Burnout Legends

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Burnout Legends

Developer(s) Criterion Games
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Engine RenderWare
Platform(s) PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS
Release date PlayStation Portable
US September 13, 2005
EU September 16, 2005
JPN October 20, 2005

Nintendo DS
US November 29, 2005
EU December 9, 2005
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Singleplayer, Multiplayer (WiFi)
Rating(s) ESRB: E10+ (PSP)
ESRB: E (DS)
PEGI: 3+
CERO: B
OFLC: M
Media Universal Media Disc, Nintendo DS Game Card
System requirements PSP Firmware 1.52

Burnout Legends is a game in the Burnout franchise and the first to be released for Sony's PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS. The Playstation Portable version was released alongside Burnout Revenge for PlayStation 2 and Xbox on September 13, 2005. Burnout Legends features many of the tracks and gameplay modes from the first three Burnout games, but repackaged for the handheld format. Many of the gameplay modes are similar to Burnout 3 using some old and new tracks.

A poorly received port of Burnout Legends for the Nintendo DS was released on November 29, 2005 [1]. It is widely considered vastly inferior to the Playstation Portable version of the game, which has received very high scores, and is considered to be a very good racing game for the Playstation Portable. Differences include extremely watered down sound and graphics. Also, none of the music from the Playstation Portable version was ported to the DS version. Instead, the DS version has "midi-music". These differences are likely due to having been handled by a different development team - whereas most of the critically-acclaimed Burnout games for home consoles and the PSP were handled by Criterion Games, EA Studios outsourced the Burnout license to Visual Impact for the DS version. The game allows the player to involve in "takedowns" which lets the player smash his/her car into another racing car (smashing into a pedestrian vehicle stops your vehicle) so as to perform a takedown.

This article mainly refers to the PlayStation Portable version.

Contents

[edit] About The Game

The following list the types of modes:

  • World Tour: Compete against other cars in different varieties of modes (see below). The world tour is divided by car types. Get a medal (Gold:1st place, Silver: 2nd place, Bronze: 3rd Place) in a series to unlock Grand Prix. Finish gold in grand prix to unlock next world tour series. Also get 100% gold in a series to unlock Legend G.P., a grand prix with legend cars. World tour is the primary way to unlock cars.
    • Crash World Tour: Compete in crash events to unlock new cars and levels.
  • Race: Race against up to four cars (world tour default is 4). Compete in a 3 lap race on any track.
    • Eliminator: (Only accessible in world tour) Same as a race, only on each lap, the lowest ranking car is eliminated. Race goes until one winner is left.
    • Face-Off: Race against a legend car to win the car.
  • Time Attack: Race against the clock. The goal is to complete a lap as fast as you can. You can do as many laps as you like.
    • Burning Lap: World tour version of time attack. You try to complete a lap by the medal time (Example: Finish before gold medal time 1:00:00 to earn gold medal).
  • Road Rage: Make other cars crash to earn takedowns. In world tour, you will have a time limit. You finish by running out of time on the clock or inflict too much damage.
  • Pursuit: You play as the cop. Try to take out the bad guy before time runs out or when your health is too low.
  • Crash: Try to make a large traffic crash and make a large amount of money with the cars and items you have before you.

[edit] Vehicles

There are a total of 89 cars to unlock through the various modes: compact, muscle, coupe, sport, and super mode. There are also cars to unlock by completing all pursuit, road rage etc... events. These are from Burnout 2 & 3.

This game also has Collector's cars. There are 5 special cars for each class, however you only start out with just one (like Collector Car 3). To get the other four, you have to challenge another player on Wi-Fi battle mode, betting your collector car against his and win their car in the challenge.

[edit] Soundtrack

See: Burnout Revenge/Legends Soundtrack.

[edit] External links

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