While this output doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, it should be noted that EA UK/Bright Light was partially composed of former members of the legendary Bullfrog Productions, which had been merged into EA UK in 2001 in one of EA’s many “let’s kill this illustrious dev studio” maneuvers they love so much. EA UK’s most recent releases were Harry Potter games, a cricket title co-developed with HB Studios, and Catwoman, a tie-in for the equally disastrous 2004 film of the same name. Along with the fact I had moved on, there were two major issues I had with this game at the time – one, it had no Crash mode two, it was not developed by Criterion, no matter what the box or opening logos say.Īs Criterion was busy working on Burnout Paradise at the time, Dominator’s development duties fell to another UK-based EA studio, creatively named EA UK and later rechristened to EA Bright Light. To be completely honest, I will admit that there were more factors working against Burnout Dominator than simple unfortunate release timing. We’ve still got some Burnout (and another series I’ll also be doing) to get through first! I even imported the Japanese version, but more on that when the Persona articles get there sometime in the next 278 years. Coincidentally, what got me to pick up a PSP was Persona 3 Portable. Perhaps things would’ve been different if I had owned a PSP back in 2007, but that wouldn’t happen for another two years either. I had upgraded to an Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii by then as well, and while I did still use my PS2 from time to time that was mostly for Guitar Hero, and it wasn’t until the PAL release of Persona 3 in early 2008 that the PS2 began to see more active use once again (including that time in mid-2008 when I played through every PS2 Shin Megami Tensei game). Burnout Dominator came out on the PlayStation 2 and PSP in March 2007, and by that point the next generation of home consoles was already in full swing. Here’s another interesting one for me, because this is another Burnout game I hadn’t actually played prior to starting this series of articles.

Burnout dominator ps2 save