Dangerous Driving (Game)

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**Dangerous Driving** is a racing video game by Three Fields Entertainment, released on 9 April 2019 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

It is considered by the developers as a spiritual sequel to the *Burnout* series.

## Gameplay

Players, after selecting a car and track, attempt to beat the other racers (computer-controlled, or other online players). *Dangerous Driving* includes the same crash elements from *Burnout*; players can ram opponents into the sides of the track or oncoming damage to cause them to crash (known as Takedowns), temporarily stopping them from racing before their car respawns and they can continue on. By performing Takedowns or other driving stunts like drifting, they build up a Nitro meter; once past a certain threshold they can activate Nitro which gives them a speed boost while some part of the meter is filled.

## Events

*Main article: Events (Dangerous Driving 1)*Dangerous Driving takes the opportunity to revive old but familiar events from its sister franchise *Burnout*. These include a typical Race, Heatwave, Face Off, Survival, and more with a Grand Prix to to top it all off. All of these events take place in the Single Player Career.

## Takedowns

Takedowns, another signature feature from *Burnout 3*, were methods of causing rivals to crash. Takedowns can be accomplished in a variety of ways such as;

* Ariel Takedown - Taking out a rival in air.
* Junkyard Takedown - Slamming a rival into persistent wreckage.
* Traffic Takedown - Slamming a rival into another racer or traffic itself.
* Aftertouch Takedown - Steering your car into a rival during a crash.
* Psyche Out Takedown - Causing rivals to crash without touching them.
* Tailgate Takedown - Intimidate rivals by tailgating them.

Takedowns are also classified in streaks:

* Takedown 2-in-a-row
* Takedown 3-in-a-row
* Takedown Hot Streak (4th in a row)
* Takedown Rampage (5+ takedowns)

## Boost

Boost can be used at anytime once the Boost Bar has reached a small threshold. When initiated it increases the player's speed significantly, while in use the Boost Bar decreases and the player will have to earn more boost by performing stunts and/or taking down rivals. When taking down rivals, the Boost Meter will be extended and filled up to a maximum capacity of 4x. Crashing will remove a chunk of boost by 1x.

The boost bar can be filled by;

* Near Missing Traffic
* Oncoming
* Drifting
* Takedowns

## Vehicles

*Main article: Vehicles (Dangerous Driving 1)*Dangerous Driving has a total of 27 vehicles (28 with the VIP Sedan from the digital pre order). These are ranked in car classes such as Sedan, SUV, Coupe, Supercar, Hypercar, and Formula DD. Each class is progressively faster than the one before it.

## Locations

Although Dangerous Driving is a closed track racer, all the tracks within the game are interlinked between another. This makes a fully connected map with different biomes and landmarks unique to each specific location.

The locations are fairly simple as listed here;

* Twin Ferry Lakes
* Eagle Ridge Mountain
* Surfside Island
* Cool Water Valley
* Grasslands Proving Ground
* Dead Rock Canyon
* High Dunes Desert

## Soundtrack

The only featured song within the game is Toni Halliday's "Rebel Tattoo", while players have a choice to use their own music with Spotify integration.

## Updates

Three Fields have released numerous updates since the game's launch, however the March of 2020 would be the last update as the team moves on to fully develop Dangerous Driving 2.

#### Free Updates

* No Claims Bonus - Focused on priority fixes. Released April 30, 2019.
* 3rd Party, Fire and Theft - Added online play. Released June 11, 2019.
* Fully Comp - Focused on priority fixes, ability to raise the camera on the right stick and much improved collision. Released June 19, 2019.
* Voluntary Excess - Added ability to choose any car/any track in online, made it easy to find games online and more. Released July 4, 2019.
* High Stakes - Added Elo online ranking system and Vertical Takedowns, multiple bug fixes. Released July 18, 2019.
* Road Rage - Added new online game mode, Road Rage, as well as HDR support and bug fixes. Released August 15, 2019.
* Minimum Liability - Fixes in world direction arrows, adjusts difficulty, adds Cloud saves on PC. Released early in the March of 2020.
* They have also released a 7th update on PlayStation 4 – Online games can no longer be launched with only 1 player: VoIP icons more reliable during loading; Fix rare bug where the 2nd part of a Point 2 Point would fail to load. And a 7th update on PC which added steering wheel support.

## Development

*Main article: Dangerous Driving (game)/Development*Three Fields Entertainment was formed by Alex Ward, Fiona Sperry, and Paul Ross, former members of Criterion Games, the original developers of the *Burnout*  franchise.

One of Three Fields' founding goals was to recreate a *Burnout* game on their own terms. As they were a small team (up to seven by the time of *Dangerous Driving* compared with the 90 they had when *Burnout 3: Takedown* was shipping), lacking any assets they had from Criterion, they had to take a slower approach towards this goal, and instead planned on developing less ambitious games that were all aimed towards providing the internal support they needed to get to a *Burnout* game.

These games included *Dangerous Golf*, which help to establish the destruction system essential to *Burnout*, *Danger Zone*, which added in driving elements in a closed environment, and its sequel *Danger Zone 2*, which added larger environments for driving on.

## Reception

### Accolades

The game won the award for "Game, Original Racing" at the NAVGTR Awards.

## Sequel

*Main article: Dangerous Driving 2*Three Fields announced *Dangerous Driving 2* for a planned release in spring 2021 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch. It's confirmed to be a closed track racer set in an open world, much like Burnout Paradise.

## Trivia

* The game is practically a love letter to Burnout 3: Takedown.

## Trailers

Dangerous Driving - Announcement TrailerDangerous Driving Launch TrailerDangerous Driving Video
## Reviews

Dangerous Driving - Before You BuyDangerous Driving ReviewDangerous Driving Review Destructoid Reviews
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dangerous Driving represents the road not taken by Burnout 4
2. ↑ Dangerous Driving release date set
3. ↑ Dangerous Golf - Three Fields Interview
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVGTR\_Awards
5. ↑ Dangerous Driving on Twitter