Burnout Dominator

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Drive like a maniac to max out your boost -- or drain it totally to perform a Burnout and get an instant boost recharge. Chain multiple burnouts to keep the adrenaline burning!
• New ways to burn in Maniac Mode - Drive on the edge in the most challenging race mode seen yet and watch your score soar
• Watch out for the signature shortcuts on every track - Ram a rival through the barrier of a shortcut entrance to unlock it and shave precious seconds off your race times
• Every car offers a unique experience -- master them all as you drift, smash and race your way through the world tour
• Collect Domination Points as you win races, takedown rivals and nail the challenges thrown at you to progress to the deadly Dominator series

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MUPX4Q
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 6.1 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 6, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,634 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #11 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Racing

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

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Dominate a New World Tour of Destruction

Rivalry and adrenaline dominate the action in the most intense, challenging Burnout experience yet. In Burnout Dominator, push your skills and your nerves to the limit as you tear across a new world tour. Battle the most insane traffic ever, uncover and exploit shortcuts, master drift corners, and barrel through oncoming cars in a nerve-shredding bid to become the ultimate burner. Fuel your rivalries and stoke your adrenaline even further in the brand-new Maniac mode. With tons of unlockable features and awards, Burnout Dominator will keep you locked and loaded in the ultimate vehicular combat experience.

FEATURES

• Master an Epic New World Tour—Hit the road on new tracks built for every style of racing, from drifting on open urban roads to racing against oncoming traffic in crowded city streets.
• Bigger Boosts—Chain boosts together through reckless driving to reach the ultimate Burnout speeds.
• Unique Rides—Race in hotrods, 4x4s, muscle cars, and more, taking advantage of their individual features and distinctive handling abilities.
• Crazier Driving, Bigger Rewards—In the all-new Maniac mode, the more insanely you drive, the more points you score.
• Exclusive Unlockables—Win races, take down rivals, and complete awards to rack up Domination Points and unlock hidden content.

Product Description

Burnout Dominator PS2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Return of the Boost Link, March 7, 2007

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flaviolius (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Burnout Dominator (Video Game)

To avoid any confusion: Burnout Dominator IS NOT Burnout 5. BO5 will be an all-new, open-world game coming to PS3 and X360 later in 2007.

So what is Dominator? Is it worth the purchase?

It's vitally important to know that Dominator, despite being a totally new game in the long-running vehicle-mayhem Burnout series, is meant to be a return to the roots of the series.

The quickest way to describe the gameplay would be a mixture of Burnout 2, Takedown, and Revenge. The core of the series has always been driving dangerously to fill a boost meter, which allows you to then go even faster.

Dominator maintains this core, but in a welcome return to Burnout 2, includes the joy of boost linking. Once your boost meter is full (and turns blue), hit the boost button and off you go. What you can now do is continue to traffic-weave, fly through oncoming traffic performing near misses and tail-gating, and smash your opponents into obstacles. Do this enough, and you'll be rewarded another full boost meter (Burnout x2, x3, x15, etc). Top drivers will be able to keep the boost chain going for the entire length of the track, and Dominator is built around trying to attain this.

There is NO traffic checking. If you hit ANY civilian traffic - oncoming or not - you're gonna wreck, although you're still be able to aftertouch and/or crashbreak your destroyed metal carcass.

The gameplay flow is very similar to Revenge: a world tour mode takes you through various tracks, unlocking progressively faster car classes and increasingly difficult challenges. There are medals to earn, secrets to find, and rankings to increase. Dominator has three major differences from Takedown and Revenge, however: no online play (but there is split-screen, which is better than nothing), no crash mode (disappointing, but supposedly it's being reinvented for Burnout 5), and Record Breaker, a new single-race mode which lets you race any unlocked car on any unlocked track, and also lets you choose which type of race you'd like to run (single, time attack, maniac, etc).

Maniac Mode is a new race type that scores you on how much havoc you cause, and it's a lot of fun. Also new is the Signature Shortcut: smash a rival into a certain place on a certain track, and the resulting impact unlocks a shortcut for permanent use on that track in any mode.

Dominator uses the same game engine as Revenge, but it doesn't look quite as sharp. The game moves very fast, and has good sound and perfect control. The track design is structured around long turns, perfect to drift through, and each has its own unique feel, from a beachside course to a winding mountain road. The loading times are a bit long compared to the PS3/X360.

Dominator is a breakneck ride through the careening, eye-burning experience that is Burnout, and although it's not one of the best games in the series, it's a great way for its run on the PS2 to end.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A filler game yes, but an enjoyable one at that, March 12, 2007

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Burnout Dominator (Video Game)

It's inevitable that EA is tweaking the next generation of their incredibly fun Burnout series for next-gen consoles, so in between that time they give us Burnout Dominator. Combining events and features from Burnout 2, Burnout 3: The Takedown, and Burnout Revenge; Dominator delivers what longtime fans of the franchise would come to expect. Maintaining a great sense of speed and focusing a bit more on tactical elements this time around, Dominator is a fun blast while it lasts, but it doesn't have that meat & potatoes feel to it that the previous games in the series have had. Not to mention that it becomes noticable where the game was scaled back while being developed, and graphically the PS2 is really showing it's age. The cars look blockier than ever before, and the tearing is ever apparent on a regular television when going at high speeds. The Maniac Race mode is fun, and while this may be a filler game, some other new features would have been nice, especially considering the game isn't carrying a real budget price. Dominator can essentially be considered "Burnout Remix", and a cheaper price would have been nice for what you get here. That aside, Burnout Dominator is still a blast to play, and features much of what has made the series so great in the first place. This may very well be the last great racer for the PS2, and with Burnout 5 over the distant horizon, Dominator proves to be a very worthy distraction.

5.0 out of 5 stars Crash em!, March 6, 2010

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Liz "Cat lover" (Saratoga, NY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Burnout Dominator (Video Game)

My son really likes the Burnout series. Plays it for hours. Also a great pick is need for speed carbon.

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