While cars can get smashed up and perform outrageous stunts the likes of which are rarely seen in simulation games, but each car features very tight controls that require players to exercise precision and timing to win cups, which results in more money to upgrade and purchase vehicles. This is due to Ultimate Carnage being more of an arcade/simulation hybrid. FlatOut Mode, in which a player starts racing with scrap cars and eventually moves up to race and street cars, is still a blast to play and features a bit more strategy than most arcade racing games.
Everything still moved at a rapid pace, and I certainly wouldn't go back and say that playing Ultimate Carnage rendered FlatOut 2 unplayable, but aesthetically, the old version is almost painful to watch. FlatOut 2's graphics were grainy, distorted, and contained startling amounts of pop-up.
In preparation for this review, I loaded the original FallOut 2 for a last-gen-vs-current-gen comparison, and the results were staggering. Scenery is less jaggy and more defined, cars are smoother and feature more detail, and some of the rural areas-especially farmland tracks-are simply gorgeous, featuring beautiful fall colors and sunsets that almost-almost!-made me want to screech to a halt and stare. Immediately noticeable is the marked improvement of Ultimate Carnage's visuals. I urge any potential buyers to bear in mind that this is an ARCADE racing game, and to not make the mistake of buying this as a serious simulator.Car detail is much improved over the Xbox original. Just accept that you made a mistake in your purchase by a misjudgement of your own prefered genre and move on- the price you paid for this masterpeice isn't enough to justify such misplaced rage. If the game isn't your type, that doesn't make it bad. If you're not, then you should A) stick to sims like GRID until you are prepared to have fun with video games and B) do NOT give this game a poor review because it's too good for your pretention. If you can take losing with a smile, if you are a person who appreciates the thrill of high-speed crashes and the beauty of variable-mesh twisted carframes, if you have fast reflexes and know your limits, then you can have the time of your life with this game.
This game exceeds it's audience and bounds in greatness- and is the worse off for it. A game ahead of it's time, styled after a genre long-dead, running too well on merely moderate systems. The game's lightning-fast engine works against it in this way, as the all-too important gameplay tips are featured on the loading screens, which are subverted in an instant. In keeping with the difficulty level of the arcade games this game styles itself after, however, the game isolates new players, who will quickly become frustrated with the overintelligent AI. It's like a new-age arcade racer gone wild. Gameplay is great and innovative, multiplayer is incredibly comprehensive and intuitive for all it's flexibility and the bonus modes make great use of the game's oh-so-smooth graphics engine in a flamboyantly hilarious and arcade-like manner. Sturdy and bug-free, runs amazingly well, loads fast and looks beautiful on a computer with an 8-year-old motherboard.
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