Burnout 3 Takedown

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Drive more than 70 cars from 12 different classes -- from European exotics to American muscle cars, mid-size sports sedans, sports cars, compacts, buses, even semi trucks
• Experience new racing conditions and environments, as you race on 40 different tracks across 3 continents
• Spectacular crash technology recreates high speed crashes with extreme detail -- you'll even be rewarded for creating the most massive pileups
• Use your car as a weapon and take out rivals, controlling the car even after crashing
• Online action in seven different modes, with up to 6 participants -- racing through oncoming traffic in Crash Mode, Single Race, Road Rage and more

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002IQC8E
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 15, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (113 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,703 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #27 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Racing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Burnout 3: Takedown rewrites the rules of the road with its aggressive racing action. Get behind the wheel and experience real high-speed action. Use your car as a weapon and battle your way to the front of the pack -- by taking down rivals and instigating spectacular crashes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive and a High-Speed, BURNOUT BLAST, November 5, 2004

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Kevin Nieman "Writer / Provocateur" (Thousand Oaks, CA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Burnout 3 Takedown (Video Game)

Look. I'll break it down for you:

Do you like to race cars in video games?
Do you like to see cars crash, explode, flip, and disintegrate?

That's all you need to absolutely fall in love with this game.

Some people complain about computer cars that throw themselves at you. Hello? It's a videogame! I suspect that those complainers simply don't know how to play the game to avoid these cars.

As for the music and the DJ, guess what? You can turn them off if you don't like them.

But AI cars and punk music are not the reasons to love this game. The real star of the game is the ULTRA-realistic crash animations. I swear, you will never get bored of watching these cars crash. Sparks fly, fenders pop off, hoods crumple, and cars split in two in the most amazing animated crashes you will EVER see.

I highly recommend this game. Is it the best RACING game out there? No. But it's not about the racing. It's about watching things blow up, going really fast, and not taking this too seriously.

Have fun and buy this game!

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game!, November 10, 2004

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Alex Dodd (Aurora, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Burnout 3 Takedown (Video Game)

This is by far the best game in the Burnout series. I have all three. This game is great especially since EA decided to help produce this one. You get all of the special features of a big name game company (like actual songs from actual artists and online play) while still enjoying the simple fun of a small brand game. Don't get me wrong this game is very complex, but the idea is the same, do the best crashes and finish first. I know some people are complaining about the lousy soundtrack, and I partailly agree. Some of the songs are pretty good (like the ones by Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory) but most of them are stupid garage punk rock bands that don't know the first thing about music. The other downside is that stupid Striker announcer guy. The graphics are great, but like some of the other reviewers noted, it's not the ultra-realistic gran turismo graphics, but they are still one of the better PS2 games for graphics. Oh and there is soo much more stuff to this game. 100 crash junctions, 40 levels, almost 60 cars and thats just the start of. It also comes preloaded with the Need For Speed Underground 2 demo, and it seems like a pretty good game. Overall Burnout 3 is highly addicting and fun.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blinking need not apply, September 10, 2004

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Josh Perkins "antisugarcoated" (Davenport, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Burnout 3 Takedown (Video Game)

I'm a huge fan of the Burnout series. I've been playing since the original a couple years ago and I can't quite get tired of them. Some people had a problem with the first game's long levels, but I thuroughly enjoyed them, it added that much more time to make others crash. And now, in the new game, Burnout 3: Takedown, you will find the 40 or so levels to be perfect, along with everything else in the stellar title.

For one thing, the graphics, while not super realistic like Gran Turismo games, are still some of the best on the PS2. Everything is quite colorful and vivid, and you get a wonderful look at everything around you after someone has pushed you into a gaurdrail, causing you to flip around in the air while all the broken glass and flecks of paint and car part flaot around in slow motion along with you. But what makes crashing really fun, besides the awesome damage animation, is the fact that when somebody makes you wreck or you hit something and crash, you can hold a button to slow everything down, and you can actually move your crashed vehicle around to put it in the path of oncoming racers that may or may not have caused you to wreck, proceeding to cause of festival of twisted metal vengeance.

But one thing that was more noticable than anything is the artificial intelligence in the other drivers. For the first time in any racing game I actually felt bullied around, like I do when I'm playing with real people. Which is needless to say really freakin' cool. They ram you into oncoming traffic, tailgate, sideswipe, team up on you to sandwich your car, and coolest of all, they actually make realistic mistakes. They will literally misjudge a drift around a corner or get faked out by you or another car and crash. And that just blew me away.

Now, onto the thing everybody likes to talk about, the speed. Even when not using your burnout meter, your screen is still blurred around the edges as you are pushing a minimum top speed of 150-160. Without your boost. That's insane! Then, when you actually get some boost (which you can now use even when your meter isn't full) you hit speeds closer to 200 mph! And you really take your life in your hands then, because by the time you actually see that car up ahead coming right at you in the oncoming lane, you've already smashed into it with tremdous speed. Note: this is not a complaint, it's just a really cool idea pulled off superbly. Sure, you can race the entire level going mach speeds if you like, but you'll probably crash more that anybody else too. So, unless you have Elven vision, I'd just wait till you find a good clean patch of road with little to no traffic on it to really hit the gas. Or if you're a second behind somebody, and hitting them at turbo speed would mean a pretty crash for them, then by all means use it. You don't have to listen to me, just race and win your own way.

I'll wrap up by saying that I have not beat this game yet. I've put about 9 hours into it so far and still haven't unlocked a third of the games unlockables. And I haven't even touched the multiplayer yet! So my advice to you is this: If you want the best arcade racer ever created, buy this game. If you're not a racing fan, or if you don't have a PS2 or XBOX, then don't bother with this game. But if you're capable of playing this game, be prepared to let that itch on your face go until the race is over...

Graphics-5
Sound-5 (except the soundtrack is new wave punk/pop, so I just turned it off. But the in game sound effects are much better than any of that crap anyway)
Control-5
Overall-5

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