3DO Crash 'n Burn playthrough

Dragon Car on Deathdrome Circuit (Final Circuit)
Crash 'n Burn is a futuristic racing/shooter video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released for the 3DO in 1993. The game was the launch title for the system and was included as a pack-in game with Panasonic's original 3DO console.

[@deckofcards87]

This game looked incredible when I first saw it on some TV show back in 1993, Lol it looks crude now, but man it and Doom for PC were the FUTURE of entertainment

[@Lamrock93]

That is extremely impressive for 1993!

[@RODRIGOR300]

The draw distance is insane.

[@3doyoyolifestylegood534]

Still have my 3do and this game impressed me alot in 1994. It was incredible just looking at the roads.

[@kingstonlj]

I saw this game running on a huge(for the time) 36" television at a computer expo in late 1993. It looked absolutely mind-blowing back then. 😮 Then when the price came down to $499 in 1994, I managed to get my family to help me buy a 3DO. I played Crash 'n Burn all the time through 1994 and loved it. Overall, the 3DO was a decent machine with some good games, but the PlayStation & Saturn ended up being much better tech in 1995.

[@somatic77]

this game blew my mind at the time. so much nostalgia

[@aaronoutdoors7556]

I was really impressed by this game when I was a kid. It was one of the first racing games to have tall hills. Most racing games were flat back in the day.

[@chrisw9122]

We had a 3DO 😂 played this game all the time. Oh to be in middle school again...in the 90s.

[@Meteotrance]

i remember the shock the 3DO was especialy this game, Total Eclipse and Space Hulk, we have nothing like this on PC, exepted Alone in the Dark, Doom and Commanche, but PC was realy expensive back then and dedicated 3D card was only a dream.

[@GiordanDiodato]

yeah. In fact that was part of the reason the 3DO was so expensive. Ironically, it was actually really easy to develop for.

[@deathdrake1]

That track at 19:40 has pretty neat story about the creation of the game literally written on the side of the track. I remember killing everything and driving slowly alongside the track just to read it lol.

[@GamerGee]

Someone needs to write that all out.

[@christopherwalkinalloverya5824]

The amount of textured polygons on display here and the draw distance were unmatched in 1993! Arcade games weren't even doing this at the time! We're talking about back in the days of Virtua Racing flat shaded polygons, and Crash N' Burn was using textured polys!

[@MT-ll3tu]

It's draw distance on par with early DC/PS2 games.

[@Kruppt808]

i used to play this on my Dads 3D0. He liked the poker game lol Would concentrate on destroying the other racers instead of beating them in a race. but I would have to let certain ones lap me so it could take awhile lol. loved this game, buy guns, kill stuff, race fast cars on cool tracks.

[@Poorlilrichboy80]

I played this game for hours at a time. Only beat it once. I still have my 3DO player to this day and this game along w/other games that came with the system.

[@billyjoejimbob75]

Looks like it would've been fun to play back in the day.

[@barryosbourne2581]

I had a Panasonic 3DO when it came out, it was awesome at the time, there was nothing like it but... they never pushed to develop the console, there was about 8 good games and John Madden NFL being one of them. PS1 came out and end of story for the 3DO. 😏

[@jimbothompson6540]

Only the most spoiled kids got this when it came out, congrats

[@Kruppt808]

my dad got a bonus and bought this as a family present, we weren't rich or spoiled, he worked 12 hour days, mostly outside in the sun 6 days a week spray painting huge buildings and satellite dishes.

[@barryosbourne2581]

@@Kruppt808 hey bro, I had a 3DO my dad bought it for me and my brother for $400 because we asked for it... Because I had a 3DO I didn't have a super Nintendo, no Nintendo 64, no PlayStation1. That other guy that said I'm spoiled is a communist. Now a days I could buy a 3DO every weekend no problem and I would still do it with my own money. Spoiled? Fuck that, I am enriched and fruitful.... get a job other guy

[@barryosbourne2581]

@@Kruppt808 hell yeah man, im with you. Its funny the word spoiled.... just because my parents had jobs and worked thier ass off so I could have a decent life, I'm spoiled.

[@barryosbourne2581]

@@jimbothompson6540 thank you.... I buy things way more expensive than a 3DO now a days because I have a good job that pays me a lot of money. I'm not spoiled... I work for a living try it some time

[@joneggelton]

Never had a 3DO ( way too expensive ), but I remember playing this at the ECTS show in London, in maybe 1994 ? The speed was mighty impressive, but the whole experience felt very much on-rails. Almost like those FMV games. Especially disappointing after playing Virtua Racing in the arcade. It was a nice taster of the next console generation, though.

[@DeathNeff]

Even more expensive than PS5?

[@yellowblanka6058]

@@DeathNeffUh yeah, it cost $699 on release in 1993 which adjusting for inflation would be ~$1500 today, especially unfortunate for this who bought it was the fact that the technically superior ps1 would release just two years later at $299

[@ericolson2286]

This was definitely impressive for the time, as far as the tech goes. The complete lack of pop-up is pretty impressive. But in general this game feels a bit more like a tech demo…being that it was an early title (well, the EARLIEST title really), not surprised by that.

[@deceiver444]

The dull engine sound was a huge disappointment back then when the rest of the game was so freaking impressive

[@GuyRification]

This was the most mind blowing futuristic shit at the time! Hmmm...it didn't age that well...

[@BoneCrusherofOlde]

People that talk about inducing an Out of Body Experience (OBE) or Astral Projection have claimed that scratching/tearing sound occurs right before your astral body separates from your material body bound to Earth.

[@tsdr6830]

Ahh!!! The memories. 😊

[@mycatisromeo]

Worth every penny of the $699.99 price tag included free with a new 3DO 😂

[@Kruppt808]

i think we got ours for 399.99 in the mid 90s lol, it was expensive though

[@Imgema]

There is no 3D racing game on PS1/SAT/N64 with such draw distance. This is the first 5th gen racing game that was released and only in 6th gen racing games we saw something similar.

[@MT-ll3tu]

That because Dev's rarely used tricks on those 3 consoles that aided performance aside from a few games. Alone in the dark : The new nightmare got near-PS2 visuals by using per-rendered levels.

[@SonySupporter]

The game uses CD streaming trick. Same with NFS, Immercenary, Star Fighter. While playing those games on a real hardware you can hear the constant move of the CD laser.

[@The_Husband_of_Jane_Lane]

Before there was Gex and Legacy of Kain, there was this.

[@GiordanDiodato]

Kain was made by Silicon Knights then the crap games were made by CD

[@deathstrike]

This is the great grandfather of Twisted Metal and the great great grandfather of GRIP. I have a 3DO, and this is honestly one of the better games for it. Most games on the 3DO are often interactive movies with godawful acting and sound effects. Crash n Burn, Gex, Road Rash, Star Wars, Silent Hill, Wing Commander, and Need for Speed rank as the best games. But for anyone interested in collecting, expect to pay a LOT for most of these, especially if they are the flimsy and the fragile Long Box. Sadly the 3DO was saturated with lousy games, but was and is very underrated as this was an EA designed system and concept. Imagine if EA had built the console itself. (RJ Mical of the Atari Lynx co designed it) we could still have a EA games 3DO series M5 or M6 by now. And it would have been incredible!

[@revenge1205]

Silent Hill on 3DO?

[@deathstrike]

@@revenge1205 My bad, I was doing multiple consoles, it was actually Alone in the Dark, not Silent Hill

[@deathstrike]

Edit: It was Alone in the Dark, not Silent Hill.

[@werewolffox8918]

This is not comparable to gex or road rash or need for speed, the character types were played out even then. It's a good system with good games but this is definitely not one of them. And you know that.

[@MrRodrigues520]

there's even in-car camera, that's great!

[@christophermaynard1902]

Best 3do game!

[@werewolffox8918]

Its an unplayable joke. The random white outs. The color changes, trying to use weapons while racing . Just a weed tray game

[@ミスターD-v1r]

やっとブラックマーケット映像を見つけた。 最強車ドラゴンと最強武器ドラゴンレーザー 私は一周めで全ライバルを片付けた

[@ミスターD-v1r]

あと再生アーマーが装着されれば

[@azuresonic69]

Seems a bit on rails to an extent. Perhaps that is why the draw distance is fantastic. Almost like a real time rendered fmv of sorts. Very unusual for its Contemporaries.

[@pandnh4]

Good eye, that's exactly what they did. It's basically like overlaying a car sprite on a pre-filmed background. Kinda cheating, but worked well.

[@kingstonlj]

@@pandnh4 The environment graphics aren't FMV. I read something about the geometry maps being streamed from the CD, which was a clever trick that allowed for a long draw distance. This approach took a lot of burden away from the processors, but made the game camera very rigid. The vehicles being sprites and not made of polygons also boosted performance. There is a sort of MegaRace FMV vibe about this game, but the game world is actually being drawn.

[@pandnh4]

@@kingstonlj right, that's why I qualified with: "basically like". It's not FMV, but the behavior is similar. NES did the same in Days of Thunder. Was revolutionary at the time, but you're basically just moving a sprite over a pre-rendered background.

[@AuntieAliasing]

​​@@kingstonljSilpheed on the NEC PC-88 does that for the wireframe rendering in its intro

[@AuntieAliasing]

I am also curious as to how The Need for Speed was done. That game is very linear and the world drawing behaves similarly, but it uses a strange LOD system for distant world chunks and objects that has me thinking they might be drawn in a separate buffer and scaled as sprites in accordance to their level coordinates or something

[@ImYourProblem]

Anyone run this on emulator? 4do emu works great but i cant get the audio lag fixed..

[@zangardo3937]

The controls were so damn clunky in this.

[@souless08]

sometimes i would just do one lap and sit before the pitstop and just kill everyone when they came to pit LOL then usually had 1-2 laps driving solo LOL

[@MichaelYates]

I had this when the 3do first came out, seems a little to fast to me or maybe missing a frame here and there. i remember it being a bit slower paced game. Good Game though for its time

[@deorodant_oh-one6875]

This game is a lot better than that Crash n burn game on ps2

[@albertwesker2283]

This game was the shit. I still have a 3do with this game

[@EDifyer881]

Same here lol

[@thefifthdoctor6780]

Love my 3DO

[@LlanHeinrich]

Glad to see that Crystal Dynamics didn't improve their framerate over time

[@3dohd]

dude lol

[@albertodiez4215]

Buen framerate, muy buenos gráficos y muy buena distancia de dibujado. Pero la música es penosa. La de maravillas que tuvieron que hacer para hacer esto en una 3do. Y fue de los primeros

[@azuresonic69]

It's true about the music. Kinda whack.

[@LeesReviews69]

Mark Cerney made this, our Ossis creator.

[@daisaku00]

Dragon and dragon laser were purchased in Black market I want to see you bought

[@G0BuckY0urs3lf]

Is this emulated? It seems to be running at 60fps unlike real hardware where it runs at around 25fps

[@golbibulbus5183]

I don’t see any 60fps? Maybe you have a De-Judder thing on your TV or Monitor?

[@a2pha]

Watching this, I'm curious. Is the road just a recorded video and the player's car a sprite on top of it ? I know the 3DO specializes in inserting videos to games.

[@31leoceara]

The car is a sprite (2D), the road is 3d.

[@christopherwalkinalloverya5824]

The road and trackside is real time rendered textured polygons. The car is of course just an animated sprite. The draw distance, frame rate and amount of polygons is quite impressive for it's time. The Atari Jaguar couldn't do this, and the transparent track as seen at 20:00 couldn't even be duplicated on Sega Saturn! Not until the Playstation was released were these graphics surpassed.

[@BoneCrusherofOlde]

Can you fly, Bobby?

[@princeleo276]

Do the characters play any different from one another? Been playing as Max and some of the tracks seem overly difficult.

[@FinnMcCoolOfficial]

they do

[@Orochi_001]

What a crushing disappointment this must have been at the time.

[@zacdior9402]

Looks well dated. I can't believe I used to love this game. And total eclipse

[@oriondx72]

video is the beginning never looked that good but the game itself is very nice. my favorite game back when I bought the system new for 700. closing on 30 yrs doesn't look that bad.

[@BlueBidyaGame]

Hey is it cool if I use a clip from this?

[@ahphodg260]

So what was the sEeCRetttt

[@mariogamefreak1]

700 dollars for this

[@fungo6631]

Back in 1993 it would have been worth it. Keep in mind that Doom was just released then, and didn't even have slopes. This had fully textured 3D, even perspective correct it seems, with the exception of cars being prerendered. Virtua Racing didn't have textures. Pretty sure even on PC there wasn't anything like that at the time. By 1994 it wasn't worth it anymore as it was better just to wait for the Saturn or PS1. Perhaps Panasonic should have waited for 1995 or 1996 and I am sure they'd have put out something that would have been truly next gen. Something with Dreamcast or PC 3DFX Voodoo grade graphics but a CD drive that's also much faster than contemporary console drives.

[@mariogamefreak1]

@@fungo6631 it’s was the only game available for the launch of the system. It wasn’t that good of a game.

[@drakonolus7922]

It's the same as Nintendo Switch, $300 or even more and it's a sucked piece of hot trashy toy.

[@fungo6631]

@@drakonolus7922 There's a difference tho. The Switch ended up being super successful, with plenty 3rd party support. It's also portable. And not 700 dollars.

[@frigginjoe3169]

@@fungo6631 I bought one then. It wasn't worth it. I marvelled at the tech a bit but I saw Ridge Racer in the arcade and realized 3DO was just too slow, even for its time. I spent a bit less importing a PSX which blew me away.

[@giggs-chan2004]

8:45 Sync

[@chaunceymcloggins2647]

Appropriately named release title for the doomed 3DO.

[@destructioner2937]

were can download it? XD

[@yellowblanka6058]

Don’t know how to use a search engine?

[@oriondx72]

Dragon car is nice but I had the car with dragon laser total carnage lol.

[@delorishaley399]

Crashua & Ivy, Crashards & Theresa, Crashuah & Eve, Crash & Paloma, Crasher & Gwen, Crasheda & Kate, Crashed & Tabitha, CRASH & ENDORA, Crashington & Hecuba, Crashing & Jessica, Crasue & Sheridan, Crassica & Fancy, Cras & Pretty, Crashboards & Edna, Crashfords & Beth, CRASHLYN & PILAR, CRASHDON & WHITNEY, CRASHDEN & RAE, Crassie & Liz, Crasslands & Juanita

[@glennielsen]

Look up "3do robo console" on ebay