Deserves to be takendown.

User Rating: 5.7 | Burnout Legends DS
We all love Burnout, the speed, the thrills the realistic imact damage.

Well, forget all that, and imagine a world where Burnout = Slow, tedious racing 'action' with brick like collision animation and a set of graphics that look fine while static,look dreadful when they move.

The sad thing is, this game isn't terrible, there have been plenty of racers worse, but with the Burnout name on the box you at least expect that kind of quality from the game, and it disappoints on pretty much every level.

An ambitious game for sure Burnout Legends ultimately fell victim to that age old issue of making the handheld version mimic the console version. The PS2 version of Burnouts 1 and 2 were slow and tedious compared to Burnout 3 and Revenge, so how did anyone think that the DS version would work out?

I bought this purely out of curiousity. The DS has managed some gems, and I had some vague sense of trust in the Burnout license to at least deliver a handheld version of the mighty console racers. Instead I got a bad port, leaving in a great selection of cars, tracks and options (the game really does resemble a good Burnout game until you play). Instead of realising the limitations of the handheld format the developers have simply squashed the first three games down, stuck them in the tiny DS cart, and hoped for the best.

Without expectation, and without ever playing a Burnout game prior to the DS version I may have enjoyed it, but as it stands it is the poor cousin of the Lordly console versions.