While cars can get smashed up and perform outrageous stunts the likes of which are rarely seen in simulation games, but each car features very tight controls that require players to exercise precision and timing to win cups, which results in more money to upgrade and purchase vehicles. This is due to Ultimate Carnage being more of an arcade/simulation hybrid. Everything still moved at a rapid pace, and I certainly wouldn't go back and say that playing Ultimate Carnage rendered FlatOut 2 unplayable, but aesthetically, the old version is almost painful to watch.įlatOut Mode, in which a player starts racing with scrap cars and eventually moves up to race and street cars, is still a blast to play and features a bit more strategy than most arcade racing games. FlatOut 2's graphics were grainy, distorted, and contained startling amounts of pop-up. In preparation for this review, I loaded the original FallOut 2 for a last-gen-vs-current-gen comparison, and the results were staggering.
Scenery is less jaggy and more defined, cars are smoother and feature more detail, and some of the rural areas-especially farmland tracks-are simply gorgeous, featuring beautiful fall colors and sunsets that almost-almost!-made me want to screech to a halt and stare. Immediately noticeable is the marked improvement of Ultimate Carnage's visuals. In possession of far superior aesthetics, more cars, and more game modes, Ultimate Carnage is fantastic, but with a couple of failings that keep it from being leaps and bounds better than its Xbox original.Ĭar+detail+is+much+improved+over+the+Xbox+original. Not so with FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage, a near re-imagining of FlatOut 2. Short of a slightly higher framerate or touched up graphics, a port is a port, and probably not worth a purchase for those who have spent a lot of time with the original. Katie Jackson is hysterical and aggressive at the same time, she's not a rival, she's a moving obstacle.Typically, last-generation games ported to current generation consoles come with very few extra features, and some are lucky to have any new inclusions at all. He uses experience to beat his opponent with feeling. Jason Walker is unpredictable in everything except one - he always chooses muscle-cars. But she can be seen and on a heavy pick-up truck, by which she tries to split all who can. Sofia Martinez prefers light cars to drive sharply and drive fast. His aggression exceeds experience - it makes him even more dangerous. Jack Benton prefers cars that can perfectly hit - fast, small, but heavy.
Everyone has an individual style of riding, character and temperament - you will not be mistaken, after meeting them on the track.
If you are alone, eleven other drivers compete with you. In this mode, Races, Derbies and Stunts, Deathmatch Derbies, Head-On race mode are available. You can invite up to eight friends to play, for this there is a multiplayer mode. You can choose from forty-eight cars and thirty-nine tracks, in six different environments, from deserts to metropolis. Your style, your moodīefore the race, set the style of the race, its mood, choose from a variety of options: arcade, Deathmatch Derbie, race for time and destruction. Or do not be - experience the pleasure of eight thousand objects that can be destroyed on each track.Įvery scratch, every blow is visible to the eyes and noticeable in driving - and every destruction you inflict is absolutely realistic, like fog, dust, smoke, splashes. With what to go out on the track and what to expect on itĮach car has forty parts that can be damaged - be careful. This arcade embodies the canon of the genre and preserves the reality of the physical parameters of what is happening on the screen. Previously, it was known as FlatOut: Total Carnage. The game is the third game in the FlatOut demolition racing series.