FlatOut 4: Total Insanity

I think the sentence that would describe the acquisition of this 'game' best is that you didn't buy a game, you got yourself a day job. Somehow a game that's supposed to offer dumb hight speed derby fun gives you the exact opposite. The devs of this thing must have a doctorate in removal of fun. The tracks are treacherous and unforgiving, the cars are boring. Fun is punished, you have to drive cleanly and precisely to win anything, no insanity allowed. If not, you will be sabotaged in nonsensical pointless "battles" towards the back of the field while the two top AI's make enough headway to be impossible to catch. Even for 2017, the game feels weirdly dated. Menu's are pretty, but give you a mandatory delay before you're allowed to press enter and dismiss a message. That means if you unlock bunch of stuff, you're just sitting there for 25 seconds, staring at the screen, pressing enter. Almost every corner of almost every track is designed as a trap that either sends you flying or stops you cold. Obviously in a demolition racing game there's hardly anything more immersion breaking than your car being stationary. You have to win. If you don't, you don't get enough points to win the c…

Better than 3, far from reaching 2 or ultimate carnage. At least this one is playable.

Should have never released it with such awful physics

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Well, this is playable. Way better than the third title, but really far from perfect to match Bugbear's first titles. An average score i'd put on this due to not so realistically damage physics but hey it also has good music to race on. Best to try it on a very big sale, if your guts can take on variety, rather than remaining die-hard fan to FO1, FO2, & FOUC.

gg