PS2 Burnout Revenge Description:

PS2 Burnout Revenge review:
5 stars (PS2 Burnout Revenge) - I bought this game for my grandson. He is 9 years old. He enjoys this game very much.
4 stars (Different...which can be good or bad.) - I LOVED Burnout 3. So when I heard that they were making Burnout Revenge I was extremely excited. After months of anticipation I finally got a chance to play BR hoping it would bring the same hours of vehicular mayhem as Burnout 3. It turned out that what BR offered was a few changes for the better and a few that I don't really like. First I'll talk about the good stuff. The graphics are beautiful! I didn't think they could do much better than B3 but they have. They tracks are insanely complicated with shortcuts and alternate paths everywhere. This really makes it so that the tracks never get too old because you can always find new ways to drive. The crash junctions are also incredibly laid out. Most of them require catching huge air and landing in or near a busy intersection. Most of them also have two or three different levels of highway so when you explode you can manuver your car to fall on the unsuspecting drivers below.

The new traffic checking feature gives kind of mixed results for me. On the one hand it is great to plow into a van from behind and send it flying into your opponent but on the other hand it kind of takes away from the twitch racing where you had to be on your gaurd and have quick reflexes. When the subtitle to BR is Battle Racing Ignited you can tell its going to focus more on the battling aspect. I think that the traffic checking does just that, giving you yet another way to take our your opponent.



Now for things things I'm not too crazy about. You can't do a single event like in B3. Some days I just wanna come home and take out my agression with some road rage but now I have to go into the world tour and find a road rage event instead of simply choosing a single event from the title screen. Thats just a little frustrating and something I can learn to deal with. Next is the differences in crash mode. The starting meter isn't that bad and you get used to it after a while. But crash mode just isn't as fun as it was in B3. I think the main reason for that is because the cars seem like they are a lot heavier. In B3 it was great to see cars flying all over the place when you hit them. In BR once you hit a few they just kind of run into the back of the car in front of them and maybe explode once in a while. The ablility to use multiple crashbreakers is cool but having to power them up by rapidly tapping the R2 takes away the ability to time it just right so you can blow up a huge pile of cars. I wish I could just take the junctions from BR and put them in B3. That would be perfect.



Just a few other minor complaints. I read that the cars are supposed to be more breakable in BR, meaning that it has more ways of showing damage. In B3 one of the greatest things was watching your mangled opponent get left behind in the dust after you've taken him out. In BR, however, the cars don't really look all that damaged when you take them out.



I know it looks as if I've said more negative things than bad ones, but I just figured you could read other reviews to see how great this game is. I just thought I would give my opinion on some of the "not as cool" aspects. Now don't get me wrong...BR is a great game and would be a great addition to your collection if you were a fan of B3 or even if you're new to the series. There are tons of great things that EA has done to make it better, but some of the changes, I think, leave me wanting to go back and play B3 instead (thus the reason for only 4 stars)


5 stars (Burnout goes to the next level!) - If you have been a fan of the burnout series for awhile now, then you will definitely be excited about the latest installment of the Burnout games! Just when you finished beating Burnout 3 and you were wondering what they could do next, we find Burnout Revenge. This installment takes Burnout to the next level with new game modes and revamped old modes. One of the standout new modes is the traffic attack mode. In Burnout 3, you wrecked as soon as you hit anything. In traffic attack, you can actually send cars flying when you hit them from behind! You can use the flying cars to hit opponents, oncoming traffic and cross traffic. It makes for a better race time, if you're having problems shaving off those extra couple seconds. You can't, however, send large trucks and buses flying since it would just be too unbelieveable if you could! It still makes for a fun addition.



The crash mode is still there, it's just been "renovated" a little. The challenges of the prior versions like cross traffic and ramps are still present, but there is a new starting feature that can be a little frustrating. Instead of driving into the boost icon on the screen like in Burnout 3, you have to "time" it with a meter, a lot like the ones you'd find on football or golf games. After you set the boost, providing you don't blow up your engine or stall, you take off. There is always a couple of seconds of swerving that are out of your control, but once you straighten out, you should be fine. If you blow up your engine, you don't get to try that course, you just watch your car burn to the sound of laughter, which is pretty amusing the first couple of times. Eventually you will get the hang of it.



Many of the old favorites and some new are all here. The graphics are good and it does feel like they reached the next level with this game. If you've been buying the Burnout series, by all means get this one to add to your collection! If you've never played, you may want to see if you can get your hands on an earlier game, just to get the feel for the game and to see the evolution. Or, if you are a jump right in kind of person, go for it! I think this is an enjoyable game for most people, even non-gamers! The prospect of racing, crashing cars and working out your road rage just lures them in...