Textures are of a very low quality and they don't resemble even a 1% of reality. Graphics are failure over failures, even in this gaming generation, and the word "failure" is a very mild statement here. Many tracks are mirrored or with changed weather conditions/time of the day. Customization has nothing to do with cars other than changing the colour of our vehicle to more one. Amount of cars and tracks is not impressive either.
Other are hybrids, like offroad races, monstertruck challenges or speed races where the only tactic is raping the acceleration key on your keyboard. Many are copies of each other, for instance destruction derby, that changes only the amount of opponents between events. There's no career and instead we have 9 events that has almost nothing to do with chaos and destruction. And it's difficult to call it an improvement. Gameplay is presented with great difference from previous titles. Knowing how good games they make, I was already scared before I started playing their game. They gave right to the game development for Team 6. Unfortunately Empire Interactive has been resolved and rights to publish the game were given for Strategy First that made the worst mistake ever.
The FlatOut series is one of these games where vehicular slaughter is a daily entertainment. Knowing how good games they make, I was already I thought it was a dream. This game is not even worth playing for free. I'll advise every possible buyer to stick with FlatOut 2, which is hilarious fun. But everything just loses it's value due to the awful controls, physics and overall flow of the game. Sure, there's a lot of game modes, new exiting tracks, arenas and stunt courses, loads of different cars and characters. If I didn't know better I'd think this was a graphic overhauled knock-off of the real FlatOut games. The controls, the physics and the flow of this game is just plain awful. I've never rated a game 0 before, but this game deserves it. Sure, there's a lot of game modes, new I tried hard to be objective about this game, due to the bashing reviews. I tried hard to be objective about this game, due to the bashing reviews. If you want a REAL Flatout experience with polished graphics, sounds and gameplay, you'd do well to buy Flatout: Ultimate Carnage or Flatout 2 instead. All in all, this is a very poor attempt at using a well know name for a quick cash grab. There's nothing that reminds me of reality when it comes to the physics in this game. As an added insult to the fans on earlier Flatout games and their great handling of car physics, these cars bounce around like crazy after hitting obstacles. The cars feel the same, no matter what car you choose. The player car gets destroyed much easier than the CPU cars, the environments are nowhere near as creative as the previous games and the car handling is HORRIBLE. As far as gameplay is concerned there aren't many redeeming qualities.
The car models are poor and do not break in a fashion that was expected from a PC version of Flatout. They try to mask it by using very heavy bloom & motion blur but all for naught. Graphically, this is very close to Wii level. Made by the same team that made the horrible port Wii port of Flatout and not the original dev house Bugbear. As far as gameplay is This is a poor man's Flatout.