Yeah - I remember playing Burnout 2 on the Wii because I couldn't emulate B3 on PC, but I knew I was missing out on something way greater [mainly because I had played Legends on PSP, which was like a mini-sized Burnout 3 that ran at 30fps] until the day I could actually get my hands on it properly.
Needless to say, it is sure still impressive how much of a leap in quality B3 is, as where Burnout 1 was visibly a budget title [and Burnout 2 was more polished but still humble], Burnout 3 really felt like it had the extra experience of two games and a brand new idea...while at the same time it did not feel out of place at all when sitting next to the NFS series as Burnout was now in EA's hands.
It's still funny how this game even has in-game billboards that advertise Need for Speed Underground 2 [which I still have to try out one day, by the way].
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Yes, absolutely, B3 was a very revolutionary game for its time, and it also offered something quite different from what was being handled at the time. When I played it I had already gone through NFU2 (without a doubt it is for me the best freestyle racing, drifting etc game of its time for many reasons that I don't want to go into). GT4 was also out at the time, but B3 certainly offered something completely innovative for its time.
NFU2 is something from another world and is nothing like B3, and if I remember the advertising walls embedded in it, it's because NFU2 was really a milestone for its time, something that Most Wanted completely missed.
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