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Burnout Legends

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6.0 User Score:

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Based on 12 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: Criterion Games

Genre(s): Racing, Driving

Players: 6

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: November 29, 2005

Summary

Inflict carnage and destruction as you tear through the best from the Burnout series made exclusively for handheld gaming. Race the legends, take on an Eliminator Challenge, or track down offenders in your high-performance cop car to unlock classic and new Burnout vehicles. Then go head-to-head in Wi-Fi multiplayer races to capture your friends' cars. Lay down the law in Pursuit mode or crash your way through a world tour and then share the explosive race action over Wi-Fi. Burnout Legends is a license to unleash adrenaline-fuelled mayhem anywhere you want. [Electronic Arts]

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What The Critics Said

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Next Level Gaming

I can honestly say that Burnout Legends is the best "real" racing game that I’ve played on the DS.

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Gaming Age

Even with the Crash Mode being a let down, Burnout Legends is easily one of the best racers on the Nintendo DS. The fact that Criterion has put all the little nuances of the Burnout series in one little DS cart is amazing.

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PGNx Media

The developers didn’t develop around the limitations of the Nintendo DS. Part of this is unavoidable since I’m not sure that the Nintendo DS can handle better crashes.

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GameSpot

The racing is pathetically underwhelming, the crashes are so painfully halfhearted that they might as well not even exist, and a wide variety of graphical glitches and collision problems turn the whole thing into a serious mess.

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IGN

The only positive that can be said about this game: at least it runs at 60 frames per second. We’ve played some bad racing games, but Burnout Legends takes the cake. Really.

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NintendoWorldReport

A terrible game. It's in 3D, and the Burnout tracks are scaled down well, but nothing else about the game is worth sitting through. It's slow, boring, and poorly put together, three things that the Burnout series is definitely not known for.

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eToychest

Given that the DS hardware is woefully underutilized, Burnout Legends is simply a shoddy game. The essential ingredients are here, but there are flash games that have had more quality work put into them.

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PALGN

Saying that the DS version of Burnout Legends is bad is quite generous. Abomination is a much more fitting word.

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GameSpy

So let's see - we've got a poor driving engine, broken crash mechanics, stripped down modes (due to a lack of cars), bugs and some below average audio. Sound like a winner? No. If you want to see a quality portable racer, check this title out on the PSP.

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Modojo

Then we come to the control, which is also shot up quite horrendously. The vehicular turning is pretty lofty at best, where you have to maintain an incredible sense of steering. This, combined with the so-called tactics for scoring takedowns on opponent vehicles, just leads to remarkably bad frustration.

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BonusStage

When the entire gameplay composition and technical makeup are so miserably flawed the abundance of game modes, cars and tracks comes off as completely useless. Visual Impact should be ashamed for tampering with and tarnishing such a proud and illustrious franchise with this filth.

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AceGamez

Sure, there is plenty of content and replay value to be found here, but when the entire gameplay composition and technical makeup are so miserably flawed, the abundance of game modes, cars and tracks is completely useless.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 55 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Brendan C. gave it a2:
Terrible game, check out reviews on gamespot as well. This shouldn't even have the burout name.

Nick J. gave it a10:
I say 10 out of 10 because its definately the best DS game your going to find out there, i've read many reviews about "Oh its horrid the graphics arent good" or "I hate this, the crashes arent realistic" hello! wake up its the DS its not going to have PSP or Xbox graphics. this is the best racer on the DS by far. But it does let me down a little when you blow up, you turn black and polygon shrapnel just flies out. other than that, it is a must have.

Garrett G. gave it a7:
It should be more realizetec it goes in slow motion it takes up a lot of time.

Zaim K. gave it a9:
Where to begin this has to be the best DS game I have ever played. There are classic and new cars in the game. the only thing that lets the game down a bit is the graphics. Otherwise this game is a must Buy

Asir M. gave it a0:
the worst racing game yet for any platform. I think the crashes are horrible, gameplay sux, and kinda reminds me of the pre-school racer toys where the backround moves and not the car. very bad design makes for a very bad game. not at all recommended. (unless your my enemy)

Andrew gave it a0:
The DS is not made for 3D games you can tell this by just looking at all the other 3D games it has the quality of the 3D graphics on all DS games are just terrable the DS is no diffrent to the N64, im off to get a proper handheld consol that can play 3D graphics.

Jerry F. gave it a9:
After playing a while I really enjoyed this one. I only believe my own eyes... and this fluent racer is very decent. If you compare it to the PS2 or PSP of course it can't compete, but it looks very good. The handling is a bit wierd but you really go around fast. The crashes are not very fun to play, least I can say, but the other modes are quite good. Ok, I'll spend more time playing Mario Kart, but I'll keep this one for fast moving action. The worlds really look good and speed by real fast.

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