Burnout Revenge (Xbox, 2005)

Burnout Revenge lets gamers rip through rush hour traffic and lay waste to scores of rubbernecking roadhogs in an over-the-top scene of vehicular mayhem. In addition to tricked out new race, crash and road rage modes, Burnout Revenge adds Revenge mode, challenging gamers to battle the clock and unleash their frustrations on rush hour traffic.The Revenge Meter is broken up into ten categories, with the lowest and first rank being Harmless. A series of race areas are available in each Revenge Rank, and each area has its own subset of race types. So for example, the Harmless ranking contains Sunshine Keys, Motor City, Angel Valley and Lone Peak areas along with a Preview Event. Each one of the areas contains at least one event, be it Crash, Road Rage or what have you. If an area has more than one event (as most do) you may need to place in an open event to unlock others, similar to how Burnout 3 workedProgression up the Revenge Meter is earned by gaining stars in each event. Up to four stars are earned for your driving prowess while the fifth and final star is earned by a Gold ranking. You begin each event with an OK rating (one star) and through aggressive driving techniques, like drifting, checking traffic, takedowns, extended boost periods and so forth, you'll work up to the Good, Great and then Awesome ratings, or two, three and four stars respectively. Your rank dictates your final star count with Gold giving you an additional star, Silver essentially being a wash, and a Bronze medal means a star is revoked. Non-placement means that any star rating you've earned doesn't count. So to score a Perfect rating on an event, you'll need to drive aggressively enough to earn an Awesome rating while also finishing first.

Previous Revenge Ranks stay open as you progress through the game, meaning that you can go back and complete any event you've skipped over later on. As was the case in Burnout 3, you don't need to finish every event in order to continue your progression through the game. We managed to reach the highest ranking, Elite, after completing somewhere around 115 of the 169 available events with something like 95 Perfect ratings within those.