FlatOut 2

I did not play this at release time but just now. I was looking into cheaper racing games. Olden goldies are good choices for that. I am happy about the "old" graphics , too. Its realistic enough for me.

This is a good, fun and playable arcade racing game. It is challenging but not too hard. It’s fun to demolish the scenery and find shortcuts. In my opinion it’s the best racing game for Linux at the moment (in 2017). On the negative side, gamepad input is broken (on Linux with an Xinput gamepad) so I had to painfully map gamepad buttons to keyboard events with xboxdrv. You also have to launch the game settings first (either from the menu or with the right argument to start.sh) or the game will open in an ugly 1024×768 screen and move all your icons and windows, quite annoying.

This game was and is some much fun in MP. For a casual race with your friends this game offers racing competition with nice tracks and demolition derbys. We played it 12 years ago in lan-parties and never had any bad experiences.

FlatOut 2 delivers in terms of enjoyment, it's less serious. The emphasis has been focussed more on the tracks and design of them. My enjoyment increased more and more by every race I played. Overall it's an improvement over the first game.

This is a GREAT game, but it won't run on Linux Mint 19.2. Game developers don't care about Linux anyway, so don't bother. Use Windows for play and Linux for real work and you'll be just fine.