The game is $20 now and even with Revenge around the corner, if you haven't seen or played this game at all, you have to play it.

And to my surprise, I was spending the most time in the single player mode racing then just watching mindless crashes. To say I didn't have fun would be an understatement.

I rented the game 3 times straight after then picked it up around christmas. Well, I open it up to find a score of 9.5 I was astonished, the graphics were amazing, the movies of the crashes had the best debris/particle effects ever, my jaw dropped. Then I'm on a certain game site that has one of those read our full review and in the brief tidbit it says something about a new crash feature, so I checked it out thinking maybe it's worth another rental to check this crash feature out. I wasn't even following the game cuz I figured 'it'll be just slightly better than Burnout 2'. Then here comes Burnout 3 like out of nowhere. Burnout 2 I spent a lot of time in the crash mode where you and someone else take turns crashing, but I really didn't enjoy the racing aspect. Burnout 1 and 2 I used both a rental on and enjoyed it to a degree but really it wasn't that amazing. To be honest, it was hard not to sell this series off as just a game with car crashes. Overall: I really don't get why I see arcade machines in the mall for NFS:HP2 but not Burnout 3.

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