Burnout 5

I just stumbled upon the fact that there is a 5th game in the Burnout series, Burnout Paradise.  When I still had my Xbox I owned the 3rd game, Burnout Takedown.  Out of all of the racing games that I have played, I think that Burnout is one of the best.  I like that in Burnout when you are flying down the road going 130 mph and you miss the turn you actually crash into the buildings or the side rails.  Unlike many other racing games where you will just come to a complete stop and there is no harm done to your car.  You can no longer just hug the side rails to make sure that you make it around turns fine, you will most likely hit a protruding hunk of metal coming off of the bridge that you are crossing, destroying your car.  Your car does reload so it is not like once you crash, you are done with the race forever.  I actually think that that would be a really good thing to add in the game though.  A survival race, which looking at the trailers for the newest game they kind of did this, where when you crash you are out of the race.  The only way to win is to make it all of the way through the race without running into anything, including traffic.  I am totally psyched about the new Burnout other than the fact that I don't have the console to play it with, but maybe a friend might get it and I could play it with them.  The graphics and the ability to interact with so much of the environment makes it look just amazing.  I hope that once I am out of college I will have enough money to buy a Xbox 360 so that I can play this game.

-- CK