Danger Zone 2 gets the depth players wanted the first time around

Three Fields Entertainment is already back with its third game after launching Dangerous Golf and Danger Zone last year. This time it’s Danger Zone 2, which takes the score-chasing car-crashing puzzle action of the first game and mixes it up with better environments and different kinds of vehicles and challenges.

As with the first Danger Zone, the sequel is a spiritual successor to the crash mode in the Burnout games from Electronic Arts and developer Criterion — Three Fields comprises some former Criterion team members. Burnout 3: Takedown in 2004 had a mode where players drive a car into traffic to to cause as much damage as possible. You’d play against friends, and while it looked like mayhem, analyzing tracks for the best route was a major part of maximizing your score. Danger Zone 2 captures that feeling, and I’m having a great time with it.