YMMV / FlatOut

• Awesome Music: Where to begin?
  • FlatOut (2004) has a great selection of both original and licensed tracks such as the titular song by Central Supply Chain (as heard in the menu screen), "Living American" by No Connection, "Beat The Boys" by LAB, "Perfect Goodbyes" by Amplifire, "Anger Management 101" by Deponeye, "Fish Biscuit" by Splatterheads, "No Man's Land" by Full Diesel and, for the sense of finality, "The Race" by SiXeR (as featured in the ending).
  • FlatOut 2 has expanded even further by having the best licensed soundtrack in the entire series featuring absolute bangers like "Symphony of Destruction" by Megadeth, "Demon Speeding" by Rob Zombie, "Believe It or Not" by Nickelback, "7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen)" by Fall Out Boy, "Lobotomy for Dummies" by Zebrahead and "Breathing" by Yellowcard.
  • While being a bit of a step down compared to its predecessor, the Updated Re-release Ultimate Carnage hasn't lost its touch with "The Last Revolution" by No Connection (Returning from the 2004 game), "Waiting" by 32 Leaves, "Wanna Know You" by Manafest, "Union of Nothing" by Point Defiance and "Hang 'Em High" by A Static Lullaby.
  • So Okay, It's Average or not, FlatOut 4: Total Insanity has a decent number of tracks including "No Sleep" by Twin Atlantic, "Mr. Policeman" by Trivoltz, "See You in Hell" by The Creepshow and "Invincible" by Twelve Foot Ninja.
• Bile Fascination: FlatOut 3 has become infamous enough that a lot of gamers get into it just to see what all the fuss is about.
• Fetish Retardant: The third game's female driver models are clearly meant to be titillating, but the game's subpar graphics make them look like creepy imitations of actual people, ruining any potential arousal factor.
• Friendly Fandoms: with the Burnout series, helped with the second game, which is considered by many to be the best, featuring the song "Breathing" by Yellowcard, which also featured in Burnout 3: Takedown.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The second installment is very big in Russia. If you check any song from the soundtrack on YouTube, you'll see many Russians in the comment section having nostalgic feels about this game.
• Obvious Beta: FlatOut 3 was clearly rushed through development, with graphics that would've looked dated in 2006, braindead AI, bland track design, frustrating physics, and loads of bugs that range from amusing to aggravating.
• Sequel Displacement:
  • FlatOut 3 is the most well known game in the series, mainly due to it being considered one of the worst games of all time, and the worst rated game on Steam until eFootball 2022 came out.
  • To Europeans, FlatOut 2 and to a lesser extent the first game, is considered to be the only game in the series.
• Sequelitis: FlatOut 3 is supposed to be a total Serial Escalation, featuring a wealth of new content over the previous games. Thanks to being handled by an incompetent developer, the game handles and controls terribly, not to mention it is unstable and crashes so often.
• Signature Song: Rob Zombie's "Demon Speeding" and Megadeth's "Symphony of Destruction" from 2 as mentioned above.
• So Okay, It's Average: The fourth game, developed by Kylotonn and released in 2017. While it was better received than the bug-ridden disaster that was the third game, it was also criticized for aspects like its repetitiveness and shaky difficulty.
• Spiritual Successor: The series is one to the Destruction Derby series on the PS1 and N64. It would later gain its own successor in the form of Wreckfest.
  • As of 2022, the series received another one by Crytivo known as Trail Out. Unlike Wreckfest (which has stronger "simcade" aspects), Trail Out is more arcadey In the Style of FlatOut 2 with the latest update adding the "Hunter" mode (similar to "Pursuit" from Burnout 2: Point of Impact).