FlatOut 4: Total Insanity Reviews
FlatOut 4 could have been a much better experience if its car physics were improved and it had a more varied career mode.
Good arcade racing title with original and fun game modes. However, if you want to try it, better wait for a discount.
Review in Polish | Read full review
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity is a fun, nitro-boosted jaunt down memory lane. But while it's good in small does, its lack of variety - in spite a plethora of game modes - and uneven and sometimes frustrating racing experience leaves it running out of gas. Die hard franchise stalwarts should definitely have a look, but newcomers may find it tiring.
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity is better than I'd feared but not as good as I'd hoped. Kylotonn has dredged this near-forgotten racing rebel from the very bottom of the barrel and fashioned it into a basic but fun, stunt-filled speedster, but I found myself regularly frustrated with its repetitive career mode, its stingy economy and nebulous unlockables, its superficial demolition derby events, and its uneven difficulty. A respectable franchise rescue mission but one that still needs some fine tuning and some extra grunt.
Overall, Flatout 4 is an admirable resurrection of a franchise once considered on par with Burnout. Thing is, that sort of game has become passe in the age of realism, and it’s unlikely that Flatout 4 is going to bring it back to the forefront of racing games. Still, if like me, you miss these sort of non-serious racing and crashing extravaganzas, you’re not likely going to be disappointed in Flatout 4. It’s a bit of a dinosaur, sure – but I wouldn’t turn away a Stegosaur if I saw one either.
Does FlatOut 4: Total Insanity restore the series to it’s former glory? Well, kinda-sorta. What is here is really fun and entertaining, but there isn’t enough of it.
Flatout 4: Total Insanity is not perfect, but it is an incredible amount of fun. If you’re dying for a bit of oldschool arcade racing it’ll provide it in bucket loads, just know that you’ll see the same tracks over and over again and that the crazy AI will drive you to the brink of insanity.
Aside from a few annoyances and occasionally unfair difficulty, I found myself always coming back for more with FlatOut 4, and one hour would often turn into three-hour play sessions. It was just plain fun to play, and sometimes a game doesn't need to be more than that.
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity does a surprisingly accurate impression of its aging predecessors, but it fails to expand upon Bugbear's original blueprint in any meaningful way, and as such, misses the opportunity to forge its own identity. While it doesn't quite deliver the heady thrills and spills of Ultimate Carnage, it does come pretty darn close, and given that there's precisely zero demolition derby titles on the PS4 at this moment in time, it fills a tank in the market that's been left unleaded for far too long.
In this case, total insanity doesn’t equate to total fun; it equates to frequent failure. Albeit, often financially rewarding failure. No, the finer moments of FlatOut 4: Total Insanity are to be found when it’s either being more restrained or just all out daft.
Not the worst FlatOut game but “4” in the title doesn't mean anything — you won't see much difference between this and FlatOut 2. But it's much better than awful FlatOut 3, although, to be honest, it wasn't that difficult to do.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Fallout 4 is a good game under different aspects. Fast and funny, gives different hours of fun for the players who are looking for a dirty and destructive racing game.
Review in Italian | Read full review
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity has a solid foundation to draw in new fans, and is a welcome addition to the genre for fans like myself.
Against all expectations, Kylotonn Racing Games successfully gives a new breath to a franchise that had hit rock bottom. While our first races on board of yoghurt pots were quite worrying because of unfair physics, the rest of the game turned out to be more convincing and pleasing. Original and varied game modes on a large selection of tracks and arenas, nutty races although a bit muddled without forgetting the arcade mode packed up with fun, FlatOut 4 will have you brush off its few flaws to offer you some good time worthy of the first entries.
Review in French | Read full review
A good but simple racing game that gets old too soon.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Flatout 4 Total Insanity for PS4 has many game modes and minigames, but it´s poor controls and unrealistic physics engine ruin the arcade driving experience.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
FlatOut 4 improves the good points of its predecessor and bring new features. However, it does not achieve to be as good as the first titles of the saga.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
FlatOut 4 was an average racing game with a focus on absolute destruction and the casual driving fan will certainly enjoy playing it.
For those who are tired of driving games where the rules and strategy are important, comes FlatOut 4: Total Insanity. The worst part of the game has AI problems and that it has technical deficiencies.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Car games boiled down to what I enjoy... destruction.