Paradise City, city streets and mountain roads, the peaceful tranquility of the mountain air an escape from the hustle of the city as cars travel along their daily routine only to be disrupted by a car verociously flying through the air breaking through a billboard and landing in the middle of the street and speeding off breaking through a set of gates entering areas they shouldn't be. Burnout Paradise is a game about cars, racing them, stunting them and destroying whoever gets in your way.
The game features a set of events, Races, Stunt Runs, Marked Man, Road Rage and Burning routes.
Races are just typically that a race, from point A to B get there first and you win, were you expecting more?, on your way to getting to first don't be afraid to rough it up a bit and ram some of the competition in oncoming traffic or wall. Beware of traffic though they can be a pain sometimes as they have no set direction to swerve when they see you approaching and might 90% of the time swerve in the direction to also choose to swerve off of them causing a beautifully cinematic experience of your car compacting against the other car causing you valuable time in the race.
Stunt Runs can be alot of fun, barrel rolling and flat spinning and making superjumps all of which there are a lot of places to be executed all throughout Paradise City.
Marked Man, it's like a survival game, you have to get from point A to point B similar to a race, only difference is you're being chased and their only aim is to ram you off the road. You don't have to be all defensive though as you can also bring the pain to them and ram them off the road too to increase your chances of survival.
Road Rages, simple, race around the city against some Ai competition, it's not about coming first it's also not about following a set path, the whole city is your playground as you drive around ramming other drivers to acquire something known as a Takedown, the more of these you get the better because in this type of race that's your aim, beat the takedown target within a set time limit. They are a few types of takedowns, there's the normal takedown where you ram your opponent into a wall etc, then there's car/van takedown when you cause your opponent to hit a car/van, there's vertical takedown where you take to the air to land on your opponent, then there's a grinding takedown, force your opponent into some barriers for a period of time until he crashes.
Burning routes are effectively like time trials, you race against the clock if you win you unlock a tricked out version of the car you used in that route.
Cars, what's a review about a racing game if there's no mention of the cars. As with the different gameplay modes they are different car types which would be best suited for a particular event, Speed car for races, Stunt car for stunts etc. With over 70 cars in the game there's something for everyone from Muscle to Import, nascar to supercar each with it's own advantages and disadvantages.
The gameplay in Paradise is solid, the game does what it is told, there's great sense of speed, very good cinematics, sound is superb and having the ability to play custom songs enhances that, what's better than tearing up the streets while blasting your favourite tunes?
Met with derision from existing Burnout-series fans at the time, Burnout Paradise remains arguably the greatest open-world racing game of all time. Here's why.
I don't know why - and I know I'm probably on my own here - but I liked Takedown more. I think it was just 'different' enough to feel fresh. I also loved the destruction.
On that note, a new Motorstorm would be nice! All that mud, dust and car pieces flying everywhere blew my mind on PS3 - imagine what they could do now.
I loved Burnout Paradise, but Burnout 3: Takedown will always be the best game in the series, for me. Burnout 3 is arguably the most fun game ever made, with the greatest licensed soundtrack ever.
I played through the remaster quite recently. It's not as good as I remember, but I think a lot of that is because the "open world" thing was still pretty fresh back then.
I do think there's a gap in the market for a game like Burnout. With the new gen they could really make car damage a huge selling point again.
Burnout paradise remastered and original are my favorite, i got the platinum trophy for both games the nighthawk is my favorite car
Personally don't give a shit for open world racers. Give me a new Motorstorm, Split second, Outrun.
Cultured Vultures: The Burnout series has plenty of great games to play, but which one is definitively the best? We're here to rank them all.
I think the crash mode should comeback. Tryng to make the most damage was very cool.
Burnout 2 should be above 3 imo. The aftertouch takedown mechanic slowed down the gameplay too much in 3.
That's the mechanic that made me enjoy Burnout 3 over the others. It wasn't until they introduced it that I considered the series any good.
I love Takedown, Revenge, and Paradise. Dominator was okay, but it clearly felt like a B-tier game.
After playing those awesome games, I went back to try out part 1 and it was rough. I didn't like the controls (whereas the others felt perfect to me), the elevator music was generic and not enjoyable to listen to.
Finally the game's difficulty was extremely high. I could beat all single player races in Takedown, Revenge, Paradise, Dominator, but could not get first place in the very first race for the first Burnout game. It demands perfection and one slight mistake is all it takes to lose. I have yet to play part 2, but I'm hoping it's more like part 3 than part 1.
Burnout Takedown is my favorite racing game of all time. My wife was addicted to crash mode.
The online servers for 2008's Burnout Paradise are closing down after almost 12 years of service. This will not affect 2018's Burnout Paradise Remastered.
