Burn Out Legends is the first spin-off game in the
popular Burn Out franchise and the fifth game overall, specifically
released for the PlayStation Portable on 13 September 2005 in North
America, 16 September in Europe, 20 October 2005 in Japan and the Nintendo
DS on 29 November 2005 in North America and 9 December 2005 in Europe. The
game features many of the tracks and game play modes from the first three Burn
Out games, but repackaged for the hand-held format.
In the game, players will compete in a series of racing
modes to unlock new tracks, cars, and events. The following list includes the 9
main types of modes in the game:
- World Tour: Compete against other cars in different varieties of modes. The tour is divided by car types. Get a medal in a series to unlock Grand Prix. Finish gold in the GP to unlock next World Tour series. World Tour is the primary way to unlock cars.
- Race: Race against up to four cars in a 3 lap race on any track.
- Eliminator: Same as a race, only on each lap the lowest ranking car is eliminated. Race goes until one winner is left.
- Face-Off: Race against a legend car to win it.
- Time Attack: Race against the clock. The goal is to complete a lap as fast as you can. You can do as many laps as you like.
- Burning Lap: World tour version of time attack. Try to complete a lap by the medal time.
- Road Rage: Make other cars crash to earn Take downs. In World Tour, you have a limited amount of time. The event will be finished if you run out of time on the clock or "total" your car.
- Pursuit: Be the cop and try to take out one or more racers before time runs out or the racer get away. All new boss challenge pursuit events. Final event is Total Pursuit. Get Gold in Total Pursuit to unlock Legend Series.
- Crash: Compete in crash events to unlock new cars and crash junctions.