Burnin' Rubber 4

Burnin' Rubber 4 is the fourth installment in the Burnin' Rubber series which first released on August 10, 2010.

Gameplay

The player is supposed to completing challenges on city, desert, snow, and jungle environments either on the ground, in the air or on the water where they race against others with weaponry.

They start off by being thrown into the open-world, The City makes the start along with the three starter vehicles: the Bullet 350, Phaser GTI, and the Abraham N1 if they completed Burnin' Rubber 3 and weapons like the Machine Gun. Finding tickets to participate in challenges like Easy Street with the help of health, nitro, and cash pickups in order to win and unlock new challenges like Outbreak, cash to buy weapons like the Laser and upgrades as well as paint jobs for vehicles they will unlock in boss battles like the Vice V80 for example.

There are a total of thirty-six tickets in the game and nine are located in each of the four worlds The City, Big Rock, Snow Peak, and The Jungle. After every nine tickets, they can unlock a new world by completing a special mission trial, which will also unlock a vehicle like the Rebel. Each world itself however also has a set of special missions, Big Rock has missions in the air, The Jungle has missions in the water and the other ones are on the ground and they will unlock a vehicle too, like the Petite XS. The Docks is excluded from this.

Aside from main missions, there also side missions like Time Trials, Rampages, and Demolitions around the open worlds as well as pickups such as Cash Stashes and Nuclear Detonators. The player can ignite all of them, or complete all the side missions for special surprises, such as unlimited secondary ammo or free upgrades and even more. Hidden Packages are located in each challenge and Daily Challenges also exist, they will not unlock anything however.

After completing all challenges, the player is supposed to go to The City where the spray shop is. Near the spray shop, there is a yellow marker which the player has to drive in to start the last challenge, named The End. 

Game Of The Year Edition

Burnin' Rubber 4 was nominated by Shockwave.com as the 2010 Game Of The Year. Xform released an updated edition of the game in April 12, 2011, with many tweaks and changes. The Game of the Year Edition update includes:

• Free roam locations are now at night.
• A new map called The Docks, set in an industrial city, was added.
• Loading screen, title, and logo were changed.
• Pre-race notifications and help dialogue slow down in-game time and look different.
• Detonations no longer remove the HUD and replace it with black bars.
• Police cars now have mounted guns on their roof that are triggered by using a weapon in range.
• Armored Trucks were added.
• Detonators no longer affect the player's car.
• The steering and the weight shift of the vehicles has changed.
  • The original game features the same steering system from Burnin' Rubber 3.
• Automatic lights have been replaced with the manual ones, the player can active them by pressing the "L" key.
• The Loading World system during free roam was removed, the whole map is being built during the loading instead.

Republication

On May 17, 2018, it was brought back again and remade in an attempt to save web games from extinction due to websites not hosting them any longer for outdated game engines and their respective plugins. The remake has been released on itch.io as a paid game.

Trivia

• It is one of the only two Burnin' Rubber games to feature open world gameplay and free roaming. The other being Burnin' Rubber: Crash n' Burn.
• It is the only game in the series to have tickets.
• It is currently the second and last Burnin' Rubber game to feature the Coyote helicopter and is the first game to feature boats.
  • It is also the second game to feature planes.
  • The player can fly planes in one of the three special missions in the military base in Big Rock.
• In the standalone version, mounted guns can be disabled from the launcher.
• In the standalone version, all five areas have options for time of day, including The Docks, which was in the GOTY version, so could not have a daytime version.
• The standalone changes the logo design of the original, with simple text instead of a trophy-like design, similar to Burnin' Rubber 3.
• The description from the special mission called Tank Busting says that the player is supposed to finish Burnin' Rubber 3 to unlock the tank. This process got more complicated, due to the games not being online.
• It has been republished three times in total.
• It is the only game that has the most content. It can take about four hours to complete the game at 100% if the player does not do a speed run. For now, it is the biggest game Xform has ever made.
• Xform got the Shockwave.com Online Game Of The Year Award for this game in Summer 2010.
• The main menu design appears to have taken inspiration from Race Driver: Grid.