Is this going to change up the formula at all? Burnout 3 was like my favorite Xbox game but by the time Revenge dropped for 360, I'd pretty much lost interest. Win me back Criterion!

I love this series. I have faith that this will rule.

This may be one of the first titles I heard of that was developed for the ps3 and ported to the 360. Interested to see how that goes.

I have Burnout 4 (XBOX 1), and it's very good for the most part. But there's a few changes they need to make in this one to make me willing to buy another Burnout:

- Actually bother to SAVE my SETTINGS! Every time I start the game and load my profile, I have to remind the retarded thing that I *DON'T* want to listen to that "EA Trax" auditory diarrhea.

- Allow me to selectively disable specific EA Trax songs ENTIRELY, not removed from JUST menus or JUST gameplay, but from BOTH menus AND gameplay. (You know, just in case they accidentally let one or two good songs slip in. So I can listen to JUST those.)

- Put in an actual MENU to select my custom soundtrack. Pressing X to switch soundtracks works fine if you have two or three custom soundtracks. But with so much licensed crap shoved into games these days, my custom soundtrack library it at around 50. An absolute pain in the ass if I have to cycle through them with X.

- Add an option to turn off those damn slow-motion crashes. I'm having a grand old time racing around, along comes a wall or a rival car, and BOOM!: a fucking mid-race cutscene. Unskippable, too. I don't care if it means I can't perform the Aftertouch and Crashbreaker gimmicks, just let me turn that crap off!

If they can do all that, I'll gladly sell Burnout 4 and pick up this new one without a second thought. It's a great game otherwise, but those things really conspire to ruin the whole experience.

awesome...the demo should tide me over. great that it comes out 2 days before my birthday--i know what i'm getting myself!!

PERFECT

Now I've got plenty of time to work on SMG...plus Need For Speed: ProStreet will tide me over for a long time!

I think BO2 was the most challenging and rewarding (and had the best music).

Never played 1 unfortunately.

3 is my fave, mostly cuz of the all-night online races.
4 just doesn't grab me. I'm about 40% through it and I really don't care if I never finish it. (Unlike 2 and 3 which both had me hooked like a junkie)

Just might get this one.

you can crash cars in gta too...

Motion blur anyone?

I'm sold on this, day one. Revenge was great, but it didn't stick with me for nearly as long as 3.

I'd be very interested in some Burnout franchise entry for Wii too. The entire 4 days I spent playing ExciteTruck, I couldn't help but wish it were Burnout.

Am I the only one who stopped caring about this game and others like it 2 years ago?