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Report: Burnout Crash is 'action arcade style', set in Crash City

by JC Fletcher on Apr 13th 2011 11:00AM

Last week, a rating appeared for the unannounced "Burnout Crash" on the Australian classification board's site. We followed up with the board to find out more about EA's mysterious "multiplatform" game, and received the following synopsis of the submitted content: "An action arcade style game set in the fictional world of Crash City. The aim of the game is to cause as much damage as possible to traffic and buildings by crashing a car into them."

Essentially, it's the idea behind "Crash Mode" in previous Burnout games, or Paradise's "Showtime." And if this single mode is the sole focus of Burnout Crash, it's likely to be a smaller downloadable game. It's also likely to be a bit depressing, if the setting is a city so beset by car crashes that it has "Crash" in the name.

Tags: australia, burnout, Burnout-Crash, crash-mode, ea, oflc

Reader Comments (29)

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When I asked for a proper crash mode, I didn't mean I wanted it to be the entire game....

/goes back to Paradise

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
I think they understood us correctly. crash mode was like the only reason i played the burnouts until paradise. thank you criterion!

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Or, you know, they could try something different and everyone could just shut up about it.

Not everything needs to be a perfect sequel.

What's wrong with having this now and a better paradise-like game later?

Ever hear of over-saturation? They did it last gen and it could have ended the series horribly.

We all know how doing the same thing over and over again worked so well for Tomb Raider, Need for Speed and THPS...

@(Unverified)

Pffft. Road Rage is where it's at, son.

Paradise is one of my favorite games from this generation...first game I went platinum on as well. Hope this is good. Would be nice if a Paradise save unlocked extra stuff.

As long as Criterion is developing it, it's a Day 1 purchase for me.

I'm sure the life expectancy of Crash City's inhabitants are less than thrilling too.

@ColorblindMonk
What inhabitants? No Burnout game has ever had inhabitants. just sentient cars racing around and exploding like a world of insane KITTs.

@PN04 That's because these cars became sentient! Must've went Skynet all over the place.

ah, yes. 1 train ticket from violence villa to crash city please.

@(Unverified)
Right next to rape river and terror town. Across the way from stab street.

What do you think the insurance prices are in Crash City?

I would have preferred a full game in the style of Burnout Revenge and with crash mode added back.

Not sure I would pick it up JUST for crash mode. I didn't get into Burnout Paradise because it was not as exciting to play to me.

If this is Burnout Paradise, but in a different city....I saw bring it on. Frickin' loved that game.

Burnout Paradise -> Paradise City
Burnout Crash -> Crash City

Am I the only one seeing this?

@rickkekasih
Burnout 2 -> #2 City?

He he he... I said #2...

Yes please!

but I only ask for just A FEW pre laid-out courses for standard races.

That is all.

Wow, I bet insurance rates in Crash City are through the roof.

Crash mode was my favorite part of Burnout 3. It wasn't as good in Burnout Revenge and it was missing from Burnout Paradise. If Criterion puts out a game that's nothing but Crash Mode, I'll scoop it up. XBLA? Even better.

Burnout is the only non turtle-related racing series that I play.

3DS Version please. :)

I miss crash mode. I have good memories of it from Burnout Revenge.

Can violence exist in a world only inhabited by cars? That's some deep shit right there.

Geez if you guys like the old crash modes why dont you go marry them. It's not like anything's stopping you from going back and playing them so why complain that the developers are actually going against the standard of just slapping a new coat of paint on an old game and upping the number by one the way a lot of other sequels tend to do. They should be applauded for trying new things (..well that is even if the things they do only involve cars).

This is the best news I've heard in a long time!!!

ok but this time ADD SPLIT-SCREEN!!! and put it again on the PSN

@tjaldid it will probably be on PSN but also XBL so more people can actually play it.

Nixon Special
Logitech World Racer

Two cars that DID have humans...well at least their heads/helmets.

Crash mode was the biggest reason that I loved the burnout series. I was very disappointed that it morphed into Showtime. Simply not the same. Crash mode is more like a highly complicated trick shot in pool. Success is dependent on both skill and strategy. The strategy component is missing from Showtime. It is replaced there with a random "luck" element.

I love kicking back with a Crash intersection and finding out how to maximize my score.

I hope that they setup the beginning of each intersection exactly the same. If the initial setup has variables, the added random element will spoil it for me.

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Reader Comments (29)

Posted: Apr 13th 2011 11:01AM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said

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Posted: Apr 13th 2011 1:08PM PN04 said

Posted: Apr 13th 2011 3:54PM ColorblindMonk said

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