FlatOut 4: Total Insanity

Not horrible, although if you want to play a flatout game just play 1 or 2 and avoid 3 at ALL costs

Its fine way better than the third game but nowhere as good as the first second and ultimate carnige

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second live for grinding

---{ Story / Mission }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Not quite FlatOut 2, but not nearly as bad as the reception indicates. FlatOut 4 tries to replicate the second installment in many ways, such as the car classes, high speeds, absurdly powerful nitro,
and interesting terrain elevation. In these aspects it's quite successful. The car physics also feel generally nice, loose, and arcadey, much like the game that inspired it. The issue here is that it doesn't quite reach the highs that FlatOut 2 is known for, and coupled with some new issues such as the crash physics feeling very static and boring, bad car selection, and uneven terrain causing your car to spin in unpredictable ways, it can be a disappointing experience for fans of the Bugbear games. Despite all that, I had fun with it. It's a nice, high speed, all-terrain arcade racer based on FlatOut 2, and we don't really get those anymore. While Wreckfest went for a slower, more grounded and realistic style of gameplay, FlatOut 4 tried to bring back what made its predecessors special, and despite its varying degrees of success in different areas, I appreciate it for that.

Its an old game but it still looks graphically stunning, And its so much fun to play.

The negative reviews of this game are a psyop by Big Steam to trick you into thinking this game is bad
Yes, this game is not as good as its predecessor, FlatOut 2, However, from the little time I've spent playing this game, I have enjoyed it a near equal amount.
CONTROLS - I'm a casual racing game player who likes playing more arcade-like racing experiences, so I'm not the most experienced person to be talking about how a racing game handles. From what little I know though, this game controls quite well (especially when being compared to FlatOut 3). In addition to this, It was significantly less of a pain in the ass getting my controller to work in this game than it was with FlatOut 2 constantly reverting my controller settings to keyboard whenever I tabbed out or restarted a race, forcing me to back out into the main menu. Not only does that problem not happen here, but all game settings are now accessible within races, which also makes troubleshooting any ingame settings significantly better.
PHYSICS - The first of the 2 issues I have with the game. Crashing into enemy racers in this game just doesn't have the same 'oomph' to it that FlatOut 2 had. It feels like I'm playing with cheap Hot Wheels here.
DIFFICULTY - The 2nd complaint I have about this game. I don't know if it gets any harder later on into the Career mode, but the first few races have the most pathetically easy pushover racer AI I have ever seen, to the point that I did not see a single racer past the first lap in every race I played.
GRAPHICS - I'm not one to judge a game on how its graphics are, especially when a few of my all-time greats are PS1 games (go play Demolition Racer if you're a FlatOut 1 fan), but I can definitely see why some people could think this game has lost the visual identity from prior FlatOut games (then again, FO2 and FO3 both used 'piss filters'), yet on the other hand this game does look quite decent and is not over the top realistic or terribly executed realistic so it doesn't visually appear uncanny nor like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on a carpet.
As a conclusion, I probably should play a significant larger chunk of this game before giving solid opinions, but my first impressions of this game have already countered alot of claims made about this game by other people. If you see this, just give the game a shot anyways. It's only £4.99 on discount and the FlatOut series does tend to go on sale a frequent amount.

It would be almost as good as Flatout 2 or Ultimate Carnage if it didn't have some terrible issues with the ground and certain vehicles' suspensions.