God bless* the ESRB, they announce more new games than the average E3 press conference. This time it’s the turn of Criterion’s latest entry in the Burnout series. Confirming the title as Burnout: Crash, which was heavily indicated by earlier evidence, they’ve listed the criteria for rating it as follows:
This is an action game in which players earn points for creating traffic pileups. From a top-down perspective, players initiate crashes by driving ‘cartoony’ vehicles (e.g., cars, trucks, vans, buses) into busy intersections; multiple crashes trigger score multipliers and rack up large ‘bills’ of property damage. Each level is accompanied by crashing sounds, small explosions, and vocal encouragement (e.g., ‘Cool,’ ‘Maximum Carnage!’). In some levels, players are instructed to crash into police cars (e.g., ‘Crash them before they bust you!’); in other sequences, oversized airplanes, tornados, lobster monsters, and UFOs slide across the screen, destroying any vehicles in their path
So that sounds like the classic approach to Burnout that many missed from 2008’s otherwise wonderful Burnout: Paradise.
*you can have a deity of your choosing bless them. Or no deity at all, we’re very open minded.
Topov81
Sounds like an EA money-spinner…. anyone know if Criterion are actually involved in this project ?
aerobes
Wow, a genuine surprise from the world of videogames … never did like surprises. ;)
SpikeyMikey23
not really a burnout fan so this wont be for me. I do like the top down view though, always reminds me of micro-machines
KeRaSh
Criterion is great. I’m worried about the top-down perspective but if they think it’s what this game needs I’ll reserve my judgement until I see some actual footage.
Danny-c-2k9
meh, worth a couple quid but on psn store it will be like £20 lol
DistantHoller
Lobster monsters, what could go wrong? :D
Deathbrin
The giant Zoidberg is back!
stillirise6257
i was reading the comment and was like sounds good i played the hell out of paradise, then read on and came to see that it surely cannot be a PS3/360 title… bleh :/