Burnout Legends (DS)

Burnout Legends is a car racing game for the Nintendo DS, and different versions of this game have also been released onto other platforms. The game is easy enough to pick up in principle, but when you reach this point you are likely to notice that the game is very difficult to play and it is very difficult to control the car. Sliding the car is difficult and it is hard to even keep the car on the track. Although there are other racing games which are hard to pick up at first, this game just appeared to me to be badly programmed. The game should be better than this as there are lots of different modes to play in the game. You can choose from driving ...  Read the complete review

Being a fan of racing games for many years, I had always played racing games on larger consoles such as PS2, X-Box etc, using a steering wheel controller and pedals where possible. I had played the original Burnout on the Nintendo Gamecube and was intrigued to find that Burnout Legends was now available to play on the somewhat smaller and maybe less suited, controller wise, Nintendo DS. The original Burnout series set itself aside from the pack of usual racing games as it had an emphasis on spectacular visual crashes. Burnout Legends has taken a selection of tracks from its previous releases and combined them into a single title release. On ...  Read the complete review