It’s not a game that I’d demand you to rush out and buy, but if you like racers and fancy something a bit different, you’ll not likely be disappointed. The visuals, whilst sub-par at first glance are not a distraction at all once you have you pedal to the metal. The demolition derby-style gameplay is a little more tongue-in-cheek than your usual racer. The races are heart-in-mouth affairs and really give you the feeling of speed. Multiplayer duties are handled via traditional online matchmaking, or the eight-player Party mode, whereby player take turns in stunt events.įlatOut 4: Total Insanity is a bit rough around the edges, but it’s a lot more fun to play than it deserves to be. You can pick the mode, type and track, as well as modifiers for nitro and damage, race length and even lighting. Once you unlock them, Quickplay allows you to go straight into your favourite custom solo event. Like the game needs another way to destroy cars. Finally, Assault mode adds weapons into the mix. This makes it a breakneck experience, guaranteed to end in tears. Beat the bomb is a race again a countdown, trying to travel as far as you can before the bomb goes off.Ĭarnage races are checkpoint affairs whereby your nitro is constantly filling. Basically, it is a demolition derby arena, the aim of which is to destroy as many cars as you can within a certain time limit. The deathmatch mode was much more my cup of tea. FlatOut 4: Total Insanity repairs the damage done to the series by its diabolical predecessor, but it’s not quite the return to form it could have been it simply doesn’t do enough to innovative or improve the games that came before it and struggles to find its own identity. Nowhere near as fun as the old crash mode of the Burnout games. Stunt events have you trying to propel your ragdoll driver into a physics-enabled environment in order to complete challenges. Unfortunately, if you get ahead of the pack, there goes your crazy speed boost- with no cars to hit, you can’t charge your nitro.įlatout Mode allows you to pick your event from those featured in the career mode, plus the stunt event. As you race, smashing into your opponent’s charges your nitro, propelling you at breakneck speed. The circuits themselves are a bit hit and miss, some very good, but quite a few are very similar-looking industrial settings. The Career mode has you picking a car and proceeding through a series of championships, upgrading and exchanging your car as you progress. The question was, with all that motion blur, would I notice the lack of anti-aliasing during the races?įlatOut 4: Total Insanity (or, as the publishers would have me write it, Fl4tout Total Insanity– the last time I’m typing that), is all about zany fast races featuring a range of beaten-up cars ploughing into one another. The first thing to slap me around the face after firing the game up on the Xbox One was the state of the visuals. This has left development duties with Kylotonn, who did a decent job on WRC 6, but shit the bed a little bit with WRC 5. I know that the original developer, Bugbear is now off doing their own thing with the fun and very similar, but long in gestation, Wreakfest. Whilst I’d played, and enjoyed one of its predecessors, I wasn’t sure what to make of this effort. Whilst not the quite as perfectly honed a specimen as the likes of say Forza Horizons 3, FlatOut 4 is still a very entertaining racer, and pretty exhilarating with it. Bigben’s FlatOut 4: Total Insanity had exactly the same effect on me. Five different Race types on 20 tracks, three Arena types in six arenas, and 12 different types of Stunt tracks make for endless, mindless, fun.One of the first racing games that had me holding my breath the entire lap was Bizarre Creations’ Destruction Derby 2 on the original PlayStation. We won’t go into too much detail, but let’s just say that you can have hours of playtime, and never play the same game twice. In the game setup screen for the Quick Play mode, you first choose one of three modes Race, Arena, and Stunt. If you’re mostly interested in the mindless quick modes, this game has a TON to offer you. Again, it is very repetitive, but if you value earning medals, you may be able to play for hours trying to earn gold in each game mode. Next comes the FlatOut Mode, which the game describes itself as “Sitting somewhere between racing and insanity…” Essentially, it is a progressive points mode where you earn medals the higher your points total. There are three tiers - Derby, Classic, and All Star - with each being rather interchangeable, aside from the exception of getting newer, shinier cars each tier. The game has quite a few modes, including a Career Mode where you can purchase and upgrade different cars, which adds a good collection dimension to keep you playing an otherwise repetitive, beat-em-up, racing game. While repetitive at times, it was still a game I found myself playing for hours on end.
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