Wavelflack
02-19-2005, 08:36 PM
Does anyone have Crash n Burn for Xbox (not the 3DO game!)? What can you tell me about it?
I have Burnout 3, so I'm not looking for a cheaper clone of that game. The part that intrigues me is the idea that the wreckage never disappears, and becomes a growing obstacle course.
Good game? Bad game? What do you think?
E Nice
02-19-2005, 10:26 PM
It's a fun game. It's not quite like Burnout. It's more like demolition racing. There's even a community for it, if a bit small but they set up tournaments.
Your car basically has a health meter. When you collide with other cars pieces of your car fall off. Those don't seem to affect you when racing through them. But when a car has been hit so many times it's life meter is gone it'll stop on it's final impact with whatever and if you're lucky it'll explode. LOL You get bonus points for taking out other cars as well. The dead car stays on the track where it then becomes an obstacle for other drivers to avoid hitting. Tunnels = gridlock carnage. Fire also adds to track dangers as a wall of fire can obscure your vision of what's ahead.
There also a variety of modes to play with, though you have to unlock them as you go through the game. Aside from regular racing and team racing there's also Kamikaze racing, team mode optional as well, where half the cars go one way and half go the opposite way. :evil:
Then there's demoliton mode in an arena called Last Man Standing, a variant on this is Tag Bomb which someone has the bomb and has to hit someone else to pass the bomb to them before timer runs out taking you with it. There's also two other game modes, Assasination, never played it but manual description makes it sound like VIP in an arena to me. Then there's Running Man, which sounds like Keep Away.
It's a pretty fun game to play online with. Plus the game always has 16 cars racing in each game no matter what. Bots fill out the roster if their isn't enough people.