![]() Your nitro juice increases with every scrape and the harder the shunt, the more boost you're awarded. It's simply impossible to make it around the first corner without getting into a scrape, unless you hang back and follow the pack around - but where's the fun in that? Besides, there's another reason why, apart from being a laugh, causing chaos increases your chances of victory. The on-track carnage hits you the moment the starting light turns green at the beginning of your first race. You can play it clean by weaving through the pack and powersliding around the corners perfectly to edge out in front, or you can get dirty and ram, shunt and shove your way into pole position.ĭrivers, yourself included, are catapulted through windscreens during nasty crashes. In that sense - actually, in every sense - FlatOut is like Burnout crossing the line first is your raison d'ete, but how you do so is pretty much up to you. Yep, FlatOut Ultimate Carnage is an arcade racer at its core, one that's more about the raw thrill of white-knuckle racing than accurately recreating the drive model of a '78 Chevy. Then it's straight out onto the track and into a race, with no faffing around with engine tune-ups and suspension settings. FlatOut is the main career mode and here you get a few quid to buy your first motor - a clapped-out jalopy or maybe a rusty pick-up - plus a few bob to make a couple of improvements. The same can be said for the main meat on Ultimate Carnage's bones, too. Sure, they're pretty throwaway and won't keep your attention for much more than a few goes, but knobbling your hapless driver in all manner of weird ways is undeniably fun. There's a basketball minigame too, in which you dunk your fragile driver to score points, plus there are minigames themed around curling, darts stone skipping - all kinds of crazy stuff. ![]() ![]() Angling the throw Track-and-Field-style is all important, ensuring you get distance as well as height, because the further up the wall you get, the bigger the score that's awarded. Indeed, there's much more to do here than side-swiping other cars in a desperate clash for first place: there's the high jump challenge for starters, in which you have to toss your driver towards a score wall. Moments like this make FlatOut Ultimate Carnage a refreshing change to the Burnout-dominated drive 'n' destroy genre. Floating wizard hats ¿ perfectly at home in Harry Potter, not so here.
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