Burnout 3: Takedown brought the magic of crash mode to gamers everywhere in 2004. It was unceremoniously stripped away in Burnout Paradise and hasn’t been seen again until now.
As if to make up for the absence, Burnout Crash is all crash mode. However, it doesn’t work like you remember. This downloadable title trades a high-fidelity street view for a cartoony top-down camera angle. I miss the traditional presentation, but I can see why this decision was made.
Cultured Vultures: The Burnout series has plenty of great games to play, but which one is definitively the best? We're here to rank them all.
I think the crash mode should comeback. Tryng to make the most damage was very cool.
Burnout 2 should be above 3 imo. The aftertouch takedown mechanic slowed down the gameplay too much in 3.
That's the mechanic that made me enjoy Burnout 3 over the others. It wasn't until they introduced it that I considered the series any good.
I love Takedown, Revenge, and Paradise. Dominator was okay, but it clearly felt like a B-tier game.
After playing those awesome games, I went back to try out part 1 and it was rough. I didn't like the controls (whereas the others felt perfect to me), the elevator music was generic and not enjoyable to listen to.
Finally the game's difficulty was extremely high. I could beat all single player races in Takedown, Revenge, Paradise, Dominator, but could not get first place in the very first race for the first Burnout game. It demands perfection and one slight mistake is all it takes to lose. I have yet to play part 2, but I'm hoping it's more like part 3 than part 1.
Burnout Takedown is my favorite racing game of all time. My wife was addicted to crash mode.
John Bedford (Modojo): Regular readers of Modojo will know that we like to bring you a news article each day with all of the latest bargains that you can grab from the App Store. Thanksgiving always brings with it a bigger than usual flood of price-drops, but how do you know which games are the real must-haves?
In this list you'll find only the best holiday bargains available from the App Store today. Note that all prices are correct at the time of publishing.
John Bedford (Modojo): Seven great games have had a bargain bin price-drop on the App Store today, including Osmos, Burnout Crash and Modern Combat 3.
This game shames the Burnout name.
Looking for a good top down driving game? Get Renegade Ops.
If it wasn't for the Burnout name in its title it would have been given much lower scores.