White knuckle, high velocity driving with explosive car killing pile-ups - that's why our anticipation engine is in serious danger of blowing a gasket over the gorgeous looking Xbox 360 racer, FlatOut Ultimate Carnage. We've seen it, we've played it and, yes, we're very, very hot for it. And now you can check it out too thanks to an absolute deluge of freshly waxed assets.

Below you'll find the very first teaser trailer for your inspection, there's a stack of new screens just waiting to be admired here and don't forget to check out the fancy pants 360 degree screenshot if you haven't already. You can also download the full HD version of the trailer here.

FlatOut's development director, Jussi Laakkonen, has also given us a bit of background info on the debut trailer:

"The working title for the FlatOut Ultimate Carnage teaser was 'smashing expectations'. Street racing games are all about pimping your ride with spoilers, fat rims and whatever. FlatOut on the other hand is all about action. So when FlatOut does street racing, we do it with the sole purpose of wrecking those pimped up rides to unrecognizable lumps of charred metal.

"The 'expectations' part of the teaser is where the camera obsesses about the red lead car and is inspired by all those street racing trailers that seem inescapable. The car looks lovingly crafted, beautiful, fast and straight out of a street racing show.

"The 'smashing' part is what makes FlatOut what it is. An all out destruction racer. The viewer is treated to a pile-up of epic proportions to show why FlatOut earns the Ultimate Carnage subtitle with its Xbox 360 premier.  

"All footage is captured live from the game, as we wanted to show the real thing. It took us a lot of tries to get everything just right as we wanted the action to be directly taking place in the game. Everything is what you can experience first hand when you play FlatOut Ultimate Carnage, which is coming exclusively to Xbox 360 this June."

May 3, 2007