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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.

O YA hapyness is evreywere. and so are parts of metal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

first off happyness is evreywere is my quote. please dont steal it because it is fun to use sarcastically but i did not use it up there ^. burnout is happyness because of its.... BURNOUT!!!!!. ok i'll start off with some coffe (slurps coffe) EW THIS STUFF IS BAD (gets some hot chocolate ) YUM!!1> ok burnout has unique gameplay that cant be missed. its so awsome to experience. if u are driving real fast (250 kmh should do it for ya) u'll want to be super carefull of not slamming into a another car. its fast action racing through streets so you might want to take some advil b4 driving at300 kmh. the sence of speed is a little... off, but works with the game ok. the camera is a little funny because opponents in single player are turning or somthing and they look like they just go left or right, there is no car going sideways turning. it looks like there sliding side to side.... wierd but llookkksss funny. also cars crash unrealitically, but looks so awsome. game is glichy to so just bear with it. it is easy enof for bigginers (i know my spelling sucks) but can provide HARD challenges for the ppl who have rented burnout 3 over 50 times (Oops my mom's credit card bill is...... *reads bill* MY GOD 800 DOLLORS!!!!!)
graphically it rocks. the only things that could have been better are phisics 9i cant spell it) textures, and collision detection. otherwise you'll sit there like, WOW!!! Multiplayer is... bad. dont play it dont try it (exept crash mode wid a friend) ok here is my finall score GAMEPLAY 110/100 single player rocks while multiplayer is... bad but o well GRAPHICS 90/100 could have been better but only in some departments SOUND 105/100 nice music and good sound effects FINAL VERDICT 105/100

The best game for the DS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game with great graphics. You can't go wrong with a whole car selection and choses of race, crash,face off or Grand Prix... Let me explain. Race you pick a car you want in the car type... their are car types like coupe for each level so like the coupe level... as I was saying you bacicly race but you can slam cars into walls to stop them and cause them to crash. Crash cause as many cars to crash. Face off to race and win to get oppents car. with so much more you just got to play this AWESOME Game... YOU won't regret buying it, Trust me.

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!

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.

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.

The ways that this game is good and bad:

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: September 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I don't own a PS2 or Xbox, only a GameCube [and a DS]. When EA took over the series after Acclaim went bankrupt, they were stopped being made on the GameCube. I was very dissapointed. But when I saw this, it was a great sight. I could get a modern Burnout game!

THE GOODS
All of the race modes I wanted... I LOVE ROAD RAGE ^_^.
THE BADS
Lacks in graphics and CPU AI a tad bit.

I noticed that the reviews on Amazon say the game is REALLY good, or REALLY bad. I think some people are trying to compare it to other burnout games, or not.

COMPARED TO OTHER BURNOUT GAMES: It just doesn't stand up to Burnout 2, 3, or 4 [revenge].

JUST BY ITSELF: The second best DS racer I've played [#1 is Mario Kart DS].

WORTH IT? For 20 bucks on amazon, yes.

Thanks for reading ^_^!!!

p.s. out of all of the burnout games I've played [2, 3, revenge, and legends [ds]], burnout 3 is the best!

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).

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.

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