{"id":17,"date":"2004-08-30T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-23T06:50:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T11:50:24","slug":"burnout-3-looks-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/08\/30\/burnout-3-looks-impressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnout 3 Looks Impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I had a chance to play a Burnout 3 (PS2) demo at Best Buy.  I have never played any of the games in the series so I do not have a barometer, but this thing was pretty fun and impressive.  In the few minutes I played I decided a couple of things.  First, the game has an awesome sense of speed.  Second, the game\u2019s crashes are nothing short of spectacular.  I have no idea what sort of lasting appeal the game will have, but I bet the crash mode is about as good as it gets for \u201cpick up and play\u201d action.<\/p>\n<p>Need For Speed is about the closest thing I get to arcade racing these days, but Burnout 3 certainly got my attention.  I would put it on my buy list if it was cheaper, but $50 is a little too much for my taste for this sort of game.  Speaking of which, I am not sure what EA was thinking when it decided to take over publishing rights; maybe they are playing to make Need For Speed an \u201cexotic\u201d racer once again, while the Burnout series takes over the Ridge Racer arcade style formula.  It will be interesting to see how EA positions the two series with future releases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I had a chance to play a Burnout 3 (PS2) demo at Best Buy. I have never played any of the games in the series so I do not have a barometer, but this thing was pretty fun and impressive. In the few minutes I played I decided a couple of things. First, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/08\/30\/burnout-3-looks-impressive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burnout 3 Looks Impressive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,32],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps2","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}