Revenge will rev you up
Burnout Revenge | Sony Playstation 2
Burnout Revenge will ruin the way you look at racing games.
After playing any of Revenge’s modes and having the ability to ‘check’ traffic into other racers ahead of you, playing Gran Turismo will seem like a quaint Sunday drive.
This new addition to the Burnout series and watching the mayhem it produces will blow you away the first time you see it. It does however, take away some of the tense moments from the previous games in the series where you’ll be racing furiously only to rear-end the hatchback in front of you.
Jumping into the game may be intimidating at first, with so many options available from the outset and no exact direction pointed out to gamers. It’s a problem that’s encountered in many other of Electronic Art’s games such as SSX3 and the NBA Street series, but once you become comfortable with the pace of the game and its endless tasks, you’ll welcome the depth it has to offer.
Gamers would be hard pressed to find a Playstation 2 game that rivals the beauty that is the graphics of Revenge. Explosions burst with fluidity, lights reflect accurately off cars and more chunks than you can count fly off your car. It’s a wonder why Sony and it’s competitors are rushing to launch new platforms when the current generation still has so much under the hood.
The game’s soundtrack is also a highpoint, mixing electronic artists like Andy Hunter and The Chemical Brothers with pop punk groups like Yellowcard, Billy Talent and Fall Out Boy.
One of the most chaotic racing games ever produced, Criterion Software’s fourth entry into the Burnout series takes everything that has come before it and compiles it into a loaded package that will provide race fans hours upon hours of entertainment, especially for those who strive to accomplish every last goal the game puts forth.
Rated 4.5 out of 5
