What a month we are having. First we get Burnout for the PSP, and then the big brother version for PlayStation2 and Xbox soon after. Going back a year, I remember playing Burnout 3: Takedown and saying how cool it would be to play on the PSP when it came out.

Well Burnout Legends is exactly that. It’s portable Burnout. It’s a mixture of the first three games in the series, and takes tracks, cars and modes from all three and mixes them into one game. The ‘Takedown’ game mechanic is in of course, and all the modes that go with it, like Road Rage, which is still as much fun as it was 12 months ago.

Along with the vast World Tour mode, you of course have single player events, like Crash Mode, Single Race etc, and you also have wifi multiplayer. Up to 4 people can race together, and it works well. There is no shoddy EA online service to mess things up for you on the PSP (as it did with Burnout 3 on Xbox Live), so it’s much more stable. The game supports Game Sharing too, meaning four people can play with only one copy of the game. We tried this with two people, one with the game, and one without. From the server lobby, it took THREE minutes to load the track. This is beyond laughable, and completely unacceptable for a multiplayer game, and I am sure Nintendo are laughing to themselves at the rather feeble performance of the UMD format on PSP. Games on DS take less than 30 seconds to load in for one-cart multiplayer, and that’s it. Just getting to the lobby server on Burnout Game Sharing takes a couple of minutes. It is much faster with two discs though, so that’s good.