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Flawed, but still fast as HELL
Everyone knows burnout games are fast, everyone also knows that this is not Burnout 5. If you aren't expecting the next big thing in racing, but are prepared to have an amazingly fun time, get this game. First off, for a PS2 title, this game looks absolutely terrific, the environments are rich, and the cars look really real. This game continues the Burnout legacy of giving everyone a heck of a rush whenever they activate boost, and chaining burnouts is still as fun as ever.
A couple gripes about this game:

1. It isn't BO5, but then again, I knew it wouldn't be.
2. The music sucks. With tracks by two bands that start with "Army of..." and both horrendous versions of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend", I usually mute the sound and put on my Sansa.
3. It is really easy to, if you crash once, get really disoriented and crash several more times in a row. This is no big deal unless you're racing, (which I don't do much of anyway)
4. Even if you (or your friends) are a bad driver, you can still dominate Road Rage mode just by crashing in front of a ton of cars and taking them all out. This is really annoying (especially when you have your 7-3 lead evaporated when your 12 year old cousin gets lucky like that).

Overall, if you own a PS2, you may as well get this game, as it is likely the final one to be released for the system. If you are one of the lucky souls who have a PS3 or 360, wait for B05.

Despite its flaws, Burnout Dominator provides good, fast fun that's worth whatever Amazon is selling it for these days.

Burnout/Dominator
The epitome of racing games. Use your burnout feature to smash into cars then watch them explode. There is a feature in this game that allows the player to slow down time after a crash to allow the player to "guide the crash" in to oncoming traffic. If you tap another player while you are crashing you are forgiven the crash and placed back on the track doing an automatic burnout. This keeps the game moving at high speed no matter how much you crash. The better you place in each event builds the player's points and eventually you can unlock more events and earn cars.

NO CRASH MODE! Wha?
Previous to this release every Burnout game has included a crash mode. THIS DOES NOT! I was extremely disappointed.

Frustrating filler
PROS
++ Great sense of speed as always!
++ Excellent graphics (PSP) and sound
++ Good variety of cars and events
++ Burnout chaining!!

CONS
-- NO CRASH MODE?!?
-- Only 4 tracks and 6 types of events
-- Traffic is sometimes impossible to make out at a distance
-- Very unbalanced AI: you can chain 10x burnouts in a race (or crash 10 times) and still find yourself near other cars
-- Arbitrary finish lines make it impossible to achieve Gold medals in certain Maniac events
-- Sometimes you crash on thin air; some other times you drive RIGHT through another car...?!?!?

A fun, if extremely frustrating game that should have been balanced SO much better before it hit the shelves. Plus, as countless others have said, it's clearly a filler before the next-gen Burnout...

Prepare to Dominate!
You gotta love Burnout. The first Burnout was a run chase-style racing game, the second a crash puzzle game that even had a mode where you could chase down speeds as law enforcement or run from it, the third a game about taking out the competition any which way you can. The fourth... let's not talk about the fourth... and now at last the fifth game in the series proper, a Playstation 2 exclusive about getting back to the roots and getting rid of the uh...gunk that muddied up Burnout: Revenge.

So for better or worse this is a very different experience. First of all, crash mode is gone. Yeah, yeah, cry me a river. If you want crash mode go play Burnout 2, 3 or (ugh!) 4. Secondly, some modes using different driving techniques are in. There's Drift Mode where you power slide as much as possible, Near Miss where you try to almost hit as many cars as possible. There's modes where you try to keep Burnout going as long as possible and drive as crazy as possible. And of course there are the requisite races, eliminations, and the oh-so-wonderful Road Rage where you take out as many as possible. You don't have a hub world or a map for event selection, instead selecting events from different series and unlocking more events as you go like in Forza, unlocking new cars along the way.

"But..." you may say "I've already played all those other Burnout games. Why should I play this one?" Ahh.... but the main reason surely to play this game is simple: it has some very nice variety in the tracks which allows for some very exciting races and takedowns. You'll find yourself greatly enjoying racing through the Tuscan Hills trying to take out a car AND win the event, and perhaps like me you you'll get a real kick out of taking down your friends again and again.

The graphics are about as good as a Playstation 2 game gets. The music is better than previous games in the series (I like Avril's song Girlfriend, so sue me), the tracks are great fun, and the events are at least very different for the most part from the other Burnout games. If you just can't get enough Burnout, or find yourself longing for some more races and takedowns, you can't go wrong with Dominator for the price. Happy crashing!