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| Message Board > Malarkey > FlatOut2: Best multiplayer driver experience since 1nsane? |
| January 29, 2007, 12:46 | |
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Mezzmer
Square-theorist 792 posts 
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hello. like many people i've been hoping for a good new multi-player driving game for many a year. then i saw something new in my trusty Steam news window. it happened to be a game called "FlatOut 2". i didnt care that it only had a metascore of 76%. i also didnt care that i had never even seen or heard of Flatout 1. it could only be better than the first. it wasnt long before they had rinsed my credit card of the $29.32 (i always forget they add on tax) and the download had begun. (next evening) the download had long finished and installed to my trusty Steam client. ok so the excitment of spending my hard earned cash had left me. but there it was. an extra game in the endless list of purchases in the "My Games" window. i clicked the Play Now button. after ingesting the corporate image type intros i came to the game menu. i wanted to go straight into a net game. ah. i realised i would have to make a profile. this called for a mildly threatening and otherwise "uber-cool" user name. with the combination of alt-tabbing and consulting my friends in the channel #bilge (on irc.allripped.net) i had three choices. these were: sq4r3pu5h4 throttle GayMan21389 now considering i only had a maximum name-length of 8 characters i could only choose "throttle". it was quite suitable and somehow threatening - it also suggested strangulation. which would be good if anyone pissed me off. as an after-thought i added in a l33t speak 3. i would be known as THROTTL3. i entered the lobby. omg. the multi-player client was powered by GameSpy. was this a blessing?  i came to realise after a while there was no swear filter on the chat either. eventually the host agreed to begin the game. little did i know that i would soon be immersed in a graphically amazing virtual world full of high-speed adrenaline racing and incredible crashes and smashes. (oops i need to get the hell to university, more later) [Edited on January 29, 2007 by Mezzmer] ____________ |
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| January 29, 2007, 14:57 | |
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PEader
お前はもう死んでいる 1486 posts 
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You are such a cam whore in the making. If a racing game doesn't haev "ate" in the title replaced by 8 it isn't worth playing. Altern8. ____________ I see 57,005 people. |
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| January 29, 2007, 19:14 | |
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Rincewind
programmer 1545 posts 
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Haha. So there are actually people who buy stuff from Steam. One way or another, Square, how and why are you rich? Quote: now considering i only had a maximum name-length of 8 characters i could only choose "throttle". Hehe. Quote: omg. the multi-player client was powered by GameSpy. was this a blessing? It appears somewhat strange to me that the game is distributed by Steam and that the multplayer is powered by GameSpy. Other games do make use of Steam itself for MP. [Edited on January 29, 2007 by Rincewind] ____________ Personal website: http://www.loijson.com |
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| January 30, 2007, 08:24 | |
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Mezzmer
Square-theorist 792 posts
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ok. i was in! holy god those cars didn't have much in the way of traction! i was sliding all over the place! but i put it down to the fact the cars must have really hideous engine upgrades and bolt-ons. secretly i knew the testosterone was getting to me. i was using the nitro button just a little too much.  i quickly discovered "nitro upgrades" are earnt in the periods of time your car leaves the ground completely. that and smashing the hell out of the opponents:  that was a POWER HIT! the huge bar landed on his car too. haha f*ck you! i was feeling pretty cool for a while. until this happened.  alright. i decided to hide my disapointment by going to another game mode. i had just failed at DERBY. there was also RACE and STUNT, the latter having more of a non-competetive element. for example - firing your engine through the length of an american football field dodging giant wooden cutouts of players then, launching the driver through the windscreen and over some posts scoring a field goal. but you still feel like a prick when you do it wrong. anyway providing you have a decent machine (middle to high-end) and you want a multi-player arcade type racer with fairly good physics and an adequate driving "feel" you should probably buy this game. oh, and i had no noticable frame skipping or mini-pauses. it's a game they have really THOUGHT about. or i wouldn't have posted shit about it. the levels are well designed and the RACE ones are Rollcage-esque to a point (easily destructable surroundings, multiple routes) GRAPHICS: around xbox360 standard? GAMEPLAY: wait, how can you measure gameplay in a rating? SOUND: i didn't find any of the effects annoying. apart from the nitro sound. VALUE FOR MONEY: fair enough for a Steam purchase (i don't know how much it is in the shops, see i haven't researched this at all) TOTAL: 4/5 sqaures ok Peter get on msn! *puts on lipstick and switches webcam on* :9  (sorry i didn't get any screens of the other modes. i just couldn't be bothered.) ____________ |
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| January 30, 2007, 11:56 | |
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Dennis
どこかにいる 2092 posts 
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It looks like a Destruction Derby ripp off 
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| January 30, 2007, 12:51 | |
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Mezzmer
Square-theorist 792 posts
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looks like destruction derby? no. and it isn't a "ripp off" of any racing games i know, certainly. but you would know this having familiarised yourself with my review! ____________ |
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| February 1, 2007, 16:18 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts 
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Quoting Dennis: It looks like a Destruction Derby ripp off :cry:
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