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Sadly, Burnout ended at 2 on the Gamecube.

Submitted by on March 16, 2007 – 10:45 pm3 Comments

shelby.pngHey, it’s OK, I’ll admit it. Both the PS3 and the Wii have pretty short release schedules for the next few months. In the mean time, there’s a lot you missed out on last generation if you weren’t lighting your cigars with burning hundred-dollar bills, and hey, not many of us were.

I only had one system for most of last generation, and that was the Gamecube. I had it from only a few months after launch, but I still missed out on a lot of games because I was really bad at everything I played at first, and I wasn’t about to build a stack of $50 games that I would never play. The result is there are dozens of games on the Cube that I wish I’d played, but just didn’t have the time or money for. Now I’m having the opposite problem. The games are so cheap now that it’s hard to decide which ones to spend my time on, since my newest system (the Wii) is only putting out about one worthwhile title a month. There are the games on the Virtual Console, and some of them are great, but let’s take a look back at one of the little-known games worth playing that I missed.


Burnout 2: Point of Impact

Metacritic score: 89/100

Yep. On the Gamecube, there was no Burnout 3: Takedown. The closest thing we got was Burnout 2, and apparently it was no slouch. I really had no idea. The only racing I did on the Cube was F-Zero GX and Mario Kart Double Dash, which are really a totally different flavor, and I can’t wait to give this one a spin. Like many last-gen games, this one’s out of print, so it’s only available used, but used is not the end. No, used… is only the beginning.

Anyone give this a try?

  • Cruds

    This looks great, I’ve never played 2 only 3 and *sigh* 4… I sold that one. Still I don’t care much for burnout offline. I only played that offline to collect my cars. Online with good players preferably all in there world circuit racer – better leave that Euro racer at home if you’re serious about winning – was a total blast, it still is.

  • Subnet6

    I currently own Burnout 1 and 2 on the cube. 2 was pretty hard to find. I actually had to buy it used without the game booklet, which, as a cardinal rule, I typically refuse to do. I love both 1 and 2 and they are the reason I had to have a PS2 initially, well and the other 20 or so great games that system got that the cube didn’t. Seriously, If you don’t hold them to be the refined, multi-media bonanzas that 3 was, you’ll really enjoy them, but be prepared for a very basic look and feel with very little glitz in the presentation. They are acclaim games afterall, not EA. You’ll definitely notice this and I don’t think its a bad thing. I’ll also add, that if you really enjoy Burnout 1 and 2 on cube, then I would heartily suggest Speed Kings which is another racing game on the cube from acclaim from the same time period. If I didn’t know better I would swear it was built on the Burnout 1 and 2 game engine. And while you’re at it, you should definitely grab Xtreme GIII and XGRA, also great racing games from acclaim on the cube. Imagine Burnout mashed up with F-Zero with a slight weapons focus. Also, XGIII is crushingly difficult at the later stages. It lead to my first and only smashed gamecube controller. I could go on for hours about the cubes library so I’ll stop there.

  • http://spyder.wordpress.com Andrew Herron

    I bought burnout 2 for cube the day it was released in Australia, and don’t regret it one bit. The single player is loads of fun, and the two-player mode is pretty good too :)