Review: Burnout 2
Burnout 2: Point of Impact Review
Console: PS2
Developer: Criterion Games
Publisher: Acclaim
Reviewed By: Moerder
Game Summary
Burnout 2: Point of Impact is the follow-up to the original smash hit with improved graphics, faster gameplay, and bigger, more spectacular crashes.
While Burnout 1 was inspired by European movies and locations, Burnout 2 is inspired by American films such as “The Fast And The Furious.” The game is set in U.S. locations with an all-new set of vehicles: modified Japanese cars, pickups, SUVs plus some bonus rides such as police cruisers and classic 50′s hotrods. Other improvements will be tighter handling, better crash deformations, new music, new game structure, enhanced physics, new lighting, improved car models, a new replay system and more.
Game Features
All-new Pursuit races allow players to race a police car and ram opponents off the road.
Crashes are bigger, badder, and more heart-stopping than any seen before:
Vehicles deform and car parts fly across the highway!
Advanced lighting effects such as Bloom Lighting: highlights reflect off of windshields and metal exactly as in real-life.
Offensive Driving 101, where you can “Learn to Burn” from the Burnout Driving School.
New Custom Series Mode that allows you to race modified vehicles complete with body kits and decals.
Progressive scan and Dolby Pro-Logic II support.
Six new United States locations, including Miami, Los Angeles, The Rocky Mountains, New Mexico and a busy international airport.
Thirty new stages to drive with fourteen all-new vehicles.
Seven secret vehicles to unlock including police cars, 1950′s hotrods and stock cars.
Realistic weather effects, such as snow, rain and fog.
All-new points-based championship gameplay structure.
Vehicles can get air and earn boosts by jumping.
Intelligent traffic system, featuring three distinct types of driver behaviors.
Upgraded graphics engine.
Moerder’s Review
Gameplay: 8
Gameplay is fast paced, and in your face.
Graphics: 9
The graphics look good, especially on the great car models.
Sound: 7
The sound is alright, engine sounds are good, but the soundtrack is bland.
Value: 8
Good amount of levels, though it is repetitive still has good replay value.
Overall Rating: 8.0
Burnout 2 is a great game over the previous title. Graphics have been improved, as well as the games engine [or so it seems]. After awhile the game does get repetitive, but that’s common in the race genre of gaming. The tracks are stunning, also the models, and textures for each track look great. The development team put some hard work into this great game and it definitely shows. Give Burnout 2 a try if you already have not, you won’t be wasting your time.