FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction

Introduction

• Racing Mode: Three laps versus several other people.
• Stunt Mode: Non-racing, eject your character from the vehicle in an attempt to score points at a distant target.
• Big Battle: You and 23 other cars bump uglies to get points until either you or everyone else explodes in a fiery death.
• Regular Battle:You and 11 other cars bump uglies to get points until either you or everyone else explode in a more intimate fiery death.
• Monster Trucks: Hit things with your big truck, score points while doing so.
• Speed Racing: High-speed racing with hyper-fragile formula cars on a circuit.
• Night Shift: A night-time duel of racing on wet tracks.
• Off Road: Race while gathering points by drifting, jumping, or destrucktion. They said it, not me.
• SplatOut: Hit zombies with your car, get a combo, get big points.
• Challenge: You get challenged by Team 6 to be a better person.

The Good

The Un-Good

• The game has no tutorial.
• To follow up, each game mode’s instructions are packed into the loading screen. However, the loading screen just progresses to the race without any button confirmation, commonly leaving you without enough time to comprehend how to play.
• Specifically for Stunt Mode, the game tells you to hit the eject button, but makes no effort to tell you what that is. If you’re KB/M, it’s Shift, which I had to learn by looking at the Controls menu in Settings.
• For the offroading maps, it didn’t save any of my scores.
• The game tracks your attempts on maps and tracks, but doesn’t count an attempt if you restart the level from the pause menu. I played a Stunt Mode track for over 20 minutes and only accumulated 4 ”attempts”.

The End