If you love car crashing and racing at the same time , than this is a game that you might like . When the game starts , you have the option to create a profile and to chose your driver , male or female . You start with a budget of 4000$ and the first thing that you can do with this money , is to spend them on a car . The cars are all diferent in size , weight , horse power . Usualy the car with the most HP (horse power) is the most expensive one . You have 36 tracks to adventure on with different type of assets , including winter and different times of day like morning , evening , dawn... You also have 12 additional tracks that can be found on bonus . In this tracks the only thing you do is to throw the driver out of the car in different chalenges like : LongJump , HeightJump , Bowling , Darts , BullsEye and Clown . The other tracks are demolition tracks where you have to crash the other cars and be the last one standing in the arena or you have to make circles of 8 and avoid getting crashed in order to finish 1st . After each track you earn some money . The vlaue of the money depends on what place you finish : 1st , 2nd or 3rd . The money can be spent on car parts in order to upgrade your car . After finishing a track you can also see a reply of your game . The bad thing is that you can't pause the reply . You can go fast forward but you can't go rewind and you can't control the camera . The game has nice graphics and there are many ways to get crashed . In many games with car accidents , there aren't many ways of getting crashed and the detail becomes boring of seeing the same animation on the crashed car. In FlatOut is different . Each time when you get crashed the car looks different but that depends on the way you get hit and by the game's physics . You can lose your doors , windows , hoods , bumpers , spoilers , exhausts , sideskirts and the driver too . The only thing that you can't lose is your wheels , thing that disapoints me . If your engine is taking a lot of damage , flames start busting out . It starts with small flames and than with big flames , but this depends on how hard you get crashed . If you take a minor or maybe moderate hit , you can see small flames . If you take a big hit you can see large flames . As i mentioned the game has nice graphics it runs on DirectX9 . You can see the sun reflection in the water , in the car's windows . You can also see the environment reflection on the windows . The metal and the ice are also reflecting the sun's light , just like in real life . If you pay attention you can see the sun's flares between the trees . There are also some graphic anomalies . When your engine is on fire with big flames , you won't see a heat haze . Usualy the things that generate heat , create a heat haze around them . The car also has nitro but it's available only in the race mode . You collect nitro by crashinginto other cars or by crashing tires , fences , ladders , houses , boxes and many other things . When you will use the nitro , you won't see flames busting out of the exhaust or a motion blur . The only thing that will happen is that the image will concentrate on the middle of the screen , making the objects to look more distant than before . Enyway , the game is one of the best racing games that I've played and if you loved or love Burnout 3 than you have to try this one too . The only thing the i suggest you is the next one : Try to avoid NOT getting crashed !
....... and I don't even like racing games, but this one is just too cool. Racing games always bored the h*** out of me, but when I loaded the demo for this one, I was sold right then. I kept playing the demo until I bou... Read Full Review
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