While Burnout Revenge for the Xbox 360 gave gamers a taste of what Criterion could do on next generation consoles, Revenge was still an incredibly enhanced port of the current-gen Revenge with a ton of extras. For Burnout 5 Criterion is going back to the drawing board and is building everything from the ground up for what is expected to be an incredible thrill ride of crashing and tearing cars apart.
GI got a chance to have a candid chat with Criterion's Creative Director Alex Ward (and resident pen destroyer) about the future of the Burnout series, and what the team has in store for the newly announced Burnout 5.
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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.
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