History YMMV / Burnout

* PolishedPort: The Xbox 360 port of ''Revenge''. It has better graphics than the original Xbox version, obviously, but it also improves the loading times, has more songs on the soundtrack, and it greatly improved Crash Mode by refining two things: 1) Making it effortless to get a boost start, and 2) If you restart, the camera flying back to the start is ''much'' faster, whereas it was slooooooow in the Xbox and [=PS2=] versions.

** Any [[RaceAgainstTheClock "Burning Lap"]].While some are fairly generous in thier constraints, others demand near perfection from the player. Which is asking alot given all the random mayhem in the series' pedigree. In worst cases being less about skill or track-knowledge, and more about not getting blindspotted on a hill or intersection. Fortunately, if you screw up on a Burning Lap and have to start over, the traffic patterns will be the exact same, so patient players can win gold via trial-and-error.

*** Some also criticize the new boost mechanics which remove the titular "burnouts" and for the first time let you boost with any ammount of it as opposed to filling up your bar completely.

* ScrappyMechanic: The "Collector" feature of ''Legends''. You unlock one "Collector" car in each class as you play through the World Tour mode but there are five total in each class. To get the other four, you need to race players who have a car you want. This would have been difficult in the best of times and has only diminished as people moved on from the game. GottaCatchEmAll mechanics that require other players really only work if a game is a KillerApp for a platform.

* ScrappyMechanic: The "Collector" feature of ''Legends''. You unlock one "Collector" car in each class as you play through the World Tour mode but there are five total in each class. To get the other four, you need to race players who have a car you want. This would have been difficult in the best of times only diminished as people moved on from the game. GottaCatchEmAll mechanics that require other players really only work if a game is a KillerApp for a platform.

* ScrappyMechanic: The "Collector" feature of ''Legends''. You unlock one "Collector" car in each class as you play through the World Tour mode but there are five total in each class. To get the other four, you need to race players who have a car you want. This would have been difficult in the best of times only diminished as people moved on from the game. GottaCatchEmAll mechanics that require on other players really only work if a game is a KillerApp for a platform.

** ''VideoGame/SplitSecond'' is ''Burnout'' meets a Creator/MichaelBay movie.

* CharacterTiers: With the exception of ''Point of Impact'', vehicles are sorted into various classes that determine how fast they are (with the exception of Crash/Heavyweights, which are intended for the Crash mode). Paradise lacks abject categories for cars, but most can be sorted this way based on which license they're unlocked in.

** Any [[RaceAgainstTheClock "Burning Lap"]].While some are fairly generous in thier constraints, others demand near perfection from the player. Which is asking alot given all the random mayhem in the series' pedigree. In worst cases being less about skill or track-knowledge, and more about not getting blindspotted on a hill or intersection.

** While Criterion Games abandons the racing genre to aid other EA studios for the Star Wars games, the game's creators are still not done with Burnout. Now they were migrated, along with some of the Criterion staff (technically following the leaders) to their own studio named ''Three Fields Entertainment'' and made 2 games that has a Burnout influence:
*** ''Dangerous Golf'' is Burnout's Crash mode but creating a giant mess using a golfball.
*** ''Danger Zone'' is a SpiritualSuccessor to Burnout 3's Crash mode.

* PortingDisaster: ''Burnout Legends'' on the DS falls squarely into this, being an a abortion of a game that wasn't even developed by Criterion. Thankfully the PSP version averts this and is basically ''Burnout 3'' on a handheld with tracks and cars from the first two games thrown in. ''Dominator'' also ran pretty well.

** The ''VideoGame/MotorStorm'' games are basically ''Burnout'' but [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace off-road!]] And with NintendoHard difficulty!]]

** The ''VideoGame/MotorStorm'' games are basically ''Burnout''
--->[[AC:[[RecycledInSpace off-road!]] And with NintendoHard difficulty!]]

** The ''VideoGame/MotorStorm'' games are basically ''Burnout'' [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace off-road!]] And with NintendoHard difficulty!]]

* [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Traffic]]: [[NintendoHard Especially in the very first game thanks to the cross traffic blocking off entire streets.]]

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound of the medals being awarded to you in ''3'' and ''Revenge'' made it feel more rewarding. Can double as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome if the medal is awarded during a takedown or a split-second finish.

* ThatOneLevel: Any [[RaceAgainstTheClock "Burning Lap"]].While some are fairly generous in thier constraints, others demand near perfection from the player. Which is asking alot given all the random mayhem in the series' pedigree. In worst cases being less about skill or track-knowledge, and more about not getting blindspotted on a hill or intersection.

** ''Takedown'' gets this just for having a licensed soundtrack compared to the unique compositions in the first two games. Some also criticize the new boost mechanics which remove the titular "burnouts" and for the first time let you boost with any ammount of it as opposed to filling up your bar completely.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Averted regarding the original game. When ''Legends'' made an effort to mix the original two games into the third for handhelds, the only part of the first game that made it through was a single track, Twilight Harbour. It is also considered the least favourable game (second only to [[OddballInTheSeries CRASH!]]), with most fans arguing over ''Takedown'', ''Revenge'' or ''Paradise''.

** ''Takedown'' gets this just for having a licensed soundtrack compared to the unique compositions in the first two games.

* ThatOneLevel: Any [[RaceAgainstTheClock "Burning Lap"]].While some are fairly generous in thier constraints, others demand near perfection from the player. Which is asking alot given all the random mayhem in the series' pedigree.
** "Face Off" can be this too; with some rather insane rubber-banding for the later cars.

* TheScrappy: DJ Atomika.
** His performance in ''VideoGame/BurnoutParadise'' could be considered a let down compared to his previous work in ''[[VideoGame/{{SSX}} SSX 3]]'', but it could also be considered an improvement compared to Stryker's performance in ''Takedown''. Depending on how one feels about Stryker, one could wonder how he could be a real DJ and not some guy in a recording booth playing a character.

* BreatherLevel: The penultimate event in ''Takedown'', a Grand Prix event in which you must use the US Circuit Racer (an [[UsefulNotes/IndyCar IndyCar]]), is probably the most difficult event in the game owing to the US Circuit Racer being [[DifficultButAwesome difficult to drive]] within the racing conditions that ''Burnout'' demands. The actual final event, another Grand Prix series that requires the use of the Euro Circuit Racer (a [[UsefulNotes/TwentyFourHoursOfLeMans Le Mans Prototype]]), is much easier by comparison simply because your car is both heavier and more agile.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Although ''Burnout CRASH!'' is only a spinoff, it's pretty much widely hated by everyone due to its gameplay, which shares nothing in common with the main series Crash Mode besides the basic game idea, the DenserAndWackier tone, and the TotallyRadical [[MostAnnoyingSound announcer]].

* MostAnnoyingSound: In ''Revenge'', the engine noise of the M-Type GT cars with its high-pitched engine whine while boosting at low speed. Thankfully this only happens in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and Xbox versions.
** "Paradise City" by Music/GunsNRoses every time you launch ''Burnout Paradise'' may start to get a bit grating to some players out there. And not to mention DJ Atomika's voice as well. Thankfully, there's a GameMod for both the original and remastered versions called "[[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/9say0j/dj_atomika_disabler_mod_burnout_paradise/ Atomika Disabler]]" , which completely mutes his lines for good.

** The ''VideoGame/FlatOut'' series, which feels a bit like ShoddyKnockoffProduct due to its name, but it plays more like the Playstation classic Destruction Derby, with no cut-off cutscene if a destruction happened. Their distinguishing feature was "windshield cannons" -- that is, if you get in a big crash, you go ''flying through the windshield''. (Wear seatbelts, kids.) There were even {{mini game}}s where you took advantage of this, throwing your hapless driver at giant bowling pins or trying to hit a target.

** Atomika is a ''vast'' improvement over the truly execrable DJ Stryker from ''Takedown''. How someone like Stryker can be an ''actual radio DJ'' in real life is beyond reason.
** Also, compare Atomika's "performance" in ''VideoGame/{{SSX}} 3'' to the one in ''Paradise''. He had ''much'' better and funnier people writing his script in the former.