Gameplayer has gone live with an article on Burnout Paradise that looks at its playability, its online and its new features. It includes some quotes from Criterion as well.
"But what really made our jaw hit the floor was that, aside from the initial leap from title screen to game, there are no loading screens anywhere; no menus to navigate."
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 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.
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.
No more Need For Speed, it's time to bring back Burnout.
Its long long overdue but the problem is its just not a big money spinner. Thats why EA ditched it. Alex Ward has gone his own way with Three Fields Entertainment & made Dangerous Driving but its very low budget.
Burnout with real life car mechanic costs sounds about right if you want EA to go for it.
Here's the thing, EA is sitting on so many great IPs i would like to return, but at the same thing i feel like modern EA would find a way to ruin it. Besides Respawn, EA hasn't dropped anything good for almost 2 generations IMO.
Absolutely loved these games back in the day. Paradise was good too but didn't quite have the feel of the old games
One of the few racers I'm actually interested in. No loading too? Motorstorm's loading while changing vehicles pissed me off major!
I don't understand what's so good about the lack of menus. There's nothing wrong with menus so long as you haven't discovered a better alternative. The open city of Burnout is boring and it takes way more time to get into a particular race, challenge, etc. than it would with menus. Any advantage of no load times is destroyed in this way.
It's a bit like dumb reviewers complaining about linearity in a story driven game. In the last 2,000 - 3,000 years humanity hasn't been able to come up with a better alternative to tell a story, so stop complaining. That doesn't mean that there might not be a better alternative out there (or maybe games shouldn't be story driven at all) but if it's out there it's damn hard to find.
i think the game is great...the open world is different...the one thing i would like added though, is an instant replay for the races if you fail...rather than having to ride ALL the way back, it sucks
Burnout Paradise is the first game in the series I've owned on a home console. I have seen others playing other versions and while it looked like fun I never adopted one. I have Burnout Legends on my PSP, and it was the real catalyst for me buying Burnout Paradise. I really like the game and I even get butterflies in my stomach when it gets moving really fast. I think it's a great game, despite what might be said otherwise. The only flaw I find is in the controls. I would prefer a more traditional control layout with the low button in the button diamond to be the accelerator, and the left button as the brake. I guess I'm an old fashioned gamer, but I did get used to the control scheme.
yeah 60fps on ps3 and 45fps on 360.