Customer Reviews

Burnout 2: Point of Impact (Developer's Cut)

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Those of you that enjoyed the first Burnout, will absolutely LOVE the sequel. The number of improvements are mind blowing. Here is what I loved:

1. Crashes are so real that you'll be jumping and screaming with amazement from your seat.
2. XBox Live support for your high scores, biggest crashes, longest drift, best times, biggest air, etc. You can even easily compare your scores with your friend's scores.
3. Pursuit mode - You choose the cop car and the getaway car. Also available in exciting multiplayer mode.
4. The physics are 1000% better than the first Burnout. You can actually leave the roadway, flipping and spinning in the air with parts flying everywhere.
5. Not only does the built in soundtrack change while you're driving, but this also happens to your custom soundtracks.
6. TONS of races and it seems like thousands of miles of road.
7. The cars are much more detailed with life like deformations, plenty of more colors and custom series skins.

You've never experienced a full 160 mph power slide across 6 lanes of oncoming traffic until you've played Burnout 2. Buy it, don't rent it. You won't be disappointed.

Are you sick and tired of unforgiving racing games where its you against the turns? Well, then buy this game. The learning curve is really small, you'll get the controls by the first race and master them at the fifth or sixth race. The AI is great, they don't use preset racing lines, they swerve. In Project Gotham Racing, the AI seemed like it drove on a preset line. Well, in Burnout 2, the AI is no slouch. He'll capitalize on mistakes and will fall behind if you force him into traffic.

Another great reason to buy this game is in its title, impact. Each and every crash is shown in its full glory. The crash mode even encourages the chaos and destruction of speeding through an intersection. You and your friends will die from laughter after flipping over busses and making tractor trailers jacknife.

Basically, if you want realism buy Project Gotham. If you want a fun racing game and a good time buy this. You WON'T be dissapointed.

Burnout 2: Point of Impact, is one wicked racing game. You race through on-coming traffic and try to reach the finish line, in the best time possible. You get rewarded points and increase your booster meter everytime your vehicle comes close to colliding with other cars but misses. When your booster meter fills up, you will be able to run faster with a speed burst (into traffic)which is a lot of fun! You can play Career mode where you race against computer oppenents or "crash" mode. In crash mode your objective is obviously to crash into other cars and cause the most damage possible to the most cars. You will be rewarded for causing lots of liability! Yep, a game that rewards you for crashing and causing pile ups! Car model damage and physics look very realistic. You see cars sliding, flipping over, smashing into one another, chunks from metal, and shattered glass from the windshields. The action during the crashes goes into super slow motion, and switches to many camera angles, making the crashes look very dramatic and devestating. Burnout is a different type of racer indeed!

Pros:
+excellent graphics
+excellent animation
+excellent controls
+excellent tutorial
+realistic damage model
+good music
+good sound effects
+lots of race tracks
+lots of cars
+watch replays in slow motion
+adrenaline inducing

Cons:
-you can't save replay
-limited camara adjustment

Burnout 2 is supreme. It is easy enough for a complete novice to have a laugh at, and cause the most extreme petrolhead to be completely at one.

First off, this game is greater than the plasticy-happy-go- lucky-novice-only-game that succeeded it, burnout 3. And from a day of playing the fourth installment, better than that too. Outrageous?
No, here's why:

This game lets you CHAIN burnouts. Unlike 3 and 4, it rewards people who think it is more skilful to EVADE oncoming traffic, rather than hit it and score points. Burnout 4 lets you smash cars travelling the same way as you, where the hell is the skill in that? Yes, 99% of the population think crashing is the best part of burnout, but I personally think it is far more intoxicating to swerve left and right of the traffic than just to plow into it?

I realise that you do still race in 3 and 4, but the whole experience is trying to get you to crash. You can even use a crashbreaker during a race in burnout 4! Sorry, but getting 200 plus burnouts on bug surf shores is the greatest, you know it's hard, you're satisfied when you get a gargantuan chain, you know it's the best. Crashing is for whimps. If you love speed, style, and consider yourself to be skilful at racing games, then purchase this beauty. It is probably the last burnout of it's type.

(Unless criterion tell EA to shove it and make burnout 5 for the 360 how they made burnout 2 for the xbox).

Man, what a great game.
From the time trials to the pursuits, this game has it all!
I think I played the crash game for 8 hours straight, man its addictive.

This is a great game for all ages, and really good for those who are drive in traffic and need to release some of that road rage!

Is this the most realistic racing game? No. There are others which have more true-to-life driving physics. But those games aren't as immediately fun and absorbing as Burnout 2.

This is a game that lets you immerse yourself immediately in having fun. You know you're in for it when the first few "missions" are basically tutorials for driving on the wrong side of the road, passing cars as closely as possible, learning to skid while turning, etc.

I found myself laughing out loud when, during competitive racing, I crashed, causing many surrounding drivers to crash as well in a chain reaction of squealing tires and blaring horns. The game handles crashes in a wonderfully entertaining way...you realize that any of these crashes in real life would cost the life of not only the driver, but several other drivers as well... but it's ONLY A GAME! In fact, the game developers created a special offshoot of the main competitive racing game called "crash mode". You actually are encouraged to cause crashes that cause the most damage! I acknowledge that this sounds really really sick. It's really really fun. It IS a GAME, after all.

Low learning curve. High fun factor. Buy and enjoy.

I first saw this game at a friend's place. When he popped it in I didn't really think I'd be interested since I don't typically play racing games. But within about ten minutes I was completely hooked and I ordered a copy for myself a few days later.

Crash mode, where you try to plow into other cars and rack up millions of dollars in damage, was my early favorite. It only takes a minute to play each round so it's great if you just want to relax for a few minutes before you have to do something else... but it's also absorbing enough to keep you playing for hours if you've got the time.

Eventually I got into the heart of the racing game itself, since I wanted to unlock better cars (so I could do better at crash, naturally). At first I only raced to get better cars, but over time the racing part of the game won me over as well. There are a handful of skills you really can practice and master, like drifting around corners. Of course, once you unlock the best cars in the game, they have such fine control that you hardly even need the skills you've built up, but at that point, who's complaining?

Anyway, buy this game, it's great fun.

This is an incredibly entertaining game! The gameplay is very arcady, which matches the style of game perfectly. This game is all about driving fast in heavy traffic, and everything in the game supports that, from the great level (track) design to the handling of the cars. Everything in this game is geared towards having fun, and they did a great job at it.

Is the graphic the best I've ever seen? Maybe not, but we are now getting to a point where it really doesn't matter so much anymore. Does it look real? It looks pretty real, although not quite as real as some of the other new racing games perhaps. But there is one thing this game does better than any other game I have seen: It gives you the sense of driving FAST. Incredibly fast that is. Yet the game still remains controllable.

Great job Acclaim!

Burnout 2 is a great daily driver of a game. It is perfect for quick spins and thrills, and for taking the family out for a good time. Though it may lack the depth and sophistication of Project Gotham or GT 2002, it does hit a sweet spot by offering up a great selection of tracks, decent cars, and gobs of fun.

The gameplay is easy to learn. It is hard to wipe out in these cars, and when you do, you are rewarded with visually satisfying crashes and pile-ups. You are encouraged to drive recklessly by careening around corners, barreling towards oncoming traffic, and catching serious air. These tricks fill your "boost" meter, which, when full, allows you to rocket ahead.

A highlight of the game is an immensely fun crash mode that lets you see how much damage you can do behind the wheel. The first time I tried this mode with a friend, we were both sitting there giggling as we watched our cars flip end over end into busy intersections, blowing out windows and sending big rigs jack-knifing across chaotic highways. Even my wife, who hates video games, got into this, demolishing one of my high scores on her second try.

The visuals are quite polished, with good environments and cool looking cars. I had actually been pretty skeptical of the cars before buying the game because there are no real-life vehicles. But the ones on hand are pretty cool, and it is easy to see that they are based loosely on actual cars like Acuras, Ferraris and the like. Car damage looks pretty sweet: wheels can go flying, hoods and bumpers get ripped off, and windows blow out in awesome sprays of glass shards. But sometimes the cars act a bit blocky, like one time when my pickup landed right on top of a taxi, and just bounced off without inflicting any damage. Tanker trucks also never explode no matter how you hit them. But these are minor quibbles.

All in all, this is a great game to either play alone or with a group of friends. It is easy enough for everyone to learn, but provides a lot of fun to keep people engaged for the long haul. This has vaulted to the top of my Must Play Now! list.

How can people not like this game, or say its average. It is the best. Its a great game selling for less, BUY IT!!