Burnout Crash skids out Sept. 20

August 31, 2011 9:41AM PDT

Criterion Games' downloadable destruction-focused spin-off to arcade racing series set to arrive on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 with $10 price tag attached.

Burnout Crash may have missed its August appointment with Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, but Electronic Arts isn't letting its racing series spin-off drift too far into the future. The publisher today announced that the Criterion Games-developed downloadable game will debut on September 20 at a $10 price point.

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Burnout Crash is a top-down take on the Burnout series' signature crash mode, which challenges players to wreck their rides in spectacular fashion, taking as much municipal property and other vehicles with them as possible. The game sports three modes across six locations and boasts 18 crash junctions. Additionally, Burnout Crash supports the Autolog feature, an online social infrastructure that was first introduced in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and lets players measure their performance against their friends.

The Xbox 360 iteration of Burnout Crash will support Microsoft's gesture-recognition technology, Kinect. The Kinect-enabled game mode has two teams using gesture controls to crash and burn in what EA calls a "party battle."

For more on the game, check out GameSpot's previous coverage of Burnout Crash.

By Brendan Sinclair, Senior Editor

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amirzaim

More like a kiddie game and even more like a FB game! It should be more suitable if this game is placed on FB or G+!

ArabrockermanX

Now they go and ruin crash mode...

FusionRain

I'll pass, thanks for trying... >_>

PixelAddict

Reading this was a momentary distraction from my wait for Paradise 2...

thelegendlives5

Move along, nothing to see here. Now give us a proper Burnout game!!!

banana23man

Bring back Burnout Revenge ^^

Superzone

Looks like it'll be fun.... for about 5 minutes.

OJ_the_LION

@shadow4020 As I recall Criterion was hiring for a full fledged next gen open world game a week or two ago. I was mad about this game before, but if it'll help tide me over until the next full Burnout game I'll grab it. It might be fun for a diversion.

trixx666

epicly gay

Shadow4020

I hope a follow up of Paradise is announced soon, because this game doesn't interest me at all.

AfrosRockMan

This is not Burnout... EA, are you sure you didn't mean to release this on iOS? I think they got the platforms mixed up. (Sarcasm)

mewes82

@ToTs_00 me!

YourMonk

WHHHYYYYYYYyyyyy ruin a good game series.....with this piece of penguin crap!

phillkillv2

Looks like Horse... Nevermind.

bimastrike871

...meh

Bad-School-Girl

This game looks like garbage. Not worth any amount of money.

ToTs_00

Is anyone even looking forword to this game?

Speuj

Ha! I was grinning the whole time while watching that trailer! I agree with you, @SicklySunStorm, it could definitely be great fun!

SicklySunStorm

This could be great fun.

Flavour666

My prediction: 4.5/10

doomsoth

I'll stick with Revenge and 3.

MJ12-Conspiracy

Umm, I'll wait for Forza 4 and the next real Burnout..... Hopefully the next one is a little more like Revenge with a real crash mode intact but still open world like Paradise City......

mrsniper83

I will just stick with Burnout Paradise

Giga_Surfer

GTA II rip off, but without on foot gameplay.

McNeelyJ39

this game looks horrible.

Preijnst

Reminds me of Grand Theft Auto.

megakick

Its like GTA!

wilba789

This looks like a very fun little game.....

EasyComeEasyGo

It's to bad that I'm gonna miss this game because Gears of War 3 is also going to be release on that date. But I will still give this burnout Crash a chance until I finish Gears of War 3.

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