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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.

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.

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 !!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

One of the best games out there !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is non stop excitement and thrills. The great part about this particular game is that it offers something every skill level of game play. It has bad cars and cool moves. Plus lots of hidden secert cars and levels. Its like five games in one. I can't wait till the next adition is avaible.

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