{"id":4371,"date":"2013-02-09T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2013-02-15T10:03:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T10:03:34","slug":"a-few-comments-on-burnout-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/2013\/02\/a-few-comments-on-burnout-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Comments on Burnout Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"burnout revenge trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UiAAtDXWQU0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Back in 2007, I sunk 42 hours into <em>Burnout Revenge<\/em>. I&#8217;ve always had a fondness for arcade-style racing games like <em>Daytona USA<\/em> and <em>Crazy Taxi<\/em>, and <em>Burnout Revenge<\/em> was the first arcade racer I&#8217;d played with a meaty campaign that I could really sink my teeth into. When I returned home for Christmas in 2011, I took <em>Burnout Revenge<\/em> for a spin. Here are a few of the things I noticed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The core engagement of <em>Burnout Revenge<\/em> comes from driving at fast speeds (reflex skills) while simultaneously managing various side tasks to build your boost meter (knowledge skills).<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a lot of variety in the things you can do to earn boost: drifts, jumps, takedowns, near-misses, taking shortcuts, and comboing up loose vehicles are some examples.<\/li>\n<li>These sub-goals scale up too. Chain together multiple takedowns, for example, and your boost meter will max out.<\/li>\n<li>The track designs and distance between most racers ensure that the player can&#8217;t exploit the same boost-gaining techniques: they must vary up their skill set.<\/li>\n<li>There are loads of ways to organically scale the difficulty, including speed, alternate routes, moving with or against traffic, as well as the previously-mentioned sub-goals.<\/li>\n<li>In order to maintain the game&#8217;s speed and offer enough breathing room for the player to multi-task, the designers took a few liberties with the game&#8217;s realism:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>The player isn&#8217;t heavily penalised for hitting walls. They can actually skirt barriers to minimise the loss of speed.<\/li>\n<li>The player&#8217;s car can hit small vehicles from behind to send them flying (which earns them boost). Big vehicles, though, lead to rear-end collisions, while the player can only knock other racers.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s difficulty to crash a landing.<\/li>\n<li>The wind marks as the player&#8217;s driving create the sensation of speed without speeding up the gameplay.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>When the player does a takedown, the camera spins around to show the full extent of the collision. Although the stylish shot interrupts gameplay, the screen turns yellow and the player&#8217;s car switches to autopilot so that the transition isn&#8217;t jarring at all. The auto-pilot itself doubles as a reward.<\/li>\n<li>Blowing up your car after you crash feeds back into the strategy and extends the interplay between competitors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feels good to be back in the writing loop. Anyone have any experience with this game or the series as a whole?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2007, I sunk 42 hours into Burnout Revenge. I&#8217;ve always had a fondness for arcade-style racing games like Daytona USA and Crazy Taxi, and Burnout Revenge was the first arcade racer I&#8217;d played with a meaty campaign that I could really sink my teeth into. When I returned home for Christmas in 2011, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[46,794],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-discussion","tag-burnout","tag-burnout-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}