It’s taken some false begins (and a weird indoors destructo-golf game) to get right here, however Dangerous Driving is out now and a transparent tribute to the sooner, extra arcade-like Burnout games. Developed by ex-Criterion builders at Three Fields Entertainment, it’s a solo (multiplayer is due later as free DLC) arcade racer the place you’re finest off driving by your opponents. I’ve fond recollections of spending many an hour in Burnout 2 and three, accelerator jammed down, plunging into oncoming site visitors, breaking solely to side-swipe my foes. Below, a crash-happy launch trailer.
A bit of bizarrely, Dangerous Driving doesn’t function Burnout’s iconic bonus Crash Mode, presumably to provide their earlier Danger Zone (all crashing, on a regular basis) games some room to breathe. Still, it does function most different modes from Burnout, plus just a few additional twists. Traditional races, Elimination (participant in final explodes after every lap) and even a mode the place you – as a cop – attempt to ram folks off the highway are in. There’s 69 complete occasions, every with numerous rating targets to shoot for, cut up throughout 9 occasion sorts.
The game isn’t quick on tracks. 31 programs throughout seven environments, primarily based on American nationwide parks, which makes for some scenic backdrops you’l barely discover as you rocket previous them. As with Burnout 2 and three, more often than not you’ll be holding down your enhance button to buzz alongside at over 200mph, the display screen targeted right into a tunnel by some acquainted post-processing blur results. Smack into something from behind or the facet whereas boosting and so they go skyward, rewarding you with extra enhance, though collisions with oncoming site visitors are a direct, spectacular failure.
It doesn’t look like the highest-budget game, missing multiplayer at current (due as a free replace later) and quick on a few of Burnout’s UI sheen, however the crumpling, tumbling vehicles and trailing particle sparks look good. The game additionally has Spotify integration (if in case you have a Premium account), compensating for the shortage of EA’s boundless music licensing price range. Three Fields even provide their own choice soundtrack, plus recreations of the sooner Burnout’s music. It’s a intelligent means across the limits of not having an enormous writer, and one I’d have an interest to see different devs mimic.
Dangerous Driving is out now on each Epic and Humble for £24.99/$29.99/€29.99.
