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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 16
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Great Great Game! So, here is a different take on reviewing this game. I know everyone else loves the racing of the Burnout series, and surely this is some of the best racing on any platform. However, for me, the absolute best thing about the Burnout series is the crash mode. INCREDIBLE! It is hard to put into words why it is so much fun to drive as fast as you possibly can into a crowded intersection to see just how much monetary destruction you can cause. It's like primordial fun. Your inner beast gets to come out in the form of plowing through semi trucks cars and minivans. Plus, every time you complete a crash intersection, you unlock another. Each crash is different, each intersection is different. Eventually you'll get to harder to crash intersections and the crash mode becomes somewhat of an addicting puzzler, trying to figure out how to get the gold. Each crash intersection takes about 1 minute to complete lending this mode of the game to the perfect portable title.

Bottom Line: Is it fun? Yes. If you like completely destroying cars and you don't mind using a little brainpower to do it, or if you just want the best racer anywhere, get this game. Will I keep it? It can be played forever. Is it for kids? Extremely violent car crashes with no people involved. My kids can't get enough of it.

why was this game released?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is the worst game I have ever played, on any system, in the 25 years of gaming I know! this ds version takes the poop cake hands down. Shame on ea for releasing this game to the public and wasting our hard earned money let alone time! it deserves a zero! and should only be played with a labotomy!

A Semi-Unbiased Review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

So I read the horrible reviews of this game, but decided to give it a go anyway. At only 34 (US) it was cheap anyway. I take out my mario kart crack that I have been playing and pop in my new game. The joy of playing a brand new game is right up there with an orgasm.. Well at least to me, but I digress, so there I was greeted to the EA logo and a cute little cut sequence. I started the world tour and began my journey. Personally this game probably should have been called DS Racer or something instead of Burnout and it would have gotten higher reviews. A lot of peoples problems with the game were the graphics. Personally the graphics are exactly what I expected from a DS sized Burnout. A bit grainy, a bit of clipping here and there (barely noticeable unless you are one of those people that grow a big rubbery one from watching for clipping.), but overall nothing that made me want to bleed my eyes with a fork or anything. Is it as pretty as MarioKart, or Castlevania? Of course not, but I didn't expect them to pack the burnout goodness into a cart that small and not sacrifice some things.

The controls took me a moment to get used to until I realized I could change to another type which is closer to how I play the game on the Xbox. Once I changed that I found the controls to be very nice, however I will point out something that took me time and may give you a headache. For some reason in this game once you run out of boost, but gain little smidgeons the framerate kind of has a fit everytime this happens. So to save yourself a headache don't play this version with your finger constanly holding boost (like you would on it's bigger brother). Instead the boost in this game is more what a boost should be, a quick boost, and go. The graphics in boost mode actually surprised me that they could pull off the illusion of the speed that you feel in the other games. Of course it is noticeably different but otherwise very nice. The races are your standard fodder, the cars are only really there for looks(there is no speed difference within the cars), road rage is still intact although a bit strange due to the DS's ability with hit detection. I know this is a major element of the game, but I also realize there is only so much a small system can do (take a look at the article in game designer with the lead physics programmer of Wipeout Pure for PSP to get a more in depth point of view). Some times you might point with a wall, or crash directly into that wallThe crash mode reminds me of a twisted blend of Burnout 2 and Takedown. It's very simplistic and exaclty the reason I bought it, to crash into other cars and smile.

Now on to the music... Dear lord... The music makes you want to cry. And not in the tears of joy kind of cry, but the dear god it's the noise that makes me want to punch babies (thank's Dane Cook). The one thing that I was very dissapointed with was the lack of touch screen abilities. I was not expecting anything like Trace or castlevania, but I thought they might have been able to do something with it, but sadly it's much like mario kart's and serves only the purpose of the map. Overall this game is exactly what I expected out of a port of Burnout on the DS. I didn't go into it expecting to be blown away or get Xbox, PSP, or even PS2 graphics, what I got was a highly portable way to release road rage while I am at work. If you are wanting something that is graphically impressive then I don't suggest this game (however the first person view is amazing to me the fact that they even got close with the limited hardware/software they had) . I would say that if you are into racing games then at least check this game out for yourself. If you are a big fan of burnout at least try it. However if you feel that you need awesome craptasticular graphics or are a fanboy of burnout and can't realize the dimensions of the DS can only handle so much, then I would not suggest you buy this game, and perhaps pickup mario kart if you haven't already.

A breakdown of overall rating, based on 1 being the worst and 10 being the best:
Gameplay: 7.8
Sound: 1
Difficulty: 4.3
Graphics: 5.4

OVERALL RATING: 4.62

This is awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a Burnout fan sice the 2nd game & have 39 DS games. Out of all the games I have ever played, this is the ONLY ONE so awful, that I brought it back to the store demanding a refund. There is absolutely NO AI!!! This means, instead of the rough & tumble action of fighting cars, they just race around the track in a line on a preset path. Its not fun. The crash mode is even worse, where there is only one or two cars to be seen, with crashes only reaching as high as 60,000 in damage. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR YOURSELF OR AS A GIFT!

a faithful transition?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

let me start out by saying this: Burnout Legends for the DS is fun. Not the same kind of fun you get from the console versions, but a different kind. This game's fun factor comes from blistering speeds, tearing your enemies to shreads and the sometimes awesome, sometimes funny (because of the bad physics engine) crashes. Seriously, the physics in this game are completely screwed up. You will get into some extremely bizarre crashes, some that really make you scratch your head. If you can learn to ignore the freakish crashes (an easy task for me) you will find a genuinely fun game. Here's the breakdown:
Graphics: 8/10- The cars all look pretty nice, as do the environments. There is some occasional pop-up, but it's nothing that really effects the gameplay.
Sound: 7/10- This game play generic rock during most of the races, but it's not totally unenjoyable. The crashes and stuff like that sound pretty good.
Control: 6/10- Control is where this game really falters. For the most part, you can get used to the controls. Many of the cars place a bigger emphasis on drifting, sort of like the Ridge Racer series. This might be hard to get used to at first, but it works out all right in the end. Some cars, however, just don't seem to work right. They can be much too hard to turn accurately. It's nothing that would ruin the game, as you can just choose a different car, but it would be nice if all of the vehicles available had good control.
Entertainment: 8/10- Control and physics problems or not, this is one enjoyable game. The intense speed, hair raising turns and bone-crunching crashes will leave your heart pumping after each playthrough, and in the end, isn't that what the Burnout series is all about?
Overall, Burnout Legends for Nintendo DS gets a 7.25/10.

Greatest DS title of all time, !@#* the PSP version!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Great DS game, but the PSP version can just mop the floor with it!
Great graphics and game modes, I hate PSP!

Doubters are 100% wrong!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a few days ago. It is GREAT! I love taking down the cars and the styles of the cars. GREAT!!!!!!! Doubters are VERY(x1,0000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
wrong!

Do Not Compare to PSP. You'll regret it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Personally, I thought that Burnout Legends for the Nintendo DS is great. However, many famous review websites (i.e. ign.com and gamespot.com) have thought differently. Why? They compare it to the Burnout Legends that is on Sony's prized PSP. Now, if you are like me, you don't have the money to get one of these suckers, so you're stuck with a DS that you got last Christmas. Well, for those unfortunate few, this game is a must-have. At a constant 60 FPS (frames per second) it runs very smoothly. The collisions are very realistic, and the fact that you can take down an opponent during a race is a definate plus. However, the collision detection is a bit off, meaning that you can be one centimeter away from crashing into the median, and crash into it anyway. But that is a very minor detail that gets overrun by the superior gameplay. The Crash Mode was another letdown, however. There isn't enough traffic to crash into, and you tend to magically stop traffic whenever you get a crashbreaker. The graphics aren't too well either, but it's not the graphics that make up the game, it's the gameplay. I love it, and I hope all you DS owners will too.

Burnout Legends......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: January 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As much as I play racing games, I'd never heard of Burnout til last year when a friend gave me all his PS2 games because he was selling his system. For a first generation PS2 racing game, Burnout was actually pretty awesome. So, when I heard they were coming out with a Nintendo DS version of Burnout; entitled Burnout Legends, I decided to get it for my Nintendo DS. For the most part, they made the game in the classic Burnout mold. I found it to be a very entertaining racer myself despite what reviewers on certain online gaming sites have to say about it. I agree with another reviewer here that most of them compared the game to the PSP version(which is clearly a stronger piece of hardware than the Nintendo DS, graphically & otherwise). For the Nintendo DS' strengths and capablities, I think the developers did a fine job with the game.

The only glaring flaw that I seen with the game was the collision detection. Course, every game I've ever played has some type of collision detection problems. So, to me, that flaw can be overlooked.

It has every racing mode included in the PSP version(as I own that one as well and know) as well as a multitude of tracks to race on & the crash mode is a hoot, love playing that one. The graphics and control are pretty decent and it has a good sense of speed when compared to other racing games for my DS.

Burnout Legends is everything you'd expect it to be on the DS and is one racing game that should be in every racing fan's DS collection.

NEVER COMPARE TO PSP VERSION.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Okay Nintendo DS is graphically weaker then PlayStation Portable.And the developers pushed both versions to the limit.So be fair,okay if NDS was as graphically strong as PSP you could complain-But not this time.BurnOut 3:Legends is actually one of PSP`s Best Racing games,acording to reviews-and suprisingly i don`t see any PSP FansBoys or girls dissing it like they would usually do-But GameSpots review was not fair.Recommended if you own a NDS,if u own a PSP get that one-If you have both consoles get the PSP one(that was NOT a fanboy comment).

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