Burnout Crash! spins series off to XBLA, PSN, and into traffic this fall

This looks fun as heckzorz.

YES!

I was addicted to the crash mode in Burnout Takedown... I'm skeptical of the top down only view, but I'd imagine it would help plan the chaos of the crash.

So, basically. Take the premise of any one of a dozen flash games, like this one:

http://www.kongregate.com/games/kizigames/roadkill-revenge

Apply the Burnout license. A dash of Kinect.

Profit?

I smell a Facebook game down the block.

Personally I would have preferred a new disk burnout because this game would PROBABLY have been longer and had more modes and erm stuff but will PROBABLY download sorry about having to type PROBABLY in caps.

I just want a regular burnout game

Man..... I've been waiting for "crash mode" to come back for years. Heard about this game and got excited. Now I see the pics... what a disappointment. I should just buy the ps2 game and play that.

This looks like crap.

i want GTA 1/2 XBLA :)

Whoa, this looks great. I'm now officially psyched for this! I love the GTA-esque top-down style.

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Burnout 4 was released 6 years ago. Remember Burnout Revenge? Although Paradise made it 5. I don't count Dominator in the main series.

@VideoGameConnection
Lol wut?
This is Burnout's Crash Mode top down. Nothing like the boring game called Traffic Rush on iOS.

On a side note, this should be interesting with Kinect.

Looks like fun. I'll probably try it out!

I want another burnout with local play! Miss crashing cars with my kid.

OMG so awesome... not! i want a REAL burnout game.

Wow, this is epically disappointing. Who thought this was a good idea? Hell, who thought it was a good idea to name it after the game mode that the last Burnout was clearly missing? Dick move.

@ItsameMatt03

No, a real Burnout 4. Revenge was a dumbed down version of Burnout 3, and Paradise was an even further dumbed down, open world version of Burnout 3 without Crash Mode.

From those screenshots, you'd think this was on Wiiware too.

@kgoo867

What made it dumbed down to you? Revenge was great. I had it on the Xbox and the 360, and I thought it was the best entry until Paradise came out. Paradise is one of the best arcade-style racing games I've played.

After seeing those screen shots all i keep thinking is: Hello neighbor/would you like to be my neighbor

I'm excited that Criterion is making a new game but I this not what I expected.

I hope another Burnout is made before this gen is over.

A new burnout would seriously rock. Apart from blur, no arcade racer of the last years came even close to Burnout Revenge in the white-fisted, knuckle-aching adrenaline rush department. The car handling in Split/Second was sub par, and although Flatout UC was a nice game, it didn't have those amazing Takedowns.

I would honestly not pay more than $9.99 for this.

A long time ago I found out about Burnout 2 after my first crash I swore I would never ever buy another arcade racer especially Need For Speed. Years later even after NFS ended up being brought back to life by Criterion my boycott stands GIVE ME BURNOUT 6!

and bring back impact time as well please.

@kgoo867 - Burnout: Paradise was a fantastic game, it just wasn't a good Burnout game. If you look at it like the completely new and separate game it was, it was amazing.

They really should've considered dropping the Burnout title because it was so different.

Go away. I want Burnout.

Very interested in this

You have got to be kidding me this is what Burnout has become. It's not facebook. It's horrible to see Burnout turn into this. Disc is the way to go with any game. Burnout can't become this, I don't care if it is new

@Mcmax3000

Terrible rubber band AI, no GPS mini map navigation, only one race type, less than a dozen finish lines, so-so handling, no crash mode, the bikes were a half ass addition. I can go on. I'm sorry, but Paradise just doesn't stack up to Criterion's previous work (detaching it from the past titles is irrelevant, it doesn't suddenly make it good), and it's easily the most overrated racing title this generation short of the mediocre 2010 Hot Pursuit they also worked on.

@kgoo867
Butthurt kid.

So basically take a game mode that was a cool diversion from the main game for a couple of hours and turn it into a top-down downloadable title? Crash mode was fun and all (and I missed it on Paradise) but there's no way it can stand as a game of its own.

BTW EA, where's my Mirror's Edge 2? 2 mil sold despise a piss-poor advertising campaign, mind you.

@VideoGameConnection
Dose watchamacallit games up against EA? Not that I condone EA business model and decision-making in any way but the indie company would better let it go.

Burnout is dead. This ghastly mutant corpse EA has decided to parade before us only underlines that fact.

This despite the fact that Paradise was an EVOLUTIONARY step forward in the series. The people detracting from it for not being yet another rehash of the the formulae in Burnout 3 missed the point so badly it only leaves me with pity for them.

It was not a perfect game, had some AI issues and some limitations. It was an open world with no people, a justifiable ESRB-driven choice that sometimes made Paradise City seem a bit sterile, sadly. Given that, again, it was an open world, the fact that anytime your car went the least bit off course onto a bit of grass you would wreck was also unfortunate. The lack of a real crash mode was a bit sad, but in my opinion an acceptable omission provided that it likely would have returned in the (seemingly unlikely now) next iteration of the series, which I had HOPED would be Paradise 2.

The difference between Paradise and older Burnouts is the FREEDOM it had, from any kind of set level structure or race style. That combined with the excellent multiplayer made it a blast to just tool around the city, memorizing it the way one would and does a real city. The complaint that you couldn't initially slavishly reset a race at the first sign you were going to lose it is emblematic of missing the point of the game's open nature; with the exception of the burning routes and the last handful of challenges at the end of the last license, there are ALWAYS more events to participate in, no matter where you managed to wipe out and get turned around at the end of the last race.

I want to simply rage on EA, but in the end I think it was sales that did in Burnout; Need For Speed games simply sell more copies, and thats all that really matters to EA. This game allows them to put something out that ostensibly provides what the loudest Paradise complainers couldn't ever seem to let go-a full featured crash mode. But making it a top down game, not even leveraging the NFS or Paradise tech to make it, pretty much dooms its sales to mediocrity. This will allow EA to let the series die without any complaints from shareholders; lord knows they don't give a damn what anyone raging about this on blog posts and forums think.

I will give the demo a try but will probably wait for a sale if I like it.

EA. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

you guys do nothing but complain and complain about EA releasing the same madden year after year, you complain about activision releasing the same CoD or the same GH year after year ...

here we have one franchise that has actually changed it up with each release and you guys complain. and it's not even like they have been poorly executed either. These games are always top notch. You may not like each one but give them credit for trying different things so that it doesn't get stale.

I WAS looking forward for this game.

Seriously? If its anything over $9.99, I don't see this game faring to well... If I want to crash toy cars, I'll play with my matchbox set.

@VideoGameConnection Oh please -- they look like completely different games. One is about controlling traffic and one is about making spectacular crashes. The top-down perspective is definitely similar, and may even have inspired this game, but it's hardly a rip-off.

EPIC FAIL!

Bring back the first 3 burnout games in HD already!...

But...I want a real burnout game with the crashes returning.

Burn out one of the best video game franchises for racing, I dare anyone to refute that, innovative, timeless, just right in some many ways.

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