A great game but a few little tweaks could make it a better game. But I'm not saying this is a bad game; it's good.
The tutorial of this game is not that good, and you are left by yourself and not the game holding your hand anymore. What i mean is that the tutorials kind of leave you wondering what to do next, and don't explain that well. This is like a Midnight Club where you try to get to the destination the fastest. If you lose a race it's not a big deal because you can start the race from a lot of different places on the map and it's all fun. It's just trial and error to know the best route to take.
Their are time trials where you stop from one end of the road and try to get to the other end at the fastest time. Then their is showtime mode which you try to cause the most damage as possible. This event is awesome because the wrecks look real for how you hit an object to do flips to turning your rectangular car into a perfect square.
Also a lot of stuff the previous Burnout's had are taken away such as steering your wrecked vehicle into another wrecked vehicle. The opponents don't take crap either. The more you progress through the game, the harder the races become. They try to crash you more.
Now to the modes which are exciting as ever due to wrecking (sorry I can't express that enough). They have standard and road rages are intense. The stunt runs have you doing all kinds of jumps even barrel rolls. Marked man is when you are trying to get to a destination with numerous cars chasing you and trying to wreck to destruction of your vehicle. Burning routes have you taking on time trials to earn new cars. The downfall is you end up doing some of the same races over and over again. It gets repetitive. Because after each license upgrade all of the races are reset and you are able to do them again.
The online is pretty cool by the map is the lobby itself. When you are a host you can set beginning and end where ever you want on the entire map. But sometimes it takes a lot of friends to get some of the trophies. And yes that includes motorcycles now!
Now to the graphics which are awesome with the crashes (yes I know I should stop talking about them but I can't). The cars turn into nothing more than scraps of metal, but when the camera slows down to show you the wreck you see not person inside. Kind of lame! I didnt't expect a person to fly across the pavement skidding but at least a body strapped into his seatbelt. The game is rated for E 10+ but I guess they are looking for a younger age group for this game.
I have heard it's hard to read some of the menus in game on standard TVs. So go with HD. But that is no reason to not buy this game. The sound track has some of the music from previous Burnout games. The sound is awesome with the tires just burning rubber to the engine purring, and the wrecks just crunching.
To most this game is fun but like some games out their; it is the same thing over and over again. Now this is a game to own though just to have in your collection or just to get the trophies which are recently added through an update. So just go out and get the wrecking-carnival of funness.