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Burnout 3: Takedown
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Burnout 3: Takedown
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Operation Sports
This is only marginally a racing game - it's a game of destruction and chaos that holds more in common with a first person shooter than with a true racer.
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The New York Times
GamerDad
Burnout 3: Takedown by EA Games is a revolutionary game for the arcade racing genre. The action is intense! What makes Burnout 3 so special is not the racing really, but rather the crashing. After watching the opening movie from start to finish, I was
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Stuff
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
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Sydney Morning Herald
far away. Players 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 i
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Xbox Nation Magazine
The Laser
Taking expectations for racing titles to the next level, Criterion and EA's Burnout 3: Takedown is an amazing experience from both a gameplay and a technological standpoint. This intensely fast racer lets players loose in some of the most intense and
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RewiredMind
Astonishingly good...This is pure, balls-out speed that will cause even the most hardcore of gamers to rock from left to right as they barely miss ramming a truck at two hundred plus miles an hour.
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GamePro Australia
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
Games are Fun
The Burnout series has always set itself apart from other racing games by requiring you to drive dangerously in order to do well. No risk = no reward. What has also set it apart is the awesome crashes. Burnout 2 even had a separate game mode totally
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Xequted
Perhaps one of the most enjoyable racing games we’ve ever been given the chance to play, mainly owing to the immense rush you get from the sheer velocity of game play.
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Gaming Age
The visuals are cleaner, more vibrant, and oozing with a slick presentation. The audio is, to coin a phrase from Good Times,
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GamePro
The Burnout series was one of the unsung heroes of the racing world, always finishing a distant third when placed against such high rollers as Need For Speed and Midnight Club. But now, the series could finally get the notoriety it deserves?not just
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Game Revolution
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.
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GameSpy
As much as I'm hesitant to make statements as conclusive as the following, it must be said:
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Worth Playing
I am no longer a fan but now a full-fledged junkie! I would certainly consider Burnout 3 to be the "GoldenEye" of racing
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Xbox Advanced
The videogame equivalent of Hurricane Ivan; everyone that has come into contact with it has either been stuck with an immense sense of awe, or had their life changed in a significant manner.
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Console Gameworld
Amped IGO
First, EA acquainted you to the series with Burnout. Then, in 2002, they introduced the highly acclaimed Crash mode packaged with many other features that could be found in Burnout 2: Point of Impact, and finally, they crash us back into the asphalt with
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Gaming Target
Aside from some minor annoyances (the announcer/DJ can get a tad tedious) Burnout 3: Takedown is an absolutely exceptional game and it’s quite frankly hard to imagine how the next one could be much better.
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Da GameBoyz
With amazingly addictive gameplay, fabulous graphics, astonishing speed and enjoyable online gameplay (when EA's servers are cooperating) one cannot help but not want to play this title all the time.
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Lawrence
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
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Digital Entertainment News
Just ask anybody; I'm a Burnout junkie. A couple of years ago I gave a rather glowing review to Burnout 2. Sure it had a few little issues, but I chalk that up to (the late) Acclaim's habit of ignoring quality control. Of course, EA's gotten their hands
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Inside Gamer Online
TheManRoom
I haven’t rocked around to a *tricky* game in quite some time. I miss that exasperated sleepless stare after countless hours of unlocking new content while sensations of extremely hazardous speed race circles in the brain. SSX and its sequels once fed
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IGN
One of the most impressive arcade racers of our time. Full review.
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Electric Playground
This is one of the best games I’ve ever played involving cars, asphalt and disregard for public safety. It is a must have for any gamer’s collection, anybody who ever had fun smashing hot wheels cars into each other, or anyone who likes destruction.
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Xbox World Australia
With its outstanding graphics, highly addictive adrenaline pumping gameplay and its terrific emphasis on carnage and destruction, this is not a game to be missed by anyone who has even just a passing interest in arcade racers.
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Gamer Within
Criterion software re-invented the Arcade racing genre when they released the original Burnout. It provided a fresh take on what was an already fun genre and succeeded with what it needed to do exceptionally well.
Criterion then released the sequel
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GamersMark
Before I get started here, let's just get one thing out of the way. I am in no way an EA fanboy - not by any stretch of the imagination.
"...one of the best damn video games I have ever played..."
And while some critics might write off a high scoring
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VGPub
My jaw also hit the floor when I had my first crash. In many racers cars just get a ding or probably no scratches at all. In Burnout 3 your car comes out looking like one of those high school driver’s education videos.
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Game Over Online
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.
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PGNx Media
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.
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GamingTrend
The only question you can ask yourself is how much time can you give a game that sucks you in and doesn’t let
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Game Power Australia
a fast-paced arcade racer which offered an intense sense of speed. It placed the emphasis on driving like a maniac, awarding players 'boost' for driving on the wrong side of the road, having near-misses with oncoming traffic, drifting around corners and g
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Extreme Gamer
Taking a screaming fast car and driving it into a busy intersection creating a massive car pile up costing millions of dollars is not only fun, but addictive.
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Next Level Gaming
This game does for the arcade racing genre what "Rallisport Challenge 2" does for the rally section. It's just that good.
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XBox Exclusive
The Burnout series has come a long way. Acclaim (now in bankruptcy) published Burnout 1 and 2, and now that EA purchased Criterion a short time ago, Burnout 3 is theirs for the taking. Criterion made huge leaps and bounds in making the sequel to the
...read the complete Burnout 3: Takedown review at XBox Exclusive
My Gamer
The game’s crashes, smashes, and explosions really make you feel like you just inspired a 50-car pile up in the middle of a busy intersection.
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