Burnout
Criterion Games’ Burnout series is some of the best fun you can have in a racing game. Focused primarily on massive amounts of destruction and carnage, players would race their way to a finish line all the while trying to take down their opponents along the way. It may seem somewhat straightforward and even a little repetitive, but oh boy was it good.
Unfortunately, ever since the 2008 release of Burnout Paradise – which traded course selection screens for a large open-world playground – the car-crashing chaos has subsided (except for the pile-up focused Burnout Crash of 2011, anyway). Considering the small number of racers releasing on the current generation of consoles, most of which are racing sims, a more eccentric take on the genre certainly wouldn’t go amiss. If Criterion Games don’t want to bring us a sequel, then a spiritual successor would definitely be welcomed by fans.
Former Criterion Games co-founder Alex Ward is thought to have hinted at a Burnout spiritual successor in July 2016, however, there has been no confirmation from Three Fields Entertainment since. Here’s hoping we get a confirmed spiritual successor in the near future.
