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Burnout Dominator (PS2) | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £11.50
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Rating:  10 reviews
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: car-and-truck-racing-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5030930055097
EAN: 5030930055097
Release Date: March 23, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: sealed
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| Features:
| • | Burnout Dominator is the latest episode in the Burnout series | | • | Confront relentless adversaries in intense races such as the world tour | | • | Master the famous Burnout to get past your opponents and improve your score | | • | The more risks you take, the bigger the pay-off | | • | In two-player mode, you can play in split screen or relay mode (passing the controller back and forth) |
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Product Description
Burnout Dominator is the latest episode in the Burnout series. Confront relentless adversaries in intense races such as the world tour. Master the famous Burnout to get past your opponents and improve your score. The more risks you take, the bigger the pay-off. In two-player mode, you can play in split screen or relay mode (passing the controller back and forth).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Heed the warnings...Burnout has lost it's mojo November 5, 2008
Rocket Scientist (UK)
First and foremost, it is opinion of nearly all that the Burnout series peaked on PS2 with 'Burnout: Takedown'. If you do not already have 'Burnout: Takedown' and are trying to decide between that and Dominator - your decision is easy - buy Takedown - it is superior in every way.
If, like myself, you have already worn out most of the Burnout franchaise and want more - the question is will Dominator satisfy?
With Dominator it's very much back to basics. The crash mode has gone entirely and the focus is very much on the world tour. As usual you progress by completing events for medals, your ultimate goal being the Dominator series. Winning medals unlocks new events and cars. The staple events are still present - race, road rage, eliminator etc. New events include Drift, in which you drive around the track power-sliding to achieve a target total skid distance; Maniac, requiring you drive like a, well...maniac I guess and Near Miss, where you earn a target score by driving close to traffic. These new events come at the expense of Traffic Attack from Burnout: Revenge.
So, is it any good? Well, the removal of the crash mode seems to have panicked Criterion into thinking there wouldn't be enough crash action - as a counter measure the streets are literally packed with traffic. As a result, all event action is severely restricted. Every corner you turn blindly into and every hill you crest will certainly reveal some form of traffic to collide with making success more down to chance than skill, unlike other games in the series. The rival racers themselves are quicker and more devious, making it necessary to boost continually just to keep up. Adding to the mayhem is Chain Boosting, where you can earn boost while boosting. This is a good concept in theory but its introduction just means it is now necessary to boost continually in order to build and maintain a boost chain. However, this is yet another distraction from the racing. A pity too that a nice new feature like the ability to explode your car during aftertouch is tempered by draining your boost bar which immediately negates any advantage the action may have given you. No boost = no chance.
It is all the more disappointing because the cars still handle extremely well and the sensation of speed is still there - the elements are all there for a truly great nose-to-tail racing experience. But this,I fear, is not the experience Criterion wanted to you to have with Dominator. They are selling a knife-edge, seat-of-the-pants continual boost through a torrent of oncoming traffic. Exciting, perhaps from the inside of a shop window. But in practice this is fun for about five seconds. You will crash and crash frequently and it soon becomes extremely frustrating and tedious.
The graphics are strangely something of a backward step from Takedown and Revenge, too. The cars you can win do not excite - they are retro and chunky are are selectable seemingly only in different shades of brown.
So, despite its flaws, is Dominator still good enough? This is Burnout, after all. They are always a safe bet, aren't they?
No, not really. I suspect the cream of Criterion's development team were preoccupied with Burnout: Paradise on the PS3; as a result Dominator ends up being the runt of the litter. I really can't recommend Dominator; As I stated before, it is inferior to Takedown in every way and would I strongly suggest you get Takedown or Revenge instead (or both!). If you already have those, then keep your money in your pocket, even if it's only a few quid, because Dominator will only supply you with lot less of what you already have.
 Burnout Basic October 22, 2008
Duncan McDonald (Dundee)
I'm a big fan of Burnout and have played all of the games in the series. I loved them all and I love this. I love it like my dear old aunt rather than my hot new girlfriend.
All of the elements of the previous games are in here, rivals, revenge takedowns and much more reliance on burnouts. The courses are good, the speed fantastic and it's as exciting as ever. As a racer it is great.
The problem is the structure. Well, no crash mode for a start. The races are grouped in championships specific to a car type. You get access to the first race of the lowest championship and have to win medals to unlock the next track. Get enough points and you open up the next champonship. All very good?
The linear nature is fine until you get stuck. Then you are faced with repeating the same race or re-doing previous ones. Whilst Revenge was maybe a bit easy, this is a bit tough at times. Some races are difficult to get a medal so the game can get repetative and boring. Mind you, without this you could probably complete it in a few days.
This is still a great racer and superb fun to play but you need a bit of perseverence to cope with the rather erratic learning curve.
It's still Burnout though!
Definitely the runt of the litter - Try Burnout 3 instead August 8, 2008
Dr. S. Ward
In general, the Burnout series of games has been very good, with Burnout 3 being a front runner for "Most Insane Game Of All Time" - Dominator promises much, but plays like an eviscerated version of Burnout 3.
Gone is Crash mode, easily one of the main selling points of "Burnout 3" and "Burnout: Revenge", even though the crash mode in 'Revenge' is flawed, IMO. Instead, you've got the supremely irritating 'Maniac' mode wherein you get boost for dangerous driving (into oncoming traffic, drift, air etc.) but without the ability to check traffic out of the way a la Burnout Revenge. There's also the 'Burnout Challenge', a potentially good idea but very badly implemented and made nearly impossible because of the amount of traffic on the courses and the inability to check it out of the way. All the other modes, such as Race, Grand Prix and Road Rage are present and correct and do play pretty well.
The game is unbelievably fast, certainly more so than Burnout 3, but the sheer speed makes it very difficult to pick out traffic on some of the courses, even when played on a nice, big monitor through a good quality VGA box. Even so, the graphics are very good when they stay in focus long enough for you to actually see them. The soundtrack leans towards the angsty/emo side of things, which I'm not keen on but having said that, none of the Burnout soundtracks have appealed much to me. Horses for courses, and all that.
I've compared this game a lot with Burnout 3, mainly because it set the bar very high for arcade racers in general. Dominator falls way short in terms of playability - it's insanely difficult in places, the best bits (crash mode etc) have gone and it's generally infuriating to play. Multiplayer mode holds more promise, but the fundamental flaws are still there.
"Burnout 3" is still the daddy, with "Burnout: Revenge" running second - as for "Dominator"? Unless you're a completist, just don't bother.
 very good April 18, 2008
Zuronix (UK)
This games world tour is not as good as previous burnout games but still the basis of the burnout games, going very fast and hitting thing is there. I do not like the lack of named cars and the lack of statistics for the car that are there but the road rage matches are brilliant. The only real downside to it is the lack of crashes, as events. In other burnout games you could go to events, simply to crash and cause mayhem, but not this one. If in doubt buy burnout 3.
going back to old shool burnout January 18, 2008
D. Terry (folkestone, kent, england)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a striped down version of burnout but its just as good as the others in the range.
shame no 'crash' in this one, but the racing has improved and is far harder than the last two games.
shame it never came out on the nextgen machines
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