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Cars and tracks wreck and deform wonderfully
New plenty of content to mess with throughout the career mode, stunt mode, and online playto the stunt mode
mostly good soundtrack
stunts can be a real hoot....
Game description
As much fun as the Burnout series of racing games can be, sometimes you
want something a little grittier and grimier than the glossy,
pristine-looking races that series has had on offer in recent years.
Enter last year's FlatOut by developer Bugbear, a demolition racer in
the purest sense.
That game consisted of big, clunky, filthy-looking
cars that deformed in all sorts of spectacular ways while flying through
the air, crashing into one another, and even periodically sending the
drivers of said vehicles crashing through the windshield in a
rag-doll-heavy heap. In FlatOut 2, the same basic concepts found
throughout the original game are once again on display, but while more
content has been added to the package to try to flesh things out, it is
with these additions that FlatOut 2 begins to lose its way. FlatOut 2
throws in some new, stylistic touches both in its content and aesthetics
that make it feel more like a clone of other established arcade racers,
rather than something original. And some of the things that Bugbear
didn't change still prove as problematic as they were a year ago.
However, these irritations don't suck away all the game's enjoyment, and
those with a penchant for smashing and crashing cars will find FlatOut 2
an appealing piece of work.
FlatOut 2, while not a major improvement over the first game, is still a
quality demolition racer. The addition of more content in each and
every mode is certainly a plus, and the driving still has a satisfyingly
destructive vibe to it. It's just too bad that it doesn't have the same
quirky, filthy vibe as the first game. Fortunately, there are still
plenty of lovable qualities to be found in FlatOut 2, especially if all
you want is the same basic racing gameplay as in the first FlatOut, but
with a lot more of it.
