![]() ![]() To try and keep things interesting in this mode, the game rewards you for smashing up the competition so the less hiding you do the better your overall score! Time Trials are also available here you should know what those are! Other than that there are a few online options, letting you race with up to eight other players, so you can spread the carnage globally and also a selection of 45 achievements spread between both on and offline mode. Up next is ‘Derby’ which is the game’s take on a destruction derby. This mode has many different events such as High Jump, Darts, Ski Jump, Stone-Skipping and Field Goal so your driver is in for lots of pain. All the events revolve around the same theme of driving fast and then ejecting your driver from the car at the right time and hoping he hits a target, goes far enough or high enough. ‘Stunt’ is next which is a mode unique to the series and allows you to participate in a selection of mini-games, these are playable for up to 4 player offline, which will let you abuse the poor driver in certain ways. First is ‘Race’ which allows you to take part in a race with any car on any track. Clicking on ‘Single’ opens up a few more options. The other modes on show help add slightly to the game’s longevity. It’s all hardly revolutionary, and if you are at all familiar with racing games you will have seen it umpteen times before, but you can’t criticize a perfectly functional system that has been around this long. ![]() Wining races, or placing in the top three, then gets you more money to either buy new cars or upgraded your current car. From the outset you are limited to buying only Derby class cars but soon thereafter Race or Street classes open up offering more variety as you advance. Just like all racing careers, FlatOut’s starts with you buying your first car and then entering each event with the hope of becoming the champion. As you would expect ‘FlatOut’ is the game career mode, a career that takes place over 30 different cups, and around 100 different races. Upon first starting the game, aspiring ‘FallOuters’ are presented with four different racing options, FlatOut, Carnage, Xbox Live and Single events. Regrettably, with the next ten, and then the ten after, that initial fun really does start to fade. However, regardless of the glaring similarities, I will try my best to steer away from direct comparisons and, at least for the first few paragraphs, let the game sink or swim under its own weight.įor me, first impressions are everything, and even though playing FlatOut Ultimate Carnage feels like a journey back to early 2006, when every second game that appeared on the Xbox 360 was an upgraded port with “ brand new exciting features“, the impression it makes upon first play, with its thirst for pure unbridled, wanton destruction, is quite a good one! In fact, I dare say anyone that plays the game would come away signing its praises after playing the first ten events. Even before starting this review, the urge to blurt out the name Burnout is a very strong one. ![]()
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