What The Heck Is Burnout Crash?

According to Ripten, the ESRB(a ratings board for North American game releases) outed  Criterion Games next Burnout game. It’s not what you expected. The ESRB description of the game includes details of a top down perspective and cartoony vehicles. The description of the gameplay seem to indicate it is a whole new game based on the classic crash mode but with a more casual bent to it? It’s highly unlikely that this is a proper new Burnout and could just be a small downloadable title.


Especially with this line ‘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’ I doubt they would have gone totally crazy with Burnout proper. It is listed as a multiplatform PS3, XBOX360 game although if it’s a small downloadable title, it could make its way to the PC(I’m not holding my breath though due to Criterion’s track record) ESRBD description below in the full…

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.