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A real good racing game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love the realistic damage and the crazy ways you can race in this game. The only downside is it's difficult to race multiple opponents without getting knocked off the track, as is most race games, where the AI is pretty aggressive. The best thing about this game is watching the driver fly out of the car in certain crashes, as well as the bonus games. I've even run over my driver with my own car, which I've never done in any racing game before.

Best of the lot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

"Flat Out" is the most fun I have had on my PC in years. It is low cost and and has easy to use high end features on XP - It does more that most of the fancier games. It is a riot to bang up your car and continue to race while on fire. Be careful there are some other games with similar names this one is simply called "Flat Out" with no prefixes or suffixes or numbers or letters. It is hard to get. JR had it and I got it!!!

YEEEEEHAW!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

if you ever wanted to take beater cars, supe them up to muscle cars and then race out in the back-country on dirt roads rally style, this is your game. the graphics are bright, detailed, and vibrant. the collisions are insane, losing doors, hoods, side-panels... your driver will even go through the windshield in a horrendous wreck! the action is somewhere between arcade and simulation style which blends nicely together with a great soundtrack added to the mix. definitly a classic and should belong in every race car drivers game library. now with the current marketplace price, it's a steal.

More then just racing!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I do not understand why anyone would really dislike this game, maybe not there favorite, but theres nothin bad about this game. Great attention to detail when it comes to crashes and getting dinged up by other cars. All the game modes are fun(race,derby,stunt)
Online play is really fun too, especially if you have a mic.
Only bad part is some tracks are the same tracks, just in opposite directions and the cars slide around too much as if you have absoluty no tred.
Best racing game I've ever played though. The need for speeds are fun, but generally have little or no damage and the tracks all look a little too similiar. They also don't offer as many jumps and the crashes are not nearly as spectacular. You'll be wanting to see some of your best crashes over again in slow motion in Flatout 2. I can't wait for the 360 version!

FlatOut - one of the best racing games?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am not sure if this game is one of the best racing games, since everyone has different demands on such games. I just can say that I love this game. Race...try to get rid of your opponents and get the win. If you're bored of races, try those Stunts and shoot your guy into the air or play some bowling.
Great longterm fun, nice graphics and pretty cool soundtrack are making this game to a game you have to have if you like racing games and if you don't.

I really like it!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I dodn't play alot of games; maybe if I had more time. I also own & play Flatout 2 (love it!!!) Has to be one of my all time favorite low skill level games.

Copy Protection Breaks Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: September 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have one of the newer AMD Dual Core processors. After installing this game I attempted to play and it bombed out.
Searching on support forums, it appears the copy protection software has a problem with dual core processors (amd and intel). And it doesn't look like the game maker is going to release a patch any time soon. Too bad, I really like the original game and was hoping to have more fun with the sequel.

Awesome for kids and adults!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game with the intent to satisfy my 9 year old sons craving for destruction. I was not dissapointed. Flatout has an unbelievable amount of things to smash up, much the glee and amusement of my son and all his friends. I even found myself playing it for the challage of getting through all the maps. The game also has alot of Mods available online that give old maps extended play and new cars to smash. Lan play is a hoot! Especially the Demolition derby. This game is an excellent value!

Flatout flatout sucks!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: April 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this game because you will forever wonder why you did so. This is the worst racing game I have ever played. The bonus games are crap and are all the same thing. If this was even a decent game there would be a reason to play the bonus games. But, there's not. Sure you get money, but with the best car in the game fully upgraded (why did I waste my time) you can't tell a difference in the race from a crap car. All the upgrades do is take your money and waste your time.

The actual racing is just as bad. Sometimes when you hit a cone you will keep right on going and even get extra in your boost guage. Other times I have gone flying off the track because of a single cone. I don't know why and at this point I really don't care because of how bad this game is.

The races beyond the very first ones are way too difficult. It is more luck than skill. In other words, there is almost no way to get first and you will only get in the top 3 if the other players take themselves out because their cars beat the best and fully upgraded car off the line and can turn corners in about half the time without losing speed. All you can do is watch them drive away and see more of your life wasted.

Oh and one last thing, the shortcuts suck. They are not shortcuts and usually end up taking longer because it is like threading a needle and with the handling that's like trying to thread a needle no hands. If you even stray a little from the exact route, you will be out of bounds and have to reset. If you hit anything, even going very slow, you will be thrown from your car and lose time. If you do manage to do it right you might still come out behind where you were. I have only found 3 races out of 75, or whatever it is, that actually have a shortcut that is worth taking. And by worth taking I mean doesn't lose you time and doesn't gain it either. Talk about a crap game. Please consider some other options to this game such as:

1) Nothing
2) Buy some food
3) Buy a plane ticket to beat up the people who made the game.

Bottom line: NOT FUN and really really NOT WORTH YOUR MONEY (even to rent). Don't borrow it either, it's a waste of time.

Flatout, a car guy's must have.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

So, you loved the original Driver game for PC? Sad that Driver2 didn't get to PC and still haven't mastered Driv3r or left it sitting in the box to figure out later? Then FlatOut is the game for you. This game may not be a realistic racing simulator, may not have the best GUI for menus (can be managed with wheel and keyboard use. But for fun, this game has what you need. This game is great after those long commutes, just load it up, start a race, turn around and crash headlong into everything in sight, thinking it was that guy that was tailgating you, or that dead ass that wouldn't get out of the way. SMASH, CRASH, or get the cheat for the ejector seat and have fun throwing the dummy for distance or altitude records. Then you can mess around with different cars getting a reasonable idea about tight, loose, and all those other NASCAR like descriptions that the cars all get at times. There all there in one form or another. In all, great fun, and certainly worth the money.

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