Burnout Legends PSP trailer

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 July, 2005

Excitable? Us?

EA has released a trailer showing off Burnout Legends on PSP, highlighting some of the game's most exciting characteristics: that it is stupidly fast, that it runs really well, and that it has ridiculously violent and detailed crashes in it.

Naturally there's slightly more to it than that, but these are the things you'll probably take away from it, and the thought of playing the game on actual PSPs in our hands fills us with the kind of excitement usually reserved for the ten minutes following our bi-annual consumption of full-fat Starbucks Caramel Frappucinos - a period of time usually spent jumping up and down, talking at high-speed about how brilliant life is in demented run-on sentences, and laughing so much and so hard that our exposed gums become sunburnt.

So we can say it looks quite good. We suggest you go and watch the sparks fly yourselves - and fly they do. The game is certainly very reminiscent of the PS2 and Xbox versions of Burnout 3: Takedown, though naturally there's a slight dip in detail levels.

The full game will feature redesigned versions of the best tracks and crash junctions, wireless multiplayer in various modes (including Crash), lots of unlockables (some only available by engaging in Wi-Fi challenges), as well as Game Sharing of certain levels and a refined Crash mode that does away with multipliers.

You'll be able to buy Burnout Legends in September.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • trevd72 #1 7 years ago

    i hated the multipliers in the crash section on b3. so pleased they have took them out for this......should be v. good.

  • CrashyBoy #2 7 years ago

    this looks so good

  • onyxbox #3 7 years ago

    i think this is going to be 'the' racer on the PSP but some of the appeal has been taken away by the fact there are already *lots* of racing games on the PSP.

  • JHuxley #4 7 years ago

    Looks great, but I've noticed the lack of FOV change & blur effects that worked so well in the previous three games. Might not seem like much, but could turn out to be a big miss. Hmm.

  • onyxbox #5 7 years ago

    Don't worry about the lack of blur, the PSP's screen will do plenty of that by itself especially if the room you're in is a bit cooler than normal.

  • Tomo #6 7 years ago

    Well... if it really looks the good on the PSP it will be ace.

    BUT..!

    WHAT THE HELL WAS WITH THAT AWFUL NOISE BEING BLASTED OUT OF MY SPEAKERS?!!!

    Is that typical Burnout music?! Fucking hell...

  • JHuxley #7 7 years ago

    "Don't worry about the lack of blur, the PSP's screen will do plenty of that by itself especially if the room you're in is a bit cooler than normal."

    Even if that were true, it's hardly an in-game effect is it?

  • xangelx #8 7 years ago

    that is burnout since ea took over, lets hope for a hack to play your own tunes a la xbox ( it could be done!) mmm nothing like racing to the prodigy ;)

  • killyourtv #9 7 years ago

    is this real footage (i.e what we will see when we are playing the game) or is it just a trailer (never trust trailers)

  • JHuxley #10 7 years ago

    I've seen E3 cam footage (check Gametrailers) and it's pretty much identical. Very pretty but...what I said before.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #11 7 years ago

    "The game is certainly very reminiscent of the PS2 and Xbox versions of Burnout 3: Takedown, though naturally there's a slight dip in detail levels."

    Great. I can play the same game I completed 9 months ago... but on the move. Good to see Sony stopping those lazy straight ports by doing ever so slightly different ports instead. :/

  • belziah #12 7 years ago

    cheeky monkeys

  • Cloudane #13 7 years ago

    I question why people moan at every PSP software that is thrown at the Eurogamer public.

  • Aretak #14 7 years ago

    Because the PSP sucks? Just a guess.

  • gibbondrives #15 7 years ago

    the PSP doesn't suck. just a large swathe of its gaming catalogue sucks.

  • symmetry #16 7 years ago

    I always hated the Crash mode, it's just so pointless and shit. You can pootle up to the crash zone at 30 mph and still every car, truck and bus slams into one another! It's just moronic.

  • sickpuppysoftware #17 7 years ago

    I question why people moan at every PSP software that is thrown at the Eurogamer public.

    if (owns_ds) {
    //slag off psp code to go here
    }

  • DrDamn #18 7 years ago

    Crash zone is a great party game. It's not a simple case of pootling in at 30mph. There is plenty of depth and tactics to getting a top score.

    This does look very nice indeed though.

  • onyxbox #19 7 years ago

    or in most cases...


    bool can_offer_honest_opinion = (owns_ds && owns_psp);

    if (can_offer_honest_opinion) {
    //slag off psp code to go here
    }


    ;-)

    Lets face it... most PS2 titles are dumbed down PS2 ports!

    /takes cover

  • MBar #20 7 years ago

    Meh. Never liked Burnout, never will.

    heathen! heretic! blasphemer! etc. etc.

    I always hated the Crash mode, it's just so pointless and shit.

    me too. and that road rage nonsense too. gimme straight up racing action anytime.

    anyways, Burnout on PSP? oh no, that means I might have to buy one then ... (a PSP that is)

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #21 7 years ago

    I question why people moan at every PSP software that is thrown at the Eurogamer public.

    Because we hope that someone at Sony is listening and may one day take up the gauntlet and produce interesting and innovative games.