1UP's Burnout Paradise review: PS3 edition sports a slight visual edge

eyeballpauluk - 712 days 23 hours ago

from being an owner of both consoles, i like to know which is best tho, so i can buy it for the better version...

nothing worse than buying a multiplatform game then finding out you bought the wrong one!

For example, I bought Splinter cell for the ps3, before realising it had terrible framerate issues! So if this looks a little better on PS3, then ill get it for that...

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The Wood - 712 days 23 hours ago

the 360 version will probably get the same score but if that was the other way around there would probably be a .5 difference in the scores (typical 1up) if its not rumble its online if its not that its custom soundtracks. When that comes it'll probably be achievements and when that comes they'll say the pads got shapes on its buttons instead of letters....lol

im really out this time

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eLiNeS - 712 days 22 hours ago

if you have both a Xbox 360 and a PS3 then the easy choice at the moment would be the Xbox 360 since you have rumble, you earn achievements and you can play your own music. This will change for the PS3 but until it does...

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mikeslemonade - 712 days 20 hours ago

This is basically the first game that is definitively better on PS3, so the growth starts right from here. Sony allows the option for the developer to not support in game music and I think this idea will be best long term because developers can use those assets to make a better game. Right now those assets aren't that much of a difference, but development for the PS3 is still fairly early. In game music is pretty high on things on want for every game and is a feature that im pretty jealous on 360, but allowing in game music as an option is probably the best way because it gives the developer more potential and you probably have atleast 3 devices in your room that play music already.

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bruiser81 - 712 days 20 hours ago

elines: i got my rumble controller for christmas so yeah ps owners have an option to get rumble if they really want it, even the burnout demo is rumble enabled. Ps3 may not have a concrete system for it but most of their games have achievements warhawk and uncharted being great examples. Plus ps3 gamers are lucky with this game cause they get the same online gaming experience with this game as the 360 and its free

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sonarus - 712 days 19 hours ago

i have both consoles i also have a dual shock 3 from japan. Not really much of an achievment junkie achievments in no way influence my decision to buy a game. If it was mgs4 maybe because mgs4 is a game i knw i will be finishing at least 5 times so would be nice to get unlockable achievements for maybe playing the whole game without any alerts or something and getting super stealth like they had in mgs3 or not killin any bosses and get hidden camoflague (like the ones where all bad guys had to salute you even if you were in alerts status lol). not to discredit any game for not having great unlockables however mgs is the only game i care about enough to actually put in the extra effort to get these so called "achievements". That being said custom soundtracks is a big deal for me and i have been patiently waiting for it for me thats the biggest advantage xbox has over ps3 and also better interface but i really wasnt planning to get burnout anyway the demo is too much of a depature from the old game. The took out essential things from the game so looks like its gt5 prologue for my driving fix then. Was eagerly anticipating burn out though

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scottie2521 - 712 days 16 hours ago

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s8anicslayer - 712 days 10 hours ago

if you want rumble, buy a dual shock 3 from ebay, all games basicaly support it any ways! it looks better on ps3 then that's the one for me, hands down

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raerae28 - 712 days 18 hours ago

If its not one thing its another....

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Nik - 712 days 23 hours ago

What about Oblivion?

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rhood022 - 712 days 16 hours ago

the ps3 version of oblivion still looks better, even after the update for the 360. have both, played both.

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i Shank u - 712 days 8 hours ago

Oblivion for PS3 has a year additional dev time. damn right it better have looked better on PS3; they had an extra year!

agreed p4kyB. burnout was designed on ps3; looks best on ps3. Splinter Cell:DA was designed on 360; looked best on 360. pretty cut and dry

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ReBurn - 712 days 18 hours ago

If the differences are only slight graphical issues then why should the PS3 version score higher? Graphics are only one criteria for scoring. The fact that the 360 version has the ability to have custom soundtracks and the PS3 version does not easily makes up for the graphical issues that the review mentions. Since the gameplay is said to be identical I think that it sounds right.

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popup - 712 days 17 hours ago

Afterall, its not like anyone can mute the music on the PS3 version and play a cd player or ipod for the music. Better still, you could buy a mixer and use an Xbox360 to play music while you play the PS3 version.

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007craft - 711 days 21 hours ago

Thats not how custom soundtracks work. With the 360, a custom soundtrack will replace in game music with your music while maintaining the sound effects of the game. You can also adjust the volume levels to balance it out.

I hardly ever use the feature but I do in burnout games, as well as sports games and when im going for achievments on a multiple playthrough of a game ill turn my own music on.

I would get a 360 version because 360 has friends list and achievments. sure ps3 has these too, but their per game. Who cares if achievements are o0n a per game basis. They have had those since collecting hearts for zelda back on nes. Unless you have a system wide gamercard that remains with you, the second you shut that game off the achievments dont exsist. People can see that I got all burnout revenge achievements. Who the hell can see your ps3 burnout paradise achievements next year? For this reason, sony still does not have achievements.

I also cant stand that sony controller. If only the control stick was swapped with the directional pad it would be much better.

deffenitly buy the 360 version. Looks better on the ps3? I doubt it. They say this and that game look better on the ps3/xbox. I call bs on all of it. All looks the same to me (well different but not in a worse way). Its almost like looking at a tv with the colour set a certain way. Unless somebody tells you that your watching it wrong, you have no idea.

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popup - 711 days 14 hours ago

For example,

I have all three consoles and a gaming PC going into a 12 track mixer and can have any combination of sound/video I wish. My PC can play my entire playlist and I can kill the in-game music on say the PS3 while keeping the sound effects and balance it with the PC before heading out to the amp. Once the levels are set, you rarely have to change them. In this guise, it is the same thing but more flexible.

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ar - 712 days 23 hours ago

PS3 has rumble to.

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blusoops - 712 days 20 hours ago

Yup...I've had rumble for my PS3 for about 2 months now! and it's great!

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iMad - 712 days 23 hours ago

But you forget to mention that it better for HD movies. Not gaming.

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MaximusPrime - 712 days 22 hours ago

iMad, you are clearly an idiot.

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crunchie101 - 712 days 23 hours ago

maybe you should become a contributer.

it isn't that hard really

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Kain81 - 712 days 23 hours ago

Burnout Paradise rocks

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bym051d - 712 days 23 hours ago

Link? I'll switch my pre-order back if true.

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bee2427 - 712 days 19 hours ago

well progressive scan is better then interlaced especially when it comes to sports or video games because of fast motion. Whether its in 720p or 1080p, it should be better than 1080i, but 1080i and 720p are basically interchangable

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bym051d - 712 days 13 hours ago

Progressive is not better at all when your choices are 480p or 1080i, which is what they are on the PS3 if you're a 1080i RPTV owner.

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mighty_douche - 712 days 23 hours ago

well that makes sense......

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predator - 712 days 23 hours ago

All of my mates have 360's and getting this game so ill want to be ablt to go online with them and have a laugh, plus psn is like a graveyard with everyone not having mics and also acheivements will be fun getting with this..... does that make sense?

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mighty_douche - 712 days 23 hours ago

dont get mad, and YES i does now make sense.

whats wrong with people on this site, so defensive.

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Why o why - 712 days 23 hours ago

by xbox and nintendo lovers. He's bound to stand out for defending the champ. Its like us surrounded by people like you and you've the cheek to lable him a fanboy = irony

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Genuine - 712 days 21 hours ago

I don't care what Shane is surrounded by, he has a professional responsibility to be unbiased in his reviews. After a year of hearing him bash MS and the 360 while using the 1up yours podcast to advertise for sony, I can't help but think he's a lying fanboy. If someone is a fanboy extremist like Shane is, no one can rightly trust what they say, not even the people who are fans of the same console. That goes for any console.

Also mullet, your comment has been reported as offensive.

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Why o why - 712 days 21 hours ago

until i hear YOU calling out guys that are obviously biased towards the 360 or against the ps3 ill continue to filter the majority of what you say with these here Fanboy Firewall Filters©. They have already snagged posters like the mart nasim zhuk and all of that kind. Your past comments have alerted my FFF© to your continual troll virus-like tendancies and has deemed 90% unfit for real consideration in regards to topics relating to or have involvement with the PS3.

You are in the braket of people that others will disagree with you before they've even read your comments. Maybe they also use FFF©

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Genuine - 712 days 19 hours ago

You aswell as the people who disagreed with my post aren't as familiar with the gaming media as I am. There is no other person in the multi-plat mainstream gaming media that is a bigger and more vocal fanboy than Shane Bettenhausen. If you can find someone worse, please point them out, I'd be interested to know who they are. Shane Bettenhausen coined the term Xbot back in 2005. He inspired the Sony Protection Group through the 1up Yours podcast . He has spent the past 2 years trying to degrade the 360, and 360 owners via the 1up yours podcast. He has been giving sony advertising time on 1up with his blatant sony ball licking. This must be why his peers refer to him as Sony Bettenhausen. I could careless about you people, if someone chooses to be ignorant or a liar or an ignorant liar, they will reap what they sow.

edit- @why
Why should I show parity, Sony fanboys have been attacking Xbox fans long before there was such a thing as an Xbox fanboy. Xbox fans were forced to defend themselves, that's how the Xbox fanboy came to be. You'll get no parity from me. If someone is a sony fanboy, IMO they are the cancer of the gaming world.

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Why o why - 712 days 18 hours ago

until you can show some parity, your semi rants are falling on deaf ears. until i see you being so vocal about people other than ps3 fanboys, your semi rants are falling on deaf ears. untill i see you barrate 360 bias sites, your semi rants are falling on deaf ears. Get the picture. The dude may be a fanboy BUT when the sh*t flung is also coming from a fanboy (yourself in this case) it comes across a little tedious, no offence.

edit @ genuine lol, both our bubbles done

but im not going to get into who slung what first what i will say is that i wouldnt listen to anything nasim said about the xbox neither. im not even asking you to change or be more unbiased, what im saying is that some people will see your bias and discount what you say because of it just like you do to the reviewer in this case. cancer of the 360 side vs cancer on the ps3 side right side makes no difference, they both kill

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