• Face Off
• A one on one event against a rival driver.
• The only medal to earn in this event is gold.
• If you win you will also win your opponents car.
• Road Rage 
• A race event where your goal is not to win a race but to wreck or “takedown” as many rivals as you can before either time runs out or your car gets totaled.
• Create takedowns by ramming opponents into oncoming traffic, walls, pillars or any other obstacle on the road.
• If you get taken down, use “Aftertouch” to try to collect other opponents.
• Opponents are easily identifiable from other traffic via an icon that hovers over their car.
• If you exceed the goal number of takedowns for an event you will win a medal.
• This mode is an awesome way to vent some frustration.
• Burning Lap (sometimes called preview lap)
• The goal is to race a single lap of a circuit through traffic within a given timeframe.
• Some of these can be extremely difficult to get gold.
• Usually you have to get boost and use boost throughout the entire lap.
• Most courses leave little room for error. Wrecking in this mode is not as acceptable as in others.
• Grand Prix
• When you unlock a Grand Prix, you will get to race is a series of races (usually 3 or 4).
• You earn 10 points for first, 8 points for second etc…
• If you collect enough GP points, by the end of the GP, you can win a medal.
• Luckily if you screw up one race in a GP, you can start it over at anytime, without replaying the entire GP again.
• The main incentive for beating all of the events is to unlock more cars.
• There are several ways to unlock a car.
• Most events you partake in will either give you a car or require you to choose a car from a class of cars.
• There are several classes of cars including:

	Compact	Muscle
	Coupe	Sports
	Super	Special
	Heavyweights

• When you complete all the races for a class you will unlock a special car.
• You can also unlock a car by beating all the events in a continent.
• Each car has a different combination of two attributes:
• Speed – Determines the top speed the car can go.
• Weight – The heavier the car the more damage it can do. It also effects the acceleration.
• It was a little disappointing to unlock new cars in a class just to see that most all had the same attributes. Some increased the speed or weight by one value.
• The cars handle exceptionally well and seem to differ in handling (especially power sliding) based on the cars attributes.
• The AI controlled drivers can also show some ruthlessness by waiting until the just the right moment, to bump you into an oncoming object like a median divide or an oncoming car.
• Once you bump and takedown another driver a couple of times, their car indicator will turn yellow, then red indicating that they are more than willing to dish out some paybacks.
• Usually you don’t have to talk about camera angles in a racing game, but Burnout 3 is a little different.
• For the racing action, the camera is perfect and gives you typical behind the car third person view of the race with an awesome sense of speed when boosting.
• Unfortunately the crashing camera for the crash mode could use some work.
• You have no control over the camera angle when in crash mode.
• If other cars down the road from your wrecking car get into a pile up, the camera may pan back towards those cars to show you the damage.
• Meanwhile, you wanted to use aftertouch to maneuver your car into a x4 or crashbreaker icon, but suddenly find it hard to do, since your car is no longer on the screen.
• Even if it were on the screen you still might be facing in the opposite direction of the icon, making it guess work to try to navigate to it.
• It seems like a no-brainer, that the right thumbstick should have been used to control the camera while crashing.
• Overall the gameplay is incredibly fun and almost flawless. If it wasn’t for the poor camera in crash mode, and the lack of any real difference between most unlocked cars in a series, it would have been.