Even though Xboxygen got these scans from a Playstation magazine it should still give you an impression about Burnout 5 on the Xbox 360. Besides the pictures you can also read about a whole lot of new stuff they introduced in this game. Some of this information was already revealed in the announcement of the game. An interview with Alex Ward, Creative Director of Criterion games contributed some more information.

Keep in mind that a lot of stuff is still work in progress and that both the pictures and the information in the article itself can change dramatically. You should also remember that some stuff won’t be available in the Xbox 360 version, because it doesn’t have a tilt function for example. Fortunately for us there’s still a lot of cool new stuff that will make you crash even better. A nice new feature for example is the ‘Crash AI’ which analyses the crash situation and then determines which crash sounds to play. That means that a crash always sounds different.

The new physics also improved quite a bit. On the PS2 (read Xbox) the car being driven might have been operation according to the laws of physics, but the other cars flying off to the side were simply running scripted responses. Not that you really noticed this while driving over 200MPH but this meant that they were all behaving the same way. With the nextgen consoles this won’t be much of a problem anymore, they have so much power that the developers don’t ever have to walk the line on what’s running physics and what’s not, it all is.

The game is supposed to come out somewhere in 2007 on the Xbox 360 and PS3.