Dangerous Driving is the latest game from Three Fields Entertainment who are a seven person team made up of Criterion veterans. It is a low budget spiritual successor to the (pre Paradise) Burnout games.
Building on their previous low budget titles, Dangerous Golf, Danger Zone and Danger Zone 2, Dangerous Driving is the latest game in their iterative attempt to continually release games with technology building on the previous game (Dangerous Golf introduced their destruction physics, Danger Zone introduced vehicle physics, Danger Zone 2 introduced open racing environments).
It's available on PS4, Xbox One and PC (Epic Games Store only though… so booooo and all that). It is PS4 Pro and Xbox One X enhanced. Unlike most games, these versions are based more on performance offering 60fps rather than trying to push higher resolutions. Xbox One is 30 fps at 900p, PS4 30 fps at 1080p. Pro is 60fps at 1080p and X is 60 fps at 1440p.
Metacritic is around 69 on all versions.
Gamerankings score is not too far off basing off the most reviewed version (PS4).
Main criticisms are general unpolished feel and lack of music.
Yes. There's no music other than a menu title, however if you have spotify premium the game has ingame support for using your own playlist.
Again, lets remember that seven people made this game.
Positives are how closely it recreates Burnout 3 style gameplay.
Here is a video.
Online multiplayer is not currently in the game, but it is planned for after launch. Split screen is not planned.
Here is a picture so you can see how much it looks like Burnout 3.
Single player is a series of events based on car class. Winning medals unlocks more events. Winning head to head races unlocks new cars. Beat the final event (a championship of multiple tracks) to unlock the next car class.
There are seven 'locales' based on North American national parks, with various routes for each, making up 31 courses.
There are 27 vehicles spread across six car classes: Sedan, SUV, Coupe, Supercar, Hypercar and Formula DD. (I pretty much copied and pasted this bit from their website.)
Here is a picture of a car:
Game modes cover a large variety of Burnout classics, like takedown events, head to head point to point races, even including pursuit events similar to Criterion's Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. 'Heatwave' events are more in the style of Burnout 2, where emptying your 'heatwave' boost meter in a single go will refill it and give you a multiplier. You should know the drill.
Their last game came out less than a year ago. Personally I think it's pretty great what the devs are doing with this development model, even if I understand why many will be unhappy with the lack of polish in this title.
But for me at least, it hits the spot for Burnout style racing in HD.
Although that third head to head in the Sedan class had some really janky stuff going on with the other car teleporting way ahead of me, or somehow ramming me a split second after the game told me I was twenty seconds ahead of it. And boy did it ram me when that happened, catapulting my car pretty much over the horizon.
To the three of you that made it this far before this plummeted off the main page, thanks for reading this OP.
EDIT: I took out the words 'Super lazy' from the thread title, because I realized people might think I was calling the devs lazy. I was referring to my OT, not the devs who have done a huge amount of work for such a small team. Hopefully no one got the wrong idea!
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