FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage review - Xbox 360

You can leave your copy of the Highway Code at the door with the brand new FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage. This demolition driving game positively encourages reckless driving, as you throw your choice of car around the track, spin it, bounce off other cars, ram things - everything except mirror-signal-manoeuvre. FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage is the latest in the FlatOut series and the game has had a proper facelift. So will it live up to expectations of established FlatOut fans, and how will newcomers find it? See just what we think in our FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage review for Xbox 360 now!
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FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage review for Xbox 360
It’s not often a game can generate pure emotion. So, yeah, we got a little bawly at Aeris in FF7, and getting a headshot in Halo 2 can often result in a cry of “hell yeah” coming from the direction of our 360, but we really can’t remember the last time we sat down with a game and had just one word that truly described our feeling - wow.
As far as FlatOut is concerned, wow is about the only word for it. Pure, visceral, fender-bending action, from the second the green light shows, the game is a complete balls to the wall experience, and your eyes will bulge when you see the amazing level of destruction on display. In each course you race through, there are eleven other cars jostling for first place, which is impressive enough on its own. However, you really start to get a feel for just how chaotic things can get when you realise that there are 8,000 objects scattered around each track. Eight. Thousand. That’s a lot of piles of tires, carefully stacked logs, cardboard boxes, and plate glass windows that are waiting to be smashed through, and this is just a small part of what makes FlatOut so much fun.

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