Review NaN of 21
, from Colorado
Price Paid:
$40.00
from Target Summary:
I can remember playing Out Run by Sega in the arcades when it first came out. The game was fun not just because it gave you the feeling of speeding through traffic, but also because if you crashed, you could watch yourself and your date bounce off the road and tumble into the ditch. Early racing games like this focused more on fun than realism. Burnout 2 Point of Impact by Cryterion Games continues that tradition of fun arcade style racing games. If you are looking for extreme accuracy in a racing simulator, you might care to look elsewhere. However, if you are looking for a racing game that’s just plain fun, look no further than Burnout 2.
First of all, the game has no license from any car manufacturer so you won’t find any cars from the real world here. Not that the cars are fantasy either. They look like they could be Mustangs, or Porches, or Corvettes, but they’re not. However, for those of us that just want to get inside a car and drive like you can’t in the real world, that’s OK.
The game has several modes to play including a introductory driving course for beginners called Offensive Driving 101, a single race mode, a championship mode, a time attack mode, a pursuit mode, and a unique crash mode. In single race mode, you can race against computers or a mix between computers and human drivers though there is no online support. Championship mode is where most players will spend the majority of there time. Here you must win races to unlock more tracks and cars. There are a healthy variety to unlock too. The tracks vary from interstate highways with few turns to curvy mountainous highways or packed inner-city streets. All the tracks have a fair amount of traffic to contend with and the cars honk and flash there lights as you swerve in and around them.
As you unlock cars, they stay in your inventory so you can choose the best vehicle for any particular race. You’ll unlock economy cars, sports cars, police cars, SUVs, pickups, roadsters, stock cars, and high performance cars. Each with its own driving characteristics. The handling varies greatly from one car to the next. And, while you can’t change the mechanics of your car, you can at least change the color.
In single player pursuit, you use the police car to chase down particular cars and the goal is to hit them a certain amount before time runs out. In two player pursuit, one player chases the other using any cars that are currently unlocked.
The most intriguing mode in Burnout 2 is its crash mode. Here players compete in several scenarios trying to do as much damage as possible. You can vault your car over traffic and smash into cars, semis, and buses. You can fly off a mountain and watch yourself roll endlessly down a cliff. And, you can race head on into oncomming traffic and cause huge pileups. Not only do you have the ability to do these things, but you’ll want to again and again just to see the metal fly and the glass shatter. This may not be the most realistic racing simulator, but its all a heck of a lot of fun.
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