Worst Racing Game on Steam / FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction - Just Bad Games

Gotta love how it's labeled as psychological horror in steam

4:51 - Can we take a moment to notice that Flatout 3 is listed as PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR?

Fun fact: Flatout 3 despite being a racing game, also tagged as "Psychological Horror"

I remember playing this a couple years ago out of sheer curiosity. There's a race in Challenge Mode involving the London buses at a cave track. The problem is that on this track there is a jump that you can't cross if you're going too slow which turns out to be literally impossible to clear because the buses cannot go fast enough even with a nitrous boost. I did, however, find a way to finish this race: I had to do a full lap BACKWARDS to reach the next checkpoint after the jump and then finish the lap normally, and then rinse and repeat for the rest of the race all while the AI driver (it was a 1v1) was stuck in a loop of failing to make the jump and respawning to try again.

The "don't touch anything" advice is so funny, you can indeed see how broken the game is.

"Unknown Player" is probably based off The Stig from the British automotive show 'Top Gear' as they have a professional "tame" racing driver who sets lap times and drives whatever crazy vehicle situation they come up with.

Chaos and Destruction fits so well. This game truly was a Chaos and the Destruction of a franchise.

By the way, Bugbear couldn't make Flatout 3 because they were working full-time on Ridge Racer Unbounded (which kinda sucked but that's Bandai-Namco's problem), and getting a second team ready to roll and develop another game would be expensive and time consuming. So of course the rights holders went with the bottom of the barrel choice of a game studio (that also developed Super Street, another blasphemy of a game that should be covered here), it was the right thing to do!

What sucks so badly about this being so bad is that Flatout 1, 2, and Ultimate Carnage are awesome racers. A bit hard, but super fun.

I just realized the problem with the character selects: the one that looked like hitman was actually supposed to be hitman, but the names and character descriptions for the hitman and the Postal guy got swapped. Postal of course having had the movie made by Uwe Boll

Fun fact, part of Team6's Wikipedia page now says that, as part of that developer's history: "In the year 2001, Satan decided to flat out out cappy racing games."

‘Worse than Daikatana’ is a pretty impressive feat, you have to admit.

I actually created a charecter variant called, Lozario. I NEVER thought it already existed my God.

I love how their solution to spawning a bunch of players wasn't to actually check the spawn point to see if it was clear, but just make it so nobody has collision.

8:35 "and if you buy bad video games you go to hell before you die"

Letting the cars from various modes into every other mode is a great idea. Give the player the option to turn it on and off and make sure they all control well and you got yourself a fun game.

Fun fact: A real world prop car of the Tumbler was used as a pace car at the Michigan International Speedway NASCAR 400 in 2005 to promote Batman Begins. You know, a pace car - a car the other racers have to slow down in order to avoid passing

Im surprised you guys didnt mention Wreckfest. Its pretty much a spiritual successor to the original Flatout games. Its actually one of the best racing games ever made in recent years and was developed by BugBear Entertainment.

"The AI drivers are missing the I in AI." Those are not "artificial intelligence", those are "artificial idiots". Also, the "broken, on top of busted, on top of wrong" line absolutely got me.

I love the way you guys review your games. Most reviewers would say something like "The controls for this game sure have a lot of problems." You guys would put it "like a Torre of water gushing out of a fire hydrant onto the street, we're overflowing with gripes!" Ignoring the bits of pure comedy you guys do. (Like every scene with Satan in it) you guys do such a great job in telling the audience how you feel while also keeping our attention. I love it