![]() ![]() Carving your way through it isn’t just a vandalistic pleasure – it’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 doesn’t really do justice to either game. In fact, last year’s FlatOut 2 aped Burnout’s slick presentation and shouty music soundtrack to the extent that it was getting difficult to tell which was which. 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 Burnout’s boost system with a similar gauge powered by damage caused to the environment and inflicted on either competitor cars or the player’s own ‘rag-doll’ driver. Now, FlatOut hasn’t got Burnout’s killer feature – traffic – 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 wouldn’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 – and through – 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 EA’s brilliant Burnout series. To those of you who haven’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. Dust, dirt, smoke, water splashes and bouncing sparks.See the seven lurking somewhere at the top of this page? It’s a sad seven – a seven that could have been so much more. flatout features dynamic shadow maps for every 3D object on the track including buildings, scenery and cars making all movement in Ultimate Carnage exceptionally smooth. See every scratch and dent all with real-time environment mapping to create a grittier realistic appearance. High Jump, Stone Skipping, Ring of Fire, Field Goal and Free Kick). ![]() Additionally there are the 12 Ragdoll events which take some beating for their sheer body abuse (e.g. ![]() The Ragdoll is a unique to FlatOut - which is catapulted through your windscreen or, even better, the other driver's windscreen as they are wrecked out of the race. Hilarious Ragdoll characters catapulted in-race and in 12 crunching mini games: Up to 8 player simultaneous Live play including Races, Derbies and Stunts, plus the all-new Deathmatch Derbies and the excusive Head-On race mode. Wreck you way across parched deserts, massive storm drains and narrow city streets. Highly competitive FlatOut racing action:Ĭompete against 11 other drivers in single player modes from a choice of 48 cars on 39 tracks in 6 different environments. Deathmatch Destruction Derbies, time trials and crash filled challenges. Compete in progressively tougher championship wrecking your way through 3 classes to become the ultimate FlatOut champion. Huge number of race styles to suit your mood and preferences:Ĭareer racing. FlatOut Ultimate Carnage is arcade destruction racing at its best and most extreme with real world physics, three different game modes and offering players a wide variety of online and offline multiplayer options.įlatOut's peerless real world physics engine combines vehicles built from 40 plus deformable parts with over 8000 destructible objects per track. FlatOut Ultimate Carnage lifts destruction racing to a whole new level of bone-breaking slaughter. ![]()
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