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If you played and enjoyed the past Burnout games, then you may want to rent this one first. Burnout Paradise is a very different experience than its predecessors. If you don't like it at first, give it another chance. When I first picked this game up, I hated it for the first 20 or so minutes. But after a while, I got used to it and now I consider it to be a great racing game. One very new feature which could take some getting used to is the open world gameplay. Unlike all the other Burnout titles, this one does not have a menu where you select races or enter events. Instead, you are placed in a completely traversable city which you must explore to "find" events. This isn't a difficult task, however, since every intersection in the game provides a new event. When you choose to enter a race or any other type of contest, you begin immediately with nothing more than a quick briefing about the route. There are no loading times or waiting around to choose your car (you do that at the Junkyards located around the town). Unfortunately, though, these new open world races take some getting used to. Since the environment is left totally accessible, you will often have to make your own way to the finish line. There are no glowing arrow "walls" to guide you this time. Instead, you get a map and a compass that points you in the right direction, and suddenly this racing game is now one half driving and the other half navigating. You'd think some of these highly decked-out cars would include a GPS or something, but it's all left up to you. Also, this means that whether or not you win the race, you will end up at the finish line and you'll have to make your way back to where you started from if you want to retry. And with the lack of there being a way to keep track of your travel, this can lead to a lot of frustration. Burnout Paradise does not include the series' famous Crash mode. Instead, the game invites you to turn any ordinary traffic accident into an all-out pile up mini game. You have the option to initiate "Showtime" mode, which puts your crash into slow motion and allows you to direct your flying chunk of metal into the next big group of cars, similar to the "Aftertouch" feature in some of the previous titles. I haven't been able to try the online mode yet, so it would be best to find a different review if you're interested in the LIVE aspect of Burnout Paradise. To sum it up, Burnout Paradise is a very different game from its predecessors, but if you want something new out of the series and you like games with open world environments (GTA games), then you will probably like this game, too. Graham :)Read full review
I love the burnout series. It may not be as realistic as, say, the Need for Speed series, but I think it's the better title anyhow because of that. Burnout has been and still is more of an arcade racer than a stretch for the realistic. I've only played through the beginning thus far, but just a teaser was a whole lot of fun. Burnout has a little bit of a different feel but it still is comfortable to play. One part that was both a plus and minus was the crash dynamics. The crashes are even more beautiful than the previous installments, however, it seems almost too easy to wreck your lovely ride into the rear end of a pickup. You almost forget about the ease though, when you DO wreck, the dynamics of the crash are more exciting now and you can even drive around a beater of a car that used to be clean and shiny. I'm sticking with a good rating for now, since I haven't had the chance to play the game as much as I want. In the future I hope I'll say this is an excellent game and an excellent purchase.Read full review
Pretty good xbox360 game, though there are some things I didn't like about it. One of the things being is the crappy low level camera view on the car, it makes it very hard to see what exactly is coming up ahead. This is one of these games that you have to be very good at driving games to be good at. An average person would probably have a hard time playing the game. Sometimes the computer cars are a little stupid... like instead of swerving away from you, they swerve into your lane for no reason. Overall, the cars/bikes are really fun to drive around and do stunts with. The bounce mode is a lot of fun as well, just skipping down the road smashing into cars and buses. I think the game is worth the money.
The game burnout paradise starts out really fun and easy. Then you start to notice that the map is almost impossible to understand, and if you look at it for just a second while drive you will crash. The selection of views are very annoying, you are either in the car are right on the bumper. Either way it hard to see especially when driving fast. Don't even think about winning a bunch of races and stunt missions until you have memorized every street, building, ramp, shortcut, and jump in the city. The best way to upgrade your license is to do marked man, road rage, and burning routes. This will work until you get a class A license. The game also starts to lose its fun once you get your B license. The level of difficulty increases dramatically and the games sound track and DJ start to get really annoying. The good thing is the game is 100% free roam, there are about 76 cars to win(by the way stunt and aggression cars are the best), and you can choose to do any mission whenever you want and you can stop that mission whenever you want just by stopping your car for a few seconds. If you lose the mission you don't have to do it again you can just drive around or do another mission. But if you lose and you do want to do it again you have to turn around and drive about 5-6 miles just to get back to that missions start point. But the graphics are good, the animation is good, and every car does drive different. And just so you know the game does not really teach or show you how to do anything. But if you do something important than the games DJ will tell you what you did after you figured it out by yourself. I went online to find out what I had to do a lot since there is very little instructions. Warning: Don't play this game for more than 5 hours or your eyes will explode. (Not to be taken literally)Read full review
I like Burnout games since I first played Burnout 3. The game evolved a lot since then, and now we have an open city to explore, full of events. Unfortunately, one of the event types I enjoyed most in Take Down and Revenge, the crash-it-all-and-make-most-mayhem-as-possible is out of Paradise, but take down races are still very, very fun. The game does not have 2 player mode as the others had, which is a point down (multiplayer only on Live). To play online, the game must have the updates (almost 3Gb), but once they are all up, you can ride bikes, purchase legendary and toy cars (not cheap, though) and expand the city with new areas. It's an amazing game despite the lack of 2-player mode, and I recomend it for all Burnout fans out there.
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