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Playstation 2 : Burnout 3: Takedown Reviews

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Gas Gauge 91
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Adrenaline = Burnout 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Want a crash in the most spectacular way imaginable? Then the Burnout 3 is the right cure for you. If you put together unbelivable sens of speed, breath-taking crashes and damages on cars, you get the reason, vhy did I give this game five stars.

Burnout 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: August 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

August 12, 2004. I get my Official Playstation Magazine in the mail and with it is the monthly demo disc packed with tons of video clips, exclusives, demos, etc. When I come across "Burnout 3: Takedown" in the Demo section, I had to try it out. It was totally awesome!!! Tricks include such things as Takedowns, drifting, oncoming traffic, slamming into the sides of the road, etc. Hopefully, it will come the way of the Xbox although a PS2 release is all that is planned now. Your boost meter also multiplies(gets bigger) when you take out opposing rivals, which means more boost, which means first place!! Burnout 3 looks to be an awesome game so far, but is a lot more on the Arcade side of the gaming spectrum, so those looking for a really top notch simulator, although the game is good, probably won't appeal to this game. Overall, it's a great game and I can't wait to play the real thing!

Like Burnout 2... and a whole lot more!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: August 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I spent over 100 hours of play time on Burnout 2. I couldn't stop trying new ideas for the crash modes. I kept trying to beat my old times on the races. Sure I'd get gold, but could I get all the races done without crashing?? It just couldn't get any better. Then comes Burnout 3. I'd been following the trailers for a while and now with the demo release.... well, the release date just can't come soon enough. I'll play my demo over and over till then. The graphics are awe-inspiring. The 'turbo' button also works as a slow-motion button during the crashes. Sparks and particle effects, broken glass, even paint flecks... it's fantastic! You'll find yourself crashing on purpose. I'm sure that the crash mode will be available again. Where it is THE goal to drive into intersections to cause as much damage as possible. I'll probably get the Xbox release version vice the PS2, but it's the same control feel of Burnout 2 that I'm familiar with. Go to the homepage and check the trailers if you want more as well. Enjoy!

Burnout 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this on 9/8 and started playing it is by far the best Burnout yet! I am a huge fan of Burnout 2 and saw this and jumped on it, I've been playing it all night! The graphics are far superior, the accidents are more realistic, there are over 60 vehicles, and alot more tracks/ways to play. I have been playing for 12 hours straight and haven't even begun to use this in all the differents ways you can.
If you played and liked Burnout 2 you HAVE to get Burnout 3, you will not regret it!

Best racer out there...til GT4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's difficult to talk about Burnout 3 using words. My initial plan was to compose this review entirely out of emoticons, using a lot of D and XD and that would be the most efficient (also the most annoying) way to get across how much fun this game is to play. Even not playing Burnout 3 is more fun than playing most games; I'm sitting here trying to write while my coworker is alternating between Road Rage and Crash Mode, and let me tell you, you ought to consider the mere existence of this writeup as me doing you a favor. Such is the hypnotic power of Burnout 3. It's the rare racing game these days, in fact, that's so good that you don't have to like racing games at all to enjoy it -- I don't. If you are a racing buff, then you can derive some amusement from knowing what all the fake cars are modeled after, but that's the least fun to be had here. All that's important is that they move fast and look real nice when crashing. Actually, "real nice" isn't nearly strong praise enough to describe how good this game looks. The car models are a little lumpen, and obviously low-poly when compared to the next crop of hyper-realistic games, but Burnout 3 smokes those titles in other, cooler ways. Holding down R1 to activate slow-motion after you've taken a spill is a great way to bask in every single spark, dust cloud, and chunk of car flying around. They're all present in normal speed, too, but you'll be too busy ramming cars and trying not to be rammed to notice much. The increased offensive focus comes from the system that Burnout 3's subtitle is taken from. In past Burnout games, the way to replenish your turbo "Boost" meter was to drive recklessly -- in the wrong lane through incoming traffic, or drifting as far as possible, or catching lots of air as you went over hills. In Burnout 3, though, by far the best way to earn Boost is to take out other cars. You can nudge them from behind so that they spin off into an oncoming truck's way, or force them into the wall hard enough to flip them over -- you can even take them out during your own crashes by guiding your own flight trajectory in the slow-motion Impact Time. The Takedown system is what makes the already pretty good Burnout series amazing. The most outrageously fun mode in the game, Road Rage, revolves entirely around takedowns -- you get what amounts to an unlimited amount of Boost as you go on a crusade to takedown as many cars as you can before your own vehicle is totaled or time runs out, whichever comes first. Other modes such as 1-on-1 races and Crash mode are enhanced in various ways by the new features; guiding your flaming wreck through the air so that it manages to pick up the quadruple multiplier is an incredibly satisfying feeling, as is being secure in the knowledge that taking down the only other driver in a race, and then using that extra Boost to outdistance him even further, gives you a pretty solid lead. At least for a little while, anyway. Burnout 3 does have a couple of noticeable flaws which prevent it from reaching perfection: the rubberband AI is fixed more obviously than a Tammany Hall election, and we challenge you not to snicker when you are simultaneously told that you're "5 seconds ahead" of your foe, who is also "right on your tail." More glaringly, though, are the times when the game forgets itself and lapses into comparatively boring racing game tropes. The 1-on-1 races don't really belong in a game that rewards offensive driving this much, and the "beat the best lap time" courses are almost entirely incompatible with what makes Burnout 3 fun. But with over 170 individual events in the World Tour mode, there's so much to do that you can pretty much ignore what bores you, and once you've exhausted the single-player tour there's still a multiplayer mode, both online and off. Burnout 3 delivers the purest hit of awesome so far this year, and by way of thanking Criterion for the game I'd just like to say.

Blazingly Fast

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! It is what every racing game should be and more. Fast action, cool cars, wild tracks and one funny in-game DJ make it more fun than other games out there. Add to that many different modes of gameplay (Crash mode being a personal favorite) and you have a game that manages to please a wide range of audiences.
The sense of speed in this game is what makes it stand out from the pack. The edges of the screen blur and other drivers whip past you at unreal speeds. Weaving in and out of trafic, drifting around corners and taking out other drivers adds to the excitement...and ultimately to your score. The learning curve is almost non-existent and in game tutorials make is easy to play right out of the box. Add to this intuitive and easy to manipulate controls, buttery smooth framerate, sweet graphics and sleek cars and you have one heck of a winning combination.
Many different tasks, races, crahs junctions and takedown races await you, in fact in only 3 hours of playing I have only gotten 16 of the more than 100 medals that the game offers for completing different tasks and challenges.
I dont normally play racing games (one look at my reviews will tell you that) but this game is one that I am extremely happy that I purchased. The sense of speed, simplicity of control and awesome graphical quality make this game of the best in any genre. Simply put: Burnout 3: Takedown is one of the BEST games that you can buy. No rental necessary, just add it to your list and purchase it as soon as possible.

Blinking need not apply

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: September 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge fan of the Burnout series. I've been playing since the original a couple years ago and I can't quite get tired of them. Some people had a problem with the first game's long levels, but I thuroughly enjoyed them, it added that much more time to make others crash. And now, in the new game, Burnout 3: Takedown, you will find the 40 or so levels to be perfect, along with everything else in the stellar title.

For one thing, the graphics, while not super realistic like Gran Turismo games, are still some of the best on the PS2. Everything is quite colorful and vivid, and you get a wonderful look at everything around you after someone has pushed you into a gaurdrail, causing you to flip around in the air while all the broken glass and flecks of paint and car part flaot around in slow motion along with you. But what makes crashing really fun, besides the awesome damage animation, is the fact that when somebody makes you wreck or you hit something and crash, you can hold a button to slow everything down, and you can actually move your crashed vehicle around to put it in the path of oncoming racers that may or may not have caused you to wreck, proceeding to cause of festival of twisted metal vengeance.

But one thing that was more noticable than anything is the artificial intelligence in the other drivers. For the first time in any racing game I actually felt bullied around, like I do when I'm playing with real people. Which is needless to say really freakin' cool. They ram you into oncoming traffic, tailgate, sideswipe, team up on you to sandwich your car, and coolest of all, they actually make realistic mistakes. They will literally misjudge a drift around a corner or get faked out by you or another car and crash. And that just blew me away.

Now, onto the thing everybody likes to talk about, the speed. Even when not using your burnout meter, your screen is still blurred around the edges as you are pushing a minimum top speed of 150-160. Without your boost. That's insane! Then, when you actually get some boost (which you can now use even when your meter isn't full) you hit speeds closer to 200 mph! And you really take your life in your hands then, because by the time you actually see that car up ahead coming right at you in the oncoming lane, you've already smashed into it with tremdous speed. Note: this is not a complaint, it's just a really cool idea pulled off superbly. Sure, you can race the entire level going mach speeds if you like, but you'll probably crash more that anybody else too. So, unless you have Elven vision, I'd just wait till you find a good clean patch of road with little to no traffic on it to really hit the gas. Or if you're a second behind somebody, and hitting them at turbo speed would mean a pretty crash for them, then by all means use it. You don't have to listen to me, just race and win your own way.

I'll wrap up by saying that I have not beat this game yet. I've put about 9 hours into it so far and still haven't unlocked a third of the games unlockables. And I haven't even touched the multiplayer yet! So my advice to you is this: If you want the best arcade racer ever created, buy this game. If you're not a racing fan, or if you don't have a PS2 or XBOX, then don't bother with this game. But if you're capable of playing this game, be prepared to let that itch on your face go until the race is over...

Graphics-5
Sound-5 (except the soundtrack is new wave punk/pop, so I just turned it off. But the in game sound effects are much better than any of that crap anyway)
Control-5
Overall-5

Corpses not included

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: September 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

EA takes over the Burnout series and does exactly what you want: make the game faster, longer, more fun, and more violent. Unfortunately, EA also insists on playing a song at EVERY menu in the game, just like they did with all of their sports games, bringing corporate synergy to a new level. You'll hear one bland rock band after another--it could all be the same band. Awful.

The game? The game is excellent. The same buttons, the same concepts, and then some. The game is much, much faster, insanely so. The crashes feature more parts flying, more paint flying, tires, ripping metal, etc, etc. And the more cars you wreck, you get a chance to blow up your own car and cause even more destruction. Nice.

They also value 'takedowns', meaning just taking out other racers (running them off the road, ramming them, causing more wrecks, etc.)

Basically, if you liked the Burnout games, this is a no brainer. Same deal, only more insane. Again, the only thing missing is the bodies flying through the windshields at 200 mph.

simplemente GENIAL

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: September 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

OOOHHHHHHH GRAANNNNNN JUEGO, al principio tal vez un poco confuso, pero una vez viendo de que se trata todo se convierte en pura diversion. el único pero que podria tener este juego son las gráficas, pues comparandolas con gotham racing no son tan impresionantes, pero fuera de eso este juego es la neta. La música aunque algo intensa es bastante agradable, y los diferentes modos de juego son realmente divertidos. A mi me gustan mucho los juegos de carreras y este en realidad me a cautivado, pues sin dejar de ser un juego de coches ofrece tantas novedades que al estar jugando tienes el interes de ir descubriendo nuevos coches y nuevas modalidades de juego. Yo nunca jugue los titulos anteriores de burn out, lo que si es que este juego podria considerarse como una mezcla de mario kart, rumble racing, project gotham y project gotham en live.
En breve, este es ese tipo de juegos del que nunca me perderia.

A gem.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This third installment in the series is definantly an improvement. The graphics are sharper, the speed is speedier, the sound is amazing, the fun can't be matched in any other racing game. The tracks are all original and fun to race on. The cars are awesome and the choice is endless.


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