OK I am the first to admit that Burnout was a game that I spent many hours playing and mastering, so I was looking forward to this version as I have stated some time now. I grabbed up the demo on the Xbox 360 and fired it up to get in my fill of Burnout mayhem. The demo gives you a section of Paradise City to roam around in and 1 car to do it in , which is pretty good for a demo.

You roam around a small portion of Paradise City in a beat up muscle car and learn about some of the new features of the game, like now you can pull into a garage to fix your car damage. I don’t like the new concept they moved to where you need to drive from event to event, this is modeled after the Need for Speed games, but I am not a big fan. Burnout was all about sheer speed and crashing, not open world environments. Another gripe I have with he game are the constant cutscenes to show off the crashes, OK they are very cool the first few times but then after that they are just kinda boring and time consuming.

I have to be honest and say that after playing the demo I really lost a lot of interest in this title. The game felt a bit slow to me and having to go from event to event slowed down the action for me as well. The game visually looks great and they have added some interesting features like you can race a buddy on the fly over Xbox Live, but it just feels a bit off and not all that different from it’s predecessors to warrant a purchase.