  Burnout – Review  I owe some of my driving skills to video
games. I know it sounds silly, but its true. I learned how to
navigate curves by playing Sega's OutRun arcade game back in
1988. For some reason, I couldn't get the feel of steering
properly during practical driving, but after playing OutRun,
things just clicked. Its pretty scary to imagine what would have
happened had I not learned this valuable skill. For starters, I
probably wouldn't have earned my drivers license; and what
worse, I probably would have constantly veered off the road at
every turn and that would've been ugly.  Burnout is a racing
game, just like OutRun, in which players have to avoid traffic
in order to finish the race in the time allotted; however,
that's where the similarities end. Burnout is a white-knuckle
racing game which actually encourages driving maneuvers which
would drive insurance agents crazy. Driving on the wrong side of
the road is rewarded. Veering into the path of oncoming traffic
and then dodging the cars at the