Great game! (If you have never played a racing game before!!) it removes all the great things previous burnouts had!
If you have played previous installments you will sure miss things like Aftertouch, Revenge takedowns, double and triple takedowns I mean, Come on!! how can you just discard those great great features!!! And lets not mention the new "Crash mini game". Previous burnouts were simply GENIUS in this aspect, they got better and better as the saga evolved, a mix of puzzle with skill that was highly addictive and fun!
This time around you just push "A-Button" like an idiot, trying to hit cars with price tags and praying a Bus passes by, because it is a score multiplier. So you Rely more on luck than in skill. Definetely a game for the simple minded, and if this is not enough the "Challenge" is to do it on each and every one of the 30-something streets of boredom city! YAY!
-Look dude! I can crash endlessly by just pushing the A button!! RAD!! huh-huh-huh
-Wooow, like...Hey, Let me try that Beavis! huh-huh...
laaaame
Oh and thats not all of whats wrong with this game, there is waaaay more!
So lets suppose its the first time you play the game, you start discovering the map, suddenly you discover a race or something, you play and loose, guess what!?!? you cant retry! you have to backtrack all the way to the mission you failed! Oh and you watch a bullet-timed crash scene every single time you crash, at first its fun, after your 80th crash it gets old! specially when Backtracking!
So you are presented with an open world map and you can choose how you get from A to B. Sounds good? well only if you know the map! which of course you dont, your only aid is a tiny map on the lower right which you have to be "quick gazing" in the middle of some serious action, Cars flying, Debris, 200 MPH, you look at the tiny map to see where to turn! CRASH!!
Man is that annoying!!
I really dont know why so many people liked it... But then again People just LOVE Halo...
This game made me smoke again...