BR takes the classic crash mode gameplay and evolves it with complex intersections and setups, all of which offer an increasing level of challenge. Crash mode puts you and your ride at the start of an intersection or stretch of road with a predetermined traffic pattern, and your task is to cause the biggest pile-up imaginable. While the racing and drifting were compelling, the crash mode was what drew most fans. If you're not familiar with the Burnout franchise, it's a deceptively simple racing game that revolutionized the genre by making spectacular car crashes a part of the gameplay.
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Microsoft was late in coming up with the code to update the older version of BR to make it run on X360, so Criterion got sick of waiting and looked at how they could turn a current-gen BR into a next-gen one. So EA wants me to buy the same game twice, huh?Ĭriterion certainly didn't want me to buy the same game twice, and thanks to their integrity, I didn't. I later found out that BR was due out for X360, and I felt rather cheated. Much to my chagrin, BR wouldn't load up even after the backwards compatibility patches were updated. When I took my X360 home after launch, I threw my Xbox copy of BR into the X360's tray after trying out my "new" games and feeling rather disappointed. If you recall, Burnout Revenge was released across the various consoles last year to great acclaim and strong sales. Criterion's Burnout Revenge is another such game that was slightly delayed, and I am glad that Criterion made that call. Both games were delayed a short time before release for cleaning up, and both games have displayed themselves to be two of the strongest and most compelling games yet on the X360. One-month delays needed to "polish" games have been really paying off, as evidenced by Fight Night Round 3 and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. A few months later, one would expect to see more of the same, but in a most impressive fashion, developers are showing consumers and critics that they can learn quickly and work out the creases.
The only kink in the fairly successful Xbox 360 launch was in its games all of the major and most anticipated releases were mediocre rehashes of last year's titles, except with heavily updated graphics engines.
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