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just a great concept

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Everybody loves to crash, i really like the crash tracks, that is fun by yourself and playing with friends.

Burnout Revenge Review

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yes, I must admit, sometimes seeing how big of a wreck you can make is fun, but this is mindless. The graphics aren't what they are often described as - they only look good because there are so many colors and lights and lines, and you're moving so fast that sometimes you sort of forget about the graphics. Racing isn't so bad, but I have never been satisfied with closed-course racing. When you do a takedown, the camera looks back at the car you just totaled and plays it in slow-motion. Then, all of a sudden, you're back to racing. This happens so quickly you don't have time to react...and then you watch yourself smash into a wall. And this game is so unrealistic - you run into a semi-truck and it goes flying into the air and you never see it again. Obviously, everyone has a different opinion on this game, but if I were you, I would rent it before I spent my money on it.

All the Wrong Moves

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: October 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Burnout gets a lot of credit for its concept. And, to be fair, that's credit that's deserved. The idea of a racing game that promotes a powerful sense of speed and encourages the player to hit things (and builds itself around a somewhat realistic prosecution of the aftermath of those collisions) is a good one. And it leaves its marks all over this game.

Why, then, am I only giving this (to read the other reviews) apparently superb game three stars? Well, folks--that's simple. Absolutely every wrong deicision that could have been made with respect to this game has been made, and the end result is a piece of software that has great moments, but can only be considered middling at best.

To start with, the game is about twice as long as it should be, and that's where the problems really set in. Racing games can be occasionally frustrating. This game is regularly, unforgivingly frustrating. In order to effectively "finish" the game, you have to perfect every event (there's a LOT of events). In the beginning, that's pretty easy to do. Once you reach the middle, you'll probably have five or six events that you have to repeatedly try just to get close to making your perfect rating. By the end, pretty much all of the racing events fall into that mold. Worst offenders are the "Burning Laps" (time trials), where the game designers seem not only to have assigned some wild and irregular difficulty levels (some tracks you'll get on the first shot; one notable track has taken me three hours to not perfect thus far, and I believe I'm just going to give up on the game as a whole, rather than waste another minute of my life driving the same path again).

All of this, of course, could have been solved if most of the latter half of the game had been left on the drawing boards entirely. By the time you hit the sixth or seventh rank of events, you've pretty much seen everything the game can do for you as far as race events go. You've done the Traffic Attack scenarios (where the challenge is basically to go fast and hit cars into oncoming traffic), you've done the Road Rage scenarios (where the challenge is essentially to learn the best places on each track to perform takeouts without injuring yourself), and you've learned all the tricks you're going to learn about general racing and driving. The additional tracks you have to grind through serve to do nothing but extend and taint the experience of what would otherwise be an enjoyable racer.

The crash events, thankfully, don't have this problem to quite the same extent. While several of them can be ridiculously and inexplicably frustrating (you may never know why you fail sometimes to get the gold medal in an event and succeed others), that negative element of the experience is at least kept to a comparative minimum.

But the problems - the failures of execution - don't stop with the length of the game. There are some fundamental programming errors that also plague this title; most notably, the fact that the developers saw fit to attempt to access the disk drive BEFORE saving race result data back to the user's profile. The result, of course, is that if you have any difficulty at all reading the disc (a smudge, or, in the case of MY 360, some sort of internal defect that causes it to fail reading any game after about an hour and a half), your results will not be saved back to your profile and you will lose any progress you've made in an event. Add that to the work-intensive, frustrating late game and you have a recipe for disaster.

Games are supposed to be fun. For the first ten or fifteen hours with this game, I had fun. You can have fun with it online. But if you expect to finish this game, you're not going to have fun. You're going to be bored, you're going to spend a lot of time memorizing and grinding, and ultimately, you're going to end up questioning why you're finishing the game in the first place.

For the price that Amazon has this title for, it's not a bad pickup if you don't have the title on any other console (if you do, you're not gaining much, as this is just a rerelease for 360 with a little bit of extra content). Just don't expect it to be all sunshine and roses.

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.

FUN... kinda

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is AWSOME!!! for a while and then it stars to suck the races get to hard and it's one of those games you know you will never beat, half of the achiements for this game are practically unachievable.

Not as good as the older "Takedown"

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Burnout for awhile now. I was excited to see what the new Burnout Revenge had to offer, for my new Xbox 360. But almost immediately, I started to be disappointed about some of the changes the game's makers have made.

Don't get me wrong. Burnout is still an awesome good time. And the graphics in this version are killer.

When you'd wreck in the older version, it would say funny things like "Fender bender", "Fly boy bonus", "Damn Van", etc. That's all gone in this version. When you crash somebody off the road now, instead you just watch them crash on your screen, instead of driving. After they are done crashing you are placed back into traffic wherever the computer wants! It's almost like after you die. In fact, at first, when I got takedowns, I thought I was crashing! It's almost the same thing. Pretty weak, if you ask me. I like to keep my eye on the road and race where I want to go. Sometimes, the computer puts you somewhere that you don't want to be! Especially if you are racing the tracks in reverse. Major letdown for game play.

Finally the track design in Burnout Revenge also contributes to the game's problems. My opinion is, if you want to really focus on racing, then the tracks need to be a little less complex, and fraught with peril. When you crash 5 times in a lap, there is no way to be competitive, and it becomes not-fun. There are all kinds of solid obstacles placed everywhere in your path, and along the edges of the road, not to mention lots of head-on traffic, all of which adds up to, you can't get your speed on.

Crash Racing Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a racing game where you can crash and come back again. It came with my version of the X box 360- I thought it was some generic no name game but this game is popular. Simulate speeds over 150 miles per hour. Unlock extra content.

Good old fashioned fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Blowing up stuff is something that every man (and some women) fantasizes about in his private moments. That, and going really, really, really fast. If you want to go so fast that you will literally be screaming at people to leave the room so you can concentrate on this game, sweating profusely, and going for days without food so you can finish this amazing experience, than buy this game. If you have ever enjoyed the feel of pure adrenaline pulsing through your veins, and you turn up the volume when you watch movies that have a lot of pulse pounding action, than buy this game.

If, on the other hand, you like slower paced games, with quests, or guns, or wide-eyed Japanese maidens and bad voiceovers, than this isn't for you. If you like a nice quiet afternoon, maybe curled up with a good book, a cup of tea, and think that music on the radio today is too loud, than this game isn't for you.

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