A good fun game

User Rating: 8.8 | Burnout 2: Point of Impact PS2
Burnout 2 point of impact has to be the nearest thing to a perfect arcade racer as you're ever likely to see. It is much better then the original game. It's got beautiful graphics a great selection of cars and it has such amazing speed. This time round it's much easier to fill up your burnout bar so that you won't have so much trouble getting straight into the thick of it and you can chain you burnout and maintain your pace for even longer. The crashes are just absolutely brilliant, these are much more impressive than those found in the previous game. Each time you slam into a vehicle the effects are so good as you see windows smashing, wheels come off and bumpers and bonnets flying everywhere.

The championship mode has now been revamped, this time when you start a grand prix you don't have credits and it makes it less frustrating. But it can still piss you off at times because as soon as you finish a race the game auto-saves so getting all gold medals require patience. But say if you were not in first place near the finish line you could switch off the console before you cross the finish. If you want all of the cars you need to finish first place in all the races in the grand prix. Once you have all the gold medals you will unlock a face off where you face against one car. These cars don't go easy on you either but once you beat it that car will be available for you to drive and smash up. Also in championship mode you will come across a pursuit mode where you are in a cop car and the aim is to ram the other car off the track, the car that you manage to cripple will be available.

Once you have done some of these the pursuit mode will become available. Unfortunately the crash replay system that was in the first game is not featured in this title but there is a crash mode where you have to slam into some traffic for points in this mode each major impact bursts into a slow motion multiangle replay showing off just how much damage you have caused in amazing detail. These crashes don't become dull when you have seen a couple either. But the hard part here is that some people may find it too difficult to unlock some of the best cars.

Overall. The cars are great, the graphics are impressive and the speeds insane and the crashes are brilliant. A masterpiece.