Burnout

by BurnOut PS2

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005RCPR
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 13, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,498 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Burnout is a high-risk, high-energy arcade-style street racer. No learning curve is required; just pick up and play. The game monitors your driver's heart rate, as you're rewarded for near misses. Civilians steer clear! There's only one way to drive in Burnout: dangerously. Force traffic into your opponent's path and risk a head-on collision to secure a win. Slide, cut close, and drive into oncoming traffic and you'll be rewarded for your risk taking. Crashes are based on actual crash and damage physics for extra realism.

Instant replays allow you to relive your handiwork from multiple angles in all its cringe-inducing, metal-bashing glory. The advanced traffic AI means civilians try to avoid and warn you while opponents try to slam you off the road. Cruise the U.S. and Europe on 14 awesome, traffic-filled courses through cities and into the countryside. More than 300 vehicles fill the streets and highways, making reckless racing and wild demolition a certainty. Dolby Digital surround sound brings the roar of screeching tires and twisting metal to life. The game is analog-controller-compatible, so you can feel every turn, skid, and crash.

Amazon.co.uk

Like your racing games fast, furious, and full of spectacular smashes? You're in luck. With Burnout, Acclaim removes all pretense of providing a serious simulation and instead serves up a delicious dish of pure arcade fun on the PlayStation2. The title features two key selling points--the speed of the action and the spectacular crashes. To facilitate these, the setup couldn't be more straightforward, as the aim is simply to be first past the post. You can increase your chances by driving more dangerously, although that comes with obvious pitfalls in the shape of those aforementioned smashes. Let's just say that to get through the game you're going to have to take your chances.

Contrary to the serious approach of Gran Turismo 3, this is foot-to-the-pedal stuff, and tremendously good fun to play. And when you do put your proverbial foot down, get ready to move, for this is a blisteringly fast title that deceptively requires more concentration than at first appears. The downside is that this won't appeal to those who like their racing games nice and serious, nor to those looking for anything particularly innovative. Burnout has few qualms about marrying the multimedia power of the PlayStation2 to a game engine that forsakes bells and whistles for speed, destruction, and sheer good fun. Fortunately, in this case, it's all the better for it, making it yet another PS2 four-wheel treat. Highly recommended. --Simon Brew

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Faint of Heart Need Not Apply, November 23, 2001

By 

flaviolius (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burnout (Video Game)

Don't let those low-ranking reviews fool you. Burnout is a white-knuckle blast of adrenaline from start to finish, a racing, no, a CHASING game that grabs you by the throat from the start line and doesn't loosen its grip until you pass the finish line....if you can!

As is usual with racing games, the objective is simple: cross the finish line before time runs out, and ahead of your opponents. However, the setup with Burnout is anything but simple. The streets you race on are fully populated, with over 300 different types of cars that serve no purpose but to get in your way. You've gotta run red lights, drive on the wrong side of the road, and swerve like mad around semis and tankers, or scream your way through downtown at rush hour - just like you'd always like to do in real life, right? Each time you narrowly miss a jolting collision, your Burnout Meter fills up. When it's maxed, you hit the Boost button and try not to pass out from the sense of speed. If (make that WHEN) you screw up and hit another car, you're treated to the most realistic, bone-crunching crashes ever seen in a game. You'll wince every time, and you'll take greater care in the future. Get some friends together and watch em all go "OOOOOOOOO!!!"

Sound good? Well, it should. Burnout concentrates on a supersonic thrill ride, and delivers with an ever-increasing sense of danger. Bearing down on a checkpoint with a few scant seconds remaining, CPU car on your tail, you screech around a turn at 130 mph.....and see a bus bearing down on you. What do you do? Burnout is a combination of Crazy Taxi and the car chases from the film "Ronin." People who want a realistic racing engine and want to tweak their car's suspension till kingdom come should stick to Gran Turismo. Burnout's not the prettiest sight in gaming (although the tracks are rendered in surprisingly high detail and the game never budges from its smooth 60 frames per second) but there's so much constantly happening you won't notice, or care. This is an example of a game that's chock full of gameplay, including a fantastic multiplayer mode, extra modes you can unlock (including the unbelievable Survival Mode, in which you must try and navigate one of the game's 14 courses WITHOUT CRASHING...not easy at all), and even a Replay Mode for saving those especially horrendous accidents (and you'll have em, trust me). There are several cars to choose from, including a Muscle Car and a Saloon, and even a Bus and Tow Truck!

Fewer and fewer games these days are relying on a completely riveting, yet simple gaming experience. Anyone who wants a high-speed challenge or an unmatched, relentless sense of danger is hereby required to try Burnout!

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is that light red?, November 11, 2001

By 

William Robert - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burnout (Video Game)

Burnout rules. This was a nice surprise. I hadn't heard anything about this game until a friend showed it to me. He said it was the best racing game out there, so I had to ask the question. What about Gran Turismo? He said forget the graphics, just try it. Well I did and I have been playing it every day since. He was right, just turn down the music and turn up all of the other sounds. You don't miss the music when you hear the sound of your body crashing through the windshield at 150 mph. I've never seen a racing game like this that really makes you feel like your going that fast. The crashes are what makes this game. My friends and I noticed that just before we hit something we are actually ducking our heads and closing our eyes. Its that real, I kid you not. I love my GT3, but I think this one is more fun. Don't forget to select Dolby Surround Sound, you'll really hear it when you enter the tunnels. 3.2.1. GO

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply awesome, November 8, 2001

By 

Karl (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burnout (Video Game)

So fast! So adictive! Burnout is a simple arcade racer that's not trying to be GT3 with all that car collecting and ultra realism its just trying to be fast and fun and it does that so well it hurts. Its real easy to learn, and when you do get it all wrong and hit the other racers or the traffic the crashes are cool. It makes you want an airbag fitted on your controller!