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The underlying gameplay of the ultimate road rage dream-come-true of thrashing other cars to your heart's content is what Burnout Revenge is all about. There are a ton of different styles of game modes, including races against other cars or even just the clock. But the main theme of each Burnout Revenge is to get to the final goal, and crashing into every other car in the race or in the traffic flow is highly encouraged along every inch of the asphalt battlefield. The most fun mode again is the Crash Event, where your only aspiration is to hurl down a road into traffic as the ultimate auto weapon, intent on causing the most severe damage via a massive traffic accident initiated by your ride. The one annoying aspect of the Crash mode is that if you fail to record a medal-winning score, the "rewind" back to the starting point from the failed crash scene can be annoyingly longer than seems necessary.
Other modes have been added that exponentially increase their respective fun quotient too. The new addition that's the most entertaining is the Traffic Attack, where your objective is to smash into as many cars as possible. The new strategy of "checking" traffic out of your way and also into other traffic for points is a lot of devilishly good fun, a new guilty pleasure in the racing game genre (just like the hockey move it sounds like: "check" into other vehicles with |
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the sole intention of causing them to wreck and get checked out of your path). There are a total of eight modes available in Burnout Revenge, more than you would expect, and all with some level of revenge to extract in their gameplay element.
This is a long-lasting game too. There are so many new cars, levels, stats, and trophies to unlock throughout the seemingly hundreds of varied racing roads and environments of Burnout Revenge. There's so many unlockables throughout the game, that in my greed and obsession to collect and unlock as much as possible over extended playing |
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sessions, I actually developed a case of carpal tunnel syndrome that required me to not play a video game of any kind for three whole days. Alongside the addictive nature of unlocking every little secret the game has, Burnout Revenge's gameplay is totally intense and possesses a relatively strong control schematic that keeps you on the track and in full control of your vehicle even at speeds at over 200 mph and is forgiving when you impact into environmental obstacles if you are effectively controlling your driving (although there are times when it's the exact opposite, when a seemingly innocuous collision will result in a total annihilation of your car).
There is an online mode for Burnout Revenge over Xbox Live, but I was disappointed in the fact that I had all kinds of issues properly connecting to race competitions, for no apparent reason. I did have overwhelming success joining Crash Party games, however, that are more enjoyable and competitive than straightforward race competitions.
The schizophrenic online play was a bit of a letdown, but if you like barreling into cars at insane speeds then Burnout Revenge is exactly the sizzling ride you've been looking for. It holds its own as a traditional racer in the Need for Speed and Midnight Club vein, but the brilliant twist of the encouragement to crash cars for gaming pleasure and reward pushes the petal to the metal and zooms Burnout Revenge past the average racing game. For those who haven't tried out a Burnout game, Burnout Revenge is the best yet. Burnout veterans will have enough new features, and of course, the allure of unlocking more and more tracks and cars while going for the gold medal and in-game trophies as plenty enough reason to get Burnout Revenge.
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Lee
Cieniawa (October 12, 2005)
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