Once you’ve chosen your starting vehicle, you’ll set off in your first race and discover that the handling is actually quite fun and responsive, straddling the line between full arcade speed and the semi-realism of games like PGR. Career mode is the place to unlock most things. There’s a large amount of content, with tonnes of tracks and cars, but almost all of it is locked at the start.
Pick a race type, track and vehicle and off you go Multiplayer is there too (though obviously there’s nobody online at the time of writing, so the quality of the online multiplayer is currently a mystery) with the option to play locally with up to 8 players in a turn-based capacity – no split screen is a disappointment, but Career is where you’ll want to begin. Upon booting up the game, the main menu offers plenty of options from the start at least, with FlatOut mode being a kind of arcade challenge mode, Quick Play being…well, just that, really. It’s a very average game that suffers because of some strange design choices, which makes it all the more sad when you realise how good it could have been. It’s just not particularly great, either. It’s not an entirely bad game, it should be said.
Or maybe it’s just worth knowing from the start, that FlatOut 4 is not the game that should have relaunched this seemingly forgotten series. Is that a bad way to start this review? Maybe. It takes a lot to bother me THAT much, but FlatOut 4: Total Insanity has the honour of being one of those rare games to make me quit in sheer frustration at its glaring faults. It’s rare that I switch off a game in disgust.
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