Customer Reviews

Burnout

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

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!

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

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!

So you see burnout's adds and you think 'Wow' and you rush out and rent it and sit down to play. You start it up and play for about 45 minutes with a slack-jawed, awe struck look on your face, but then it stops. You suddenly realise that you can have fun racing and crashing but only for so long, it lacks corperate sponsership, thus generic car models and it's rather redundent, after you race a few times, the rest of the maps are pretty much the same map backwards and at night.
In the end: Great Idea, Great Graphics, Great Soundtrack, Poor exectuion. Unless your a hardcore racing fan of old school style racing, RENT THIS BEFORE YOU BUY!!

"Burnout" is an okay game. It's fun to go whizzing through rush hour traffic at 130 mph. It's therapeutic in the sense that you can do stuff in this game that you wish you could do in real life.

The thing that makes me give this game two stars are the crashes. Yeah, they look realistic and cool and you can replay your crashes from about five different angles after you finish the track. But when you're racing someone and you crash, the game shows you how you crashed from three different views all while chewing up time on your clock. You can't skip the crash replays nor is there a setting preference to turn them off. It really throws off the flow of the game and irritates the living heck out of you!

You're racing along and you crash with 1:15 left on the clock. The computer kicks in and shows you how you crashed from 3 different slow-motion perspectives, but when you regain control of the game and race, you've lost 5 seconds thanks to the computer. What a gyp!

It was an okay rental, but I'm kind of bummed I wasted $... on it. If you want a good racing game, pick up "Gran Turismo 3". If you want a game that whips every other car game out there, grab "Grand Theft Auto 3". If you want to be annoyed by endless crash replays and limited playability, "Burnout" is for you.

Finally I can race my car down busy city steets at 135mph! For the casual gamer this game is worth every penny. So much fun, spectacular crashes, great speed, great replays, great sound... easy to set up and get started... forget all the technical GT3 stuff, this game rocks!

Rent it if you aren't convinced, but you'll buy it once you do. Just don't buy it if you just got your license... it might get you into trouble. All this game is missing are the cops!

Some say Burnout is incredibly unrealistic and shouldn't be on the shelves. Well, screw them. Burnout is truly and simply an action-packed, blood-heating, tense chase game that truly ignites your adrenaline. The main point of the game is, of course, to make it across the finish line in the alotted time before your opponents do. But unlike those boring Cruis'n games on N64 that bored us to h$ll, this game has the most spectacular crashes and stunts ever witnessed in any video game. As you race, or CHASE, you have a small meter that denotes "Burn", which is a kind of charge for a turbo boost. The more crashes you nearly miss or daring stunts you pull, you get more "Burn". Once the meter is fully charged, and with the press of a button, you're car speeds up to feverish speeds, blowing your mind away with an incredibly portrayed feeling of speed. And yes, hackers, there are plenty of Game Shark codes for your pleasure. You can even unlock some cool driving modes. BUY IT! You'll love it.

The object of this game is to race through busy streets, driving as recklessly as you can. The more dangerous the driving (near-misses, driving on the wrong side of the road, skidding..etc.), the more your Turbo builds up. Once you get Full turbo, you can get up to speeds over 160 mph. But if you crash, your Turbo goes all the way down. You race against three other CPU (Computer Controlled) players, the first to the finish line wins. Usually there are 3 laps.

You can choose from 5 or so different cars and colors before you start racing.
The cars are a truck, a Viper-like sports car, a Ford Focus-like compact car, a Mitsubishi-like Sports car, and a Mecedes-like Luxury Car. you can unlock other cars by winning races.

This was a pretty good game, it has some pretty awesome wrecks in it. And when you crash it automatically shows it again in slow motion (that can be a good or bad thing).

I give the crashes a 4.5/5 the graphics a 4/5 and the replay value a 2/5

It's fun to play at first, but once you lose interest in it, you usually won't want to play it very much.....

I played this game on my sister's Gamecube and loved it so much that I bought it for my PS2. The graphics were awesome and the realism of the crashes were better than any of the Need For Speed games. I can't wait to try Burnout 2: Point of Impact...I am sure it will be even better than this one! For the price, this is definately worth buying, just for the open ended playing.

Maybe I'm an exception but people who say that good reviews for this game must have no experience of other driving games are seriously wrong. Having got 96 point something percent through GT3 and completed all the main missions in GTA3 I bought Burnout on a recommendation from a friend. I'm happy to say that I was not disappointed, true it's a little short (by no means as bad a MGS2) but I feel it has high replay value. Even now I turn the stereo on (Burnout's music is about the lowest point) and sit down to do a couple of races when I have some spare time. The game is all about gameplay and who cares if the graphics aren't upto scratch compared to GT3, you're flying through city streets dodging traffic like a cat on speed. One reviewer mentioned that the manual is lying about being able to drive a truck, it's not; sometime after completing the 3rd or 4th championship the oppurtunity occurs. In total I have aquired a total of 7 cars so far and there may be more.