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Burnout Demo Is Up!
Macca | 5:55 AM on 12.13.2007 10 comments


It's up on the Xbox Live Marketplace, not so sure about the PSN at the moment.

First impressions:

It's fucking brilliant.

Graphically, the city you're racing in is really really great looking, and the cars look nice to boot. The game is running at 60FPS, so it's so smooth you could uh... (insert smooth metaphor here). The sound is also really good, with the cars sounding as they should and with a DJ guiding you as to what to do. I played a little bit of online, it seemed solid, there was no apparent lag for me. I didn't try a race however, I'll report back when I do.

The one thing that blew me away however, was the amazing sense of speed. This comes through the framerate, and the motion blur that occurs. It's mind boggling as to how fast you are going. Definitely download this and give it a try.

Crashes look pretty damn good, but the crash cam can get annoying... and it's unskippable. One major flaw I found was the inability to restart races. This means you have to spend a minute or two driving back to the start of the race. This is pretty unacceptable.

Weighs in at 800MB or so.



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stevephoenix's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 06:31
stevephoenix
smooth as yourself after the weekly wax?

downloading, love the burnout series.
Gato's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 06:37
Gato
Finally! thanks for the heads up.
Fana7ic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 07:40
Fana7ic
Does anyone know if its up in europe too, and if not if you can download it with a fake us account?
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 08:00
Hitogoroshi
Must resist leaving work.
Fana7ic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 08:04
Fana7ic
Yeah what Hitogoroshi said.
Macca's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 08:08
Macca
Yep, it should be in Europe. I downloaded it from New Zealand, and Major Nelsons site said everywhere but Asia.
ShadowXOR's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 09:43
ShadowXOR
I'd love to try this but...I still don't have my fourth Xbox 360 back yet...fucking Microsoft. These failure rates are worse PS2 and it had tons of problems.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 10:46
king3vbo
Downloading it tonite! I love the Burnout series
Fana7ic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/13/2007 11:19
Fana7ic
50% Damnit leech faster slowbox 360 :/
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