Burnout 2: Point of Impact is a racing developed by Criterion Games, released 30 September 2002 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Burnout 2: Point of Impact is
Burnout 2: Point of Impact is a racing game developed by Criterion Games and released in 2002. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on RenderWare.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Burnout 2: Point of Impact is a 2002 racing video game developed by Criterion Games and published by Acclaim Entertainment for PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox. It is the sequel to the 2001 video game Burnout and the second title in the Burnout series. It was the last Burnout game to be released on the GameCube and the series would not see a release on a Nintendo platform until the release of Burnout Legends in 2005. The game also marked Acclaim's last entry in the Burnout series, as Acclaim would go bankrupt in 2004; the rest of the series would be published by Electronic Arts.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Burnout 2: Point of Impact holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 87% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 63 votes.
What it launched against
Burnout 2: Point of Impact launched on 30 September 2002, within three weeks of Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Burnout 2: Point of Impact yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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