Good times...
Over the course of the past year a massive majority of the few games to come to the PSP were racers. So when I went to the store and skimmed through the titles of available games something caught my eye. It was Burnout: Legends and at the time I had no idea the value I was getting out of just a little disc. From the title menu to the racing it was the same great experience I had enjoyed on the PS2 just a year ago with Burnout: 3. The cars we loved to look at are still included and best of all: the crashes are still there! In short this port to the PSP takes almost everything that was great about the console games and shrinks it down for the gamer on the go. I’ve enjoyed reliving my favorite levels as well as taking on the Legends themselves in order to earn the badist cars in the game.
As in its console predecessors, Burnout Legends features an astonishing number of modes. Race, Eliminator, Face-Off and Burning Lap all made it onto the game. Newly added, pursuit puts you in a cop car with one objective: taking out the target car. Grand Prix has you race on a series of tracks, collecting points for an overall win and ultimately unlock a new car class. This brings up and important point: you can earn cars but not be able to use them until you unlock their class. This made the game kind of unfulfilling at times. The best mode, Road Rage, has you racing against the clock to takedown as many opponents as possible before time runs out or your car is destroyed. As you play each mode in each car class (Compact, Muscle, Coupe, Sport, and Super), you unlock new tracks and new cars, further extending gameplay.
Overall, the hours of portable gameplay that I have enjoyed where well worth the 40 dollar price tag. Having a flashback to the previous games in the series as well as enjoying new features completes the experience. Definitely a full recommendation to anyone with a PSP and a earning to race.