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Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around 45 challenging tracks in one of 16 fully upgradeable cars. Fences will shatter, tyre walls will explode, water tanks and barrels will fly across the track into other cars. Every time you lose control, you will truly feel the weight of the car as it collides with and destroys a barn, or smashes into the pack of cars ahead of you, and with 40 deformable pieces on every car sparks are guaranteed to fly! Anything you destroy or alter stays a part of the race, increasing the carnage to unprecedented levels! Broken fences, free rolling tyres, and even mangled parts of cars are left scattered around the track, increasing the mayhem with every lap. An extensive championship mode will keep you 'FlatOut' for months on end, as you battle through a huge variety of races, mini-games and the most outrageous arenas of destruction you could possibly imagine. Unparalleled realistic scenery and debris damage with fully destructible driving environments with 3000 + items on each track to smash. [Empire Interactive]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 90
Sydney Morning Herald
The handling is remarkable, and the fact the tracks are littered with obstacles that bounce and crash realistically makes it all the more fun. Throw in excellent damage modelling and it's plain to see that this game has nailed the core mechanics of an addictive racer perfectly.
 88
RealGamer
The AI of the other drivers is extremely good and can almost have you believing that you are racing against other humans.
86
2404.org
I’d like to thank BugBear for finally spending the time to deliver a fantastic damage model in a racing game.
84
BonusStage
A solid bit of destruction derby/road racing hybrid madness that’s well worth picking up. Bugbear has the tools and talent to make the next game even better and I’ll definitely be along for that ride.
80
AtomicGamer
The racing's solid, but the AI needs work and the lack of internet play is inexcusable.
80
Computer Gaming World
FlatOut doesn't have nearly enough variety in its tracks. Though the layouts will change (sometimes only slightly), there are only a few landscapes, and they do get repetitive. This minor complaint aside, FlatOut is a great arcade-style racer.
80
Adrenaline Vault
A fun racing title with excellent graphics, good music, and a novel use of rag-doll and environmental physics that work quite well during races and bonus games. Its tracks are challenging and varied.
80
Total Video Games
The ‘instant gratification’ test from Flatout is very high which is always a good marker. Flatout does not profess to be anything but an out and out ‘revving foot on the pedal and try to waste the opposition’ game.
80
GameZone
I haven’t had this much fun with a driving game since the first "Driver" game was released for Playstation 1.
79
Computer and Video Games
It's a shame, because the action can be hugely entertaining, but without a satisfying structure to hold it all together, FlatOut is at best a fun diversion. [PC Zone]
79
GameSpot
For those who just want to race fast, wreck hard, and look good doing it, FlatOut fits the bill.
75
PC Gamer
An unapologetic arcade smash-'em-up that gets the important stuff right. [Aug 2005, p.70]
74
PC Format
Fast, fun, and tasteless, but too many misfires to make it a winner. [Christmas 2004, p.108]
70
Edge Magazine
This is a game that’s as riotously entertaining as it is viciously random... It’s gleeful automobile slapstick, but not for anyone who values skill and achievement more than taking a wrecking ball to their opponents’ racing lines. [Dec 2005, p.114]
70
IGN
Multiplayer is the business and the bonus modes will be played for months to come. Too bad full online isn't in this PC version.
70
Play Magazine
Upgrades on the variety of cars gradually up the speeds and intensity. [Aug 2005, p.50]
60
1UP
FlatOut basically feels like a slightly more frustrating successor to the original "Destruction Derby" series on the PlayStation 1 (well, the first two games).
60
Yahoo! Games
A respectable weekend time-waster. It's got enough going on to fill a late night or two, and not so much that many gamers will pine for it when it's gone.
60
G4 TV
Like a miniature fashion model: short, quite pretty, and as insubstantial as it is fun.
40
Maxim Online
Unfortunately, when it comes to actual racing, FlatOut is about as interesting as a public service announcement for seatbelts.
40
Cheat Code Central
FlatOut has all the makings of a great budget games, except that it's not great and that it's not budget priced.
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