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Burnout 3 Takedown Review (continued)
More User Submitted Burnout 3 Takedown Reviews
Date: 2006-02-18
Carnage is Fun
This game is for the destructive kid in all of us. It has full, all out high speed action, spectacular car crashes and great team as well as versus play.
Make as much money causing mass destruction or win new cars by knocking out the most oppents.
Overall a fun game to play.
Date: 2005-10-27
$20 well spent here
This is a must-have for all Xbox owners!!! This game is is a racing game to the core but has spectacular crash sequences and brillant sense of speed. I don't even like racing games and I appreciate the good times Burnout 3: Takedown has brought to me. The game is probably the best in the series besides the new one which I have yet to play the full version(I've only played the demo off madden 06) Still not convinced? They have more. Play Crash mode where the objective is to get the most damage from a crash by hitting: semis, buses, taxis, and other cars. They also have Roadrage where your objective is to takedown as many cars as you can until the time runs out or your completely wrecked.
The only flaw in this game is that when you hit a car going the same direction as you in the back, it counts as a takedown. It may not seem like much but when your trying to weave through traffic going 120+, it makes all the difference. I'm glad to hear that the new Burnout has fixed that flaw.
Overall this is a must buy for everyone. I would recommend it to anyone even if they don't like racing games because it has revived my passion for racing games. Trust me, its unlike any other racing game you've ever played.
Date: 2005-09-06
Oh. My. God.
I am going to make the blanket statement that if you own an XBox, you really ought to own this game...even if you have no interest in driving games. I held off getting it because the price stayed high. Now I know why the price stayed high. Recently this became a platinum hit so it's now twenty bucks, and it is worth every penny of that and then some. This game is just a riot, it takes a simple premise - that the real fun in racing games is in the crashes - and executes it extremely well. I actually catch myself giggling while I play this game. There is just an element of pure fun here that can't be ignored nor quantified. I haven't experienced such fun in a video game in a long time...I don't know how else to describe it. Yeah okay, the music stinks, big deal. If you can't enjoy this game, you just don't like video games.
Date: 2005-07-29
not very fun.
this game has great graphics but something is just wrong with it. not real cars. on this game you win nice sports cars sometimes but whats the use of screwing it up by crashing all the time in this game. the whole game is based on crashing. pretty much only one thing is cool about this. the sounds of sports cars. i would by something else.
Date: 2005-07-26
Hot fun title has many glaring faults!
Burnout 3 has been out for quite a while now and has been garnered a stint on the Greatest Hits line now which is great with a $20 price tag on it. I had heard nothing but ultimate praise for this game and had never played a previous version but $20 bucks was too hard to pass up so I bought it. First off for those interested. At $20 this game is definitely worth it.
The first day I played this game with several friends and we had a blast. Unfortunately there was only one course, one crash junction, and 3 identical cars available. This was frustrating to say the least as we wanted an enjoyable multiplayer game but seeing as how we had to spend several hours unlocking things we tired easily.
The game at first impression was great. Amazing speed and graphics, a lot of fun, and smashing each other up seems like it would never stop being fun. Well once my buddies left the game soured on me.
Single player is a drab experience. The first 30 or so events are a lot of fun and somewhat challenging with good racing and excitement. Problem is by about 30 events you have seen everything the game has to offer. They boast a whole ton of race modes in the description however many of them are the same thing. You really have time challenge, race (6 players or vs. 1), rage (destruction derby), and crash mode. Multiplayer has numerous options but most are only a variation of the crash game and the rest are only available online so I wouldn't know about them.
Crash mode was great fun. I love the wanton destruction and the after touch ability made getting the cash and powerups fun and challenging. Problem was there are an insane number of these in the game. We're talking like 70+ different junctions. I mean smashing into traffic is a lot of fun but try it 30 or 40 times in a row and you will get bored. Plus some intersections are not only difficult just downright stupid. To achieve gold you have to have the patience of a seamstress to constant replay over and over again as you try and blow yourself up and reverse directions to get 4x multipliers. Worse are the load times! Why so many and so long??? When I replay a level that just loaded why does it take forever and go back through all the original screens? Could have been done better.
When it comes to racing the most fun you will have will come early. The most enjoyment I had was the first 20 or so races. They are the most interesting to fight with the competition and really see some good crashes. Problem is the lack of diversification in races makes it really monotonous later on and as the competition gets better you just get frustrated more often. And as for unlockable cars. Yeah there are 70+ in the game but they are all the same! I mean for every class there are about 7 or 8 cars and they are either one of two body models with slightly different paint schemes and virtually no difference performance wise. Seeing as how you can change the color of any car the need for more of the same model in different paint scheme was unnecessary. Plus having to constantly win new events to unlock the same car over and over bored the heck out of me.
As you progress through the game and finally get better cars you will find the game starts to become almost unplayable. As speed increases the screen blurs. Add this to crazy backgrounds, intense light effects, and hard to see cars, tracks can quickly turn a person with 20-20 vision into a sniveling blind man. There just is too much going on in the environments for a person to be able to handle the high speeds of some of the cars. You will be smashing into obstacles and oncoming traffic all the time and swear you never saw it. Things like intense sun glare on the pavement hide civilian traffic almost to the point of stealth for instance. Worse is in some levels the crash physics are not always equal. On some tracks you can careen around the track at top speed clipping walls or other obstacles almost head on with no effect and in others if you so much as touch a wall it will crash you. This was my ultimate frustration. After 50+ gold medals I have the physics down pretty well in races only to have my time trial thwarted by rubbing a wall and going into an elaborate crash. This will frustrate anyone looking for the game to be constant over the course. It also makes the annoying time trial missions virtually impossible with some cars. These missions require you to run at top speed, almost constantly boost engaged without crashing once. Some tracks allow you one or two mess-ups but most of the advance courses require you to run a perfect lap. Add in that you can't see traffic or obstacles, boost blurs your vision, and the crash engine is not always equal. Makes these races a virtual frustration of agonizing proportions.
Overall I found the novelty value of this game great. It's basically Tony Hawk with cars. High-speed arcade fun with a lot of annoying quirks. The music is nothing special. I could have cared less about most of it but some songs are decent. The graphics I'd say are slightly above average. Mostly the crash scenes add to my assessment but standard-racing scenes won't blow your socks off. Control is functional. There is a decent physics engine so it has some realism to it even though it's an arcade racer and that was nice. Story wise or evolvement was an utter disappointment. Screaming and swearing through one race just to unlock another one 173 times over with about 10 different cars (car types not individual models) doesn't have the kind of lasting appeal I expected from this title.
I would say Burnout 3 will deliver to the hardcore fans who loved the originals and newbies will like it for a bit but those average gamers looking for some fun may want to stay back and rent this title for a weekend as it will keep you entertained for a while but annoy you forevermore.
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