Burnout: Dominator for PlayStation Portable (PSP) maintains the visual mojo established by last year's Burnout: Legends, itself one of the best-looking games for the PSP. Great graphics, finely detailed cars, phenomenal frame rates, Dominator is a great looking game that plays with a real sense of fast.

Gone from this iteration of the series, strangely, is the ever popular "crash mode" as Dominator takes the franchise back to its racing game roots, forgoing the crash-heavy focus of the last few Burnout games. Tracks are wider and allow you catch more air and pull more insane drifts, making it easier to accumulate juice for that that all important boost meter.

Altered is the "traffic attack" mode; in its place comes the more-crazy "maniac" mode which changes the emphasis from intentionally trying to cause big crashes to trying to miss collisions by the narrowest of margins, racking up points in that fashion.

And as Dominator goes back to more of a racing-style game, so too is more weight placed on turbo charged driving. As such, the "supercharge boost" is back where you try to fill your turbo meter to the max, then fill it again as "supercharged." After that, all you do is hold down the turbo button, sit back (and drive) and watch the cars fly by like eye-candy and lightspeed.

Keep up such "maniac" driving, moreover, and a second meter will track more accumulated boost, and it's possible to max out the second meter while emptying the first "supercharge" boost, giving you what amasses to infinite boost, or a boost multiplier.

The PSP version of Burnout: Dominator provides a little more in the way of competition than its PS2 counterpart, too, with multiplayer modes for up to six players via Ad-hoc. The PSP version also enables the exchange of scores between the two systems (PS2 and PSP). Plus, you can link up with a Burnout server and keep tracks of high scores and fastest lap times and see where you stand compared to other players around the world.

All told, Burnout: Dominator is a better game on PSP than it is on PlayStation2. It looks great, plays great, and does more.