February 2022 • Macworld 95now stretches through 10 full years,
allowing you to develop team skills as
well your own individual racing skills,
in order to improve performance in
vital areas such as pit-stop times
and repairs. There are also research
and development skills – almost like
a strategy game – that allow you to
improve engine performance as well.
The main Career mode now
takes you through a full 10 years of
racing, with a Pro Career option that
ramps up the difficulty level and also
requires you to complete qualifying
sessions as well. If you don’t want to
commit to 10 years of driving then the
Championship mode offers a more
straightforward challenge, with 20
races that duplicate the official 2017
season, with the option of choosing
between modern and classic cars.
And, for the
occasional quick
fix, there are
Instant Race
and Time Trial
options as well.
If you buy
the game from
Steam – which
is cheaper than
the App Store in
the UK anyway
- then you can
play online against Mac, PC and Linux
users, but there’s no multiplayer
option available with the version
of the game sold on the App Store.
The game is also quite picky with its
system requirements, so you should
check Feral’s web site to make sure
your Mac can run the game properly –
especially with that rather steep £45
price tag.- FlatOut 2
Price: £9.99 from Mac App Store
Racing games on the Mac have rather
faded away recently, but FlatOut 2 is
an old-timer that’s still a lot of fun.
There’s no attempt to simulate
real-world physics or recreate actual
race tracks here – FlatOut 2 is an
out-and-out arcade game in which
you just drive like crazy and smash
44.