Gamespot has a hands-on first impression of the racing game from Bugbear Studio, Flatout 2. Flatout 2 is the sequel to the popular racing game that utilized physics and tight controls to make a fun game.

I’m normally not big on racing games, but Flatout had me hooked, so I’m very much looking forward to this sequel. From the Gamespot article:

Another major improvement promised for FlatOut 2 is that the CPU opponents will race more realistically, and each will have his or her own driving style. In the unfinished version of the game that we played, the other racers were uniformly aggressive, which made the game overly challenging at times but afforded us plenty of opportunities to check out the new vehicle damage models, as well as the extent to which the environments themselves can be destroyed. FlatOut 2 didn’t disappoint on either count, although the fact that some of the destructible objects looked far more resilient than the indestructible ones made us less inclined to take a chance by attempting to drive through them.