XBOX BURNOUT 3 Instruction Manual page 5

SELECT CAR/GARAGE
Choose a cool ride from the selection in your garage at the Select Car screen.
NOTE: Your choice of vehicles is fixed in certain competition events.
 Move to select vehicle type (when available).
L
 Move to select a model.
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 Press to change vehicle color.
X
NOTE: Silhouetted vehicles must be unlocked before you can drive them. Highlight one to find out how to
make it yours.
RISK AND REWARD
Making it in Burnout 3: Takedown is all about taking chances and driving aggressively. Fill your boost
bar to speed into the lead and take down rivals to eliminate the competition.
BOOST BAR
If you want to keep up with the competition, fill your boost bar to give yourself a speed advantage.
Driving dangerously will gets you started.
Live Dangerously
Weave through oncoming traffic, risk near-misses, drift around bends, or catch air on a hill crest. The
blue flicker tells you you're earning boost, and when it turns to a bright orange flame, release it with a
nitro-blast by pressing .
A
BOOST WARS
Shove opponents to steal their boost, but expect the favor to be returned.
TAKEDOWNS
Takedowns are where you stand to gain the most boosts. Smash an opponent off the track to extend
and fill the boost bar: one section is added per takedown, to a maximum of four. Suffer a takedown or
crash and one of those sections is lost.
Get Nasty
Clip fast-moving drivers into the trackside for a wall takedown, or boost-smash a rival into oncoming
vehicles for a car, van, or big rig takedown.
Rack 'em Up
String two or more takedowns together. Now you're really racking up the points!
Takedown Avenged
Opponents don't take your attacks lightly. Watch their position markers change color. When they hit red,
they're ready to ram you off the road! Steer out of trouble when they smash you—takedown denied!
Sweet Memories
That camera flash means you just scored a signature takedown. Check your photo album for clues
about how to make another one (see p. 8). Signature takedowns also score you more points.
BURNOUT POINTS
Spectacular driving of all kinds earns you burnout points too. Go for aggressive driving rewards with
stunts such as rubbing, duelling, slams, and shoves, or show off your driving skills by leading laps,
pulling off a cool drift, weaving through oncoming traffic, and more.
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Keep up the dangerous driving for long enough and
a rotating star appears above your boost bar. As you
continue the star fills in. If you keep up that fancy driving
long enough to fill up all three stars you earn up to 100
burnout points!
AFTERTOUCH
After you crash, press and hold to switch to "slo-mo" impact time, then move
A
and guide your wreck. Smash into big vehicles, spill payloads, flip out, or slide. All of these forms of
Aftertouch add up to valuable burnout points!
 Use Aftertouch in race events to steer your wreck into your opponents and score an Aftertouch
Takedown—and keep that precious boost bar segment!
CRASH EVENTS
What could match the satisfaction of slamming your way into first place? How about creating a multi-
car pile-up—and raking in crash $ to unlock vehicles in the process!
 Your basic aim is to hit as many vehicles as possible. crash $ are awarded for the number totalled
and the amount of damage you inflict on them: different vehicles have different values.
 Each event has a different Crashbreaker target, which counts down with every wreck piled up.
Cause enough vehicles to crash and you can press
vehicles—and cause even more crash $-earning damage.
 Use ramps to get air, then use Aftertouch to guide yourself into the traffic or towards pick-ups, which
can help or hinder your efforts:
Drive through the instant boost for instant speed.
Bronze, silver, and gold Cash Bonus pick-ups add instant crash $, while x2
and x4 multiplier pick-ups multiply your total.
Hit a Crashbreaker pick-up to explode instant wreckage around your car! It'll earn you
some more crash $ too.
Avoid the Heartbreaker—it nullifies multipliers and halves your final crash $ total.
(Double Impact only) Think your rival crash-maker is out-scoring you? Swipe this to
switch points on the sly.
 If you get a Crashbreaker, use Aftertouch again to seek out any pick-ups you missed.
 MULTIPLAYER CRASH EVENTS put a spin on collecting pick-ups. In Team Crush, both players
must collect the x2 or x4 multipliers for them to take effect, but in a competitive Crash event, you'll
be jostling to collect the pick-ups. Using Crashbreaker in a competitive mode detonates the other
player's car and puts them out of the running!
to add Aftertouch
L
to detonate your car, tag a few more
B
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