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Burnout: Revenge

28 Dec, 2006, 1:41 pm IST | by Nikhil Singh | Console Console

If you’re tired of the mundane racing simulation experience of Project Gotham Racing 3 or Gran Turismo 4, you probably seek a more robust and invigorating approach to the genre. And that my friends, is exactly what Burnout: Revenge is all about - carnage, extremely reminiscent of Carmageddon, car crashes that will shake you up and stir the fluids in your stomach, and blurring speeds that’ll make you puke all over your dashboard. Although the gameplay in Burnout: Revenge is fast as hell, developer Criterion has done a great job in making the cars manageable at the highest of speeds, by allowing you to use the curvature of the walls outlining the track to turn your car, and by allowing you to crash into the traffic headed in the same direction as you, without damaging your car (unless you crash into a heavy vehicle such as a truck or a bus).

Most of you already know, that Burnout: Revenge was out for the PS2 and the Xbox last year, so why would Criterion port the game to the 360? If you’ve played the game on the 360, you’d agree with me when I’d say, that the game was made for High-definition. Don’t get me wrong, the game looked marvelous on the PS2 too, and it really stretched the console’s capability to the max, but the high-definition version of the game looks so sublime, it’s even managed to surpass Project Gotham Racing 3, which is considered by many as one of the best-looking racers around. With the raw graphical power of the Xbox 360, you get the privilege of seeing each shard of glass propelling into the air when it shatters, and all the chunks of metal that break away from the body of your car when you crash, all of which looks crisp and vibrant on an HDTV.

Tags: Burnout: Revenge , Criterion , PGR3 , GT4

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