Burnout Dominator

Overview

Released on March 6, 2007, Burnout: Dominator was released in between Burnout Revenge and Burnout Paradise, and serves as a stopgap release that compiles some content and ideas from the previous Burnout games and compiles it into a new release. Developed by EA's UK branch, this is one of the very few installments that have been developed outside of Criterion Games, the series' originator.

Players compete in a World Tour divided into seven series based on different car classes, Classic, Factory, Tuned, Hot Rod, Super, Race Specials, and Dominator. From here you can race in several different challenges such as the Classic Race, Road Rage, Eliminator, Maniac Mode (driving very dangerously at oncoming traffic, doing jumps and getting near misses, all for more points), Drift Challenge, Near Miss Challenge, and others.

Locations in Burnout Dominator include Europe, the Far East, the USA as well as South America and Eastern Europe (both exclusive to the PSP version).

Compared to its predecessor in the franchise, Burnout Revenge, Dominator has some significant differences. First of all, the ability to traffic check same way traffic isn't present, but burnouts (the ability to chain together the boost meter for non-stop turbo speed) are back in. Also, there is no crash mode.

Vehicles

Burnout Dominator has about 36 cars (each Series from Classic, Factory, Tuner, Hotrod, Super, and Race has 5 cars each, the Dominator class has about 1 car from each Series) and most of the cars are based on real life vehicles. The game has the second highest amount of returning vehicles including the Custom Coupe Ultimate from Burnout 2, the Euro Circuit Racer from Burnout 3 and the Low Rider from Burnout Revenge.

Classic Series

• Drift Classic
• Classic Muscle
• American Classic
• Euro Classic
• Burnout Classic

Factory Series

• Factory Sports
• Limited ST
• J Coupe
• Factory Muscle
• American Drifter

Tuner Series

• Works M-Type (Burnout Dominator)
• Tuned Sports (Burnout Dominator)
• Custom Coupe Ultimate (Burnout Dominator)
• Tuned Muscle (Burnout Dominator)
• Tuned Drifter

Hotrod Series

• Blue Lightning
• Street Dodger
• Assassin
• Custom Hot Rod
• Street Rod

Super Series

• Royal X3
• Works GT
• American Super
• Super Muscle
• Euro Super

Race Specials Series

• Oval Racer (Burnout Dominator)
• World Circuit Racer (Burnout Dominator)
• Euro Circuit Racer (Burnout Dominator)
• Euro Classic LM (Burnout Dominator)
• US Circuit Racer (Burnout Dominator)

Dominator Class

• Low Rider (Burnout Dominator)
• Factory GT (Burnout Dominator)
• Super Coupe
• Charger
• Super Prototype (Burnout Dominator)
• GT Racer

Events

Most common events in Dominator but all together there 11 events.

• Race - Race around the track against rivals to the Finish Line.
• Road Rage - Takedown as much of opponents as fast as possible under a limited amount of time.
• Eliminator - The driver who in last place has 30 seconds to escape being last or else their eliminated from the race
• Burning Lap - Single lap Time Trail
• Maniac Mode - Perform dangerous stunts along a track to earn as many points.
• Drift Challenge - Drift around corners to add points to your score.
• Near Miss Challenge - Earn as many Near Misses by dodging traffic cars as possible before times runs out.
• Burnout Challenge - Perform as many Burnouts Chain as possible before the times run out or passing the finish line.

Locations

All race tracks in Burnout Dominator.

• Tuscany (Europe) : Tuscan Hills & Tuscan View - Florence/Aria/Tuscany
• Autobahn (Europe) : Autobahn & Autobahn Loop - Wuppertal/Berlin/Frankfurt
• Bushido Mountain (Far East) : Bushido Peak & Bushido Valley - Osaka/Kyoto/Himeji
• Spiritual City (Far East) : Spiritual Gate & Spiritual Towers - Kuala Lumpur
• Ocean Drive (USA) : Ocean Drive - Carmel/ Monterey/Big Sur
• Steel Town (USA) : Steel Town Works - Pittsburgh
• Glacier Falls (USA) : Glacier Falls - Rocky Mountain National Park/Boulder, Colorado
• Black Gold (USA) : Black Gold Highway - Houston

PSP

With it's built in wifi capabilities, this allowed EA to put out two downloadable tracks exclusive to the PSP version of the game. However the servers have been closed and it is therefore no longer possible to download these tracks.

• Carnival City (South America) : Carnival Point - Rio de Janeiro
• Red Gate (Eastern EU) : Red Gate - Moscow, Russia

EA Trax

There 33 licensed songs, including a theme song from Burnout 2: Point of Impact in the opening menu.

PS Vita Compatibility

Despite not being in the official compatibility list, Burnout Dominator can be played on the PS Vita. To do this, the user must first download the game to the PS3. From there, go to Content Transfer on the PS Vita and select the game for transfer. Once complete, the game will show up on the Vita's menu.