The best racing game I've played in a long time.
User Rating: 9.2 | Burnout 3: Takedown (Dutch) PS2
To start off, Burnout 3 Takedown is one of the best racing game ever made and the best racing game of 2004. Burnout 3 is fun and easy game to learn and play. It is an arcade style racing game that encourages you to take out your opponent in different styles. You get rewarded with points by the ways your opponent crashes or if you drive more recklessly. Some examples include crashing into other drivers tricking your opponents in driving into traffic, dodging traffic on the roads, or driving on the wrong side of the road. As you get rewarded with points, you also get rewarded with turbo thrusters with can assist you in completing the race faster. Burnout 3 isn't just a racing game because of the various gameplay options avaliable to you. There is a story mode called world tour, road rage mode, time trial, crash mode, multiplayer so you can play with another person, and an online option to play with the other gameplay options. In world tour you race on 3 different continents; North America, Europe, and Asia. In total, there are over 100 different race tracks to race on. As you play through the story mode you will play through the various types of game modes in the game which keeps you from being bored while playing the game. Road rage mode is the mode where you don't race but destroy as many of you opponents as possible before you get destrpyed by them. In the crash mode, you crash you car onto incoming traffic to deal as much damage as possible. As more destruction is made, you get paid according to how much damage you did. The graphics of the game are great because of the environmental details and car damage you see as you get hit. The music of the game doesn't match the game most of the time but are pretty decent to listen. The game has great replay value until you finally beat it because there really isn't a reason to play it anymore. The game can get annoying at times because of the A.I.'s aggressiveness in the game. They will try to take you out or trick you into crashing during the races. When I first saw the reviews of the game, I didn't the game can possibly be that good, but guess what, it is. Burnout 3 has come a long way from it's predecessors and surpassing it in almost everyway. Burnout 3 is the best racing game of 2004 and one of the best in while. It is fun and easy to play and almost anyone can get right into this game. This is a game that most gamers can certainly play and a game that all gamers should tryout.
