That is when Burnout 3 came along two years later, tightening up the crash events, refining the racing, and of course (with the help of EA) creating a soundtrack that ruined my music tastes forever. While Point of Impact does improve on its predecessor, it never perfected itself into creating a whole new mold.
Burnout 2: Point of Impact added a little more into the mix, creating a puzzle game out of crashing a car and killing several hundred civilians with the aim of bankrupting your insurance company. Burnout (1) was just a typical racer by most accounts, not breaking the mold but not filling it enough to get there either. Yet, some mental cases in Australia rated it M, because the nanny-state thinks a game is irresponsible but drive-through bottle shops (liquor stores) are fine.Īs a series, Burnout is the greatest example of a series building on what came before it, all within 4-years of each other. In America, it was T for Teen, but in the realistic parts of the world, it was 3+. I am honestly surprised there wasn’t some sort of campaign by some bubble-wrapping psychopath turned talking-head on Fox News yelling “think of the children,” when it came to Burnout 3 ‘s rating. With pirouetting corpses of non-branded cars flying by as you speed into 1st place, nothing beats the true spirit of racing, killing other people so horrifically the only way to identify them is with their dental records.
I recently returned to the series exclusive to the PS2’s generation, and it is every bit as beautifully satisfying and aggravating all in the same breath. It has been 18-years of swearing at those damn pillars, busses, and every time I’ve missed the multipliers for the crash events. The ultimate “blink and you’ll miss it” racer, Burnout 3: Takedown is the reason I don’t think I am allowed to drive.
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