This month's theme is a rather difficult one. Reason being that well, there's a chock full of games out there that pretty much in some way let you beat, break, rip apart, or even humiliate someone's ego. But my choice for this theme was something that hit close to home for me.
Why you may ask?
Well dear reader as the Burnout series is about fast cars and big Hollywood style crashes, I myself had an experience of my own. I guess you can say I and my chariot at the time was taken down by a bigger, stronger metal beast. I was hit by a Mack truck. Literally.
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Unfortunately, I've lost pictures of my car after the incident. Thankfully, I didn't get hurt. The truck pretty much folded in the back of my car. But I've got to tell you, when you're about to get hit by something that big, time really does slow down. I was being dumb and irresponsible. I could have not only lost my car, but possibly my life. So a few weeks after the incident, I got a chance to play Burnout 3. The first thing I noticed about the game was just how well it made you feel how fast you were going through some motion blur effects and the wind ripping across the vehicle. The controls were tight and the game ran great. Then I got into my first crash of the game, which was probably about...30 seconds into the game. I had a little flashback of my incident, but luckily, this was just a game. Damn did it look and feel so much cooler there. Kudos to Criterion for doing such a good job in getting the sound effects.


Oh yeah, this happened a lot in the beginning...

Burnout 3 Takedown takes what most people hate about racing games (crashing) and makes it damn fun.

Oh and slamming an opponent into oncoming traffic or into a wall? One of the most satisfying feelings I've ever felt. Impact mode, where you can still try and take out someone even when you're Not only is there the typical racing modes (with a bit of smashy smashy in it), but they threw in a crash mode with the sole purpose of taking out as many things with you. Watching those replays, and seeing how much havoc I wreaked visually and monetary wise was a sick twisted feeling of fulfillment. I know Burnout Paradise is out, (and I do own it) but Burnout 3 is still the king of beautiful metallic destruction. It truly is art in motion.





F'ing sexy.