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Burnout 3: Takedown
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Overall Critic Score:3.8272
Burnout 3: Takedown Critic Reviews
As much as I'm hesitant to make statements as conclusive as the following, it must be said:...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at GameSpy
need to constantly balance risk versus reward, making split-second assessments on the merits of driving on the wrong side of the road, eliminating rivals and strategically using the exhilarating turbo. Polished to perfection, Burnout 3 is faster and more ...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Sydney Morning Herald
What is so amazing about Burnout 3 is not so much its excellent modes but instead its amazing gameplay....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at DarkStation
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and exotics, all mimic real-world designs. The graphics whip along at such a frenzied pace you wouldn't be able to spot nitpicky details like the Rolls-Royce hood ornament or the air intakes on a BMW M3 anyway, so quit your bitching! Buy, rent or run away...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Stuff
crashes instead of trying to quickly click through to a restart. Whether you like to speed past opponents or plough straight up the back of them, this game has a bit of everything for driving and action fans everywhere. Hell, this game has something for j...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at GamePro Australia
Damn near flawless in almost every way shape and form. Brilliant visuals, ear pleasing audio, highly addictive game play, and enough modes and tracks to keep you busy for months on end....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Gaming Age
The most exciting and terrifying arcade racer in a good long while. The insane sense of speed, incredible depth, and constant feeling of accomplishment via unlocking stuff every time you turn around really adds to the addictive quality of Burnout 3:...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Gaming Target
Burnout 2 will forever be known to me and my friends as the first game that made us stop playing Halo religiously. With its highly addicting crash mode, where you wreak as much traffic havoc for money, and fine-tuned racing, it was near impossible to put...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Lawrence
Hurray! Namco have confirmed the development of a sequel to the truly awesome Katamari Damacy, which will be available exclusively for PlayStation 2 at the end of this year. It'Âll star the crazy King Of All Cosmos as well as the Prince and an...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Club Skill
Most PS2 race game fans are counting the days until Gran Turismo 4 is released. In the mean time, they need to fill the time with something to get them ready. Well, Burnout 3 isn't the game to do that. This isn't a game where you spend a great amount of...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at TheManRoom
A wild, edge of your seat, white knuckle ride that fulfills any speed freak’s cravings. What’s more, it’s also one of the best games that’s been released this entire year....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Game Over Online
A strong candidate for the coveted Game of the Year award, Burnout 3: Takedown is one of the best arcade racing games to come out in years....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at PGNx Media
Early in the PS2's life Criterion, and then publisher Acclaim, released a promising racer called Burnout - an extremely impressive racing game with a few minor niggles. A year later in late 2002, the sequel Burnout 2: Point of Impact was released and was...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Future Gamez
Everything it does, it does with aplomb, from kicking out graphics that just should'nt exist in this generation -- let alone on the PS2 -- to delivering a sense of speed, yet offering controls that allow you to keep up with the increasingly brilliant...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at TotalPlaystation
sequel – games, like movies, occasionally strike gold, but striking gold twice requires careful planning and consideration, not to mention talent. Conquering the challenge for a third time is an even bigger achievement, and UK-based Criterion Games has su...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Game Power Australia
One of the most impressive arcade racers of our time. Full review....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at IGN
Burnout 3: Takedown is the best arcade racing title on the market and a surefire candidate for game of the...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Game Rankings
May very well go down in the books as the finest arcade racing game of all time, and one of the best titles the racing genre has ever seen....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at PSX Extreme
This game does for the arcade racing genre what "Rallisport Challenge 2" does for the rally section. It's just that good....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Next Level Gaming
With outstanding physics, an unmatched sense of speed and a wealth of game types, it easily blows the doors off the competition. And that’s all the realism I need....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Game Revolution
crash replays, and you can't save the replays after watching them. It's too bad because a fella could sit back with a cold one and some nachos and watch his favourite pileups all afternoon. You know, like NASCAR. But without all that dull driving stuff i...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at WHAM! Gaming
With incredibly realistic damage modelling transforming every crash into a work of art fit to be framed and hung on the walls of Paris' Louvre museum, Burnout 3 is a visual dynamo that will floor players with its speed and gorgeous vistas....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Game Informer
Think of your favorite car chase sequence: Ronin, The Bourne Identity, The Matrix Reloaded – any film will do. Picture the narrow streets, the busy freeways, and the inevitable collisions between inferior drivers and unlucky bystanders....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at GameZone
For a few years now, there has been a hole in my gaming heart that has gone unfulfilled. It has been nearly a whole system generation since I could say I was emotionally complete. Back then, there was no PS1 or PS2 -- just some thing called a...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at My Gamer
The most intense online racing experience? You'd better believe it....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Ferrago
and are constructed almost as levels in a puzzle game, with only a few ways of racking up the highest damage. The ability to play this mode with two players online either competitively or cooperatively further sweetens the deal. Burnout 3 is a superlativ...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at GMR Magazine
It feels good to turn something as hopeless as a wreck into something at least slightly useful. I’m surprised other racing games haven’t tried to employ something like this...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Worth Playing
The Takedown system is what makes the already pretty good Burnout series amazing... Burnout 3 delivers the purest hit...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at 1UP
The official name of the game may be Burnout 3: Takedown, but Electronic Arts and developer Criterion might as well just come out and call it Burnout: Beavis and Butt-Head -- never before in a racing game have we spent so much time chuckling...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Yahoo! Games
It’s not often a game comes along that has you cackling with joy or giving loud ‘Oh Yeahs!’ as you gleefully complete another task / section. Burnout 3 had this particular reviewer doing just that at times for up to 6 hour stretches, something...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at ThumbBandits
mess with anything that tries to get in your way. You can ram into your foes, smash them into oblivion, and no one will bat an eye. If racing isn’t your thing, the Road Rage and Crash modes will be more than enough to satisfy your need for destruction. Al...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Thunderbolt
Buckle up and get ready to hit the streets where insane, hit-and-run, high-speed driving is what it takes to cross the finish line ahead of the pack. Burnout 3 looks to surpass its predecessors by utilizing a new graphics engine, and by its ability to...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at AllGame
Well, I just checked and hell hasn't frozen over, pigs aren't flying, and the Buffalo Bills haven't won the Super Bowl. Even so, something must be amiss, because I can't stop playing a game by Electronic Arts....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Jaded Gamer
If your first Takedown doesn't get your blood pumping, then find a job as a bomb squad technician or try and get a spot on the Olympic Air Rifle team, because apparently nothing affects you....read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at Netjak
If you're the kind of person who does what you're told, sticks to instructions and follows the well-worn path, stop reading now. Burnout 3: Takedown will only disturb you. This driving game is all about breaking the rules and satisfying your burning itch...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at USA Today
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