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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!

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!!

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).

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Best Arcade racer. Crash mode rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is arcade style racing so it's a little easier to play than games that simulate a car's control in detail. To me that's what games should be! It is fun to just pick up and play rather than frustrating. Great for a casual or hard core gamer. This one is tons of fun. You race to unlock new and better cars. There are great pursuit races where you are the cop chasing a car which can only be stopped by causing it to breakdown (by ramming and crashing). The icing on the cake is crash mode. You have 30 different traffic scenarios to do where you try to cause the most expensive pile-up of cars, trucks, and busses. It is quite a rush and the graphics and sound are spectacular. World ranking and scores are kept via XBOX live which gives you extra incentive to do better. There is multiplayer, but not online. My only hopes for Burnout 3 would be the ability to play friends via XBOX live and save replays. The crashes are very spectacular and many very worthy of saving to show friends. Burnout 2 is a keeper!

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