted on either competitor cars or the playerвЂ™s own вЂrag-dollвЂ™ driver.

Now, FlatOut hasnвЂ™t got BurnoutвЂ™s killer feature вЂ“ traffic вЂ“ but it offers an alternative with arguably the most interactive and destructible environments of any racer. You might want to go on holiday to Burnout-land (though you probably wouldnвЂ™t want to hire a car) but a visit to FlatOut-ville would probably be a bit like Deliverance. Both series focus on high-speed, adrenaline fuelled arcade racing with an emphasis on vehicular destruction, but where Burnout made its name with sleek machines and glossy, predominantly urban environments, FlatOut takes its action into the boondocks, with the tracks running around вЂ“ and through вЂ“ hick lakeside resorts, timber yards, industrial towns and farmsteads. Despite awards and critical acclaim, FlatOut has sometimes been dismissed as the dumb country cousin of EAвЂ™s brilliant Burnout series. To those of you who havenвЂ™t come across the franchise before, this might be a surprise. The fact is that, in my opinion, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage is so close to being the best arcade racer on the planet that it hurts.

Race hard and collide with up to 6 of your friends online in the souped up car of your dreams.See the seven lurking somewhere at the top of this page? ItвЂ™s a sad seven вЂ“ a seven that could have been so much more.

Enjoy the mayhem while listening to a slamming soundtrack from artists including Rob Zombie, Papa Roach, Fall Out Boy, Nickelback, Wolfmother and more!.

34 vehicles to wreck, 12 rag-doll mini games, 60 track combinations, and thousands and thousands of destructible objects.

Twice as many vehicles, a more sophisticated career mode, additional race environments, double the number of tracks twice as many mini-games along with many multiplayer modes (via LAN only) are just some of the exhaustive features that are included in FlatOut 2. With over 5000 destructible objects on each track and 40 deformable pieces on every car sparks are guaranteed to fly increasing the mayhem with every lap!ДЇeaturing an enhanced version of the original's lauded physics engine and even faster driving track designs, FlatOut 2 also boasts a plethora of improvements, enhancements and additions to make this the definitive FlatOut experience. And if anyone, including you, gets caught up in a big smash sit back and watch as the driver gets catapulted through the windscreen in spectacular effect. Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.

Flatout 2 review