Sometimes this catch-up gets a little unfair and it feels like it’s biased towards previous race results but generally it tries to keep you amongst the action.
FLATOUT 2 STUNTS DRIVERS
The auto catch-up system that slows or speeds up the AI drivers depending on your position is reasonably good. Owning a fast car and a heavy car in all three classes, Derby, Race and Street will hold you in good stead to complete on top. You can buy upgrades for all the vehicles which range from engine to body alterations, although they don’t change appearance only the stats. Of course these heavy cars are slower and in shorter racers or time trials you will require a faster upgraded vehicle that you will need to purchase at the car shop using credits earned for winning events. In most races a heavier vehicle is a good choice, it has a higher damage tolerance preventing being wrecked easily, and it has a higher weight to wreck other cars and to crash through barriers without being bumped or knocked from race line. The AI is fairly good and can be quite aggressive at times so it’s vital to be aware of their position on the track around you. Essentially you’ll be driving defensively, covering your line, knocking others out when you have a good chance to continue without issue. In FlatOut mode you get bonuses for causing crashes via extra nitro but if you can’t successfully pull off a collision and recover quickly the chances of getting a podium finished are reduced. The mode you’ll probably be spending the most time with is the FlatOut race mode.įlatOut mode is all about racing, avoiding being crashed into and getting to the front position. This mode is later extended in Carnage with powerups that increase car weight, increase hit damage or restore your car’s health. Along with the race modes you’ll get derbies, which are basically just small confined areas where your objective is to crash into others while protecting yourself. It’s worth noting that although the tracks do repeat they often change the time of day so things look a little different even if you are still going the same way on the same road. The quality extends to the tracks, which are nicely lighted and feature guard rails on corners to keep the car in forward motion. There are suitable and not overdone blur effects when nitro is engaged, the sparks, dust and dirt effects are also excellent to see in motion. Graphically UC is also a pretty nice looking game it’s very clean, cars start off shiny and crisp with a nice chrome finish and end up looking like a mangled mess barely dragging themselves across the finish line. Thankfully the physics objects in UC won’t knock you around as much as FlatOut 2, so small objects won’t send you flying and only partially impede your steering around corners.
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The included tracks are very similar to FlatOut 2 and it’s a pity there aren’t more new tracks here, but the existing ones are well constructed with jumps and alternate routes. Damaging cars and the environment adds to your nitro boost helping you speed up if you’ve just had a relatively large crash. There are easily hundreds of physics objects to destroy or otherwise send flying about, and cars get suitably damaged during the course of a race, especially longer races.
FLATOUT 2 STUNTS DRIVER
You can then manoeuvre your driver in the air or launch him further with a nudge.Īs a pure arcade destructive racer FlatOut UC thrives on its own. To perform a stunt you simply drive a car to a launch zone then force your driver to crash out and fly through the windscreen into the air at a certain angle and speed. The stunts associated with both carnage and race mode range from ski jumps, goal scoring, darts, cards and ten pin bowling.
FLATOUT 2 STUNTS SERIES
Carnage mode is a tiered series of races and stunts in which you attempt to get points to unlock the next events, which includes a beat the bomb race mode. FlatOut mode is like the previous games, a series of events in which you need a podium finish in races to progress, also featuring unlockable stunts and time trials once events have been completed. It has two broad game modes, FlatOut and Carnage, along with single race events and multiplayer. As you slam into undisturbed items you get a nitro boost, you also get boosts for crashing into AI opponents encouraging you to smash each other in order to gain speed and the lead. Like FO2 the race tracks are littered with objects like barrels, cars, barns, rocks, lampposts and devastation is created by simply racing around a track crashing into things either on purpose or accidentally.
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It’s a highly polished version of FlatOut 2 with a few new modes, graphical enhancements and gameplay tweaks.
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FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage is an arcade racing game featuring high speed crashes and loads of destruction.