Sound: A game like this if the car crash sound effects sucked, the game would not be fun. Iono if this cranks all the juice out of the Xbox, but it's really friggin close. The Xbox version on the other hand, features some amazing car models and pretty good environments, and of course, the amazing debris/particle effects you witness after each crash. Tunnels and roads look horrendous, the cars jaggies are very noticable on any zoomed in camera shot, and there is wicked slow down in crash modes online for the PS2 version. I played the PS2 version for the first time last night, and I was amazed at how bad the graphics are. Graphics: This is one of those games where despite the head-to-head article at IGN where the graphics are very close in both versions, you'll be so much happier with the Xbox version. Lots of cars, lots of tracks (both for races and crash modes), and team modes online make for a great title. And just like this one I had difficulty with you'll find the rest of the game is like that as well, where the challenging races straddles the line of 'frustrating, I don't want to play anymore' and 'omg I was so close, just oneeee more try'. However, with boost this car travels 230+MPH so it's really hard to avoid traffic. You basically have to do 2 laps without crashing otherwise you have absolutely no shot. One that took me forever to unlock was the US Indy style car. Their cars generally have the least control (though depending on what difficulty it's on, you wouldn't know the way the computer drives) but have the most speed, which generally means, for most of the car classes not all of'em, you'll basically be trying to just take'em down before they pass you, and keep doing it like 6-10 times a race depending on the length of the course. What I like is the way they have it set up to unlock the Dominator cars (the ones with the flame) in that you always have a 1 on 1 race with them and essentially have to beat'em to get the car.
The single player is fun (excluding the DJ, who's really just annoying and pointless and I hope they have'em rung up by his pulse some where so he doesn't make it into Revenge) unlocking new courses, new cars, etc.
It does take some getting used to in order to be deadly with it, cuz at first you'll often over shoot your target be it a pedestrians car or your opponent. It's not extreme to the extent where you can wind back and forth in a 5 lane road on a whim, but it's enough where a guy is close behind and you wanna toss your wreckage in front of him and take'em out, you can. Only useable in single-player or a mode where there's one human user in the game, it basically slows down time and then with the analog stick you move your car, or should I say your wreckage, in any direction. Gameplay: So what's so great about it? Well first you gotta talk about aftertouch. Burnout 3 takes the series to a whole new level where it's more than worthy of being a franchise for any console, and for the first time I'm really looking forward to the next entry in the series. The game is $20 now and even with Revenge around the corner, if you haven't seen or played this game at all, you have to play it. And to my surprise, I was spending the most time in the single player mode racing then just watching mindless crashes. To say I didn't have fun would be an understatement. I rented the game 3 times straight after then picked it up around christmas. Well, I open it up to find a score of 9.5 I was astonished, the graphics were amazing, the movies of the crashes had the best debris/particle effects ever, my jaw dropped. Then I'm on a certain game site that has one of those read our full review and in the brief tidbit it says something about a new crash feature, so I checked it out thinking maybe it's worth another rental to check this crash feature out. I wasn't even following the game cuz I figured "it'll be just slightly better than Burnout 2". Then here comes Burnout 3 like out of nowhere. Burnout 2 I spent a lot of time in the crash mode where you and someone else take turns crashing, but I really didn't enjoy the racing aspect. Burnout 1 and 2 I used both a rental on and enjoyed it to a degree but really it wasn't that amazing. To be honest, it was hard not to sell this series off as just a game with car crashes. Overall: I really don't get why I see arcade machines in the mall for NFS:HP2 but not Burnout 3.
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