What's worse is that the punishment is generally not proportional to the mistake you made. The net effect is that while staging a final-lap catch up is often outright impossible, it's perfectly easy to make a single mistake while in the top three, and get knocked back to 10th or 11th place as punishment. However, it's also due to some rather unfair AI behaviour, which allows cars in front of you to get a long way ahead, while keeping cars behind you closely bunched up with your rear bumper.
This is partially due to the handling, and the need to work out for yourself what balance to strike between racing and combat (money is awarded partially for doing well in races, but also for slamming your opponents and generally being aggressive - the two goals are frequently hard to reconcile). Despite being presented as a fun game that doesn't take anything too seriously, there's a punishing difficulty curve at work. The question of difficulty edges us a little closer to this review's major caveat. The game is still tough, and small mistakes can be punished incredibly severely, but the controls are largely speaking consistent and solid. However, we quickly adapted to the control system - it's all about learning how much pressure to put on the acceleration trigger, with the brakes only coming into play on incredibly tight corners.
The handling of the cars feels slightly loose to begin with, and you'll certainly find yourself sliding out of control regularly in the first few races.
#Flatout ultimate carnage split screen series#
In terms of actual racing quality, Ultimate Carnage is arguably the finest game in the series so far.
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