#BURNOUT 3 TAKEDOWN ALPINE DRIVER#

And Burnout 3 was the fastest in the series so far. It was enough to make Ward, who co-runs Danger Zone developer Three Fields Entertainment, really want Burnout 3 to have an autobahn.īurnout has always been about speed, and your attention during a race is almost entirely fixed on the vanishing point so you can react to oncoming traffic and turns.

#BURNOUT 3 TAKEDOWN ALPINE DRIVER#

When they arrived at the terminal, the driver refused payment and wheel-span away. “I said, ‘But I need to get to the airport!’ And he said, ‘If I drive really really fast, could you put your seatbelt on? This is going to be a hot diesel drive.’ He floored it.” Just after setting off, the driver took a call and learned his wife was in labour. How a woman going into labour inspired the trackĪnd it was inspired by a taxi journey director of design Alex Ward took to Munich’s airport while promoting Burnout 2. Released in 2004 for PlayStation 2, it was made at a time when just one person could build every aspect of a track, from the texture of the road surface to all the sights that zip past. It was created by just one artist, Chris Walley, at developer Criterion Games. It’s a track of wild winter crags and old castles and also high-tech bridges and highway toll booths, and huge corners that beg to be drifted through. The wide autobahn sweeps through a valley and heads up into the mountains, past snowy firs and rocks and towards the peak and then it heads back down, under a towering viaduct, through a modern city and back again, ready for another lap.īurnout 3: Takedown‘s Alpine track is a blistering trip through the Bavarian Alps, a thrilling ascent and descent along a road built for speed.

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