Sunday, July 15, 2007

FLATOUT ULTIMATE CARNAGE (Xbox 360)

Numerous arcade racing games are available acrossall platforms today and most of them tend to blend in with the crowd.

Flatout Ultimate Carnage, however, stands bright and tall, which makes it a memorable and thoroughly enjoyable destruction racer. The third installment in the Flatout series combines arcade racing with a real world physics engine to fantastic effect.

Cars are made up of 40-plus deformable parts and each track has more than 8000 destructible objects— more than any other 360 game.

Both vehicles and objects take visual damage with real-time environment mapping plus dynamic shadow maps for every 3D object on the track, and improved particle effects like dust, smoke and water splashes to create stunning and smooth visuals.

Flatout’s frame rate is also impeccable and rarely suffers. Included in the mix and unique to Flatout are the hilarious ragdoll characters which, with big enough impacts, are catapulted through the windscreen. The ragdoll is also used in side games like high jump, stoneskipping, ring of fire, field goal . . . I think you get the idea.

Vehicle andr agdoll driver are put to the test with side-splitting action. Your run of the mill single-player modes like career, single race, time trials and destruction derby are all included as well as local and online multiplayer.

Choose any one of 48 cars to tear up 39 tracks, all the while debris and cars fly in all directions creating random events that will have you laughing out loud.

Due to hit stores August 1, interms of replayability and downright hilarious action you can’t look past Flatout.

WE RATE IT:
Graphics 9.4
Gameplay 9.5
Sound 8
OVERALL 8.9

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