Rush-hour traffic, boost wide open, and that split second when you realize you are not going to brake.

When the community picks on gut instinct, with no criterion, Burnout Revenge lands right in the middle, dead average. The breakdown by criterion tells a consistent story. Controller in hand, it edges ahead of just over half the games, on few votes so far. The soundtrack is the high point of the profile, ahead of roughly 63% of titles, to be confirmed. Fun follows, slightly above average. Then it drops: attachment and art style fall to the bottom, ahead of only 18% of games. That is the tension. You have a blast, you soak up the wreckage, but you do not carry the game around in your heart, and its 2005 urban-traffic look left no lasting mark. Careful though, both of those verdicts rest on very few duels.

In the racing genre, this is unapologetic arcade, the opposite of the sims people cherish for precision. Burnout bets on destruction, speed and the Takedown, not on a long-term relationship.

So, who is it for? For you if you love instant chaos, crashes that hit hard and short sessions that keep tightening. Much less if you want a game that stays with you for years, or an art direction that lodges in your memory.