FlatOut

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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 28 Ratings

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  • Summary: Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around 45 challenging tracks in one of 16 fully upgradeable cars. Fences will shatter, tyre walls will explode, water tanks and barrels will fly across the track into other cars. Every time you lose control, you will truly feel theExperience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around 45 challenging tracks in one of 16 fully upgradeable cars. Fences will shatter, tyre walls will explode, water tanks and barrels will fly across the track into other cars. Every time you lose control, you will truly feel the weight of the car as it collides with and destroys a barn, or smashes into the pack of cars ahead of you, and with 40 deformable pieces on every car sparks are guaranteed to fly! Anything you destroy or alter stays a part of the race, increasing the carnage to unprecedented levels! Broken fences, free rolling tyres, and even mangled parts of cars are left scattered around the track, increasing the mayhem with every lap. An extensive championship mode will keep you 'FlatOut' for months on end, as you battle through a huge variety of races, mini-games and the most outrageous arenas of destruction you could possibly imagine. Unparalleled realistic scenery and debris damage with fully destructible driving environments with 3000 + items on each track to smash. [Empire Interactive]… Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 30
  3. Negative: 4 out of 30
  1. Computer and Video Games
    90
    Get FlatOut and prepare for the most fun you've had since that day you laughed so much you splurted milk through your nose. It's one of those driving games that tickles all your fun buttons at once, leaving you with a massive grin.
  2. Worth Playing
    90
    Tight car handling, a career mode that's fun without being too technically involved (unlike "Gran Turismo 4" or "SegaGT") and that same sense of speed we've come to love as of late in our racing titles establish Flatout as a worthy companion, if not successor, to "Burnout 3."
  3. Total Video Games
    80
    The ‘instant gratification’ test from Flatout is very high which is always a good marker. Flatout does not profess to be anything but an out and out ‘revving foot on the pedal and try to waste the opposition’ game.
  4. IGN
    75
    In stark contrast to racing proper, the developers at Bugbear have neglected to take FlatOut's bonus mode far enough. I don't think they knew what they had with this extra mode until it was too late.
  5. Edge Magazine
    70
    This is a game that’s as riotously entertaining as it is viciously random... It’s gleeful automobile slapstick, but not for anyone who values skill and achievement more than taking a wrecking ball to their opponents’ racing lines. [Dec 2005, p.114]
  6. Game Informer
    65
    FlatOut desperately wants to be the trailer park version of EA's slicker racer, but without the polish, it succeeds in being only a pale imitation. [Aug 2005, p.98]
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  7. Cheat Code Central
    40
    FlatOut has all the makings of a great budget games, except that it's not great and that it's not budget priced.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. SanttuR.
    Jul 18, 2005
    10
    Very Good!!!
  2. MattiS.
    Nov 8, 2004
    10
    Ultimately the best race game on ps2 .. after burnout 3.
  4. MarkoE.
    May 17, 2005
    10
    Perrkeleen kovaa menoa.. Kyllä me suomessakin osataan :D aright.. flatout rlz.
  5. MichaelR.
    Nov 9, 2004
    9
    Suberb destruction derby, great fun.
  6. aspentitan
    Oct 15, 2020
    9
    Pretty incredible race game for the ps2. This game is extremely immersive with a racing wheel the steering and terrain differences feel right,Pretty incredible race game for the ps2. This game is extremely immersive with a racing wheel the steering and terrain differences feel right, as do the jumps, rolls and crash physics. The game is just all around excellent and has several modes. I keep playing this and can't believe such a great racing game existed back in 2005 on the ps2. It's not so much the racing as the feel and it's implementation and pretty soon you are immersed and back for another play. Most other racing games kinda bore you this one certainly doesn't, at least with all the feedback felt through a steering wheel. The only real knock I have on the game is it does have some rubber banding effect but I have not made it to the higher hardcore races yet so it's possible this is only an entry level issue. I guess the load times are a little long with 15/20 second naps between races but worth the wait. Other race games have higher audio and video quality as well but for a ps2 era both these are at par or better with the system. Crashes and physics in the game rank as best in class on the system, sorry gt4. The game isn't really all that massive either it has a few modes which are gimmicky but I enjoy the main mode enough to rate this as the best arcade/sim hybrid ps2 game. For me, what's here is quality over quantity to my tastebuds likings.… Expand
  7. Untitled94
    Sep 9, 2017
    7
    I pretty much feel the same way about this version as I do the Xbox version, so to see a fuller review of this, look at the Xbox version onI pretty much feel the same way about this version as I do the Xbox version, so to see a fuller review of this, look at the Xbox version on here. It's not great, but still fun to play.… Expand
  8. Broyax
    Apr 4, 2017
    1
    L'arcade pourquoi pas mais pas quand c'est aussi bâclé et mal foutu, non, non. A dire vrai, cette espèce de "licence" tombée d'une trappe àL'arcade pourquoi pas mais pas quand c'est aussi bâclé et mal foutu, non, non. A dire vrai, cette espèce de "licence" tombée d'une trappe à ordures est coutumière du fait : ses itérations successives entêtées lui vaudraient presque une invitation mercredi soir. Presque.… Expand

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