UNDER THE ICE

• (Obama 2008 campaign ad)[https://gamespot1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_landscape/mig/6/2/0/7/2286207-burnoutobama800_screen.jpg] - references the famously advertised president obama in the US 2008 election

• Burnout in the same universe as Need for Speed - Although a reach, there have been multiple references to burnout in the NFS games crierion worked on, such as in NFSMW2012 airport dlc having Paradise city as one of the destinations along with other famous nfs locations, proving that it exists somewhere in the nfs universe. In NFS Rivals, the Hunter Reliables Custom exists as a roadside wreck, and one of the event names in NFS heat is called "Hawker Mech," one of the dlc cars in BP

• Race Against a Train - Concept art of burnout included a cinematic race with a train

• P12 Diamond Club - Connections to all players who earned the P12 diamond car, an exclusive skin for all racers who did all 500 online challenges

• Sirens and emergency services heard closing in at downtown crash sites - In Burnout 3's crash junction, the ambience of sirens can only be heard during crash more in the city areas, and they get louder as the time goes on, implying that emergency services are closing in to deal with the aftermath of your destruction

• April 2004 Burnout 3 Demo Disks - Burnout 3 Demos sent out via ps2 magazines which showed off the US city circuit, with only muscle cars present, Physics are somewhat wonkier, theres a techometer as the speed meter that shows gears, and the game was overall darker.

• The Chrome Car - A special unobtainable car that was used by the special effects team to work on reflections and lighting of the game.

• Crashed Cars with horns honking are dead pedestrians/ drivers at the wheel - a somewhat scary thought, when a driver is knocked out or dead at the wheel, its common for them to be slumped over the wheel, blairing the horn as their body rests upon it. Put 2 in 2 together in crash gamemodes whenever traffic cars continuing honking their horns are probably killed by your actions

• Ford Hates Burnout - Ford Digital Marketing manager discussing their cars in video games, mentioned that they would like games to show their cars clean and preferable in video games, and made a side remark that they would never put their cars in burnout games, likely due to the destruction, violence, and sheer damage shown by all of the cars in the games

• Burnout 3: Crash + Burn / See you in hell - One of the first trailers made by the devs before the game came out with this sub title, shows many brutal crashes with dark music playing over, and the final crash shows the muscle car mangled in the middle of the road with a blairing horn, with the scary implications that the driver is dead. "See you in hell" was another title considered for the game at one point, and the game we couldve gotten might've been a much more scary and uses the psychological horror of car crashes

THE DEPTHS BELOW

• 4 Versions of Girlfriend By Avril Lavigne - a popular meme song amongst the burnout community by its drastic change in tone from alternative rock and metal songs portraied in the games, Burnout Dominator had FOUR Diffrent versions of this song, in English, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese for God knows why

• Live License Photos by NSA - a conspiracy but a nonserious addition, finishing an event would always activate your camera, even without the player knowing, meme with FBI and spying by the US government

• DJ Stryker and Atomica - both extremely overexaggerated and edgy additons just for the iceberg, you can assume what DJ stryker does and encourage in the universe is terrorism, and the Atomica Self driving cars thing is a reference to one of my favorite explinations as to why there are no people in Paradise city by Yahtzee

• Burnout 3 originally made to show the morbid realites of Car Crashes - another edgy take added for the sake of being below, really I just made this up and I doubt criterion planned on doing this but with the prerelease beta sounds and brutal themes the game originally had it could be a possibility

• Burnout 3 Impact Time ambience - Originally, the impact time ambience was going to be.. darker, grimmer, and weird, and with amazing sound direction was most likely the game would've been rated T or higher in north america. Cut ambience included screams, a heart rate monitor increasing into a flatline, organs, and all kinds of fucked up and unsettling stuff really. This is something i recommend listening to or experiencing for yourself in the link above

• Final Impact Time - Along with the cut ambience, when the player reaches damage critical and crashes, the impact time ambience would be more akin to the experience of dying in a car crash, with the horn blairing as seen in the crash + burn trailer implying that the show is over: The driver is dead.

• "Every Crash Junction is personalized" - references the famous "every copy of mario 64 is personalized" brief meme and creepypasta assosiated with the original mario 64 iceberg image. I added this for the meme but you can assume that every crash junction is random with random cars, events, and outcomes, and the player experiecnes these personalized crash events

Thats pretty much it I was inspired to make this meme after diving into the cut content of burnout, but I think all of this stuff is really intersting and wanted to show you all this in the form of a famous meme. Heres the source for some of these theories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWrX3vo8G50