![]() ![]() The destructible scenery here is more than just for fun, though - in fact, it's nigh on essential to your progress through the ranks. If we put on our sleuthing hat for a second, this may have something to do with developer Kylotonn's history - having worked on WRC 5 and 6, this is a team that's used to putting together realistic rally sims, as opposed to mad arcade racers - and that may have meant the "realism" slider ended up more to the one side than it really should be. For a game that's meant to be all about the crashing and smashing, it's actually quite hard to do too much that's too physical, because you'll just find yourself spinning out all the time. The slightest knock from another car is enough to send you pirouetting, while even gentle bends can see you spinning completely out of control, especially on wet, or muddy surfaces. What's really new here is the handling - and that's what causes most of the game's problems.Īlthough your cars may look like they weight a veritable tonne, they tend to handle like they're made of jelly instead. Although the courses you'll be racing round are certainly up to snuff, as they're packed with multiple routes, many a shortcut, and plenty of destructible scenery, the majority seem to have been recycled from the earlier Flatout games. ![]() However, the racing in Flatout 4 isn't quite as fun as you'd imagine. Finishing higher up the rankings will earn you money, which in turn lets you buy more upgrades, and brand new (or, less old?) cars. Kept completely separate from the mini-game mayhem, the career mode instead sees you buying (and upgrading) a car, as you take part in a huge range of mini-tournaments, with each offering 2-4 races for you to trade paintwork in. If we're totally honest, while it may be expansive, Flatout 4's main career mode is a little bit underwhelming. Yet despite its best efforts, Flatout is still one of those weird kinds of games, like Super Monkey Ball, where the bit you're meant to play barely gets touched, and the throw away silly mini-games, where you'll use your poor driver as a projectile to compete in a variety of nutty contests, are the things that end up stealing your life. For those looking for something substantial to sink their teeth into, there's a beefy main "career" style mode, where you'll compete in races, put your foot to the floor in tricky time trials, and yes, even take part in some destruction derbies. With a new developer at the helm (again - the game's been passed around developers ever since Flatout: Ultimate Carnage, which was essentially Flatout 2), Flatout is a game divided into two chunks. ![]()
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