Classic Game Room - FLATOUT review

Classic Game Room reviews FLATOUT for PlayStation 2 from Bugbear Entertainment and Empire released in 2004, a rockin' driving game with some seat belt wearing safety warnings! FlatOut is also available for Xbox and PC and should be in your driving game collection immediately!

[maddox]

You completely forgot to mention the demolition derby part. So much fun.

[TheDiscoNarwhal]

This is the game that got me into video games. Still one of my favorite games of all time.

[BadwolfGamer]

I'm surprised he didn't see their was a demolition derby mode.

[skidmark]

I played this game every game after school. Couldn’t stop thinking about it as I got older. The main reason I’ve been gaming as long as I have been. Will always be a classic

[joshdajokurr]

This is my favorite game. I love the derbys most tho,

[chris]

this game is awesome!!!

played it on the xbox back in the day and it is one of my favourite racing games ever.

[dathorndike]

The damage model in this game is the best ever. The detail is incredible. If you knock off your front end you can actually see the blades of the engine fan spinning around. Those small details are all over these cars. I have never seen such attention to damage details before in any game before or since.

[DylanPerryFeatureAnimation]

Just fired this up with a racing cockpit... unbelievable ffb on the wheel and surprisingly excellent handling. And so much fun!!!

[SergeantLuke]

Wow, this is a PS2 game?! It looks gorgeous!

[TDUShelby]

I can't really say there's many other driving games I loved more than FlatOut 2. Ultimate Carnage simply made it better.

Please, Bugbear, come back to us!

[malvessidrums]

This game was pretty popular in Brazil.. remember my brother and some school mates raving about it

[charlesm]

spent the past hour trying to remember this old game. the only clue I had was a lyric "I stole the ring from the Golem to watch and wither away now baby". which turned out to be from the hiss: back on the radio. I really like this game but I could never get past that first snow level, drove me crazy so I traded it in. the mini games were a lot of fun though.

[MRNO]

Besides FlatOut 2 there's also FlatOut: Head-On (a port of sorts of FO2 for the PSP) and Ultimate Destruction (essentially an enhanced FO2 for PS3/360)

There's also a FlatOut 3 for the PC and a Wii game but those weren't done by the original developers, and it shows. Bugbear have recently made Ridge Racer Unbounded which, while not having drivers flying out of windshields, is a load of fun.

[BagelByte_]

The Flatout games are available on Steam!

[thejackal]

Worth mentioning that the mod community for Flatout is still going strong as well with new cars, tracks, mods and conversion packs.

[JustAFatGuyInTX]

There was a Flatout for the 360 4 years ago. It's pretty much the sequel with updated graphics, but when was that a bad thing?

[TomeeDee]

yes, it's almost 9 years old :)
and yes, i start feeling old too, when i see peaople saying about something that it's classic, with which i almost grew up (i'm 26 now, i was almost 18 back then, when it was released.... yeah, i feel old :D)

[lalnablehector]

use to love playing this on the old ps2 and truly one of the first games with softbody physics ah good memory

[firefang]

The PC gamespy servers for Flatout 2 are still online and there are still people playing it.

[Rigzyz]

This took me about 10 years to find I played this all the time when I was younger 🙁