The windscreen is shattered, the bonnet buckled, the passenger door merely a memory. As you grapple with a ravaged gearbox, your twisted shell of a car crawls towards the finish line, hunted relentlessly by the driver you forced into that water tower two laps ago. The track changes with each collision, each spectacular crash, but you're oblivious to the debris that comes flailing your way. This will be a hellish final lap but you're driving to win. You're driving FlatOut.This new flavour of
Last year's racer FlatOut is remembered mainly for two things: drivers who went flying violently through the windshield with every serious collision, and minigames that revolved around how far you could launch your driver out of the car. Some critics dismissed the actual racing as unremarkable, but the horrible-accident minigames stood out so well that the game is getting a sequel.
FlatOut 2 features everything a good sequel should: more cars, more varied tracks, more personality and twice as
The sequel to the crash-happy racer FlatOut will careen into stores next month, and unlike the original - which was notable mainly for sending your driver flying through the windshield at the drop of a hat - FlatOut 2 looks to have plenty to help it stand out.
For starters, the game looks beautiful. Sure, it starts you off racing junkers on dirt tracks, but there's a lot of detail packed into everything you see. Your car, for instance, sports nice-looking light reflections when it's pristine,
Abduction isn’t normally a funny thing. But say it happens to animals instead of children, and the kidnappers are aliens instead of a sex slave cartel, and it gets pretty hilarious. That pretty much explains Capcom's upcoming downloadable title, Flock, an adventure in animal theft.
Abduction isn’t normally a funny thing. But say it happens to animals instead of children, and the kidnappers are aliens instead of a sex slave cartel, and it gets pretty hilarious. That pretty much explains Capcom's upcoming downloadable title, Flock, an adventure in animal theft.
Abduction isn’t normally a funny thing. But say it happens to animals instead of children, and the kidnappers are aliens instead of a sex slave cartel, and it gets pretty hilarious. That pretty much explains Capcom's upcoming downloadable title, Flock, an adventure in animal theft.
Weve just been spanked 5-0 by Sports Interactives Managing Director, Miles Jacobson. Fielding a team of Slovakian journeymen and Serie B rejects, its hardly a surprise to see the likes of Adriano and co. cut our threadbare defense to pieces like a hot chainsaw through melted butter. But its early days yet and with this being only our first match of a game that every Football Manager fan has been crying out for, were not going to get too depressed just yet. With Jacobson onboard for a rematch,
Jan 3, 2008
The idea is as simple as it is brilliant. The pick n mix playfulness of fantasy football crossed with the devilish detail of the Football Manager series. Its got such potential and obvious appeal that it almost reeks of some cynical marketing meeting: “Guys, I just want to say this: ‘FML, the MMO thats a new USP for our key IP!”
But no. Rather like the bedroom-coded origins of Sports Interactives first title - the genre-reviving and defining Championship Manager
As far as playground football goes, it’s not the winning that counts, it’s not even the taking part - it’s all about not being picked last. To a professional footballer, of course, winning and losing matters more, but not nearly so much as their playboy lifestyles. Football Superstars aims to bring these two poles of the sport together in an MMO that mixes the pick-a-punter mentality of the schoolyard with the trappings of
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Eastern MMOs – particularly free-to-play ones – have had trouble breaking into the West. Their Asian audience is enormous, but the genre has historically been plagued by low-production budgets and half-baked mechanics. And let’s be honest: World of Warcraft still rules with an iron fist in Europe and North America. To expand its audience, Forsaken World is trying to engage Westerners with the features they're most likely to respond to. First and foremost among these aren’t the five races and eight classes (though those are good), nor the setting of a land at war with a dragon lord in service to an evil god (also good). It’s heavy guild support...
