This game will throw you out of the car
So what makes Flatout different from other games? You can complete the single player portion of this game playing like traditional racing games but doing so you will miss the fundamental fun part of this game. The fun that you will get from hitting opponents cars, forcing them to hit various objects – can’t be expressed in words.
In this review I will only talk about single player portion because unfortunately I couldn’t play online – every time I tried to join a multiplayer game, it shows no player and hosting game doesn’t work because it need at least three players to play online game. I also tried Gamespy, but no result. But I know maximum eight players can play an online race.
Let’s focus on single player part. There are total three cups in the game – bronze, silver and gold. Bronze has 9, silver 12 and gold 15 races. You have to unlock previous races to unlock the new ones and same goes for cups. All the races take place in five different tracks – snow, construction area, racing track, muddy track and rural town area. And another interesting part of Flatout is collection of some weird and bizarre bonus games; these include bowling, high jump, long jump, clown, dart, bullseye. You can think how can a racing game possibly be related with bowling, jumping. And there comes the surprising fact – you will use the driver; I mean yourself as a ball, dart and jumping material, sound interesting? It is. There are also 3 destruction types’ games in bonus section – like last man standing. You will play against 7 other players and try to eliminate all to win the event.
A review for racing game can’t be completed without telling about its car collection. This game has total 16 cars in 3 class category. Last two sets will be locked as you finished bronze and silver cup. The main differences between these cars are in weight and horse power. Later cars are heavier and have more HP, but they are hard to control. I tried different cars and found that 2nd class cars are the best.
Graphics of this game are really shinny and realistic. Character model looks very nice, you will see lots of animations, structures, objects. Most of the objects are breakable. Cars models are awesome looking, seem I am watching some game on TV. I want to finish the review by writing some sentences on sound and music. Sound like clashes between cars, hitting something has made this game more enjoyable to play. But the music tracks are in a world - rocks, I don’t remember how many tracks they put in this game, but all songs are really pleasant to hear and I have to say this game has one of the best music tracks I ever played.
People who like any kind of racing game – Flatout is must buy for them; because Flatout 2 is already out in the market, this game became really cheap. So get it.