As soon as you put the game in you’re thrown into the game. That’s right, no main menu. The same lengthy tutorial in the demo will annoy you even more here; because now you have the entire city open to you and yet you’re constantly being stopped by Crash FM. Burnout Paradise (let’s call it BP) has very similar gameplay to previous games in the series.
Single player in BP has a new twist: open world. As I played I felt shades of NFS: Most Wanted but with better graphics. Even with the open world play I still felt the game to be linear. The ‘campaign’ would be events you complete, instead of events just being listed like in previous Burnouts; you access them by driving to traffic lights. I don’t really know how but I actually felt this game to be more linear than its predecessors even with the open world. Other things that add to the single player part are: Gas stations that fill up your boost, Auto Repair, and a place where you can get your car painted a different colour. It’s also possible to unlock cars via takedowns. As you progress through events occasionally a new car will be available for you to hunt down. A new feature which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Burnout Paradise does make up for its extremely straight forward single player with some online multiplayer which was great fun. Tired of doing the same old repetitive single player? Why not hit Right on the D-pad to bring up the Online menu. The only option to play in Freeburn which throws you right into the game. No loading, no change of car, no change of location, just a small menu at the top right which shows other people in the same game as you. The host can then select Challenges or Events…or choose to just Freeburn around Paradise with your buddies. Challenges will bring up a menu of 40+ different goals each player has to get such as getting big air, and drifting the farthest. Events allow the host to pick any event and route for all players to participate in. Old school Burnout fans will enjoy this as there is limited roaming and loading to start an actual event. There is no offline split screen, as with most open world games.
And lastly, the achievements in BP are a blast to go for. A mix of quick early achievements and hard achievements later in the game provide an awesome experience and a great example of how achievements will be.
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.
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I agree for the with everything you said. It is just I don't think the overall sound quality should be a 3 because of their chosen tracks. But to each his own.