Danger Zone

It’s great fun and easy to play, but hard to master. It is delightful on your own playing against the world’s high scores and those of your friends, but also wholesomely entertaining as a party game given each go takes seconds or minutes and you can try again very quickly. There is no right or wrong way to play and many sets of tactics which can be employed to garner great results. You might blast through the levels, or collect all the trophies, or spend ages just chasing the top of that leaderboard. You can play it in multiple ways, trying to achieve varied goals. I wholeheartedly suggest you take the highway to the Danger Zone. There, I said it.

For all its talk of destruction and carnage, Danger Zone plays it pretty safe.

Danger Zone is about as barebones as arcade games get, and yet its explosive gameplay loop is so addictive that it’s somehow passed our crash test relatively unscathed. The presentation may be offensively simplistic and the runtime a little on the short side, but once you’ve launched your Smashbreaker a few times, you’ll feel like all is well in the world.

Danger Zone takes a mode that's been around for 15 years and manages to make a somewhat enjoyable game out of it. However, the bare-bones amount of variety and content will make gamers wonder if the full version will ever arrive.

Short, not very beautiful and with a lot of room to improve, but still fun while we wait for a new Burnout game.

Danger Zone hints at the delicious chaos we now expect from Three Fields but delivers a strangely vanilla product that actively seems to be tempering any excitement the gameplay delivers.

I have no doubt that in some alternate universe, Danger Zone is absolutely awesome. After all, it has a good idea at its core, and its development team has shown in the past that they're capable of pulling off that very same idea. In this universe, however, there's no getting around the fact that Danger Zone is, quite simply, terrible.

Eigentlich ein halbwegs würdiger Nachfolger, dann aber doch nicht. Man merkt dem Spiel an, daß es mit minimalen Mitteln entwickelt worden ist, es macht aber dennoch Spaß. Zwar gibt es kein Schadensmodell, keine wirklich unterschiedlichen Autos und wenn, dann klingen alle gleich, das vergißt man aber während des Spielens schnell, was defintiv für das Game spricht. Schlecht finde ich die Umsetzung in 3D. Die Vogelperspektive von Burnout Crash hatte 1000x besser funktioniert; bei Danger Zone treibt einen die Kamera in den Wahnsinn. Auch ist die Abwechslung massiv auf der Strecke geblieben. Man fährt nicht in "echte" Kreuzungen rein, sondern befindet sich immer in einem Crash Test-Center. Das bringt dann doch irgendwann Langeweile - und warum da dann Polizei und Schulbusse unterwegs sind, bleibt wohl ein ungelöstes Rätsel. Insgesamt macht das Spiel aber Spaß.

You definitely get what youre asking for with this game but theres only so much time you can spend doing the same thing.