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Game Information
- Platform: PlayStation2
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Six exciting new US locations including Los Angeles and a busy international airport
- 32 new stages, 14 new vehicles to race
- Seven secret vehicles including police cars, 1950s hotrods and stock cars
- Point-to-point races
- All-new points-based championship gameplay structure
- Offensive Driving 101--"Learn to Burn" in the Burnout Driving School
- All-new Pursuit races--ram opponents off the road in a police car
- New Custom Series Mode--modify your vehicles
- Intelligent traffic system
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Burnout 2, like its acclaimed predecessor, puts fun right at the top of the agenda, dispenses with niggling irritants like realism and delivers top-class gaming entertainment.
So what's new? There are additional locations, including a twisty road round the Rocky Mountains and an inspired airport-based level. There is also a greater choice of vehicles. Naturally enough you have to balance your need for speed against the need for good handling and take into account the weather and the kind of level you're racing across.
Yet the core of Burnout 2 is still arcade-style racing and there's little else that does it better. It's incredibly accessible and an absolute blast to play. It doesn't matter whether you're competing in the enhanced single-player modes or hooking up with friends--it's completely irresistible. Visually, the game looks great and moves very, very quickly. The action is interspersed with elaborate crashes, and when you do hit something you shouldn't, you're rewarded with an action replay for your trouble.
There are genuinely very few negatives here. Those who prefer their driving games flavoured with a bit more realism are going to be happier with a Gran Turismo game. Also, despite some good improvements and additions, there aren't enormous differences between this and the original Burnout. However, Burnout 2 is an exemplary piece of gaming entertainment, and a welcome antidote to the growing band of games that just take themselves far too seriously. Treat yourself. You'll be glad you did. --Simon Brew
PSW Magazine
"The fastest, smoothest and most dramatically entertaining arcade racer yet. 10/10."
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
Burnout 2 takes all the best bits of driving games - crashes, ultra-high speeds, power-slides etc - and moulds them all into an utterly fantastic video game experience.
The graphics are some of the best seen on the PS2; the cars aren't exact replicas vis a vis GT3, but everything is really polished. You must see the rain and snow effects!
This game is really, really fast. You build up your nitro (turbo boost)and then hold down r2 for as long as possible. If you manage to gain points whilst using turbo, you get instantly another nitro. This carries on for as long as you are able (my record is five - not easy at all, believe me), allowing you to reach insane speeds.
I've had this game since it came out in October, and I can unequivocally state that it still produces the same level of adrenaline rush now as it did then (if not more). Simply brilliant.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
This game is a must for any arcade racing fan!Burnout 2 still has most of the features from the original (championship mode,single race,Face off,etc)and more.The newest editions to the game are "learn to burn" ,pursuit mode and crash for cash.In pursuit mode you drive a police car an as the name sujests,you have to pursue the other car.You have to hit the other car several times to make it stop.If you manage to do this with in the alotted distance,the car is then yours to race about at will.In crash for cash,there are 15 levels that are completely insane.In one level,you have to charge down the motorway an hit as many buses as possible.These features add a huge amount of playablity,and we havent even gotten to the championship mode yet!
In the championship mode,you race against 3 other computer controlled cars in over 30 different tracks.Upon completing individual championships,you then get access to face offs and pursuit mode,and eventually,the customised championship.This is where the real fun starts....
The main difference to the first one is the graphics.The cars look truly amazing,and the tracks and background scenery are stunning,thats if you get a chance to look at them as your hutrling down the wrong side of the road with the boost on.
All in all,Burnout 2:Point of Impact is a master piece that truly does exceed the expectations of most sequels.It has amazing graphics,bags of replay value and is great fun to play.
Enjoy!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
Burnout is in no way to be taken as a simulator. It in no way models the cars handling, speed or grip on real life. And it is all the better for it.
The basic premice of the main game is to race around tracks at high speed in modified cars (a la fast and furious) and dodge in and out of traffic, using the oncoming lane if so desired, and catching air off crests in the road. Doing any of these three things increases your boost gauge. A full boost gauge means that you can go even faster, and the screen goes all distant and slightly out of focus (again a la fast and furious). Needless to say this is immense fun. There is also one other way you can increase your boost gauge and that is by drifting. Mid way through a corner slam the brakes and then accelerate. The car will slide willingly and you can play with it on the throttle. This is SO much fun. You can keep it sliding like this for most of the race after a while and thus you get boost after boost after boost. If you win the race you get a cup and go onto the next round. You may win a new car if you complete a pursuit (pursue a computer car in your cop car and ram them until their life goes down).
However, if you should crash...the screen zooms out, you see a balletic display of your beloved car pirouetting across the screen/through the air/into walls/over cliffs. Its quite wonderful. BUT obviously this gets annoying. Luckily, by the time it gets annoying you'll be good enough to avoid virtually all crashes and so it becomes unimportant.
Another mode of the game is the EXTREMELY fun crash mode where you have to deliberately smash your car into traffic and cause as much damage as possible. The bigger the crash (the more trucks/buses/cars that are involved and the severity of their impacts) the more points you get.
Overall this game is FUN. It aims for easy arcade driving and succeeds. With the side games included it is a fairly long term game aswell. 2 player is also catered for which is a boon. The graphics are great and the sense of speed is the fastest I've come across in a PS2 racer (say goodbye to the gluey slowness of GT3). The only negatives are that the tracks and cars aren't based on real life. They are all just random cars and tracks, but seeing as you're encouraged to crash its not really suprising...
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Oldie but a goodie
I've had no problem with my purchase despite being second hand. And then it's just great fun to be able to play this game again. I've spent hour and hours playing it before.
Published 8 months ago by anerkent
Crashtastic pleasure
While everyone around them was looking to be the most realistic driving sim, to possess the most accurately recreated real world courses, and to have the most intricate car set up... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2006 by Conrad Hart
SCORCHING!
My 1st racing game for the PS2 and I have to say i'm impressed. Granted the graphics are a little blocky in parts, but if you switch to driver's view it is very fast and... Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2006 by Simon Clarke
It's good, but...
Ok, I never used to like racing until the consoles took off - things look so much better on them for a start. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2005 by K. Wheeler
Burnout 2
Lets get one thing straight, I wasn't someone who was bothered about racing games. When I got the demo of a rally game with my PS2 I spent most of the time trying to drive off... Read more
Published on 6 April 2005
top arcade action
If you like arcade racers, and you like causing devistation, driving on the wrong side of the road and fast paced action then look no further than burnout 2 or if you can afford it... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2005
Super fast!!
In my opinion this is an amazing game for many reasons. There's so much to do on there.
Lets start with the graphics. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2004 by D. Reynolds
In a word brilliant!!!
A great game but a little too short for me. However it has plenty of replay value. The best arcade racer by far
Published on 5 Jun 2004
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I bought Burnout 2 because I really enjoyed Burnout and after reading the reviews it got, was really looking forward to getting it home and burning up the road. Read more
Published on 29 May 2004
Burnout 2 the game which puts the word speed in a car!
Burnout 2 is better and faster than burnout 1. It still contains the same basic controls, but this time there is better crashes and better levels to race. Read more
Published on 17 April 2004 by "adamlebaigue"
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