The modes are fun for a while, but they all smack of ?arcade play? rather than lasting home console play.
FLATOUT 2 XBOX DRIVER
You can play standard races against the computer on pretty much any track, compete in a Career mode that slowly unlocks more cups to win, charge at each other in a destruction derby mode and fling your driver like a rag doll in many humorous Stunt scenarios. We can understand slapping Emo tracks in a racing game with a fetish for destruction though ? it?s about the most entertaining way to ?end it all? after your parents ?don?t understand you? and that one girl eyeing up the jock of the class ?will always think you?re a loser?.īut there?s a lot of modes on offer in FlatOut 2, all of which ensure that losing is not on the agenda. The generic sounds of Yellowcard and Fall Out Boy bore the lugholes to ear-tears, while doses of Audioslave, Rob Zombie and Megadeth help balance the soundtrack out of mediocrity. The developers have gotten a good variety of audio tracks licensed for the game, but they are few in number. Getting involved in a pile up is hilarious, as smash after smash is made with scary attention to detail, with your little driver groaning Darth Vader style each time he is flung through the windscreen ? one of the main selling points of the original FlatOut. Loud sound effects, loud music - just plain loud. The sound is what you would expect from a car crash-fest.
We actually get agitated with their faces as they breach the loading screen ? one?s of some tarted up model who really looks like she?d rather perm her hair and phone a guy called Josh then mash it up in a truck. Until you see the CPU character profiles, that is. In a sense, this is very much a grittier and less ?scene? version of Criterion?s hit series. What Burnout didn?t have was objects, besides the rival vehicles, to crash through, and FlatOut 2 takes you through barns, dirt tracks, destruction derbies and run down urban locations, with a lot of breakables to hit along the way.