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Burnout Crash speeding in August

Criterion Games' new downloadable racing game heading to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network next month; no price offered.

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During Electronic Arts' annual Summer Showcase last week, the publisher made official Burnout Crash, the long-rumored new entry in Criterion Games' racing franchise. It was announced for a vague fall 2011 release, but now EA has tightened that window.

Burnout Crash makes mayhem next August.
Burnout Crash makes mayhem next August.

Burnout Crash will speed to the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this August. Unfortunately, EA did not affix a more specific release date or a price to the game.

Burnout Crash sports three game modes across six unique locations, and it boasts 18 crash junctions. Additionally, the game supports the Autolog feature, an online social infrastructure that was first introduced in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

The XBLA iteration of Burnout Crash will support Microsoft's gesture-recognition technology, Kinect. The Kinect-enabled game mode has two teams using gesture controls to crash and burn in what EA calls a "party battle."

For more on the racing title, check out GameSpot's latest preview of Burnout Crash.

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really this should be free dlc if you own burnout paradise

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mtnjak@ nuthing seem right about this.

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guys give it a chance ! it might actually be good criterion never disappointed before i am sure they wont this time too

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THIS is Burnout? Something doesn't seem right about this. It's not April 1st, so what's up?

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Criterion Fails, again. R.I.P. Burnout

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they made me think it was free:(

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The downfall of Burnout has begun then.. In my opinion Burnout 3 was the peak of the franchise, I never liked the free-roam aspect of paradise.. Seemed kinda pointless. They could have left that out and had more unique tracks, cars, and gameplay options. I hope the next proper Burnout game does the series proud. My only fear is that EA have Criterion by the balls.

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looks like some horrible mini game from a real game nobody would ever play.

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Speaking as a fan of the series, frankly, this looks like trash.

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I post like this solely for recognition.

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They tried to fool everyone with the title but who cares about a crash mode within Burnout?

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Wish they would just make Burnout 4 already....

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...August is Fall 2011?

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this game makes me miss GTA2... how i miss those days :-)

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I'm not setting my sights too high, but at the same time Criterion's never steered me wrong, so it might be worth a buy. Still, I'd rather have a full burnout game.

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Sucks so many good games coming out i can't get because im saving up to build a new computer of BF3.

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this had better not be the burnout game that has been rumored to be coming out. They're had better be the successor to paradise announcement here either this or next year

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I don''t know......At first I thought "Oh cool a whole game devoted to Crash" Now I'm like "Top down driving really isn't my thing" I'll have to wait and see, maybe the game will surprise me......I'm not holding my breath though.....

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If they upped the graphics to an HD standard, a top down drive/crash game like this would be kind of cool. But with these cartoon graphics, it should be on an ipod.

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Seems like they burned out of ideas.

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Burnout + Angry Birds = Burnout Crash

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Wait. So Burnout Crash is going to be a downloadable arcade game? WTF IS THIS S***?!

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Burnout paraside is excelent but this is worst not interested in games for mobile phones , new burnout not this arcade title and old faction , impossivel , horrible , abismal

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Not interested in a game desined for mobile phones for xbox abismal , gta 2 is killed and worst welcome back to 1999 lol

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i was happy hearing about a new burnout untill i saw the horror of a mobile/tablet game.

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They could've called it Burnouch instead...

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Still gotta throw up a big thumbs down on this one to Criterion for labeling this a Burnout game. Can't really bad mouth the game itself since it could be an okay game in it's own right. But this is NOT Burnout.

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Disappointing.

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A big pass,hopefully this is just a spin-off,and we will see a true Burnout game after some time.

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let me put it this way, to make me happy make it like Paradise but the crashmode from the old games. cuze if u have friends online the open world is perfect an the only replay value of Revenge for me is its crash mode.

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