In it, you must fling your driver out of the car with the cross button and try and get him to do spectacular things in the air. Unlike normal time trials, you can use nitro boost in this mode and you gain it by jumps and smashing things. Beat the Bomb tasks you with racing from checkpoint to checkpoint fast enough that a time countdown doesn’t reach zero blowing you up. I honestly did not care for this mode as the small amount of points you would get for doing stuff made it really hard to win. Carnage races are about racking up points by crashing into cars and scenery. Luckily this does not kill you and you will reset on the track, it’s just a spectacular novelty to watch.įinally, there’s the more gimmicky FlatOut mode, where you compete in ‘Carnage’ races, ‘Beat the Bomb’ time trials, and ‘stunts’. Like in past Flatout games if you hit something hard enough your driver will fly out of the windshield. The destruction in this game never gets old I love smashing into things like buildings and seeing them break into pieces while rewarding me for doing so. You also gain nitro speed boosts by crashing into cars, making jumps, and smashing scenery.
Both you and your opponents have health and if you run out you are out of the race, and that might sound like a lot of pressure, but the same can be done to them. Even better, they won’t be this way just to you they will race like this with the other AI cars, giving you a chance to pass them while they have at one another. They are never scared to crash you out just to pass you, and in this type of arcade racer, this is exactly what you want.
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To make sure that those safe drivers don’t just cruise around looking for all the other cars to do the work on each other, racers are automatically eliminated if you they crash into another car in a set amount of time.
Here you’re thrown into a Demolition Derby-type race where you must get points by crashing into other cars and by wrecking them. The other mode worth mentioning is ‘survivor’, and this one is a bit different. I’m not usually that good at time trials, but here I felt like I had a chance. Time trials is another standard mode, but the good news here is that the set times that the game asks you to beat are manageable. These have weapons, and are decent fun at first, but too often luck was involved in winning these luckily, then, that you don’t need to actually win the race to advance to the next one, and the AI is complex enough in the distribution of points across races that it’s possible to do poorly in a race or two but still come out on top overall. In career mode, you race in cups consisting of between three and five races, and sometimes one of the races will be an ‘assault mode’ race. You’ll only have a couple of different cars to choose between at first, but more will unlock as you play along… provided that you’ve got the cash for them. The meat of the game is the career mode, which will not surprise anyone with what it offers, but it’s all well put together. Thankfully that was not the case, because while I went into FlatOut 4 with minimal expectations, I came away happily surprised.
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Sure the first two, in a series that stretches back as far as 2004, had been decent enough, but FlatOut 3 was that bad that it should have been a franchise ending event.
FlatOut 4 is a sequel to an absolutely terrible game.
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