![]() However, swerving round each well-designed and busy environment, home to 45 circuits, is delivered in a way that rewards consistency and skill yet it is easy to pick-up and play. Okay, so the arcadey handling is not going to be everyone’s cup of leaking oil. Especially with all the RTX options, 4K and other visual trickery, in part thanks to the Unreal 4 engine, giving it a triple-A studio sheen. Eight racers smashing their way through the scenery and each other looks and feels immensely satisfying. Suffice to say, health and safety organisations would be frothing at the mouth if they saw all the unattended propane tanks, oil tankers, petrol station forecourts and other flammables, explosives and hazardous objects strewn across each race.Īnd that is partly what makes Flat Out so fun. Or not and enjoy those beautiful explosions, the ensuing disintegration of metalwork and the hilarious ragdoll physics as you go full send through the windscreen. But for fun, it hits harder than a freight train – one of many obstacles you get to dodge. Okay, so Trail Out is unlikely to win any awards for its services to literature. It is the antithesis of the serious sim racer, harkening back to a simpler time when gaming helped you avoid the chores of life – not act as another one. Disparity between what is said and what is written in the subtitles can be just as jarring.īut then it feels as if Trail Out does not want you to take it seriously and I rather like that. The voice acting, if you can call it that, is mostly a pile-up of bad delivery, cringe, awkwardness and even creepiness. ![]() While destruction is usually a big enough draw for getting players hooked, Trail Out has cut-scenes that clearly do not take themselves seriously. You can also undertake various challenges for more rewards, receive donations from fans (named after early investors in the game, apparently) and even do a livestream to your audience for extra love. One that involves building up your fanbase through winning, stunts and carnage, your money through successful events and your ranking through bettering the seven other brave or perhaps unhinged racers above you on the leaderboard. Please note: This is the script from my YouTube video, click play above to watch or go here. After his recovery he finds himself watching an advert of a festival of the same name and the rest, as they say, is history. A not-so-subtle nod to the Good Boys development studio behind Trail Out. You could say, then, that Trail Out has the potential to be the sequel we wanted but never got.Īnd so here we are at the start of the tale (yes, there is one), which begins with protagonist Mihalych suffering a comical accident caused by a combination of the world’s deadliest manhole cover and the world’s most fragile car.įortunately for Mihalych, he is rescued by his dog. A big claim if you are old enough to have played Rise of the Robots. Not to mention WreckFest, which makes sense as Bugbear Entertainment developed them all.īut unfortunately Bugbear did not develop the follow-ups including FlatOut 3, a pile of scrap so rusty it was described by a gaming journalist as one of the worst games of all time. An arcade racer with a thirst for speed, explosions, destructive scenery, car damage and split-screen stupidity.Īnd that makes sense because Trail Out openly borrows from the fondly remembered FlatOut and FlatOut 2 – and not just the similar name. If FlatOut, Destruction Derby, Need for Speed and WreckFest were left on a dashboard in a hot car and melted together, you would have Trail Out. ![]() Sponsored Things get explosive in my Trail Out review, as I play the unofficial FlatOut series successor to see whether it does the car carnage genre proud. ![]()
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