FlatOut Ultimate Carnage - PC

Fast and furious?

Reviewer: Chris Hall
Review Date: 10 July 2008
Manufacturer: Empire
Price as reviewed: £29.99
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8/10

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7/10

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User: notdeadyet (profile)
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Date Posted: 11 August 2008
Review: Well..... What can I say? I was a fan of the previous 2 flatout games and seeing this bought it without reading any reviews.

erm.. I won't do that again. It's not a bad game, but to be honest it seems to me that they have simply added some HD graphics and ported it over from the Xbox, complete with all the console instructions and controls (Press A etc)

So, they ported over an xbox game. oh well, that's nothing new these days.

I am running this on a quad core PC with a single GTX8800 and have every graphics option turned up full. It does look good, it does sound good but compared to flatout 2, the gameplay is the same, tracks are the same (a few new ones in there though) and it suffers the same old problems of:

"magnetic" cars (when other cars crash into you they send you flying, but when you crash into them 9 times out of ten they stick to the front of your car slowing you down , and you can't shake them off)

"start at the back" yes, every race, no matter where I finished in the previous one I always start at the back

"upgrades don't seem to do anything" speaks volumes that. I spent all my money on upgrading a single car and yet every other car on the grid gets away before me and seems faster. The car does not seem to benefit from any upgrade at all.

I'm maybe being a little unfair to it, but those little "niggles" get me quite annoyed, and I could easily imagine a tantrum prone teenager smashing his (or her) computer keyboard/wheel/joypad in frustration at them. The destruction derby bits are great fun on thier own though.

So, to sum up, If they would get rid of those little problems it could be a winner,
Pros: Graphics - they really are very very good.

Music - good choice of tracks.
Cons: as above, "magnetic" cars, usless upgrades, having to start at the back all the time and very much the same gameplay and tracks as flatout 2.
Score: 7/10
Rating: 44 people have rated this review helpful