Flatout: Ultimate Carnage - PC

You'd never think of driving your car into another car in real life, but in this game, you get _points_ for doing that. And nitro. Bonus! So, you get used to looking for other cars which are vulnerable to a big hit, and you go after them. It's quite satisfying to "blast out" another driver (knock him/her through their windshield). And the more damage you do in the hit, the more points and nitro you get.Sounds violent, but this is about escape. I have a lot of stress in my life right now, and it's a great way to blow off some steam.Game Modes: Flatout Mode and Carnage Mode.Flatout Mode: This is a sequence of increasingly difficult races. Each set of races comprises a "cup". You must win or place highly in multiple races to win the cup and move on. You must win 3rd or better (Bronze) to advance. Each cup you win opens a bonus race--either a Carnage Race (points for winning, passing checkpoints, and damage to other cars), a Demolition Derby (usually a deathmatch--survive as long as you can, and get bonus points for the damage you cause), or Time Trial (reach a time goal on a track--no nitro). When you've passed enough cup levels, you get some big bonus cash and unlock cars. There are three Flatout levels: Derby, Race, and Street. There's also a bonus level which uses all cars. Each level uses faster cars and gets increasingly harder. Nice thing: you don't have to finish a given level to start the next level (e.g., you don't have to finish Derby 100% to start Race, etc.).You have to manage your cash in Flatout Mode to get the best car for your driving style and trick it out to be the fastest and strongest it can be. The mid-level bonus cash coincides with unlocked cars, so it's a nice time to upgrade. You might have to buy a car in order to figure out if it's right for you. It's a bummer that you only get 50% back from the investment if you decide to sell, but at least you can sell it if you need to. Keep in mind that you can do cups and bonus events as many times as you wish in order to build up cash.Carnage Mode: This is more of an arcade mode. You might be familiar with "get this many points and unlock this next event" kinds of games, and this is one of those. You start out with a Carnage Race, a Stunt (using the driver as the projectile!), a Demolition Derby (do as much damage as you can with four lives), and a Beat the Bomb run (go as far as you can and pass as many checkpoints as you can before your car explodes). For each event, you get points. At certain point levels, you open up new events. You then do those, get more points, open other events, etc. This is a nice mode to be in if you only have a few minutes to play (which frequently happens in my house). There are probably (I'm guessing) about 40 or so events.In Carnage Mode, the cars for each event are chosen for you, and so you get a lot of variety. This can be a good thing, but it also means that for each event, you have to learn the quirks of the particular car. They all drive differently.The stunts are really fun and interesting. Many are quite hard, and require some practice to get right. The carnage races are fun, the Beat the Bomb runs are my least favorite (I just do them for the points), and the Demo Derbies are great fun.Stunts are done in a stadium atmosphere with some very European-sounding, incomprehensible blather coming from a PA announcer. Meh.The Demo Derbies at the end get quite hard--the last one is with the smallest, weakest Derby car, which makes scoring points way hard.In addition to the Flatout and Carnage modes, there's also a Single Event mode in which you can pick any event to do.I hate the music and I have it turned off.All in all, a fantastic game that cost me about six clams. I plan to continue playing this one for a long while.

So, I was looking for a good racing game to play after I beat the latest Need For Speed franchise game... I downloaded Flatout 2 first and played that for a while... The scenery was great, the racing was intense, and the last thing you want to do is hit a tree and get ejected out of your vehicle (which happens a lot in these games, cause I drive like a maniac!) Now, for Flatout 2, you have the 3 race divisions: Derby (a little fast driving, cheap cars), Street (a bit faster driving, mid-level cars) and Racing (fastest/best cars)... All 3 have a number of tournaments and extra events to unlock, with a final group of tournaments that appear once you get a good way into the game....Now... For FLATOUT: Ultimate Carnage: This game has the obligatory jump in graphics that every successive game in a franchise inherits, it also has most of the same cars and tracks, but that's where the similarities end... This game has a Racing mode and a Carnage mode. The Carnage mode has challenges upon challenges to complete... The catch is that you have to do well on these challenges to unlock more... You could start by just running through all of them, but eventually the points you need catch up and you have to improve your score on some to unlock another event or two... So it's best to try and do the best you can on every challenge... There is also a Party mode that lets you set up custom races for multiple players...I really enjoyed this game very much, (I'm currently re-downloading because my computer crashed last week) So, if you're a fan of racing games like the Need For Speed franchise then you'll enjoy this game... just remember to grab a few Monster drinks so you can concentrate!

.....there are a few things to consider. First, you really need to make sure your system has a graphics card that can run it. I ran it on my Vista 64 bit desktop with the stock Nvidia 9300M card. Too choppy in the high res. settings. Medium settings worked best. I upgraded the card to a Radeon 7750 and the difference is unbelievable. Now, I'm able to play it at the highest settings without any glitches. The big issue, though, is that there is no "Save" function, so you can't save your progress without having to be logged into Microsoft Games for Windows Live first. Problem there is that Microsoft shut it down last month. I'm on Xbox Live, but still can't figure out how to save my progress (if it even still exists). Good game to play....if you don't mind having to start over every time you quit.

this game has to be the buggiest game i have ever played. small compact cars can push a large heavy truck wherever it wants? if you t-bone a car, you have to stop and back up? car will flip backward for absolutely no reason or if it hits a traffic cone? spin a car around, and it will pass you within 5 seconds? a car that is many times slower than your car can and will pass you at top speed? a car on fire can and will pass you? MANY, MANY bugs. that being said, it is one of the funnest and funniest games ever. something quite cool about hitting a car and seeing the driver go flying. all in all, it is a great game, replay value is good if you can overlook the many bugs.

Insain racing action at your finger tips . Burn that nitrus and go. Beware of the other drivers . Theres no rules.

Very fun game and works great on windows 8.1 with Xbox controller.

Game is good, but windows Live is horrible, lost all data 3 timesGood if you like using cheats or always racing with crappy cars

Really appreciate a good game.thanks.

Ce jeux est ok

fun game