I have been a fan of the Burnout series since its birth in 2001. That game was unique for its time due to the crashes. I can easily say the same for this game. What other game allows you to use traffic as a weapon? What other game allows you to blow up your competitors during a race, albeit in the later stages? Not any game I can think of. No racing game has even attempted to use these innovations.
This game is a racing game that allows you to crash into other cars. You can crash into the back of other cars to get them into a "Takedown". A takedown is where a car crashes and momentarily does not race. You can also run other cars into a wall or other obstacles for a Takedown. As mentioned above, in the later stages, if you crash, you can blow up your car and takedown a lot of the other cars.
The graphics are easily the best the XBOX has ever seen. There is no major slowdown. This game looks very nice in the details. The sparks, the mangled cars, the explosions all look beautiful. However, the enviroments look very drab and dull, especially in the city industrial section, but at least it looks realistic.
The sound is great, but standard for a racing game. The soundtrack is quite frankly a God-awful mix of punk and metal that isn't metal. If you like punk and emo , then you won't mind this soundtrack, but I do not like those two genres of music. However, there is the ability to use customizable soundtracks and trust me, if you have Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55" in your XBOX, play it while racing. You won't regret it.
There have been many racing games to call themselves the best of the bunch. Pole Position, F-Zero, Rush, Wipeout, Need For Speed: Underground. Add Burnout Revenge to that list. If you are an arcade racing game fan, hell make it a racing game fan at all, you must buy this game, even if it is short.(The single player will last you about 12 hours tops.)
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