burnoutenjoyer
2006
Has enough variety between events and cars to keep things interesting, vehicles really do feel different from each other and your vehicle choice becomes a decisive factor in whether you'll get platinum or not. The cities look very nice, the driving model is on point and the kudos system makes taking each turn a lot of fun.
Only downsides imo are how some races feel unbalanced, particularly when both superbikes and supercars are in the mix, and there not being enough tracks. I also wish the tracks had day/night options and that you could change your vehicle within an arcade challenge instead of exiting to the main menu.
Also the bikes are so much fun to ride, wish more racing games had bikes.
There's so much to love here, just looking at it as some closed circuit arcade racer might sound boring but that is just the surface, there's a lot to see here. Game design that is simple but elegant yet detailed enough to transmit a lot of sensations to the player.
That bold vibration on gear change along with brief exhaust flames, the geometrically simple interior but with just enough camera motion to make it feel scary when you're going very fast, the little sound effect when you're earning kudos, the speedometer UI changing depending on the car, the animations of the bike riders interacting with the cars and the crowd and I could go on and on.
Beautiful game, one of the best racers of the 7th gen, absolutely in love with it.
Only downsides imo are how some races feel unbalanced, particularly when both superbikes and supercars are in the mix, and there not being enough tracks. I also wish the tracks had day/night options and that you could change your vehicle within an arcade challenge instead of exiting to the main menu.
Also the bikes are so much fun to ride, wish more racing games had bikes.
There's so much to love here, just looking at it as some closed circuit arcade racer might sound boring but that is just the surface, there's a lot to see here. Game design that is simple but elegant yet detailed enough to transmit a lot of sensations to the player.
That bold vibration on gear change along with brief exhaust flames, the geometrically simple interior but with just enough camera motion to make it feel scary when you're going very fast, the little sound effect when you're earning kudos, the speedometer UI changing depending on the car, the animations of the bike riders interacting with the cars and the crowd and I could go on and on.
Beautiful game, one of the best racers of the 7th gen, absolutely in love with it.
2021
2012
playing this absolutely blind on release, thinking it was just gonna be gears meets cod and then seeing it take an U turn was a one of a kind experience that those people who only got to play it after getting spoiled by the game's reputation built by those pseud youtube video essays will never understand
2013
one of those games that are closer to a framework than just a game. essential to keep you on the grind and featuring infinite hours worth of content through both licensed dlc and custom songs
even with all its flaws it's easily the best thing ubi has dropped in the last decade, an invaluable practicing tool
even with all its flaws it's easily the best thing ubi has dropped in the last decade, an invaluable practicing tool
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entertaining but repetitive and mediocre retro styled game living off the older outrun games' clout.
the ps4 version has the extra of becoming borderline unplayable as the framerate gets worse and worse as the race goes on, can't believe how a low poly unity game can run this poorly on a non-portable console.
uninspired and broken phone-tier game by incompetent devs who will get decent reviews on this site due to sharing a nationality with much of the userbase
the ps4 version has the extra of becoming borderline unplayable as the framerate gets worse and worse as the race goes on, can't believe how a low poly unity game can run this poorly on a non-portable console.
uninspired and broken phone-tier game by incompetent devs who will get decent reviews on this site due to sharing a nationality with much of the userbase