From my post in Xbox 360 forum:
First Impressions after ~30 minutes of play.
Presentation: Overdone, like many EA games. The DJ is annoying as always, lots of flash-boom-bang, fancy camera angles and slow motion crashes, maybe too much.
Control: Fast and sharp, nothing to complain about so far.
Sound: Not much to say, its standard burnout fare.
Graphics: Not super impressive aside from the crashes which range from decent to very impressive. For example head-on collisions look great. But crashing in to a few cars from the side doesn't deform the body of the car as well as fron/read crashes.
There is a good deal of pop-up and level-of-detail effects, but these are entirely excusable since you won't notice them going fast. What you will notice are the stutters and dips in the framerate, at least I did, especially in races. Hopefully this is something that won't make it to the final, as stuttering framerates are NOT acceptable for this sort of game.
Online: Untested, I don't typically play games like this very much online though so it doesn't factor heavily for me.
I've been a big fan of Burnout as long as its been around, and I typically hate the lost feeling I get from these open world games that just set you free to do your own thing. I don't really feel a sense of progression through such games, and its the same feeling here. I kind of miss the structured progression of the previous Burnouts, but I can also appreciate that it was getting stale and needed changing.
My first impressions score: 7.5 (note this is not my prediction of the final review score or anything, merely my personal baseline score from VERY early impressions of the game).
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