I never played the original...but who really cares? -- This really is a step up from Burnout. It is explosive!
Bad Points - Quite Short, Still Hard, Slightly Tedious, Slightly Repetive.
I got this game from Woolies, for £34.99, and by god it is good. I always though that it would be bad judging some of the previews and reviews of the game. I got the demo when it came out just to see if it was worth the wait. Gone has the need to restart as soon as the stunt 1 goes wrong, Gone has the stiff controls, but also, the biggie, Gone has indepence of every scene. It is deadly repeative, same stunts after each other, in slightly different tracks. And you never get to see the finished movie, even if it is only 5 minutes. The scenes get harder for doing the same old jump. And now for some points to part with some cash. IT is much more explosive and friendlier than Burnout, which you crash, your dead. In this, the crashes a rare, but superb. There are constant explosions, and each movie has various twists. The damage model is great, the loading times a long but restarting is febrief. You should get it, it is not bad, nothing to complain about, unless all you care about is the slightly last-gen appearence on the very rare instance