Billing the game as the “most destructive racer” on the platform, Empire Interactive today sent out word that it is bringing FlatOut: Head On to the PSP early next year.

The game will be one of the first titles to make use of the PSP’s recently-unlocked faster processing power to power nine different game modes, including carnage challenges, full career, destruction derbies, multiplayer party mode and the ragdoll stunt mode.

“This is the first time that the FlatOut series has been brought to the PSP, and the results are stunning.” Rob Noble, Empire European Marketing Manager. “The developers have taken all the intense racing mayhem of Flat Out and crunched it all into the PSP. This game will raise the bar for handheld arcade racing games and pushes the PSP to its limits.”

The game will retail its physics engine on the handheld; persistent objects like fallen rocks, shopping trolleys and car parts also remain on the track one lap from the next. There will be more than 36 quick play challenges, 12 different ragdoll events, 6 locations, 40 tracks, 45 unique cars, 4 player wireless racing and more.