Classic Game Room - BURNOUT review for PS2

[@ottodob]

i actually dig the music. It adds to the euro racer feel.

[@NES8594]

I started with Burnout 3 and loved up so much. Not long after, I came across Burnout 2 and then was later given Burnout Revenge. From this point, I decided that I was going to complete this entire series, and I mean COMPLETE. Every medal, every trophy. It took several years (most of which spent dealing with idiots on Burnout Paradise multiplayer), but finally, on December 23, 2014, I 100% completed the entire franchise!

[@shawklan27]

Congrats! :D

[@XenittX]

Did you also get Burnout Crash? On XBLA

[@NES8594]

XenittX I have it on iOS.

[@peterkubala3084]

NES8594 what's your highest maniac score in Burnout Dominator?

[@mazda9624]

Unfortunately I never managed to complete every challenge in Burnout Paradise multiplayer despite having the game since launch. I was probably 90% of the way to completion when the servers shut down. I didn't even find out about the server shutdown until around 6 months later, but at that point it was too late. At least I got the platinum trophy before the servers shut down. While I could go and do all 500 multiplayer challenges on one of the newer systems, I just don't have the time or patience anymore to deal with all the idiots online

[@NeoQuixotic]

Huh, I thought the music was fun and different. Not the most amazing music, but I wouldn't call it bad.

[@Synathidy]

"This music sounds like it belongs on a mid-to-late 90s VHS tape instructing you on how to put together exercise equipment." Wait, is that a... bad thing to you?

[@ManoSaarinenCarmanen81]

I think this had the BEST music in the series, imo! This and Burnout 2 but then Acclaim was gone along with the good music in newer Burnout games:/

[@WasstschoBasstscho]

Are you kidding me??? The music in this game is great!!! And because of the fact that it gets more dramatic when your time runs out it really adds to the thrill of playing the game...

[@CosmicWolfPack]

wOAH. I like the music in this game WAY more than all the other Burnouts.

[@tMvLtheonly1]

i loved that soundtrack, like u said we could feel it with the racing.

[@Dukefazon]

Happy new year to all of you who follow CGR!

[@Mazhura_13B]

burnout 3 takedown was the best imo.

[@GhostsDontWalk1]

I actually really like the music in this game.

[@eternal7082]

Had it on my demo disk when I woke up to a Ps2 under the Christmas tree, I was only four and I'm 21 now but I'll never stop reminiscing over this series!

[@R2MintOptions]

Agreed. Burnout: intense racing in live traffic. Burnout 2: even better. Burnout 3: read about, saw videos, decided not to even rent it.

[@Slimecrazy234]

I owned this game and have many fond memories of playing it growing up. That soundtrack is the soundtrack of many summers spent.

[@TheTechCguy]

Like I always say, it is usually the first game of ANY installment that is always the best. Every sequel I usually see in most games in a series suck in more ways than one due to over exaggeration in the budget for production. And that is all. Burnout 1 will be forever included in my memory of my 13 years of gaming. :)

[@JamieBainbridge]

Doing double the speed limit down the wrong side of a road tunnel, ramming other cards into oncoming traffic. Need to turn left, better put my indicator on.

[@hddr3]

The music was good in this imo, but everyone has their own opinion

[@SchlimmShadySmash]

dude the music was so good what are u on about loll

[@GhostsDontWalk1]

I think the proportion of good games to bad are the same today as in the past. Every generation has tons of terrible games. I think people just forget them and only remember the good ones.

[@ThomasBlithe]

I like how the guy driving puts on his turn signal, like "oop, foot let everyone know I'm turning," then he speeds through the wrong lane.

[@nathan0401]

i absolutely loved this game, i spent so long just racing, having huge crashes then watching the crash replays in amazement that it recorded my crashes :)

[@deftoned2]

The first KZbin video I watch in 2013 is CGR. Watched Return of the Jedi, play Sacred 2, and now CGR. 2013 is going to be totally Lando.

[@TheTrooperMB]

Burnout was the game that made me drive manual transmissions since it gave you extra top speed! Also it was my first Burnout because it just got out at that time ! Feels old man..

[@Neonpremesis2]

I come to youtube, see CGR uploaded a new review, watch it, forget why I came to youtube in the first place. EVERY! DAMN! TIME!

[@panamachasely]

the music is great what are you talking about better than hearing paradise city 100 times in a session scratch that it's better than hearing paradise city once i literally had to turn off the whole radio in burnout 3 5 minutes after i started playing it and play the whole game with no music it was so bad

[@stephenchow79]

Those crash replays drive me crazy

[@gamer199x]

One of the first games I ever played. I agree that the music is odd but I still love it. Hearing it reminds me of when I was 4.

[@melikecomedy]

red bull energy bar triple experience points that's hilarious

[@RikMcCloud]

Aaah, the original Burnout. I remember a friend asking me for help to beat the Roadster on the GameCube version and damn, it was hard but I eventually did it. Also, the music isn't THAT bad. It's not like it has Lostprophets' new stuff in the soundtrack... My favourite game in the series is Burnout 2. I preferred this style of actually using skill to weave in and out of traffic rather than intentionally ramming it to block other drivers. I do miss those days...

[@MrAnders0n2]

We've all heard bad music. I don't think Burnout fits into that category. Overblown reaction.

[@Foxcheese]

I forgot how jaggy the original was, but now thinking back, it really was that jaggy~ It was a great game though, I loved it. Specially the LONG tracks that linked various areas together and took like 20minutes, I loved doing those.

[@SilverShion]

HAPPY NEW YEAR CLASSIC GAME ROOM!! see you next year in your intergalactic space arcade.

[@HerrFinsternis]

Lovely game, with demanding yet straightforward gameplay. When you mess up you did so because you made a wrong call, not because your thumb flinched during a hiccup which send the car into a spin. Just good oldskool racing.

[@XXTROB]

Happy new year cgr! Thanks for keeping me entertained in 2012; I'm looking forward to lots of hilarious and informative reviews this year! 2013, all hail lord carnage

[@Snowplowinator]

I loved this game. Thanks for inspiring me to pick up these old games again, Mark.

[@0ring0]

I remember when I brought this game over my friend's house. None of my friends wanted to play it 'cause they thought it was going to be lame (no licensed cars, unknown developer, etc). 10 Minutes later. They were praising it as "the best racing game this generation". This scenario repeated itself a couple of more times, including my brother's place (with his friends) and a party where I was asked to bring a couple of party-seque games. God I love that game.

[@KuraIthys]

Makes sense. I find any interlaced signal (even DVD video) can potentially look worse on a device that performs deinterlacing. Old TV's have the interlacing as an innate part of the pixel pattern on the display, and the effect is quite different to most deinterlacing techniques.

[@doCrimes]

You obviously never played burnout 2, 3, or revenge lol. They were heavily focused on the crashes. Burnout 2 was the game that started Crash mode :P

[@zeronightroost]

I wonder what Mark uses to record his videos with.

[@frigginjoe]

Illogical as it sounds, the graphics were not as bad as they look. The heavy pixelation on PS2 games occurs from either video capture or the signal being upconverted directly from the system (such as an LCD panel turning the 480i signal to 240p). On a typical TV for its time, the game looked much smoother.

[@ninelivesbobcat3619]

'No good music to be found.' Well, the title screen music and Eurorush were good music. Anyways, this game was great. Sure, it's not as good as the later game excluding Burnout Dominator and Burnout Crash, but it's still very fun and challenging.

[@BrownSugar977]

did you even know there is a boost, never saw you use it.

[@SelbySavidge]

Strangely, I was just cleaning up some exercise equipment when mark mentioned "exercise equipment."

[@Arexion5293]

Music wasn't good? Welp, they fixed that in Burnout 2, since it had an amazing soundtrack and Burnout 3's unreleased soundtrack is pretty kick ass as well.

[@Nexis4Jersey]

I played this game for hrs on end , it was very fun , so was 2 and 3 and the tracks were very long and detailed... Sadly these days the tracks are shorter and seem boring in a way...

[@doomcraft9880]

I Love this game, besides Turok Evolution and Star Fox Adventures it remains me so much of my Childhood... evertime i hear the music it makes me instant Happy , well the time when go out and play with Friends than coming home watching Drake&josh or play burnout on the NGC :')

[@EwaY83]

Takedown is the best in the series?

[@Huskfinity]

Also have u reviewed the third yet?

[@TheCdett]

This was my first PS2 game, and together with Burnout 2 was a lot of fun to play with it. I loved the music at 0:33 (seems like you're running for your life and someone is chasing you), but the other ones were really bad, nice memories!

[@fluttershystayshigh4202]

not my favorite racing game by far "that would be Flatout 2" but i still have fun with the original Burnout occasionally and i rather liked the music in it, not sure what your beef is with the tunes. it is INSANELY hard tho! good gawd is it ever..

[@FoxRS]

I remember this well.. Driving at Rush Hour was insane!

[@RiskyFriskyHandle]

The music in B1 & B2 is my favorite, :P

[@frigginjoe]

No, by smoother I mean sharper and even higher frame rate. It's not just tube-assisted blurriness. Sampling two lines of 480i to make one double-thickness line of a 240p output cuts both the resolution and (arguably) frame rate in half. It was truly rendering 480 lines even if the TV had to interlace them and progressive scan doubles up on the lines for every other frame. The vertical resolution is dropped to the same as PSOne game, hence people saying it looks like PSOne.

[@theferrariwrecker]

I´ve been looking everywhere for this game but cannot find it, i lost my copy of this game long time ago, and now, i searched everywhere for one, but i just can´t seem to find...

[@frigginjoe]

The Gamecube was a nice piece of hardware. The thing with the PS2 is a lot of games didn't support progressive scan, so today's video technology doesn't treat the visuals kindly, despite looking real nice on older CRT's. Gamecube, Xbox and even Dreamcast had pretty decent support for progressive scan modes so even though they all rendered a 640(or 720) x 480 pixel frame buffer, the PS2 captures and upconversions don't do the old CRT visuals justice.

[@RigbyIsTheMan]

2013? you live in a diffrent time zone?

[@NS55gaming]

Wait?, He didn't use 16:9 output????

[@HawkOfGP]

It was my first too! I actually liked this and played it quite a bit while I was pretty disappointed in the much praised Burnout 3.

[@VideosbySteve]

Wasnt most of the DLC free??

[@gabbogabbo]

Very clever how the turn signal comes on to help let you know where to turn. Not a bad looker either!

[@earthboundmisfit79]

Are there any youtubers left that DON'T have merch to try and hawk??

[@pk4ever28]

burnout 2 was the best burnout ever

[@Caparzoshow]

all the burnout games look exceptional, they run very fluid, and the impressive part is that non of them use progressive scan

[@Astfgl]

Burnout 2 is where they really perfected the concept and is by far my favorite of the series. Better graphics, better control, better track designs, better music, better difficulty balance, and better crashes. It also wasn't as ridiculously busy as the later entries in the series. Burnout 3 was fun when the ramming stuff was still new, but the racing aspect of the game suffered as a result. And the EA-ified presentation meant the game lost most of the original games' charm.

[@SuperFam12345]

burn out is indeed the best series of games around but saying that this isnt the best one in the series id say burnout 3 is as good as it gets. and mark im watching this on the daawn of the new year so happy new year thanks for the hours of awsome reviews and have a good one to everyone at classic game room and cgr undertow. cont wait for more reviews in the new year. enjoy my friends

[@scottman_plays_youtube]

The music reminds me of the early Gran Turismo games

[@jeeteebee1111]

Happy New Year Mark! Please review ''Road Rash: Jailbreak'' in 2013. It's for PS1.

[@InputArchive]

Wow the difference in graphics between the ps2 and Xbox version is huge!

[@walidb123]

Burnout 3 was my favourite. Playing split screen with my cousins was amazing so it's a shame they're removing it these days.

[@Xegethra]

this is my favourite of the burnout games....the others were fun, i loved them, but this? i just love it the most

[@nynono]

Each time I hear Acclaim it give me the feels.

[@Icehawk_9]

You should do the whole series!

[@Dazza2292]

was there not a burnout way before this on ps1?

[@RemyLanslots]

That last is indeed true. I try to enjoy most of the older consoles on TV's for which they were meant. Although I have to say that PS2-titles that support it, look even better on an HDTV with a Component cable. Obviously... Still my favorite system of all time, that good old PlayStation 2. One of the reasons it's still being used almost every day...

[@MrNOOBSTER117]

if I were to send them a game would they make a review of it?

[@hamish124]

COULD YOU PLEASE REVIEW BURNOUT 2 AND 3

[@SStyle5]

Yay more CGR before 2013, here's to more!

[@interpolkillersfan93]

I still play this to this day. I love it

[@vadergeta]

i really liked the first two in the series, the second being my favorite, the newer ones just don't do it for me, and i actually liked the music, but i can see why some wouldn't like it

[@TronPachioftheDynamo]

Paradise was my favorite street racer ever. While I still prefer the likes of WipEout and F-Zero, that game was among my favorite racers.

[@nippazhobbies]

Speaking of rad, misplaced racing game music: CAN YOU FEEL THE SUNSHINE? DOES IT BRIGHTEN UP YOUR DAY?

[@Rayzboomboomroom]

wat happens if everybody crashes

[@Cirofost]

If by "Smoother" you mean "Blurrier", then you're right. They probably recorded this with component or HDMI, which eliminates the dot crawl, and without the burriness, the low resolution really shows.

[@JackDaScarecrow]

For the the true Burnout heads. People didnt really catch on to Burnout until 3 when EA started publishing them after Acclaim went under but out of all the Burnouts I had to have played 1 and P.O.I. more than any other. "Revenge" was pretty dope as well.

[@RigbyIsTheMan]

are the people posting comments using smart phones or ps3

[@PacificReefs]

Mark how about a tour of the intergalactic space arcade!

[@Synathidy]

"No good music to be found" * good music is playing in the background.

[@Caparzoshow]

is an option for higher resolution, not all ps2 games have it, but most of the good looking ones do (gran turismo, god of war, jak, etc) thats why they look so good, but the strange about the burnout games is that it looks as good as those types of games and it doesn't have it

[@warhero82]

Didn't play a whole lot of the first Burnout, but 2 and 3 will always be my favorite. Still thoroughly enjoyed revenge and paradise though!

[@trashygas]

What do you mean? the music was great!

[@Runner50783]

Just like high quality audio, high quality gaming is slowly dying, thanks to the 0.99 cents pricing model Apple introduced with the Apps store. It is unfortunate that even with much more powerful hardware than back then, AAA games are rare gems in the sea of crappy games developers are spending time on. This game is way superior than any of the top driving games people is buying and playing now a days on iPads and iPhones

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

I have every Burnout game and with the exception of Revenge (which I really need to get back to) and Dominator (which doesn't really count) have beaten them all. The first one is the hardest. It isn't that long, but the last few championships took about as long to beat as the rest of the game combined. Burnout3 is by far my favorite but I like the cars and free roam from Paradise a lot. I wish they would make a Burnout 6, Need for Burnout isn't the same, and the NFS fans don't like it ether.

[@stillgaming]

The music for this racing game could've been far, far worse. Have you ever played Test Drive 4? Nails on chalkboard, Mark. As in, I actually think they put a nail on a chalkboard and pulled random samples from their experiments with it, looped them all together, and made a soundtrack with it. I think other instruments used were 'Baseball bats into trash cans' and 'Baby's First Electronic Keyboard'

[@MrBucketlist]

Im glad I started my burnouts at 3. I still play paradise online all the time.

[@meamjustme]

I love those ridge racer references you make XD

[@tekkenfan01]

Music is good

[@Bignona]

absolutely correct. the game looks and plays wonderful on an older tv.

[@cyxceven]

The very first Burnout race music is the best. Why couldn't Criterion keep up that style?

[@JamesPound]

It's funny but the music was one my favorite parts of the game.. except when it went to that annoying stressful music after you crashed one too many times.

[@seancollins7903]

Still a classic game