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HOLY COW, THIS GAME IS AWESOME !!! (XBox)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love this game. There is no slow-down, it stays at a constant and tight 60 frames per second! I can't believe the since of speed this game delivers. IT'S FAST!!! The tracks are very well detailed with very clean and gorgious locations. Some tracks are short and some are long. Please note, it is an arcade style racer. The cars handle good, so good, it's not possible in real life. But, guess what...that's one of the reasons I love this game. I'm so sick of racers trying to be simulators. They get boring in about 1 hour and still never really feel like a true simulation. I've got an idea...skip the simulation attempt racer and create a fast and furious type racer. Arcade games were invented to get away from the real world('Space Invaders', 'PAC MAN' and 'ASTEROIDS'. I rest my case). Besides, when did a video game have to be a simulator? Non of us are going to race around the streets at 150 miles an hour anyway!!! I'd like to thank ACCLAIM for this fantastic game. So here goes...Thank you ACCLAIM for releasing "BURNOUT 2" for the XBOX. It absolutely RULES !!!
In final...If you like your racer fast and furious with very beautiful graphics...all at a solid 60 fps, it's a no brainer..."BURNOUT 2: Point of Impact(director's cut)"...is for you. Thanks
PS. It's better than "BURNOUT(1)", graphics and speed.

The best racing game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

How can people not like this game, or say its average. It is the best. Its a great game selling for less, BUY IT!!

Good, simple, old fashioned FUNNNNN!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I work in film production, and, generally, my life is very, very complicated. When I sit down with a videogame, I want something, which unlike my real life, is simple and easy to understand, accompanied by a hair-rasing adrenaline rush. Burnout 2 delivers in spades!

No it's not "reality based", but hey, I have a real car for that. What it is though, is internally consistent, so its fantasy physics quickly become believable.

I also love the linear stucture. Too many games now are "open ended". To me that means lacking in structure, lacking in tightness. Burnout 2 has only one difficulty level in its chamionship mode, and really only one way to get through said mode, but with perfectly ramping difficulty, and a wonderfully well thought-out variety of courses and challenges.

Also great is the fact that the A.I. is NOT elastic, and will keep moving ahead if you screw up. Who likes eleastic A.I.? Why was it even invented?

The graphics are not cutting edge, but they're pretty good (better than Midnight Club at any rate) and have a sense of fun and humour to them. I hated the bland, greyish boxes they called "a realistic city" in Project Gotham. The places in Burnout 2 may not exist in real life, but they FEEL much more like real places you beleive COULD exist than the various cubes supposedly representing the buildings of NYC, London and San Fran in Project Gotham. Again, if you want to drive in a real city, why not go do so in real life? Video games are about fantasy and escape no? Besides, no real city would have such perfect driving routes, as real cities were not optimized for use as video game racer backdrops.

Burnout 2 also throws way more polygons at you than Project Gotham did. Who cares about perfect reflections? Your eye can't really tell (studies in 3D graphics have proven this). Here, the X box processor is focussed on tons of traffic and complicated environments with huge draw distances. THAT, your eye will perceive, and adds greatly to the sense of realism and the speed rush.

Basically, if you want to have fun with your X Box, get Burnout 2.

The kind of fun you can only have in a game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is an incredibly entertaining game! The gameplay is very arcady, which matches the style of game perfectly. This game is all about driving fast in heavy traffic, and everything in the game supports that, from the great level (track) design to the handling of the cars. Everything in this game is geared towards having fun, and they did a great job at it.

Is the graphic the best I've ever seen? Maybe not, but we are now getting to a point where it really doesn't matter so much anymore. Does it look real? It looks pretty real, although not quite as real as some of the other new racing games perhaps. But there is one thing this game does better than any other game I have seen: It gives you the sense of driving FAST. Incredibly fast that is. Yet the game still remains controllable.

Great job Acclaim!

It's all about Crash mode

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I first saw this game at a friend's place. When he popped it in I didn't really think I'd be interested since I don't typically play racing games. But within about ten minutes I was completely hooked and I ordered a copy for myself a few days later.

Crash mode, where you try to plow into other cars and rack up millions of dollars in damage, was my early favorite. It only takes a minute to play each round so it's great if you just want to relax for a few minutes before you have to do something else... but it's also absorbing enough to keep you playing for hours if you've got the time.

Eventually I got into the heart of the racing game itself, since I wanted to unlock better cars (so I could do better at crash, naturally). At first I only raced to get better cars, but over time the racing part of the game won me over as well. There are a handful of skills you really can practice and master, like drifting around corners. Of course, once you unlock the best cars in the game, they have such fine control that you hardly even need the skills you've built up, but at that point, who's complaining?

Anyway, buy this game, it's great fun.

Dreaming of great car chase...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I had a dream last night. I was in the perfect car, able to accelerate faster than humanly possible, able to turn sharper than any car known to man. The speed was impossible. And I was instantly transported all over the world to the most amazing roadways imaginable, all while the perfect techno driving music played in my head. When I wished it, I could become a traffic cop and hit runaway cars repeatedly to make them stop in an awesome game of cat and mouse. Oh yeah, and I was rewarded for driving recklessly with a nitrous boost that makes the Fast and the Furious look like kids stuff. Naturally if I kept the nitrous on, when it ran out it was auto-magically refilled.

Of course, you can't experience these sort of things without crashing. And crash I did. Over and over. But I was invincible in this dream. My car would be restored in seconds every time. Better yet, when I crashed I was suddenly magically floating outside of the car and could watch it crash in bullet-time, only to use my powers of time-manipulation to rewind to just before the crash. I grew to enjoy that greatly, to the point where I started crashing intentionally created the biggest wrecks I could, enjoying the mayhem. Nothing wrong with that, since there were no people in my dream, only cars.

This was undoubtedly the coolest dream I ever had about car chases. All kinds of weather, all kinds of cars, crazy speed, tournaments, races, and SO many things to try out and do. And it all looked so REAL. But it wasn't a dream. It WAS real. It was...Burnout 2.

Fun, Fun, Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a good time. Graphics look great, lots of different challenges, and fast, fast fast! Aren't video games supposed to be fun? This is it!

Wow!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Could this game be any better? For a game that is derived from arcade games, it's amazing. I normally don't like arcade games much, and this gets extremely close. But this offers ingenious AI, brilliant graphics, and heartstopping crashes (Duh. This is Burnout, you know.)The original Burnout was already great. Plus, Burnout 3 is coming out on September 8 this year. It is garuanteed to be better, which is a tremendous accomplishment.(...)

Could be better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: May 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just felt that the graphics and action could be better in this game. I've seen other racing games(for the X-box) where the instant replay almost looks real.

There is a crash mode but once you resume the race, your car is back to normal again. After 20 minutes of playing I had mastered all 3 of the courses that it offers as far as racing. There are more levels in the crash mode but it's almost the same thing over and over.

I would suggest renting this game before buying it. If I had bought it first I would have taken it back and gotten a refund !!

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Best car game ever I love it and I no Any other gamer will love it. It is very adrenaline pumping I give it 6 stars

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