Completely agree. The traffic checking races were pure tedium.
I think that would be a shame if they got away with it altogether.
After reading through this thread last night, I decided to pop my Burnout Revenge in my PS3, and have a go... first time since... last Winter.
Had to start from the beginning of course... but hey, still a brilliant game, and I quite enjoyed the traffic checking.
I've purchased every version of Burnout on the PS2 so far, and I have to say, when it first came to traffic checking, it took me a little while to get my head around it... when I was racing, I was still frantically trying to avoid the traffic
Once I got used to it, I quite enjoyed it, doing traffic takeouts.
Would be good if you could have the option. Or some races with traffic checking, and some without?
I know, it does seem a bit strange at first, but after all, Burnout is just an arcade game, fast, frantic fun... realism doesn't really come into it.
Still, I'm not disagreeing entirely, would be nice to have some "proper traffic" too, that you have to avoid.
V1N.