FlatOut 4: Total Insanity
Flatout 4: Total Insanity elevates the level of hard hitting, fast paced action in the demolition derby style racing genre. Fans will rejoice as the celebrated series offers bigger, louder, better and more outrageous stunts and collisions. FlatOut 4: Total Insanity offers something for FlatOut fans both new and familiar. Key Features: •27 customizable cars, including tributes to fan favorites and new additions to the garage. •20 Tracks including traditional derby racing, time trials, arenas, assault levels, Carnage levels and much more. •High speed collision in fully destructible environments. •The legendary Stunt Mode: a mix of six new stunts and six re-imagined classic stunt mini- games where the driver is flung through the windshield. •Arena Mode: featuring 3 different game play styles – Death Match, Capture the Flag, Survivor. •Up to 8 players Online Mode and play locally with friends in a series of stunts.
Game Discussion
Steam User 18
Seeing the reviews you would be forgiven for thinking this will not be a fun ride but I'm happy to say this definitely is.
Flatout 4 does have similarities to Flatout Ultimate Carnage (such a great arcade racer) and while this isn't F.U.C. 2017 it still retains enough of the Flatout flavour many arcade racers, including myself, enjoy.
Career mode, stunts, quick race and multiplayer are all here. Career mode has 3 different competition levels and classes of vehicles to unlock. Racing earns credits to purchase unlockables so plenty to keep you playing.
The vehicles handle pretty well and are fun to drive with only minor annoying moments which mainly revolve around the cars tending to slide on their sides a bit much which also points to the vehicles not being as weighty as in F.,U.C. This lack of weight is a bit of a step back from F.U.C but the racing is still fun but it's something to mention
Game performance is great.
Plays silky smooth in 4k using my GSYNC TV with VSYNC off on a 2080Ti.
Visuals are surprisingly good too. Game really presents very well.
Sounds are decent and serviceable. Not audiophile levels but ok. Music is similar to F.U.C's rock tracks which suit the gameplay. I think that if the audio quality/sound sampling was better it would further elevate the immersion.
Special mention about the nitro which is great both in how it performs and sounds. Nitro'ing out of a corner is both satisfying and a useful gameplay tactic to earn an advantage when you would otherwise crash.
The sense of speed is very well done and employing the nitro has that risk/reward factor which is good.
Track design is solid and visually appealing.Their are multiple choices of which path to choose on most tracks which helps keep it interesting.
AI is good and I can't see any rubberbanding/cheating. If you race clean and fast you will win well ahead which I like.
A new gameplay feature in some races is the addition of weapons (!!) and they are fuuuuun :)
This isn't Forza
This isn't Wreckfest
This is Flatout and it's good :)
An easy recommend.
Steam User 11
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity is a fun arcade racing game packed with chaos and destruction. Despite its mixed reviews, I genuinely had a great time playing it with friends. The racing can be a bit tricky at times, but the over-the-top crashes and mini-games keep it entertaining. It may not be the best in the series, but it’s still a solid and enjoyable experience. 7/10.
Steam User 7
Well... well.... well......... Flatout 4 Total Insanity.... no matter how it look at it, this is a good game. However, do not compare it with Flatout 2... no no no..... this game is fun as a flatout game and yes, you will have some stupid moments in this game.... but it still missed the smoothness of flatout 2. The physics are nothing to write home about but overall, it is good. Recommended.
P.S. - It is miles better than the atrocious Flatout 3 and yes, the physics and crash model of this game is wonky as hell.... but it's fun in it's own way. I however, wouldn't recommend you to grind for the achievements as it will be punishing.
Steam User 9
Well its a racing game alright, its just not FlatOut. Instead of dynamic crash physics, somewhat realistic driving and competative ai we got cars that emulate what it feels like driving bumber carts on ice and butter with ai sharing a combined 0,2 braincells.
I am only giving it a possitive review because of how funny the physics are.
Steam User 2
Not as wild and fun as Flatout 2, but ok, some good jamz/
Steam User 5
Coming to the FlatOut series fresh, without bias or nostalgia, never even having heard of it until a couple days ago, I believe 4 is the best one. It's basically the same formula as the excellent 2/Ultimate Carnage (same game but one was PS2 version and other Xbox 360), but just bigger and better. More chaotic, more mayhem. You do all sorts of flips and your car gets smashed, with destruction of vehicles and environment like no other racing series! You can even lose races just by blowing up. The Nitro is insane in this game, even moreso than the older ones, feels like a rocket ship going at warp speed, and if you chain it by smashing into other cars, you can keep the lightspeed going. But it's a risky tradeoff, because you could smash into something hard and risk losing all that speed by having to reset, or even damaging yourself to point of destruction, which forfeits the race.
The controls are better too, since this game is advanced enough to have rumble support for my DS4 controller.
The graphics are the best in the series, which goes without saying, as it is a PS4-gen game. The sound effects are incredible! Hearing the roar of the engine is so satisfying. The soundtrack too I think is a lot better. Yes, this game has more indie tracks, and I like the indie tracks better than the licensed big name music of the previous games. (Only really good songs on FO 2 are from Megadeth and Motley, but most are intolerable pop punk, with one second-rate Black Sabbath knockoff band). This game's songs are more like 70s rock i.e. Aerosmith/Zeppelin/Nazareth vibe, with better guitar solos than FO2's tracks.
I like the race maps better, they have interesting flow and locations. One of them reminds me of Radiator Springs from the Pixar animated movie "Cars" I watched growing up.
And of course, the modes like Demolition Derby, and the carnival-style smash your driver ragdoll out the windshield for prizes mini-games are back and as creative and zany as ever.
All in all, if you like FlatOut 2, then this game is a no brainer to get, as it's FlatOut 2 on steroids. Bigger, better executed, and a lot more of it.
Steam User 1
This game is complete garbage, you might ask why do i recommend it anyway. Well there comes a point where something is so bad, that is becomes good. Well im afraid that this is not the case, but i have to admit that the game made me laugh multiple times at how bad it was during the 2 hours i played. It was worth the 3€ i spent on it.
I noticed that the game has a song called Randomly Generated Numbers, i guess the same guys wrote the physics as well. You keep spinning, hitting invisible obstacles, flying all the time. Everything feels random and you never know what to expect.
I made the brave choice and i picked the beetle as my first car, after i upgraded all the parts to max level, i was surprised that the best gear box had such long gears that the car does not have enough power for it, once it shifts to 4th gear the car starts slowing down. Afaik there is only automatic shifting in this game, so i got basically soft locked with a worse car after upgrading it, simply hilarious.
Definitely do not expect anything near the quality of FlatOut 1 & 2, buy only at like 95% discount to have a laugh for couple hours.