Anniversary The Best Burnout Turns 20 This Month

Damn. I still remember playing this with my buddy like it was just a week or two ago.

Great game still play it although I’m gonna say Burnout Revenge is better it’s a shame there is no modern equivalent paradise is ok but takedown and revenge are much better

I prefer Burnout 2 where the emphasis was on racing still.

Burnout 3: Takedown is still the greatest arcade racer ever after 20 years.

The 6th gen was the pinnacle of quality arcade racers. The Burnout series, Outrun 2, Auto Modellista, the Midnight Club series. Plus other racing games that I wasn't keen on but others liked such as the Gran Turismo series, the Need for Speed series, the Project Gotham series amongst others.

I haven't bought a arcade racer since the 7th gen.

Ridge Racer 7 is still awesome

This, along with Legends for PSP which is basically just an expanded port, is my favorite arcade racer of all time. Actually Legends is a bit better in my opinion as a single player experience, with the benefits of emulation.

@Gs69 Revenge was a bit too easy where you can knock everything out of your way, though it's still a great game, I like take down and dominator better, but I sort of think of them as a trilogy. Though I think my girlfriend prefers revenge because it's so hard to crash

@845H Yeah because being eliminated from races for missing checkpoints is much more fun than seeing how much stuff I can destroy. If I want realistic racing I'll play Gran Turismo 3.

Ahem, the best Burnout actually turns 22 next month.

@845H word

Burnout 3 is a game I still go back to pretty frequently, and while I do think it is the best of the era, man does it have some pain points a modern remaster could solve easily.

Specifically, the frequent and laborious unskippable cut-scenes between each chapter, something most EA and EA Big games of the time were lousy with (and one of the most annoying aspects of Split/Second, the best of Burnout's spiritual successors), and painfully long load times.

@845H he might have been referring to RR7

@Gryffin Even for RR7, same response is appropriate.

Absolutely the best in the franchise. I would love a proper HD remaster of this one.

Revenge wasn't awful, but the ability to just rear-end cars with abandon threw off the whole balance of the game and made it too easy to just stay in your lane and plow through.

Paradise just never worked for me. I get the appeal, but the open world results in too much downtime between events. Driving from race to race makes as much sense as having the player walk to the next bout in a fighting game.

Nah man, Burnout Revenge will always be the best Burnout game. Especially the Xbox 360 version. That game is absolutely perfect!

@845H I didn't say it was a racing Sim, you said you like the game that focused on racing, I said if I want to play a game that focuses on racing then I will play Gran Turismo 3. Perfectly logical, end of story. If you couldn't follow that, that's your own issue, and maybe try not being so unpleasant to other people.

@Razieluigi These are basically my thoughts. What I wouldn't give for a real remaster of 3.

Burnout Paradise was like this stepping stone between the good open world racers of the early 2000s, and the mess that is racing games today. It's not a bad game, but it basically killed the two best arcade racing franchises.

Did you play dominator? People always crap on it, but I thought it was a really good sequel to those other two.

Burnout Revenge is clearly the best one. It's the only one that's worth hanging out with your landlord, smoking weed and filling your belly with diet soda for.

It doesn't. Because 2 is.

@Poodlestargenerica
Nobody mentioned realistic. 1 & 2 were fantastic arcade racers, 3 leaned into combat way too hard. 4 was so insultingly vapid you yould teach a chimp to play it. If I want brain-dead crashing in my arcade racer I'll play Destruction Derby.

Burnout even needs a complete collection remaster or at least a Takedown remaster.

I enjoyed Burnout 2 and 3 a lot. Can’t remember which I had when it was new.

Collision in the comments today!!! 😳

I see Burnout 2 is getting a lot of love. Burnouts 2 & 3 were the best two arcade racers on the 6th gen. Normally it wouldn't make sense to pick two racing games from the same series to be the best two racers. But they were different enough to warrant it.

@mjparker77 All that I'm really getting from all the people saying they like 2 best, is they're kind of not very pleasant to interact with, and fun haters. Burnout 2 isn't even in my top 50 racing games of all time, but I'm glad you enjoy it so much.

@Poodlestargenerica Dominator is actually my favourite I think. While it does tend towards the brown/bloom look of the era, I really enjoyed the way you could recharge your nitrous bar while using it. It was possible (but not very easy) to boost for an entire race as long as you kept taking risks to recharge the nitrous.

I think it tends to get overlooked because it doesn't have a crash mode and it was released after the 360 launched so people had moved on by then.

I broke out my PS2 recently and realized that numerous games that I thought I kept, and put up are amiss after moving homes several years back. I'm now replacing PS2 games, and this is on my shortlist to get again.

This particular generation of gaming produced some epic games that still hold up incredibly well (or even better, at times) today. My kiddos are having a blast with them!

What are they waiting for to release this game on modern platforms?

@MegaManFan Yeah, but it was never at a convenient time. Usually, I had to decline since I had to go to work.