Speaking to VG247, Criterion's Alex Ward has confirmed that 50,000 people have played Burnout Paradise online over both systems in the past 24 hours.
"In the past 24 hours we've had 50,000 people play Burnout Paradise online on both systems," Ward told the site. "If they only stayed online for one hour each on average (and most stayed for more than that), there will be have been over FIVE AND A HALF YEARS of play online in Paradise City in the last 24 hours."
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
I refused to believe that a Game as Great as Burnout Paradise would go on being ignored, and overlooked by the gaming community...
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...."The JOEY has Spoken"
One thing is for sure, those who do not have a hard drive for their Red Light 360 console is not part of the 50,000 population.
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But I'm so proud of fellow 360 owners for not falling for the hype. As far as I know B:P has never made it into the top 10 most played games on LIVE.
I guess a couple people actually read and agreed with my review :P
to me both toughNAME and InYourMom sound a little resentful at the fact that the game was labeled as "inferior" by others and never gave it a chance to see how Great of a game it was, especially since the "inferiority" part is no ones to blame but Microsofts due to the lack of a Hard Drive. Be TRUE GAMERS and form your OWN opinions, you dont always have to be biased or persuaded by others opinions.
fanboys can argue all they want. burnout was a pretty good game. now bring on GT5!!! :-)