Racing a car is one thing, but racing into traffic at high speeds, where you are rewarded for the style of your crash, is another. This is the idea behind Burnout 2, which brings new modes and higher speeds compared to the original title. As usual, the aim is to speed around real life roadways, through the traffic ahead, while keeping all 4 wheels on the ground.

Burnout is a street racing game focused around speed and crashing. Unlike many games which focus on closed course driving, you get to drive through cities with real traffic and city infrastructure. Designers have built an entire city and surrounding areas, and implement the race courses throughput the countie's streets. As a result, many times certain parts of race-courses interlace with other parts of other races. As well, instead of encouraging strategic driving and safe driving, Burnout strongly encourages offensive driving. Driving on the wrong side of the road, barely missing passing traffic, drifting, and jumps all add to your boost "burnout" meter. Speed boosts and jumps aid your attempt to dive past buses, trucks and anything else that gets in the way. The more offensive and dangerous your driving is, the more boost you get!

Burnout 2 contains a full campaign and custom car campaign. While you can unlock regular cars and tracks, later in the campaign you unlock more raceways like reverse tracks and one-way sprints. You can unlock over 20 cars like a Nascar, a 1920's gangster car, a Japanese muscle, and many customized vehicles with custom paint jobs and upgraded stats.

Along with the same sense of speed and highly detailed crash animations as before, Point of Impact packages new modes of play. Pursuit mode has you playing the cop as you chase down the speeding motorists, and to win you must crash them out of the race. Or you can reverse that with a friend. You can flee from a friend while he attempts to chase you. Crash mode, as the name suggests, forces you to glide into crowded intersections to get the most cars involved in a pile-up as possible. The bigger the crash, the better. Up to 4 players can compete for the best score.

Training and 2 player racing modes are also included.

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Alternate Titles

"横冲直撞2" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"Burnout 2: Point of Impact - Developer's Cut" -- Xbox title

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Burnout 2: Point of Impact	GameCube	$3.47
	Burnout 2: Point of Impact	PlayStation 2	$2.93
	Burnout 2: Point of Impact (Developer's Cut)	Xbox	$2.02
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User Reviews

A fantastic intense racing game bogged down by terribly cheap AI tricks.	GameCube	kbmb (399)
Intense, Rewarding and Fast Gameplay.	GameCube	BigJKO (68)

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The Press Says

Next Level Gaming	Xbox	May 23, 2003	95 out of 100	95
GameSpy	PlayStation 2	Nov 16, 2002	93 out of 100	93
GamePro (US)	Xbox	May 12, 2003	4.5 out of 5	90
IGN	PlayStation 2	Sep 24, 2002	9 out of 10	90
Meristation	Xbox	May 09, 2003	9 out of 10	90
VicioJuegos.com	PlayStation 2	Jul 08, 2003	86 out of 100	86
GameZone	PlayStation 2	Oct 21, 2002	8.5 out of 10	85
The Video Game Critic	Xbox	Apr 15, 2005	B+	83
Gamekult	GameCube	May 20, 2003	8 out of 10	80
Operation Sports	PlayStation 2	Nov 07, 2002	8 out of 10	80