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Faint of Heart Need Not Apply

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Don't let those low-ranking reviews fool you. Burnout is a white-knuckle blast of adrenaline from start to finish, a racing, no, a CHASING game that grabs you by the throat from the start line and doesn't loosen its grip until you pass the finish line....if you can!

As is usual with racing games, the objective is simple: cross the finish line before time runs out, and ahead of your opponents. However, the setup with Burnout is anything but simple. The streets you race on are fully populated, with over 300 different types of cars that serve no purpose but to get in your way. You've gotta run red lights, drive on the wrong side of the road, and swerve like mad around semis and tankers, or scream your way through downtown at rush hour - just like you'd always like to do in real life, right? Each time you narrowly miss a jolting collision, your Burnout Meter fills up. When it's maxed, you hit the Boost button and try not to pass out from the sense of speed. If (make that WHEN) you screw up and hit another car, you're treated to the most realistic, bone-crunching crashes ever seen in a game. You'll wince every time, and you'll take greater care in the future. Get some friends together and watch em all go "OOOOOOOOO!!!"

Sound good? Well, it should. Burnout concentrates on a supersonic thrill ride, and delivers with an ever-increasing sense of danger. Bearing down on a checkpoint with a few scant seconds remaining, CPU car on your tail, you screech around a turn at 130 mph.....and see a bus bearing down on you. What do you do? Burnout is a combination of Crazy Taxi and the car chases from the film "Ronin." People who want a realistic racing engine and want to tweak their car's suspension till kingdom come should stick to Gran Turismo. Burnout's not the prettiest sight in gaming (although the tracks are rendered in surprisingly high detail and the game never budges from its smooth 60 frames per second) but there's so much constantly happening you won't notice, or care. This is an example of a game that's chock full of gameplay, including a fantastic multiplayer mode, extra modes you can unlock (including the unbelievable Survival Mode, in which you must try and navigate one of the game's 14 courses WITHOUT CRASHING...not easy at all), and even a Replay Mode for saving those especially horrendous accidents (and you'll have em, trust me). There are several cars to choose from, including a Muscle Car and a Saloon, and even a Bus and Tow Truck!

Fewer and fewer games these days are relying on a completely riveting, yet simple gaming experience. Anyone who wants a high-speed challenge or an unmatched, relentless sense of danger is hereby required to try Burnout!

Is that light red?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: November 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Burnout rules. This was a nice surprise. I hadn't heard anything about this game until a friend showed it to me. He said it was the best racing game out there, so I had to ask the question. What about Gran Turismo? He said forget the graphics, just try it. Well I did and I have been playing it every day since. He was right, just turn down the music and turn up all of the other sounds. You don't miss the music when you hear the sound of your body crashing through the windshield at 150 mph. I've never seen a racing game like this that really makes you feel like your going that fast. The crashes are what makes this game. My friends and I noticed that just before we hit something we are actually ducking our heads and closing our eyes. Its that real, I kid you not. I love my GT3, but I think this one is more fun. Don't forget to select Dolby Surround Sound, you'll really hear it when you enter the tunnels. 3.2.1. GO

Simply awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: November 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

So fast! So adictive! Burnout is a simple arcade racer that's not trying to be GT3 with all that car collecting and ultra realism its just trying to be fast and fun and it does that so well it hurts. Its real easy to learn, and when you do get it all wrong and hit the other racers or the traffic the crashes are cool. It makes you want an airbag fitted on your controller!

Burnout

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is IGN editors choice award winning game and is great.

a fast driver's dream!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Finally I can race my car down busy city steets at 135mph! For the casual gamer this game is worth every penny. So much fun, spectacular crashes, great speed, great replays, great sound... easy to set up and get started... forget all the technical GT3 stuff, this game rocks!

Rent it if you aren't convinced, but you'll buy it once you do. Just don't buy it if you just got your license... it might get you into trouble. All this game is missing are the cops!

Best Racing Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Are you sure you bought Burnout? My Brother and I both agree this is the best racing game out for PS2. The game turns out to be better than all the good reviews we read, so we're happy gamers. I'd DEFINITELY suggest to anyone liking racing games to pick up a copy!

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Burnout Burns Major Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Some say Burnout is incredibly unrealistic and shouldn't be on the shelves. Well, screw them. Burnout is truly and simply an action-packed, blood-heating, tense chase game that truly ignites your adrenaline. The main point of the game is, of course, to make it across the finish line in the alotted time before your opponents do. But unlike those boring Cruis'n games on N64 that bored us to h$ll, this game has the most spectacular crashes and stunts ever witnessed in any video game. As you race, or CHASE, you have a small meter that denotes "Burn", which is a kind of charge for a turbo boost. The more crashes you nearly miss or daring stunts you pull, you get more "Burn". Once the meter is fully charged, and with the press of a button, you're car speeds up to feverish speeds, blowing your mind away with an incredibly portrayed feeling of speed. And yes, hackers, there are plenty of Game Shark codes for your pleasure. You can even unlock some cool driving modes. BUY IT! You'll love it.

Burnout

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This a very awsome game. it has amazing graphics and the crashes and the dents in the car are very life like.

Adrenaline Rush!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played this game on my sister's Gamecube and loved it so much that I bought it for my PS2. The graphics were awesome and the realism of the crashes were better than any of the Need For Speed games. I can't wait to try Burnout 2: Point of Impact...I am sure it will be even better than this one! For the price, this is definately worth buying, just for the open ended playing.

WATCH OUT... TOO LATE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Burn out does many things for you it makees tou really,really (ect...) Hystrical! cruising down the highway at 130! is not that good! If you know what I mean! Burnout is a good game for Non-madness People!

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