Customer Reviews

Burnout

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

At first Burnout just seems too simple. I wondered if it would really be fun for more than a few minutes. Well, the gameplay is simple, but incredibly fun.

Standard gameplay is a lightweight "career" mode in which you advance through the game by winning races. You pick a car from a rather generic, limited set and race on city streets against several other contenders. Along the way you'll be driving into oncoming traffic, running redlights and testing every driving violation at over 100 mph. Get into an accident and you'll see a cool replay of the indicent and be shown an insurance estimate for the damage :)

The courses are reasonably long, but the game itself can be completed pretty quickly (just a few days in my experience). Also, the graphics are nothing special. However, the fast paced action makes this a strong contender as one of the best XBox driving games currently available.

If you play this game for 6 minutes you will be hooked.
I have completed the PS2 version of this game. I usally get bored before I complete most games, but this one is very addictive. You just want to keep playing.
As you get better at it, you will be able to avoid oncoming traffic and obsticles with what seams like incredible skill, which will make your friends gasp with amazement.
The Xbox should make this very fast game even faster.
I might get one just for this game, even though I already have it.

If you're looking for a great racer for Xbox,look no further than Burnout.It has great graphics,it's exciting,and the crashes are very realistic.

Burnout plays like any ordinary racing game.Try to finish in first place.But,you also have to drive recklessly through a fully populated city.If you drive into oncoming traffic,and almost miss other cars,you'll fill your Burnout meter,and when it's full,you gain an incredible amount of speed.So fast,everything around you (cars,ECT.) will start to blur!

PROS:
1.Great graphics
2.Exciting gameplay
3.You get to go super-fast
4.You have to weave through a fully populated city,avoiding crashes
5.Realistic crashes

CONS:
1.Only a few cars to choose from
2.Only a few courses
3.Whenever you crash,the game shows two or three replays of it,meanwhile other cars are leaving you in the dust
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GRAPHICS: 9/10
Not the best on Xbox,but still good.You can see windows shatter into particles,reflections off of you car and on the road,ECT.
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SOUND: 10/10
Your car's engine sounds realistic,you can hear the glass break from a crash,cars smashing against the ground,and horns beeping throughout the city clearly.
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CONTROLS:10/10
The controls are simple. Right trigger for gas,left for brake,ECT.

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GAMEPLAY:8/10
You still have to finish in first,but to add a little excitement,you have to dodge cars and fill up your Burnout meter.Whenever you crash,you have to watch two or three replays of your car crashing,and after them,it shows the crash's points,in insurance money.Once,one of my friends got a $600,000 fine for destroying a tanker along with several other cars.

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Overall,Burnout from Acclaim is a great arcade-like racer for Xbox,GameCube,and PS2.If you don't have it already,then you should wait for Burnout 2 to come out on May 1st.Burnout 2 is a lot better than Burnout 1.

This game is way cool. The updated graphics over the ps2 version is worth a purchase again. I loved this game on ps2, but I love it even more on the XBOX.The controls are good and the crashes are great.If you have an XBOX you have to get this game, IT ROCKS.

This game is one of the only few games that you can crash with cars. The awesome thing is that it tells you how much money you would have to pay for both for your damage and the damage of the other cars. You can flip in the air!!! My gosh. If you like car racing games and you positively LOVE crashing. Just spend a little bit of $$$ for this great game!!!

In this game, there is no such thing as saying "slow down". It is really fast and if you are a wreckless driver you can go even faster. It also has great graphics and sound. The crashes are really realistic and it gives you an insurance cost for each crash. But there isn't very many cars to choose from and not very many courses. But besides that it is the coolest game in the world and you have to buy it.

This game reminds me in a lot of ways of 'The Need for Speed' series on the PS(Which I really miss). In fact, the only thing this game is lacking is POLICE chases. 'BURNOUT' is, well, FAST! I love the sense of speed. There is absolutely NO SLOWDOWN and the FRAME RATE is a perfect 60 fps(I always look for those two things first). The buildings look as good as 'Project Gotham' but flying by at a blistering speed. The trees look kinda funky, but they're easy to ignore. The game, to me, has a few flaws. The cars are a little weak in detail and there aren't enough to chose from. They say there is 14 tracks, but really only three or four but there are different conditions(like day, night or dusk) and maybe slight alternate routes. Kind of like 'Project Gotham' or 'Test Drive-Off Road(Xbox). Also, I really wish game makers would create more options to remove all the junk off the screen(mph, time, laps remaining, position, etc.) I like all that [stuff] removed(Rush 2049-Dreamcast is perfect in that aspect). NONE of these complaints ruin this game for me. I love the big crashes and the awesome speed. POLICE chases would have made it better to me. A diffenate rental, if you don't mind repititon, buy it. I beat this game in only a few short hours. But, I still find myself wanting to get back in the drivers seat for a taste of some wild speed.

This game is really cool. It has the best crashes I have ever seen. It is really challenging. There are lots of options to choose from and cool sound effects. It even has a crash replay option so if you wreck and you want to see it again, you can see it as many times as you want.
I reccomend this game to anyone who has an Xbox.

-Chad Steingraber-
-Paradigm/Infogrames-
-Level Designer/Game Designer/3D Artist on The Terminator: Dawn of Fate-

I love racing/driving games, it is definately my favorite catagory..., unfortunately I get a specific game in my head and compare all other games to it. While playing Burnout, I found myself saying "that's cool" .....or "I wish it could have been like 'this' instead of 'that'..." throughout the game. It's not a bad game at all, it definately has the speed thing down....but there were bad points too. Graphic bugs like terrain popping in and out makes me not want to play (is that shallow? haha) the game. I like my driving games to be seemless...I like stuff to look pretty while I'm driving around....is that too much to ask? This is definately a rent/borrow game before you buy it, because you may not like it...or you may love it. Me, all I said was, "Well, it's not Wreckless....."

burnout is on top of the list for racing games with a bullrt.grand turismo was the best for a while but its time is over burnout takes u to another level simply the best racing game on the market with its awseome picture quality and exciting crashes it ia amongst the greatest ever
brian