Burnout Revenge

Burnout Revenge
Developer(s)Criterion Games
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Director(s)Alex Ward
Producer(s)Emily Newton Dunn
Designer(s)
  • Paul Cross
  • Chris Roberts
Programmer(s)
  • Hamish Young
  • Paul Ross
Artist(s)Stephen Uphill
SeriesBurnout
EngineRenderWare
Platform(s)PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360
ReleasePlayStation 2, Xbox
  • NA: 13 September 2005
  • EU: 23 September 2005
  • AU: 26 September 2005
Xbox 360
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Burnout Revenge is a 2005 racing video game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360.

Similar to its predecessor Burnout 3: Takedown, Revenge focuses on a mixture of racing in the midst of rush-hour traffic, and vehicular combat; players use the cars themselves as weapons. Revenge also expands on the combat side of its gameplay with new features such as "traffic checking" (ramming same-way traffic), Vertical Takedowns (landing on a rival car after the player's car drives over a jump), a new game type (Traffic Attack) and significant changes to the gameplay of Crash mode (a game type where players attempt to cause a crash as large as possible). A successor titled Burnout Paradise, was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in January 2008. The game was also made backwards compatible with the Xbox One in May 2018, and the Xbox Series X/S upon the console's launch.[3] An additional game in the series, Burnout Dominator, was developed by EA UK and released in 2007 for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable.

The online servers for Burnout Revenge were shut down for the Playstation 2 and Xbox on September 1, 2007. The Xbox 360 servers were shut down on October 24, 2012.[4][5]

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  4. ^ "EA to remove online servers for 49 games". Engadget. 3 August 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Online Services Shutdown 2017". 22 December 2017. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)