Burnout Paradise is the latest installment of Criterion Games highly praised IP. Almost every aspect of the game has been tweaked in some way or another; this is not your Xbox’s Burnout for sure. Some of the tweaks really work in favor of your gameplay and some do not. What you end up with is an intense, blazingly fast and perfectly controlled racer, one that no one should miss.
The first change is an open environment. The entire city is open from the start, with the idea being that you can do whatever you want, whenever you want and pretty much however you want. Not all of the events are present at the start, mind you, and you’ll have to put some time to unlock the game’s roughly 75 cars, as well as drive around to have all the events active and on the map, but you never feel limited.
Stopping at an intersection with a light and pulling the RT and LT at the same time will start a race or event. When a race starts, you simply must race from point A to point B as fast as you can, along whatever route you want. There is a handy dandy indicator at the top of the screen telling you what direction to generally head in and there are some nice indicators about road names and intersections as well.
"Burnout Paradise delivers a car crushing experience that every gamer should own and relish!"
One gripe I had with the way an event unfolds is that you cannot restart an event, and if you fail you have to backtrack all the way to try again, this can be really frustrating and to me was a waste of time really. The way you end up behaving is that if you try an event and do not get it right 100% or fail then you can simply head to the next stop light and do another event.
The next event type is Road Rage; this vent really has not had much change done to it. You still race from point A to B and try and takedown as many opponents as you can in the given timeframe. There are quite a few opponents on the screen which makes for some awesome crash sequences and things to try and avoid.
Did you love crash mode? I did, and it is now gone, supplanted by Showtime Events. This type of even can be started at any time with the two bumpers. The long and short of it is that you start your car rolling and crash into stuff, pretty fun actually.
The next event type is the Stunt Event. You are basically tasked to rack up as many points as possible in a given time frame by stringing together stunts. The only downside here has to do with the different types of cars you can choose and how they affect a Stunt event’s difficulty.
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.
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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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