I lost count of the number of times I had to restart races due to random physics issues, with one notable incident being when my car decided to flip onto its roof, on a flat road with nobody nearby. General handling works well, but even the heaviest cars are lighter than paper, and they bump around so erratically that it’s sometimes impossible to keep pointed in the right direction. In suitably explosive fashion.īut the physics. Almost everything is destructible, from the fences and walls that line the tracks, to the cars themselves – indeed, each car actually has a health bar and if it’s depleted…boom. The racing itself is ridiculous, with destruction being the name of the game. The end result is somewhere between Motorstorm and Burnout Paradise, and it’s instantly manageable.
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Once you’ve chosen your starting vehicle, you’ll set off in your first race and discover that the handling is actually quite fun and responsive, straddling the line between full arcade speed and the semi-realism of games like PGR. Career mode is the place to unlock most things. There’s a large amount of content, with tonnes of tracks and cars, but almost all of it is locked at the start. Pick a race type, track and vehicle and off you go Multiplayer is there too (though obviously there’s nobody online at the time of writing, so the quality of the online multiplayer is currently a mystery) with the option to play locally with up to 8 players in a turn-based capacity – no split screen is a disappointment, but Career is where you’ll want to begin. Upon booting up the game, the main menu offers plenty of options from the start at least, with FlatOut mode being a kind of arcade challenge mode, Quick Play being…well, just that, really. It’s a very average game that suffers because of some strange design choices, which makes it all the more sad when you realise how good it could have been. It’s just not particularly great, either.
It’s not an entirely bad game, it should be said. Or maybe it’s just worth knowing from the start, that FlatOut 4 is not the game that should have relaunched this seemingly forgotten series. Is that a bad way to start this review? Maybe. It takes a lot to bother me THAT much, but FlatOut 4: Total Insanity has the honour of being one of those rare games to make me quit in sheer frustration at its glaring faults. If you are the type of person that likes an over-the-top racing game, then this is the game for you.It’s rare that I switch off a game in disgust.
You can hit and smash into things on and around the road too. The game plays more like a destruction derby game in that cars get smashed up and pieces go flying as you hit things. The Environment And Cars Are Destructible The Japanese players were also subject to similar censorship, but they were allowed to keep the demolition derby mode with ten tracks.
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The Germans didn’t like the fact that the driver could shoot out of the car and fall to the ground or into objects like crash test dummies, so such elements were removed from the game in Germany. You can play mini games in the car, but some of them were removed because they made the humans inside act like crash dummies.
The car has three classes, which are street car, race car and derby. There are also games that are similar to stone skipping where your character is nudged and bounced like a flat stone on water. There are even mini-games where the goal is to shoot yourself out of the car onto a target. In this game, if you hit something such as a wall, then your driver comes flying out of the car. Racing gamers have been spoilt over the years when it comes to things such as rag doll effects, but back in 2006, it was a big deal to have greatly updated rag doll effects on the game. You can skid around corners if you wish, or you can change your tyre grip to take more controlled corners. It means you can change your tyres and the way you drive. The first game didn’t allow you to control the grip on your car tyres, but this version does. This sequel has more of a street racing feel to it, which is hardly surprising after the success of the Fast & Furious movies that were released around that time. It is the second game after the 2004 FlatOut game. The racing game that the Germans tried to censor.įlatOut 2 is a racing game that was developed by Bugbear Entertainment and was published by Vivendi Universal Games and Empire Interactive in 2006.
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