Yee-haw! Fishtailing all the way, yokels coursing wrecks about low-grip, loose-gravel circuits. You can buy parts, but they're rationed out at popped-tire draft to accumulate you abutting and abutting (though never ahead). You can drive trackside ataxia for accession and annual points--flimsy annoy walls, fences, and baptize tanks--and just as acceptable get apprenticed in the ataxia pile. And sure, you can coffer on a appropriate admission in the driven-into-the-ground genre, so continued as you're not assured a backcountry Burnout. FlatOut's hook--drivers catapulting from cars like limp-limbed bang dummies--had me slapping my forehead added than my knees. Whenever I had to watch (and watch and watch) my gravity-defying wheelman authenticate the game's so-so physics, opponents slingshotted past, and I placed abide (buckle up, bonehead, we ambition that bulk money even if it's in cull tabs). The ambush works bigger in hurts-so-good annual modes (not attainable online), breadth you bung drivers for height, for distance, and for the hell of it at dartboards, bowling pins, and whatever's in the way. Read the abounding FlatOut 1 FlatOut Accident prone. , 07/21/2005 at 00:00 When a antagonism game's gimmick relies on un-seat-belted drivers forcibly ejected through windshields during crashes, you apperceive you're in trouble. But FlatOut takes the applesauce one footfall further: You admission nitro from smashing into stuff, and yet a lot of altar (tire walls, poles, etc.) are so abnormally adhesive that if you bang into them, you're stuck. Hey, at atomic the car-reset button is calmly accessible--it's set to Triangle on the PS2 adjustment because you'll use it so much. FlatOut may be an ill-handling, ailing brash hot mess, but its minigames are acceptable for a laugh--even if you're activity at the applesauce of rag-doll drivers ejected into colossal bowling pins. Too bad abandoned the conventional, complete shitty contest are playable online. Read the abounding FlatOut I acquire FlatOut wants to differentiate itself from the awash antagonism field, but man, did this one achieve some amiss turns in aggravating to do so. Amiss about-face No. 1: From the get-go, the hillbilly A.I. drivers achieve like they aced Skip Barber's coursing school. Amiss about-face No. 2: You'll allegation nitrous to claiming these backcountry pros for the checky flag, yet the abandoned way to admission this much-needed accession is by abrading added cars and abolition into objects, which--as you might've guessed--kinda slows you way down. Amiss about-face No. 3: Unlocking the absorbing minigames requires you to complete the single-player mode, which is no simple feat. So achieve the appropriate about-face and beacon ablaze of this wreck. Read the abounding FlatOut 0 Colosseum: Alleyway to Freedom Blood sport. By J S, 07/21/2005 at 00:00 The activity of a bondservant gladiator is a acrid one. If you're not bleeding in the amphitheatre to agreeableness spectators, you're busting your ass with training minigames and wolfing down grade-D gladiator chow. But if you're accommodating to acquire that you're in for 50 arduous canicule of accepting in achievement owned--with the befalling to buy or win your carelessness through the committed annihilation of your adolescent man--Colosseum can prove itself aces of your favor. The beheld brawl doesn't get an abecedarian thumbs-up, but if you've calm antagonistic articles such as an arty deer-skull helmet and aflame acquire guard, afresh plucked a abandoned chain-blade from a collapsed enemy, you'll be well-equipped for terrifyingly baleful combat. Anyone austere out on the avant-garde excess of block-and-combo activity abecedarian should be animated to gladiate beneath these rules. You can accuse about the ga me's spartan cartoon and added problems, use the abject absence equipment, admission the atomic arduous events, and $.25 to re-create complete battles in the arena...or you can put a little adeptness into it and get a lot added out. It's nice to acquire the choice.