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Fun, fun, fun 'til Daddy takes the TNT-bird away!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 22
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

While I am not a racing purist, I enjoy the playing most racing games on the Xbox and PS2 and, as of just over a week after this product launched, I am 87% of the way through this game (I've completed the game, but have yet to "perfect" every race).

This game features a beautiful new remake of the graphics engine specifically for the Xbox 360 and 10 more crash junctions than Burnout Revenge for the original Xbox console, but a graphics handful of additional single-player levels is not the reason to buy this game. EA has added some serious "Next Gen" features to this version of Burnout Revenge, including "Live Revenge" and "Save and Share." The former keeps track of all of the players that take you out online. When you meet up with one of these rivals again, they'll be highlighted just before you begin a race with them. Likewise, if you've taken out someone who is in the current race, you'll see that they're "gunning for you." This significantly ups the ante for playing online and creates an incredible adrenaline rush as you must either dodge an attempt for payback or seek out your arch enemies for revenge. Likewise, the Save and Share feature allows you to record up to 30 seconds of your single-player races and forward them to the people on your Xbox Live friends list. These friends can download and watch the clips while they have the Burnout Revenge disc in their 360.

But when it comes right down to it, Burnout Revenge is all about destruction. EA has improved all of the facets of what makes the "Burnout" series so exciting, and pumped it into a great title for the Xbox 360. This isn't just a "better" version of Burnout Revenge for the original Xbox, this is a title designed for the best gaming platform currently available. If you already own the original Xbox title, you might buy this version if you really enjoy playing online (because of the new "Live Revenge" feature), or want to send clips of your biggest and baddest crashes to other 360 users.

The average racer will spend about 25 hours just completing all of the races. But to earn all of the achievements, you'll be playing much longer. You must earn a 5-star rating on each and every race to obtain 100% completion, and a number of achievements require that you perfect each category of race. Also, there are almost a dozen achievements (245 of the 1000 gamerscore) that can only be earned online.

Finally, there are 79 cars to unlock, which can be earned by obtaining a medal in certain races, performing "signature" takedowns in different parts of each map, and completing the challenge sheet of each level.

In short, this game will keep you busy! The variety of racing, crashes and traffic attack modes provide much more entertainment value than a normal racing title and the incredible work put into the 360-exclusive features make Burnout Revenge an excellent game to add to your "Next Gen" collection.

Great Car-Smashing Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 28 / 30
Date: March 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Most racing games have you trying to dodge crashes and hitting your opponents. In Burnout Revenge, your entire goal is to create as much mayhem as possible.

We have every racing game for the XBox 360 and really love this genre. I have to admit that the first few times playing Burnout Revenge that I found it VERY hard to "hit" the cars. I would naturally dodge them. Even when I said to myself "hit them! hit them!" my fingers would zoom around them. I finally broke that habit and was able to mash them with great glee.

The graphics are really quite amazing. The car model is great of course - they have really gotten that down on the XBox 360. But more than that - your car deforms in a TON of ways. The paint scrapes off. The sides dent in. It all has to do with how you damage yourself. Cars get sheared in half, tires fly off, you name it.

There are a number of game types. There are races where you bash as you go. There are crash situations where you launch yourself into traffic and see how much destruction you can make. Other cars on the highway are fair game; bash them and watch them fly. Boost yourself to faster speeds. You develop relationships with other drivers - there will be certain cars that are out for revenge. There are grand prix matches of multi races.

Each course has its own distinct feel. These aren't closed tracks - you are driving through the streets of LA, Miami, Tokyo and other areas. You get palm trees and shiny office buildings, all depending on the area you're in. There are helicopters flying overhead and a ton of car models.

The music is reaosnably good, a collection of fast-paced modern music. I would have loved it if you could choose from different music styles as well, but you can't have everything.

There's a ton of replay value here - you go back to get the top ranking in every course, aiming for those perfect scores. Since you unlock some really cool cars as you go, it can really help out to take one of the later, super cars back to the early tracks.

The LIVE feature is really neat, too. Not only can you bash other players online, but you can even record your favorite crashes and load them up. It might be voted one of the top 20 best!

If I had any complaints about this game, it would be the "look back" the game does every time you slay an enemy. Since your car is still moving very quickly, it's sometimes really tough, if you're about to hit a wall or something, to have that look away and look back happen. Also, I don't like the camera angle in general. It is very low and right against the car. I like an angle that is higher up and further back. I realize some players like both of these features as is, so I wish they would have options for a player to change these 2 items.

Still, those are minor complaints in a game that is a ton of fun. Highly recommended!

What a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Burnout revenge came out on the xbox first I played it till my eyes were blurry and then I played it some more,and now they remade it and put it on the 360 it is just plain amazing I cannot explain it in words it would not do it justice you need to play it to understand what i mean,i can tell you on my home theatre system it is the best sounding 360 game yet and probaly the best graphicly,put that with insane gameplay and its a great game.Must buy!

The Eva Longoria of racers

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

If you think about the title of this review for a minute, you'll understand what I mean. This game is absolutely beautiful. This is the one to show off to people you know that don't have a 360 yet. Of course, not in a mean way. Just to reassure them that they need to have a 360. Not just a simple port, it's more like EA has taken the time to learn the guts of the 360 and redesigned Burnout from the ground up. I have not gone live with it yet, so I'll talk about the World Tour. You will see the same tracks as the ps2 and x box versions, but there is just so much more detail in the environments. Cars look better, the cities look much more alive. Also, for fans of the crash, they have added 10 exclusive junctions for us to tear $hit up on. Words really do not do this game justice. Graphically, this is the best looking game I've seen in years. Especially in HD. Audio is still ear shattering but in a pleasing way. Anyway, trust me and everyone else, if you have a 360, you need to get this game! Absolutely awesome!!!

WOW!!! GREAT GRAPHICS, COMPLIMENTED BY LOTS OF FUN!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The time for Need for Speed is over and Burnout is the racing God!! I have always loved the Burnout series and it is no different with the Xbox 360 version. If you want to waste days on end with a great racing game, then this is what you need!!! Worth every cent!

Eh

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Alright I know its for HD and all that and a little bit of new stuff but it was fun at first for a while but, it got old fast, I already played most of the game when it was out on PS2 and I know there is some added stuff but still, it doesn't really help at all. I didn't find anything really better about it. Just how I feel and my opinion. It is fun taking down cars and playing online but I still think they could of made it way better

Crash and Burn...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Burnout Revenge is an okay game. One of the best features of the game is the ability to play "Crash" into other cars to rake in damages in dollar. It is also a blend of racing and crashing when you play the world tour mode. The graphics arn't too bad and very typical of early next gen games. It is a fun game to play with others and get each other mad taking the other people out.

Some drawbacks are the loading times when you play online...especially when playing the Party Crash or crash type games. Another one was the lack of good cars. By this I mean it would be great to have "real" brand name cars to play in the game instead of generic cars, trucks and other vechicles. Again, they might not be licensed to have brand name cars, but it would of been cool if EA had it just like Need for Speed Most Wanted.

Other than that the game might not be worth a buyer, but surely worth a renter to try out...just make sure to sit tight and follow your driving instructor's advice.

Unrealistic. An okay game that should have been great.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

While there are some improvements on this latest edition of Burnout, it's main weakness is that it abandons what made Burnout 2 so successful. In Burnout 2 we are given a very realistic driving experience and one must try to avoid "burning out". However, in burnout 3 we can literally drive through traffic. Rather than using Burnout 3 as an opportunity to create a more realistic, heart pounding 360 game, they rather decreased the realism of the experience in favor of being different. Yeah, it's kind of neat to literally drive through cars but it soon loses it's appeal. Burnout 2 meant hours upon hours of fun. I lost interest in burnout 3 after only a few minutes.
I stronly recommend to rent this game and to not waste your money on buying it.

Finally, a healthy outlet for my road rage!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm relatively green when it comes to the racing genre, but I have recently added Forza Motorsports and this title, Burnout Revenge, to my collection. I like Forza, but I can drive realistically and true to factory/backyard specs in my own car any time! Burnout is dominating my time right!
Burnout is for all we angry drivers who still have enough decency not to cross the threshold of insanity by falling prey to the voices that tell us to follow that guy home (who's had his left blinker on in the LEFT lane for the last three miles while going 6mph slower than the speed limit and talking on his cell phone) and bash his head in with a tire iron... you HAVE heard those voices, right? Yeah, me neither.
Unlike other racing games that simply ask you to finish "1st" without dinging up your pretty automobile, Burnout DEMANDS that you cross the finish line in style by leaving as many balls of fire in your wake as possible- preferably the charred remains of those stupid enough to cut you off at break-neck speeds.
Driving into oncoming traffic, tail-gating, "rubbin'," drifting, rear-ending, brake-checking and any number of insane maneuvers are rewarded in this game, whereas in the real world, they'd most certainly result in loss of driving privileges, vehicular manslaughter charges and at the very least, sky-high insurance premiums.
Technically, this game is awesome; everything is beautifully rendered. I particularly love how realistically the cars crunch up and react as they truly would to specific angles of impact; no two accidents need every look the same! The environments are extremely fluid and each offers a ton of alternate routes and shortcuts; so much so, that you don't necessarily feel as if you are on a closed course at all! It actually feels as if some sort of sick, twisted, completely spontaneous illegal street race has broken out as you and five other cars battle each other through incoming traffic, on sidewalks, up and down stairs and through construction zones at speeds that would make even the "Fast and the Furious" crew wet their pants.
There's also a tons of different modes in which to satiate your lust for automotive carnage. You can go with the typical "race" format, participate in "crash" scenarios in which you merely cause accidents to rack up a "total damage" number and a new "traffic attack" mode in which you put the pedal to the metal and rear-end as many unsuspecting "civilian" cars as possible to keep your timer from running out.
Ultimately, between all the explosions, insane stunts and seemingly endless supply of nitrous (or "burn,") this game is over-stimulation at its finest; it works perfectly as an odd hybrid between and racing sim and an action game. The controls are surprisingly simple and gameplay forgiving enough that no event feels unbeatable; you'll find yourself refusing to settle for anything other than the gold every time.

Great game for an even greater price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just bought Burnout Revenge last week after the price drop. I had never played any burnout series game before and the $20 price drop was like a warning that the game was not that good. NFS: MW and PGR3 are still running for more $$$. Thankfully, I was quite wrong, the game is great no only offline, but also online with Xbox Live.

If you have the cash and want to play a fun arcade 'blow all' race game. Do not think twice...Burnout Revenge is for you.

Also I could forget to mention that the game look spectacular in my Toshiba HD TV.

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