  
Burnout (PS2) You liked Gone in 60 Seconds. You liked The Fast and The Furious. Well, you�ll like this. Burnout is a game with no rules. As you race against the clock to defeat your fellow racers in a bid to be the best.
The selection of car is not the best, but the quality of the game when your racing the car is superb. The graphics are bar none, the sounds are terrific and the gameplay is Excellent. There are quite a few stages and raceways to choose from and many championships to enter.
The Arcade Mode of the game is the best if you ask me. This is because you are a freelance road racer with one thing in mind. That is the glory of the road. If you win you gain the respect of fellow racers. As you dodge through traffic and escape a crash by the grit of your teeth, you gain burnout points which add to your burnout meter. Your burnout meter is a turbo boost called Burnout (never would have guessed). While in burnout your car travels at super speed and the challenge from then on is to remain in burnout for the duration of the meter, without crashing and wasting your car and your cash in insurance expenditures.
The levels can vary in difficulty as you can select how busy the roads are and how windy the tracks are. There are also shortcuts in the levels, but these are best being avoided as they seem more like detours than shortcuts.
The cars that you can choose from have a different class of difficulty for how hard it is to handle each of them. This adds depth to the game, as you have completed the championship with the easy car, now you can try complete the championship with a harder car.
The Championship mode consists of 3 championships. The easy, the moderate and the hard. The moderate seems more like impossible but there ya go. There are 3 tracks to race, in each of the championships and each have their own little surprises in store for the racer.
As far as playability goes it is the best on the PS2 in my opinion. Even though the game has the same plot throughout, the game seems too addictive to forget about or leave for later, you must get as much burnout as you possibly can without been fired from work or missing an exam in school.
The games graphics and sounds are bar none as the PS2 supports games very well. The sounds are as if you are in a car racing for real. All you need now is a surround sound speaker system and your set for life.
Overall I rate Burnout for the PS2 a massive 9/10 for its superb gameplay, graphics and sounds.
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