The game now has adopted open world gameplay. The open world aspect of the game actually fits in quite well. Its not the first time its been done in a racing game, but they managed to fine tune it to such an extent that the game comes out looking flawless. There are quite a few events in the game; all of them can be accessed by pulling up to the designated intersection and skidding your tires. The Cars in Burnout are all organized into different classes. There are stunt cars which are just an overall good car for racing and doing stunts suck as jumps and drifting; the stunt cars are what would resemble the old cars from previous burnout games. The aggressive cars are a little bit heavier and are better for road rage events, they are a little harder to control and take a little while to accelerate, they also have half the boost you normally have in the other cars. The Speed class cars are built for constant boosting. They let you chain together constant boost chains called Burnouts. The down side to the speed class is that you have to have a full boost meter to use boost. If you let go of boost after you used it once. You have to build it up all the way back to the top to use it again. If you use it constantly and drain your boost meter fully without letting go of the boost button, then you get a full boost bar again. The way you unlock new cars if by either finding them throughout the city and taking them down so you can go claim their car from the junk yard, or you get a car from upgrading your license.

The game types are also a lot of fun. Some complain how crash mode isn't there anymore; I however enjoy the new showtime mode, which lets you crash your car at anytime by pushing the left and right bumper at the same time. This will cause your car to start flipping and you can control your car for as long as you have boost. You gain boost by hitting other cars anywhere. You have to use boost to keep on flipping though; so every time you hit the ground you basically have to tap the A button to bounce again. The Race mode is self explanatory. The Road Rage events are back and are the same as before except now instead of around 3 cars on the screen at once, you will see anywhere from 4 - 6. They also have 2 new events called stunt, and marked man. In stunt you do as many stunts as you can in a time limit, all while trying to link them together to get a combo going. The stunts vary from getting air to doing flat spins. Anything that gets you pc games download points will keep your combo going. As far as I have gotten in the game, the requirements that you have to reach in points for the stunt events seem to be quite low.