This time the racing is for revenge (Burnout Revenge (PS2))

Member Name: hippykiller

Product:	Burnout Revenge (PS2)
Date:	20/02/06 (150 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It has taken away that goddamn DJ

Disadvantages: Ends too quickly

Burnout revenge is the latest racing game to come out from the company of Electronics arts.

The Main Mode of this game is the world tour mode, in this mode you have to get ranking in each level and with each of these ranking you get an improvement of your raning score depending on your ranking, to improve your rank thorugh the race you have to do risk filled things
in just the race your can have you rating as either ok this is worth one star,good is worth two stars,great is worth three stars and awesome is worth 4 stars but to get it to a perfect rating which is worth 5 stars you have to get n awesome rating and also get the gold medal in that event. these stars increase your current rank in the overall game with each new rank you get a new series of races.

Risk thing filled things to increase your rating in a race include
driving on the wrong side of the road this is called oncoming
drifting when you go around a sharp corner
smashing small shaped cars into each other this is called traffic check
missing traffic by dodging it at the last second.

The more aggresive ways include ramming your rival cars in the most fashionable ways and everybody favourite way by completly destory your rivals in a takedown move. also by doing all of the listed thing above also give you more boost iin your boost bar and doing takedowns increases the actually boost bar, but if you manage to get taken out by a rival car you lose some of the increased boost bar, but then you can takedown this rival in a special takedown move called revenge takedown, there are other takedown moves including signature takedowns when you take down someone in a unique way and also for later aces the crashbreaker takedown attack , this works when you crash you can destory your car and other cars with a powerful expolsion and the size of this explsion depends on how much boost you currently have.



Game modes

Race
this is your bog standard race where you try and get to first place using any means necessary to get the perfect race.

Traffic attack
this is where you pit your car against the traafic where you crash cars into each other in order to make enough crash score money to win the aquired medal. when the clock goes to 20 seconds you are then crashing cars just so you can carry on, bonuses can be earn by laping the course this multiply the amount of money you get from the cars and by using cars to crash other oncoming cars.

Burning lap
this is just you against the clock where you race around the course in the quickest time possible, if you beat the aquired time limit you get the medal.

Road rage
This is probably the best mode of them all, no real racing element you just purely takedown as many rivals as you possible can in the time you are given, and for every 2 to 3 enemies you takedown you get an bonus amount of time

Eliminator
This is a race where the person in last place gets eliminated, a new person get eliminated every 30 seconds until only one person is left standing.

Preview
this is a lot like the burning lap mode but it has you racing in a top of the range car in a new or simliar course.

Grand prix race
This is just basically 3 to 4 race combine into one big grand prix event, 6 points for 1st, 4 points for 2nd, 3 points for 3rd,, 2 points for 4th, 1 point for 5 th and nothing for last. the person with the most amount of points wins the event.

Crash events
This is where the real fun begins, as the name says it all the objective of this mode is to cause as much damage as you can by using a well placed cash into any kind of traffic possible, the more cars you manag to crash the more money you get, you can get a score multiper by making any cars you crash into explode example you get 257460 and manage to blow up 12 cars you get $3,089,520 in crash points, again if you reach the target goals you manage to get the medal depending on how much you get, also when you fill the boost bar to a certain level you can use the crashbreaker option where you cause even more damage.

Winning cars requires you to either just complete events with also getting any kind of medal possible or to get te special type of cars you have to complete certain goals or by doing the aquired challenge sheet, this contains 8 different challenges to be completed, theses can be as simple as taking out a rival racer or the really difficulty ones like earning $10,000,000 in a single crash event.

Multiplayer game modes

Crash battle
same rules as crash mode but this time you see who can cause the most damge out of each other.

Crash party
This is almost the same as crash battle but this time you combine each other scores to get the highest possible score.

Crash tour
This is where you and your human rival try to get a certain amount of crash damage points from a series of crash events first one tyo reach the target wins this game.

Overall
This game has improves on the much loved game burnout 3 by taking out some bits you hated about the old game and turning into something we could like and improving on the old ways as well, also thanks god their destoryed that annoying DJ from the pesivous game and made a more mild and friendly DJ for introductions only, on the whole it is a very good game to play and is well worth a good try, the graphics could be improved but with the online option that really extends the game paly value but after the rank 5 you really just repeating the same races over again, normal pirices are at £30 and can be found in most computer game shops.

Summary: Well the fact that the game is now about 15 pounds is a good reason why you shoud get it now