PlayTm writes: "There was really only one thing wrong with last years FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage on the 360 and that was that you'd have had to lug around a TV and a console if you'd have wanted to play it on the move. Okay, so that's not quite true (about there only being one thing wrong with it, not about the need to lug heavy equipment around) there were a few weird physics quirks and the AI was a little on the unforgiving and elastic side for some people. But, the fact remains that it was a damn fine racing game and anyone with even a passing interest in the genre should have bought and loved it with all their gaming heart. So, now it's arrived, fully portable, on the PSP in slightly remixed FlatOut Head On flavour there is even less reason not to own a copy. Isn't life grand.
Fans of Ultimate Carnage will feel right at home as soon as they boot up Head On as the game makes little attempt to hide its parentage with a virtually identical structure to proceedings even down to the same soundtrack. Central to the game are the two main game modes, Carnage and FlatOut, the former offers a series of points based races and challenges to progress through and unlock while the latter is your more traditional tournament racing with prize money that can be spent on new cars and upgrades."
andPOP writes: "I'll be brutally honest, I've been putting off trying out Flatout: Head On for one very poor reason, with the re-release of Final Fantasy 4 every time I reached over to pick up a portable system instead of reaching for the PSP to do some work, I'd pick up the DS to play some FF. Eventually however, I buckled down and got to work and boy did I not realize what I was missing! When I first try a game I like to watch the entire introduction video before pushing start because I feel an intro should get you excited to play and show you what kind of game it is. Flatout did this fantastically as I watched cars crashing left and right and brilliantly detailed explosions occur, granted these were not the in-game graphics, but boy howdy how it got me excited!"
FlatOut's inaugural run on the PSP is just as much of an action-packed, feature-rich event as you'd expect. The fun throw-the-driver-from-the-car minigames are all here, and the developer has kept a lot of the unpredictable crashes and trash-strewn environments.
The graphics are impressive for the handheld console and the pick up and play elements combined with the carnage and mayhem that ensues from the tournament levels is enough to keep you entertained for more than a weekend.
Flatout: Head On is a great pick up and play car game that will have you oh-ing and ah-ing as you crash into yet another obstacle or take out another race competitor.
