Racing games are easy to make. You put some cars on a track, make them drive around in a circle, and award the "win" to the guy who completes the track. That's how almost every racing game works it's a simple formula.
You start at easy races, and then as your player gets "skills" you continue to make the races harder until he is racing almost perfect lines
Flatout 3: Chaos and Destruction doesn't seem to agree with this. It gives the player options of modes to play. There's a lot of variety here, that would be a good thing. The problem is the difficulty of this game is extreme. There's no tutorial, and the game just is very hard. If you turn the difficulty and number of cars down, the game is better, but still quite difficult.
There are no tutorials, which means there's no explanation of the boost system (it seem it awards boost for style points when near other cars, maybe?) and the AI is INCREDIBLY difficult. If you don't race near perfect on Easy, you'll lose. Even when racing perfect, you better be boosting. At medium, you don't have a shot, you probably need perfect boosts, and even then there's no rubber banding if someone gets ahead so expect to lose often.
The game has the following modes.
Race, (standard difficult race)
Challenge mode (Seems like race, couldn't beat the first challenge)
Splatout! (Kill zombies, race around the track for points)
Offroad
NightShift (night driving?)
Speed (Faster cars, easier to crash)
MonsterTrucks
Battle Arena (fight)
Big Battle (Bigger fight)
Stuntman (a variety of annoyingly hard challenges)
All of those would be amazing if done competently, but I would say none are properly executed on. Sad because I love racing games, and high adrenaline games are fun, but this does everything except getting the blood pumping.
A shame but this is a very firm "Do not recommend" If you like Racing, Dirt 3 is good, if you like carnage, Burnout Paradise is bar none the best. If you like killing "Zombies" go play Carmageddon. But whatever you do, don't even boot up this game. It's not worth it.
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