Tracks had, therefore, to get across their sense of place very quickly, whether the Californian forests or a Hong Kong cityscape. Indiana Jones and Cinderella inspired the track side details The first car you have access to is faster than Burnout 2’s speediest rides, and by the end of the game you’re driving Formula One-style racers.
And Burnout 3 was the fastest in the series so far. It was enough to make Ward, who co-runs Danger Zone developer Three Fields Entertainment, really want Burnout 3 to have an autobahn.īurnout has always been about speed, and your attention during a race is almost entirely fixed on the vanishing point so you can react to oncoming traffic and turns. When they arrived at the terminal, the driver refused payment and wheel-span away. “I said, ‘But I need to get to the airport!’ And he said, ‘If I drive really really fast, could you put your seatbelt on? This is going to be a hot diesel drive.’ He floored it.” Just after setting off, the driver took a call and learned his wife was in labour. How a woman going into labour inspired the trackĪnd it was inspired by a taxi journey director of design Alex Ward took to Munich’s airport while promoting Burnout 2. Released in 2004 for PlayStation 2, it was made at a time when just one person could build every aspect of a track, from the texture of the road surface to all the sights that zip past. It was created by just one artist, Chris Walley, at developer Criterion Games.
It’s a track of wild winter crags and old castles and also high-tech bridges and highway toll booths, and huge corners that beg to be drifted through.
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