Burnout Crash, the Cartoony Top-Down Racer (With Lobster Monsters) You've Wanted All These Years
We caught wind of the existence of Burnout Crash! thanks to the Australian Classification Review Board and their penchant for acknowledging games that have been put into their ratings database, regardless as to whether or not PR people have bothered to announce them yet. Now, the ESRB has gone a step further and written up one of their famously awkward summaries of what the game actually is, and... well, you know what? Why don't you just read for yourself.
We good? Excellent. So, on the subject of the top-down perspective, that would certainly fit, given that the current assumption is that this will be an Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network download. It also sounds like this game is, true to its subtitle, largely based around some kind of permutation of the classic console games' crash mode. As for the crashing into police cars? Sure! Why not? We all love crashing into cops. And the oversized airplanes, tornadoes, UFOs, and lobster monsters? I mean, hey! We can... I mean, you know, it's probably just... I mean, I love SimCity, and that game totally had... alright, you know what? I give up. I don't know what to do with any of that.
For what it's worth, the game is rated E-10+. Probably because of all the lobster monsters. No child should have to endure such a thing.
The most disturbing lobster monster of them all.
This is an action game in which players earn points for creating traffic
pileups. From a top-down perspective, players initiate crashes by
driving 'cartoony' vehicles (e.g., cars, trucks, vans, buses) into busy
intersections; multiple crashes trigger score multipliers and rack up
large 'bills' of property damage. Each level is accompanied by crashing
sounds, small explosions, and vocal encouragement (e.g., 'Cool,'
'Maximum Carnage!'). In some levels, players are instructed to crash
into police cars (e.g., 'Crash them before they bust you!'); in other
sequences, oversized airplanes, tornados, lobster monsters, and UFOs
slide across the screen, destroying any vehicles in their path.
We good? Excellent. So, on the subject of the top-down perspective, that would certainly fit, given that the current assumption is that this will be an Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network download. It also sounds like this game is, true to its subtitle, largely based around some kind of permutation of the classic console games' crash mode. As for the crashing into police cars? Sure! Why not? We all love crashing into cops. And the oversized airplanes, tornadoes, UFOs, and lobster monsters? I mean, hey! We can... I mean, you know, it's probably just... I mean, I love SimCity, and that game totally had... alright, you know what? I give up. I don't know what to do with any of that.
For what it's worth, the game is rated E-10+. Probably because of all the lobster monsters. No child should have to endure such a thing.
