FlatOut Ultimate Carnage announced for Xbox 360 by Empire Interactive

Thursday 01 Feb 2007

Empire Interactive (a wholly owned subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings) today announced the next-generation debut of the Flatout franchise. Flatout Ulitmate Carnage will be released on the Xbox 360 in June 2007.

Since its release in June 2006, the Flatout 2 franchise has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Flatout 2 has also received numerous awards, the Xbox version was named the ‘Best Racing Game of 2006’ by G4’s X-Play games show, the PS2 version won ‘Best PlayStation 2 Racing Game of 2006’ from IGN and Krawall Gaming Network voted the PC version ‘Best Racing Game of 2006.’

Flatout Ultimate Carnage has been rebuilt and specifically developed by Bugbear Entertainment to make the most of the additional feature sets and improved processing ability of the Xbox 360. This means gamers can look forward to an entirely new Flatout experience.

New capabilities and features mean an entirely new FlatOut experience

Flatout Ultimate Carnage features new design and game play components including a step up from 8 cars racing on screen in FlatOut 2 to 12 cars. Players can also look forward to no less than five new single player and two new multiplayer modes making use of the Xbox Live online game service. Instead of the 5000 dynamic objects per track in FlatOut 2, there will be 8000 and the gaming experience will further be enhanced with widescreen HD resolution (720p), dynamic lighting and shadowing featuring real time environment mapping on all vehicles, as well as 20 000 polygons per car, up from 7500 in FlatOut 2. Players will also be able to download content via Xbox Live.

Best FlatOut game to date

Commenting on the next generation debut of the FlatOut franchise, Ian Higgins, CEO of Empire Interactive remarked, “The announcement of FlatOut Ultimate Carnage on Xbox 360 is the first since the acquisition of Empire Interactive by Silverstar, and will be followed by many other exciting announcements from the company throughout 2007. The FlatOut franchise has been incredibly successful to date with the first two games in the series both selling over one million copies around the world, so we are very excited in being able to reward the loyal FlatOut fan base with a next generation FlatOut game. FlatOut Ultimate Carnage is that game and it is undoubtedly the best FlatOut game to date.”

Clive Kabatznik, CEO of Silverstar Holdings, stated “FlatOut is the flagship franchise of our group. The tremendous public response to the title and the numerous industry awards are testimony to the quality and popularity of this game franchise. We believe that this bodes well for the upcoming release of FlatOut Ultimate Carnage on Xbox 360, both in terms of the new capabilities showcased by third generation console technology as well as increased popular appeal for the latest incarnation of this most successful franchise.”