Burnout Dominator review - PSP

Burnout Dominator brings the series back to its origins of manic racing and is the better for it. Instead of emphasis on crashing, the aim of Burnout Dominator is to narrowly avoid crashing, in other words, to take everything as close to the wire as you can, which is what gets the blood pumping in a driving sim, so it’s good to see EA get this right. Also great in Burnout Dominator to see is the return of the “burnout”, which has been rather oddly missing from the series of late. Insane driving, fantastic scoring chains and speed combine to balance risk with reward in Burnout Dominator. Download the magazine now to read the full Burnout Dominator review.Click here to read the full Burnout Dominator review for Sony PSP now!

Burnout Dominator review - PSP
EA gets all of the annoying things about Burnout Dominator out of the way at the start. The list of grievances is limited to the lengthy tutorial cut-scene that you can’t skip and the intrusive EA Trax pop-ups that tell you what (usually baleful) piece of music is currently blaring. Once they’re out of the way, it’s just pure speed and mental driving.
The game is fairly stripped down by comparison with the last couple of Burnout titles: it gets rid of the crash mode (which was, frankly, boring anyway), and marks the return of the burnout (which, curiously, hasn’t appeared in a Burnout game since the second one). That means the emphasis is now on narrowly avoiding pile-ups rather than ploughing into oncoming traffic to create them. You can still put abit of aftertouch on your car after you crash, and you’ll still be rewarded for taking out your rivals, but this game marks a return to the manic racing of the early games in the series.

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