Burnout Dominator Soundtrack Series The Game

Things get even more manic as you unlock later, harder car types, and by the Dominator series the game demands uninterrupted burnout runs that have you wincing with every near miss and praying that youre taking that next corner at enough of an angle to collide with the curve in a shower of sparks rather than the dreaded slow-motion crash.

Youve got your Fratellis, your LCD Soundsystem and your innumerable studenty rock-punk bands where the lead singer doesnt quite have a nice enough voice and so sings in slightly dumb (but unique) way instead.

About four hours into playing Dominator I was tearing through the streets while shouting along to Chelsea Dagger because Im a terrible human being, when I noticed theyd altered it and censored the word hell.

This is a game where its not just an option but a necessity for you to drive down the wrong side of the street, ram your opponents and detonate your own car without thought to innocents caught in the blast, but they dont want you hearing the word hell.

Burnout Dominator is something of a return to the series roots.

Its a beautiful, butter smooth return, but then the last thing anyone would expect of a new Burnout game would be for it to lack the brains and polish thats always been present.

It feels like its trying less hard than it could be, and not just because it uses Revenges engine.

Online play, traffic attack and a few small features are missing and replaced with old favourites and no-brainer new modes (more on them later).

With a meagre release on PS2 and PSP this is nothing more than a stopgap while CriterionEA UK works on some kind of re-invention of the license for 360 and PS3.

Dangerous driving fills your boost bar, and this bar turns blue when its full.

Boost for the entire duration of the bar while driving dangerously enough to fill a second meter, and when your boost bars empty (burning out) it refills again and you keep boosting, this time requiring even more dangerous driving to refill that second meter.

Burnout Dominator Soundtrack Plus Taking Down

For any kind of race based event this is key because it acts as an increase to your top speed, plus taking down opponents by driving them into walls becomes like guiding a toddler into a glass door.

Maniac mode simply has you driving like a Gizmondo executive, racking up points by driving in the oncoming lane, narrowly missing other cars and drifting around corners or even down straights, Outrun style if you can.

Burnouts (I keep typing bun routs and giggling) enter the equation because each burnout you get acts as a multiplier for as long as you can keep it up.

So if youre on your third burnout, any points you get from dangerous driving are multiplied by three, and so on.

Getting downright silly multipliers is the only way your driving will mean anything on later tracks, which simultaneously makes any time you spend burning out massively exciting and any time you cant pretty boring.

Drift Challenge has you burning out while drifting as much as possible, Near Miss Challenges has you burning out while nearly hitting as many cars as possible, and Burnout has you burning out.

Theyre all fun to play, but they feel like the product of a lazy Friday afternoon meeting.

WHY ARE THEY ALL THE SAME An addition thats a little more interesting are the new Signature Shortcuts.

Every track has one or more flimsy looking sections of wall thatll come down permanently if you force another car into them, opening up a new bit of road thatll shorten your lap times.

Once these things are unlocked theyre available on all of the events in that area, making them a more worthy goal than the trophies or an uninterrupted run of gold medals.

Its still enormous fun travelling sideways down city streets at hundreds of miles an hour, trying to get control back because those inbound headlights are getting worryingly big.