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TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap

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this game will be remembered as a game which got high ratings in mags due to massive expectations, but was actually just polished but deeply average. a bit like TimeSplitters2.

BS. This game is still a personal favourite, now more than 3 weeks after release, while I got bored of TS2 within hours. And a lot of gamer friends of mine think the same. There is a LOT of BO3 love out there.

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Got to 90% and left it. Got bored at around the 40-50% mark but kept going. It just feels like a long slog. The game is fast, the crashing spectacular (at first), and the graphics are gorgeous. So what is the problem? Too many little things that piss me off too much, like:

The way I get taken to the garage even though I wanted a retry. AND after that I find it's moved the marker on the map so I can't find the bloody race/crash I was doing

I hate all the bloody menus popping up all the time. For instance, I play Crash, the camera moves around the scene adding up the carnage, I exit, and it bloody lists all the same damage again. THEN I get another screen telling me that it's auto saving, where I then have to press a button to continue

It's not easy finding which races you've got a silver or bronze on.

In Crash, I press a button to watch a reply, and two huge black borders appear obscuring the view. The bottom one telling me to press 'A' to continue, the top one to tell me it's a fucking replay!! No shit?!?

Loved the tracks in USA but hate the tracks in Europe because of the glare off the road. I can't see a bloody thing! So, I try to follow the white lines in the hope of avoiding traffic and the toll booths, but no, I've got to follow a road that sweeps left and right (making it nigh on impossible to keep on line), up a hill on top of which I get blinded by the bloody sun!

Playing Crash has been dumbed down to such an extent it's boring. As someone said ages ago, it's degenerated into a collect 'em up. There's no experimenting, no "Ooh I wonder how much carnage will happen if I try hitting THAT car at THIS angle". In BO3 you watch the fly past, spot the x4 and think, "Well that's the route I HAVE to take if I want to get a gold medal. I like the after explosion, and, to some extent, the after steer is welcome, but collecting medals and mulipliers has ruined it.

Oh and while I'm moaning about it, I hate the way after playing a Crash that didn't go to plan I press 'A' that then takes me to the adding-up-carnage bit but then I have to wait a bit longer, even though it tells you to press 'A' to continue. It doesn't bloody work!

I hate those times where I come across a cross traffic section at full pelt and a lorry/bus/tram happens to block the entire fucking road. I can only get past these bits by remembering where they are and slowing down in advance. Kind of ruins the whole playing-the-game-using-pure-reactions.

I hate the AI catch-up thing. I might be out in front having a fantastic run, no crashes for couple of laps but when I do crash I get over taken by at least four cars!

I hate the inconsistency of gathering boost. In a race you have to drive miles before you get a decent amount. But in a Preview race you only have to drive to the first corner and you can go flat out for the entire race.

But the thing I miss most from BO2, the thing that made that game fantastic was Chaining. Seeing if you could beat your own or a mate's score. Your heart beating faster as I apporached my record of 66 chained boosts, chanting inwardly,'Almost there, almost there", whilst not daring to blink.

The bastards took it out! (sob)

I feel relieved that I've finally written these frustations down. They been eating me since I got it.

BO3 is a great game, no mistake, it's just I feel that EA have once again got confused between longevity and replayabillity.

Oh and that Striker commentator gets of my fucking tits.

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SomeNaiveChump

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BS. This game is still a personal favourite, now more than 3 weeks after release, while I got bored of TS2 within hours. And a lot of gamer friends of mine think the same. There is a LOT of BO3 love out there.

it's not even a series high let alone a 9 or 10! 1 and 2 were far better games IMO. anyway, I'm off to a non-BO3 thread where I won't get hated on as much ;)

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Played this the first day I got it for a good few hours, and only played it again the other day for about an hour. The cars arent as good so far as BO2. The fact they restrict you on what cars you can use in each event, and that every new car seems to be the same as the car you got before it is a bit...rubbish, really. The annoying burning noise when boosting gets on my nerves too. Shoulda allowed you to turn that off in the options, same as the DJ.

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Putting aside technical merits and limitations (which admittedly BO3 isn't devoid of) I've found it to be the first game all year I've had immense fun playing.

I'm never too willing to hand out a 10/10 score especially to a game which shows some cracks, but dishing out scores should always be taken with a view to what the key element you look for in a game is. For me I look for a game to totally grip me in a compelling way with unabounded amounts of fun.

I may be wooed by arty, quirky or offbeat titles but pure fun is where it's at. and Burnout 3 has it in spades. I'm loathe to hand out review scores as it is, but if that must be done I'd have to say 9/10.

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I loved it, but then, it seems a very patient person. There were some very hard stages (that Burning Lap with the HotRod, and some of the Preview Laps), but it came with a massive amount of satisfaction upon completion; much akin to pretty much everything in Burnout 1.

My only problem is that, having 100% complete it now, theres nothing left to do; I wish there was more stuff; and I wont be playing it multiplayer anytime soon :s

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i dunno about the 10/10 thing, but what i do know, and am absolutley horrified to admit, is that im a bit "meh" about starting it up again after a slight break (about 4 days) due to tiredness/work etc. burnout 2 had me absolutley hooked from day one and i played the crash junctions until the day before burnout 3 came out. i havent even started the crash junctions on 3 to see if i can beat the score because, in all honesty, i just dont care anymore. hopefully ill get to work tomrow and my workmates will slap me about and tell me to stop being a whiney bitch and ill get back into it. i hope........

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nowhere near a 10/10. Just think of all the things it should've had, but didn't.

yeah, always more. more! more!!

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what could possibly make BO3 10/10 worthy? saveable replays? people flying through windows? more cars? more tracks? :D

you know what BO3 need to make it even greater? have the bonus-thingies removed in Crash. I've spent weeks in BO2 crash mode, finished Crash BO3 with a matter of 2 days. just aim for the 4x bonus et voila... piece of cake. bah.

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As much as I absolutely adore the game (and that's lots), I don't think it deserved a 10. It has far too many small things wrong with it to be worth the magic number, namely that Aftertouch is mostly useless, seeing as the camera is facing the other way all the time.

9/10

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i dunno about the 10/10 thing, but what i do know, and am absolutley horrified to admit, is that im a bit "meh" about starting it up again after a slight break (about 4 days) due to tiredness/work etc. burnout 2 had me absolutley hooked from day one and i played the crash junctions until the day before burnout 3 came out. i havent even started the crash junctions on 3 to see if i can beat the score because, in all honesty, i just dont care anymore. hopefully ill get to work tomrow and my workmates will slap me about and tell me to stop being a whiney bitch and ill get back into it. i hope........

Damn right I will, you whiney bitch.

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it's fun. that's all i care about. i like having the ability to drive dirty. games like toca2 were spoiled by people crashing into you and spoiling your race. here you just swear at your opponent, and plan your revenge.

i'm not sure about hardcore longevity, but i think it will be a title i'll be playing off and on until they release bo4.

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Got to agree it's faded fast with me, too, and I loved it at first. Now I've unlocked just about everything and the compulsion to return is fading. Same problems as noted above really - chiefly, the ridiculously fussy interface is just too intrusive. End of a race, click click and you should be back on the track. Time and again the menu lag has caught me out - the options are on screen but you can't move the focus until the menu is fully rendered, so my two-pushes down are ignored and hitting the A button select the wrong event. For a game based around speed, the general interface is awful. The useless impact time camera angles shouldn't have made it through any kind of testing. The online interface is retarded. And so on.

But the biggest shit up of all, and please correct me if I'm wrong here, is that the racing scores are not stored in a high score table... the game is constantly giving you points - points for reckless driving, for long drifts, for good crashes - and at the end of the race you get a score, and then it's added to your total score and just forgotten. Now imagine the potential of having a set high score for each track... the longevity of that, the encouragement to drive ever more recklessly or to hone your drifting or squeeze every last point out of a crash - completely wasted. The scoring system is there, it's just not used in any decent way, and that's pretty insane.

None of this would really matter at all if the game was as shoddy throughout, but BO3 can be a really great game when it hits the spot, and while that dazzles you initially, over time it serves to emphasize the flaws. "Over time"... it's only three weeks old, and it's dragging for me already. It's not going to survive more than a couple of months before the trade-in.

It does make me want to go back to BO2 and get back into chain boosting, though, it's reminded me how much fun time trials on that used to be...

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Crash mode is better in Burnout 2. Fact. All the gimmicks in Burnout 3 managed to dilute the brilliant crash formula.

why is this though?

did they just drag out a good thing until they extracted all the fun out of it?

i loved crash mode in Burnout 2 there weren't as many tracks but i could remember them all and they were really well laid out. in 3 they just seemed to have chucked as many unmemorable junctions in as possible.

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The novelty wore off on me at around the 40% mark, such a simple and shallow play mechanic. The whole thing for me, like Synchronated Undertaker said, smells like rotten fish and Timesplitters 2. Overall a 6/10 for me.

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10/10 is generous, but I do believe the takedown thing is a step forward for the genre as a whole, and so could be justified at a push. The folks at GamesTM obviously loved the game, and it's by no way as off base as Edge's mark for TS2.

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I honestly prefer the first one, definitely a 9/10. BO3 seems more like an 8/10. The first one seemed much less unfair. The survival mode made replaying it a genuine possibility. I doubt I'll get 100% in BO3 or be back to it after I've left it in about a weeks time.

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