Each track is festooned with rickety buildings, fences, oil tanks, carelessly abandoned furniture and scrapped vehicles, and the vast majority of it is designed to be knocked about, wrecked and destroyed. At its best, Burnout is all about the near-miss about plotting your way through the traffic, taking calculated risks, chaining boosts together and avoiding collisions. Of course, this doesn’t really do justice to either game. ![]() In fact, last year’s FlatOut 2 aped Burnout’s slick presentation and shouty music soundtrack to the extent that it was getting difficult to tell which was which. And while Burnout has its Crash mode, FlatOut has its destruction derbys and stunt modes, where players compete in a series of bizarre events centred on throwing the driver through the windscreen at high speed towards a set of skittles or a series of flaming hoops. It copies Burnout’s boost system with a similar gauge powered by damage caused to the environment and inflicted on either competitor cars or the player’s own ‘rag-doll’ driver. Now, FlatOut hasn’t got Burnout’s killer feature – traffic – but it offers an alternative with arguably the most interactive and destructible environments of any racer. You might want to go on holiday to Burnout-land (though you probably wouldn’t want to hire a car) but a visit to FlatOut-ville would probably be a bit like Deliverance. Both series focus on high-speed, adrenaline fuelled arcade racing with an emphasis on vehicular destruction, but where Burnout made its name with sleek machines and glossy, predominantly urban environments, FlatOut takes its action into the boondocks, with the tracks running around – and through – hick lakeside resorts, timber yards, industrial towns and farmsteads. Despite awards and critical acclaim, FlatOut has sometimes been dismissed as the dumb country cousin of EA’s brilliant Burnout series. To those of you who haven’t come across the franchise before, this might be a surprise. ![]() The fact is that, in my opinion, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage is so close to being the best arcade racer on the planet that it hurts. Xbox 360 Game InstallationFlatOut: Ultimate Carnage requires 4.9GB of space to install on an Xbox 360 HDD.See the seven lurking somewhere at the top of this page? It’s a sad seven – a seven that could have been so much more. The Classic Crime - Blisters and Coffee.StuntsThere are 12 different types of stunts to play all of which use the Rag Doll Physics: This is a turn based game mode using one controller. Party Mode2 to 8 players can compete against each other in any of the single player mode stunts. Bonus tracks, like a figure-8 track, which are unlocked by playing through the FlatOut and Carnage modes are also playable here. Single Events Unlockable rides include a Semi and a School Bus.In the Single Events mode you can choose to compete in a race of your choice specifying the time of day and the number of laps etc, any of the stunts, a destruction derby and time trials. There are also power ups which pop-up around the arena which you can use to your advantage but you have to pick them up quick before the AI drivers do. You score points by ramming into the AI cars and destroying them. Deathmatch Derby - In a Deathmatch Derby its you against the AI computer drivers in an enclosed arena. ![]() Stunts - Utilizing the Rag Doll Physics you play a series of 12 mini-games such as Bowling, where you literally launch the driver of the car out the windshield in order to knock down the pins.The further around the track you drive the more points you score. Beat the Bomb - In Beat the Bomb mode you have to drive as fast as you can before the timer runs out and the bomb in the back of the car explodes.Its not all about racing though as the higher up the field you are the more of a multiplier you receive to your score. Carnage Race - Carnage Racing is a race where crashing into objects and other drivers scores you points.Carnage Mode is a series of 39 challenges spread across 4 different game types: You start out with $5000 to buy your first car and then from there you can compete in races, rising though the rankings and win prize money and trophies which you can spend on upgrading your car or buying new cars.Ĭarnage Mode Huge explosions are the norm in this game. Game Modes FlatOut ModeFlatOut Mode is the games career mode. Rag Doll Physics are also used when drivers are catapulted from their vehicles in crashes and in mini games such as bowling, high jump and long jump. It features multiple game modes, 8 player online multiplayer modes, 48 cars and 39 tracks in 6 different environments all with destructible scenery. OverviewFlatOut: Ultimate Carnage is a graphically enhanced and updated version of FlatOut 2 and is a racing game which is very similar to the Destruction Derby, Full Auto and Burnout games.
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