FlatOut Ultimate Carnage on the 360

**Ghostsuit** · 26th June 2007, 3:31pm

FlatOut Ultimate Carnage came out earlier this week and it looks rather nifty.

Career racing - compete in progressively tougher championship wrecking your way through 3 classes to become the ultimate FlatOut champion.
Arcade racing - Deathmatch Destruction Derbies, time trials and crash filled challenges
12 drivers in single player modes from a choice of 48 cars on 39 tracks in six different environments, allows you to wreck you way across parched deserts, massive storm drains and narrow city streets.
Eight driver online multiplayer functionality, including all single player modes plus exclusive Deathmatch Derbies and Head On race modes.

Plus a good few other things and we'll have a full review coming soon.but heres some screen shot to get you salivating. You can also check out www.flatoutgame.com for more detailsl

Baron Samedi · 26th June 2007, 3:33pm

Not much of a gamer but graphics look phenomenal.

poprock · 26th June 2007, 3:38pm

I’m suspicious of any game that appears magically at the top of the HMV chart on day of release with little or no press about in the preceding months.

Zippy · 26th June 2007, 3:42pm

Flatout should sell loads because the games are probably better than the Burnout series but they have zero publicity before launch and obviously EA hype Burnout to fuck.

**Ghostsuit** · 26th June 2007, 3:49pm

I was thinking that myself. I'm not hundred percent those are ingame shots but I'll track down some more.

**PapaZeb** · 26th June 2007, 4:02pm

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Originally Posted by poprock

I’m suspicious of any game that appears magically at the top of the HMV chart on day of release with little or no press about in the preceding months.

As the game won't be released to the US until closer to December, you won't see a lot of mainstream news on it till then.

**Ghostsuit** · 26th June 2007, 4:04pm

Some more shots

poprock · 26th June 2007, 4:06pm

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Originally Posted by PapaZeb

As the game won't be released to the US until closer to December, you won't see a lot of mainstream news on it till then.

There is such a thing as UK gaming press, you know.

**PapaZeb** · 26th June 2007, 4:08pm

*nod*

And there's a few press releases here n there, but like anyone wants to cover any other game right now but BioShock and the Halo 3 Beta.

poprock · 26th June 2007, 4:12pm

You’re forgetting about dead tree press. Magazines have page quotas to fill.

There are generally two possible reasons for a game not getting talked about in the press in the lead up to launch: It’s from a small publisher and the PR team are rubbish/underfunded, or the game’s rubbish and the best PR strategy is to keep it away from the press until after release day, whilst paying chain stores to put it up front on display.

**PapaZeb** · 26th June 2007, 4:15pm

My dead tree press is entirely full of 10-15pages on BioShock and Rock Band. All of 'em.

poprock · 26th June 2007, 4:17pm

What, in the previews section and the reviews one? News too? Are the other sixty pages all just adverts?

**PapaZeb** · 26th June 2007, 4:31pm

Pretty much - asides from GameInformer (brought to you by GameStop), not many US gaming industry mags have much to talk about that hasn't already been covered by online media weeks before shipping date.

All the recent Kotaku mag scans for "news scoops" are coming from a copy of Game Informer I got like 2 weeks ago

poprock · 26th June 2007, 4:52pm

From what I can see, gaming mags over here have moved away from trying to report things as ‘news’ and are going for big and glossy, or more in-depth, rather than trying in vain to keep up with web-based journalism. Even the much-loved coverdiscs are going the way of the buffalo now that current-gen consoles have mature downloadable demo services.

Edge still manages to be miles ahead of the pack, mind you. Their reputation and contacts list still gets them access to things that are nowhere near PR departments yet.

Zippy · 26th June 2007, 4:54pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by poprock

From what I can see, gaming mags over here have moved away from trying to report things as ‘news’ and are going for big and glossy, or more in-depth, rather than trying in vain to keep up with web-based journalism. Even the much-loved coverdiscs are going the way of the buffalo now that current-gen consoles have mature downloadable demo services.

Edge still manages to be miles ahead of the pack, mind you. Their reputation still gets them access to things that are nowhere near PR departments yet.

Spot on, you get 2-3 pages of a preview now rather than any 'scoops'. This month's Edge doesn't contain anything about Bioshock but has at least a page, sometimes two on Halo 3, GTA IV, Assassin's Creed, Beautiful Katamari etc.