BURNOUT 3 TAKEDOWN LEVEL DESIGN MANUAL

The HUD message displayed during a takedown has a completely different appearance, with text sporting the same fiery, animated appearance as the boost bar.

The Takedown camera moves differently, giving a better view of the wreck.

The Muscle Type 1 has had its top boosting speed lowered from 170 MPH as seen in the Crash + Burn trailer's build to the final game's 165 MPH.

The second trailer for the game was released on April 30th, 2004.

Burnout 2's trackside barriers are used.

Crash physics are completely different to the final game cars roll and tumble much more.

Aftertouch has not yet been implemented.

It lags behind for a short while before tracking the wrecked car.

Crash camera behavior is completely different, behaving somewhat similarly to Burnout Paradise's camera.

Downtown seems to have more skyscrapers.

Dynamic shadows are being used for cars, akin to the first two Burnout games.In the final game, this only happens when the player hits the boost at lower speeds - and even then, the effect quickly disappears after. The boost bar can be seen shaking vigorously when in use.The Sports Type 1 and Muscle Type 1 both have a max boosting speed of 170 MPH, compared to 185 MPH and 165 MPH respectively in the final game.At 0:35, the Sports Type 1 seems to land on and roll off some sort of invisible object - proof of the lack of polish compared to the final game.Winter City and Downtown are shown for the first time.Different engine sounds for the Sports Type 1 can be heard.Earlier designs for the Sports Type 1, Muscle Type 1, Compact Type 2, Tuned Compact and Custom Muscle are shown.(This specific trailer is even more anachronistic than the others, having been spliced together using snippets of footage taken from early February to late March 2004.) It shows an absolute boatload of differences to the final game, some of which still remain in the game's demo. It was online for less than 24 hours before it was taken down by Criterion, due to the possible legal implications of the game having a rather similar name to Eidos Interactive's then-upcoming racer, Crash and Burn (which was, ironically, very similar to the Burnout games). For example, the Cutting Corners trailer clearly uses an earlier build of the game than the demo release, despite the former's release postdating the latter by two days.Д«urnout 3's first trailer, which is also the first-ever video footage of the game, was released on April 3rd, 2004. For this reason, their release dates cannot be considered an accurate chronological representation of the game's development. Something to note about the trailers released for the game is that the gameplay featured in them is days or even weeks older than the trailer's release date (or in the Crash + Burn trailer's case, at least a month and a half for certain snippets). Environment lighting is much duller and less stylized-looking than later builds.All driving stunts (such as drifts and near misses) are displayed in the HUD in the same way as in Burnout 2, using a counter for chained near misses, feet for oncoming etc., instead of the star ratings used in the final game.

BURNOUT 3 TAKEDOWN LEVEL DESIGN MANUAL

This is due to manual transmission having been a player-selectable option akin to Burnout 1 and 2 the feature was cut for unknown reasons around late April.

A tachometer and transmission indicator are present as HUD elements.

The boost bar in question is more similar in appearance to Burnout 2's, gaining a fiery appearance when in use and staying a neutral color (in this case blue) when not boosting.

Aside from the boost bar, it's almost identical to the one used in the game's demo.

The car's chassis was also capable of folding vertically in this phase of development.

The late-April builds, including the pre-release demo, use a combination of the two deformation behaviors due to this being around the time the damage modeling was starting to be overhauled.

Car deformation was completely different, incorporating chassis crumpling akin to Burnout Revenge as opposed to the bending/stretching of Burnout 3's final version.

The game's demo confirms the mechanic was present during this time. While this mechanic can be seen in action in the E3 2004 build, its existence during this phase was unknown for quite some time as Road Rage was never shown in promotional footage.

Road Rage originally allowed the player to total rivals and eliminate them from the event after doing so, a new car would spawn in the place of the eliminated one.

Pursuit Mode has been scrapped new gamemode Road Rage has been implemented in its place.

Burnout 3 takedown level design