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This Developer's Cut is Worth Every Penny

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: May 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Those of you that enjoyed the first Burnout, will absolutely LOVE the sequel. The number of improvements are mind blowing. Here is what I loved:

1. Crashes are so real that you'll be jumping and screaming with amazement from your seat.
2. XBox Live support for your high scores, biggest crashes, longest drift, best times, biggest air, etc. You can even easily compare your scores with your friend's scores.
3. Pursuit mode - You choose the cop car and the getaway car. Also available in exciting multiplayer mode.
4. The physics are 1000% better than the first Burnout. You can actually leave the roadway, flipping and spinning in the air with parts flying everywhere.
5. Not only does the built in soundtrack change while you're driving, but this also happens to your custom soundtracks.
6. TONS of races and it seems like thousands of miles of road.
7. The cars are much more detailed with life like deformations, plenty of more colors and custom series skins.

You've never experienced a full 160 mph power slide across 6 lanes of oncoming traffic until you've played Burnout 2. Buy it, don't rent it. You won't be disappointed.

INSANE fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Are you sick and tired of unforgiving racing games where its you against the turns? Well, then buy this game. The learning curve is really small, you'll get the controls by the first race and master them at the fifth or sixth race. The AI is great, they don't use preset racing lines, they swerve. In Project Gotham Racing, the AI seemed like it drove on a preset line. Well, in Burnout 2, the AI is no slouch. He'll capitalize on mistakes and will fall behind if you force him into traffic.

Another great reason to buy this game is in its title, impact. Each and every crash is shown in its full glory. The crash mode even encourages the chaos and destruction of speeding through an intersection. You and your friends will die from laughter after flipping over busses and making tractor trailers jacknife.

Basically, if you want realism buy Project Gotham. If you want a fun racing game and a good time buy this. You WON'T be dissapointed.

Truly facinating!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is truly a facinating game. I was never really into racing games until I saw the trailer for Burnout 2. As the other reviews have mentioned the incredible crash mode and crash physics, however, no one has mentioned mutliplayer (split screen) pursuit mode (similar to that in Driver 2). This mode adds another twist to the game, instead of just racing to see who finishes first, it's all about trying to ram the other person's car on a high speed chase before they "get away" (reach the finish line). This mode of course has to be unlocked by completing certain objectives/races (Pursuit 3) in the game. Aside from the awesome graphics, game play, great contols, and phenominal cars available in this game, the custom soundtrack is the icing on the cake.
I recommend this game to anyone who is looking for a fast and fun racing game. If you are looking for a "driving" with "open" ended maps and various modes/features other than just racing from point A to point B, then this is not the game for you, you may want to consider Midtown Madness 3 (which will be my next purchase).

I only gave this game 4 stars due to some very minor glitches and flaws, I have listed them below:

Sometimes you will run full speed into another vehicle but won't crash, you will only "bump" the other vehicle.

When causing a Log truck to crash the logs stay on the truck and don't roll off, even though the big rig jack-knifes.

Same with the oil rigs, they will crash but no explosion, even in the midst of all the sparks and collisions from other vehicles crashing into the truck.

The game has a replay of each race, pursuit, or crash, but does not offer the option to save the replay, or rewind/fast-forward, or replay in slow motion.

For those of you who have Xbox Live and want to race against other XBL gamers online this is not the game for you. Burnout 2 only offers online scoreboards no online play.

If all these things were fixed in Burnout 3, then the game would be perfect.

Crash Test

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Burnout 2: Point of Impact, is one wicked racing game. You race through on-coming traffic and try to reach the finish line, in the best time possible. You get rewarded points and increase your booster meter everytime your vehicle comes close to colliding with other cars but misses. When your booster meter fills up, you will be able to run faster with a speed burst (into traffic)which is a lot of fun! You can play Career mode where you race against computer oppenents or "crash" mode. In crash mode your objective is obviously to crash into other cars and cause the most damage possible to the most cars. You will be rewarded for causing lots of liability! Yep, a game that rewards you for crashing and causing pile ups! Car model damage and physics look very realistic. You see cars sliding, flipping over, smashing into one another, chunks from metal, and shattered glass from the windshields. The action during the crashes goes into super slow motion, and switches to many camera angles, making the crashes look very dramatic and devestating. Burnout is a different type of racer indeed!

Pros:
+excellent graphics
+excellent animation
+excellent controls
+excellent tutorial
+realistic damage model
+good music
+good sound effects
+lots of race tracks
+lots of cars
+watch replays in slow motion
+adrenaline inducing

Cons:
-you can't save replay
-limited camara adjustment

The greatest racing game of this generation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Burnout 2 is supreme. It is easy enough for a complete novice to have a laugh at, and cause the most extreme petrolhead to be completely at one.

First off, this game is greater than the plasticy-happy-go- lucky-novice-only-game that succeeded it, burnout 3. And from a day of playing the fourth installment, better than that too. Outrageous?
No, here's why:

This game lets you CHAIN burnouts. Unlike 3 and 4, it rewards people who think it is more skilful to EVADE oncoming traffic, rather than hit it and score points. Burnout 4 lets you smash cars travelling the same way as you, where the hell is the skill in that? Yes, 99% of the population think crashing is the best part of burnout, but I personally think it is far more intoxicating to swerve left and right of the traffic than just to plow into it?

I realise that you do still race in 3 and 4, but the whole experience is trying to get you to crash. You can even use a crashbreaker during a race in burnout 4! Sorry, but getting 200 plus burnouts on bug surf shores is the greatest, you know it's hard, you're satisfied when you get a gargantuan chain, you know it's the best. Crashing is for whimps. If you love speed, style, and consider yourself to be skilful at racing games, then purchase this beauty. It is probably the last burnout of it's type.

(Unless criterion tell EA to shove it and make burnout 5 for the 360 how they made burnout 2 for the xbox).

How I waste 5 hours of my life...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: April 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have this game for PS2 and I will own it for Xbox. There has never been an arcade racing game this FUN since San Fransisco Rush 2049 for the Dreamcast. Sure, other games are more "accurate" or "encyclopedic" but can these other games cause a 26 car pileup and reward you for it? I think not. My friends and I have on occasion wasted 5 hours playing this dear game (when we first got it, we didn't go to sleep). And if Crash mode isn't your fancy, the pure speed and challenge of the Competition modes will keep you enraptured for quite some time. As cliche as it sounds, this game is the Matrix of the racing genre. Action, graphics, its all in there. I'm betting that the "Developer's Cut" edition for the Xbox (featuring scads of new extras) will have me wasting even more hours of my life. The only things I love more than this game are Halo, Soccer, The Matrix, and my wonderful girlfriend. Buy this game.

BOOST!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Man, what a great game.
From the time trials to the pursuits, this game has it all!
I think I played the crash game for 8 hours straight, man its addictive.

This is a great game for all ages, and really good for those who are drive in traffic and need to release some of that road rage!

Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Is this the most realistic racing game? No. There are others which have more true-to-life driving physics. But those games aren't as immediately fun and absorbing as Burnout 2.

This is a game that lets you immerse yourself immediately in having fun. You know you're in for it when the first few "missions" are basically tutorials for driving on the wrong side of the road, passing cars as closely as possible, learning to skid while turning, etc.

I found myself laughing out loud when, during competitive racing, I crashed, causing many surrounding drivers to crash as well in a chain reaction of squealing tires and blaring horns. The game handles crashes in a wonderfully entertaining way...you realize that any of these crashes in real life would cost the life of not only the driver, but several other drivers as well... but it's ONLY A GAME! In fact, the game developers created a special offshoot of the main competitive racing game called "crash mode". You actually are encouraged to cause crashes that cause the most damage! I acknowledge that this sounds really really sick. It's really really fun. It IS a GAME, after all.

Low learning curve. High fun factor. Buy and enjoy.

A racing game that rewards you for crashing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Burnout 2 is a great daily driver of a game. It is perfect for quick spins and thrills, and for taking the family out for a good time. Though it may lack the depth and sophistication of Project Gotham or GT 2002, it does hit a sweet spot by offering up a great selection of tracks, decent cars, and gobs of fun.

The gameplay is easy to learn. It is hard to wipe out in these cars, and when you do, you are rewarded with visually satisfying crashes and pile-ups. You are encouraged to drive recklessly by careening around corners, barreling towards oncoming traffic, and catching serious air. These tricks fill your "boost" meter, which, when full, allows you to rocket ahead.

A highlight of the game is an immensely fun crash mode that lets you see how much damage you can do behind the wheel. The first time I tried this mode with a friend, we were both sitting there giggling as we watched our cars flip end over end into busy intersections, blowing out windows and sending big rigs jack-knifing across chaotic highways. Even my wife, who hates video games, got into this, demolishing one of my high scores on her second try.

The visuals are quite polished, with good environments and cool looking cars. I had actually been pretty skeptical of the cars before buying the game because there are no real-life vehicles. But the ones on hand are pretty cool, and it is easy to see that they are based loosely on actual cars like Acuras, Ferraris and the like. Car damage looks pretty sweet: wheels can go flying, hoods and bumpers get ripped off, and windows blow out in awesome sprays of glass shards. But sometimes the cars act a bit blocky, like one time when my pickup landed right on top of a taxi, and just bounced off without inflicting any damage. Tanker trucks also never explode no matter how you hit them. But these are minor quibbles.

All in all, this is a great game to either play alone or with a group of friends. It is easy enough for everyone to learn, but provides a lot of fun to keep people engaged for the long haul. This has vaulted to the top of my Must Play Now! list.

One of the Best Racing Games EVER!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: March 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I own this game for ps2.I then found out that it is coming to the xbox. Even though I own this game for ps2, i'm buying it for xbox. I love this game so much. The boost feature is awesome. The championships do get hard, but you get cars that can keep up with the competition. You can unlock cars like: a cop car, an oval racer, a japenese muscle and the supercar. There is multiplayer madness in 3 modes, pursuit, crash and race, I don't know if there will be more multiplayer modes on the xbox version. There are plenty of modes and gold medals to get to keep you entertained for a long time. One thing that will be better on the xbox version is xbox live support. You won't race online, but you will get your highscores posted on xbox live and be ranked by it.

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