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Burnout 2 - still fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Still lots of fun to play on the original Xbox -- requires more skill (to build up the Burnout bar) compared to Burnout 3 and 4. This one is much more about near-misses and sliding than the follow-up games in the series, which are more about Teh Insane SPEED...

A big difference with this one (#2) is that if you let go of the A button (Burnout speed) before it runs out, you have to build it back up to Full again before you can use it -- Burnout 3 has speed-boost-on-demand.

Slower paced overall, which makes it a good choice over BO:Revenge(#4 in the series) - for parents who want to race as well ;-)

Burnout 2 - I recommend it for family entertainment. Also got my girlfriend into Xbox racing with this title :-)

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).

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.(...)

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 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!!

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!

Excellent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is, by far, the best racing game I've played for X-Box. It doesn't even have real model/make cars, which is normally a requirement for a good racing game to me, and it still rocks. Even my wife can't stop playing it. This is a great game to play for a couple of friends - reminds me of when four or five of us used to stack up to play Mario Cart on the Super Nintendo (no the gameplay is nothing like that at all... but the level of fun is!).

The only shortcoming this game has is no ability to save your replays. I would very much like to save some of my crash replays after coming home from sitting in traffic for a couple hours.

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.

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.

Wonderful Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game today, ordered it 3 days ago. this is a hack of a good and fun racing game. It has a locked 60 frames per second video, which is 2x faster than project gotham racing two. the graphics are very life like, and the crashes are incredible. The 60fps video is very interesting when you are racing full speed... Needforspeed2 on the xbox has 60fps sometimes but burnout2 has it all the time. I got it for $20, so it's worth every penny. I hope to unlock all of the races/cars soon. 60fps is a MUST in console racing games. imo. Burnout2 has NO LAG during the fastest motion(crashes/etc). 5 stars.

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