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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!

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.

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.

still fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Very fun game, like most of the Burnout series.

Pros:
- they removed the ANNOYINGLY loud gear shift noise from the last game
- graphically gorgeous. All the little sparks are so wonderful.
- it's fun to destroy. This isn't real life. You get to do things you wish you could to idiots in traffic. healthy outlet for road rage.
- slow-mo (aftertouch) to guide your crash into other cars if you can has returned from Takedown.
- priced right
- The bit where you just drive into traffic to cause as much insurance cost damage as possible is probably one of the funniest things you'll ever see in a video game. Who hates the insurance industry? I DO! I can do these over and over and over again and it's still fun to do. I love that so many of the autos on these levels happen to be fuel tanker trucks. Pretty funny. They should add some nuclear waste, hazmat vehicles...how about liquid nitrogen or nitroglycerin tankers blowing up sky high a hundred feet into the air. Now that would something.
- Arguably the best game EA has to offer. Most EA games excel in mediocrity. This is both beautiful and fun.

CONS:
- re-mix electronica track of the Doors - Break on Through to the Other Side. What the hell were they thinking?
- if someone bumps you, then a few seconds later you drive into a wall because you turned wrong, they get credited with a takedown, even though it was really you taking yourself down.
- many circuits are more city-oriented and more contained so when you do a takedown, the other guy just crashes rather uninterestingly into a wall. Prior versions of this game had them shooting way up into the air maybe off a cliff or something. Much more fun.
- low angle view of car only. Many other games give you multiple view options.
- they new "revenge" gimmick element adds little to actual gameplay (offline). You takedown the same car that took you down last. So what. You'd be trying to take them or anyone else you can down anyway.

All-in-all as fun as it ever was. Look for Burnout 5 with a more open-road style of gameplay on 360 late 2007.

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!

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.

The best arcade racing series comes to 360.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was a SF Rush: 2049 junkie back in the days of Dreamcast, so once I picked up my 360 (my first console since Dreamcast) I knew I needed an arcade racer. Burnout certainly didn't disappoint.

This game is packed with modes, unlockables and even free downloadable cars (though, the cars are basically billboards for any company willing to fork over the cash to EA). If you already have the game on Xbox, then an upgrade probably isn't necessary...but if not, then this is definitely the definitive version of the game and worth the extra few bucks. With the recent price drop to $40, there is no reason no to pick it up. Even if you're more into sims, this game will tide you over until Forza 2 drops in November.

One last thing, the online play on Xbox Live is pretty flawless. I was very impressed by the system and the near lag-free play. Also, the revenger rivals system (which tags any racers who have taken you out online) allows for some continuity between racing sessions. If you don't like racing alone, then this is still the game for you as Xbox live lets you have a multiplayer race-fest any time of the day or night.

I hate EA, but this game is just amazing.

Burnout: Not for hardcore racers But still almost too much fun to handle.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Burnout adds a new concept to racing games. It's right inbetween Mario Kart and Need For Speed. It combines racing, and trying to knockout you enemies by raming them into all sorts of things. (I love the slow-mo that occurs whenever you do this) Let's not forget the crazy cool traffic mode that pits you to go full on into an intersection and rack up points by crashing cars. A must have for racing fans and pyromaniacs alike!

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.

A true racing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Perfect! Great graphics, outstanding camera, Xbox Live! Now this is awesome! If you want to get a kid a present, this is it! Get this not that boring game Cars! The crashing is incredible!

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