I've been thinking about the section of White Noise I quoted last week and how truly American a car crash really is, if only for the reason that our culture is inextricably tied to cars. The character named Murray says "I see these car crashes as part of a long tradition of American optimism." This is true in that the car itself is what embodies American optimism, not the crash. The production of the car and the invention of the assembly line was what propelled the Industrial Age into the twentieth century, so why shouldn't we as Americans admire anything that has to do with cars (manufacturing and the money it brings) even if it is in the form of a crash.
So, with video games, what is the most spectacular part of the game; not the race, but the crash. And every racing game to come on the market has boasted bigger, better, and more realistic crash scenes than ever before. From my own experience I'd have to say that Burn Out is a game that is fun to play even when I crash, which I do often, because the cinematic quality of these scenes really does deserve the adjective 'spectacular'. The car looks like it's been hit by a semi, but it stays in the race, it never gives up...it continues on that "long tradition of American optimism."
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