Burnout Paradise Remastered has earned the franchise its first chart top spot in over a decade.
The much-missed smash 'em-up racing series last hit number one with Burnout Revenge, back in 2005. However, Burnout's best ever week of launch sales still belongs to Burnout 3: Takedown back in 2004.
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In my opinion, Burnout 3 is much better than Burnout Paradise.
The need for speed games are decent, but they focus so much on story that they are a bit of a turn off. I genuinely prefer just picking the race from menus and moving on to the next race event through there. Also the focus on open world for racing games is a bit overplayed. I have to drive to the next event? Lame. It’s okay to have an open world mode, but a menu base career mode without story is preferable to me.
Totally agree, racing games don't get better than a series of tightly designed events one after the other with no filler. Open world design is...ok, but it's not peak racing for me.
Yeah...I think so too. BO Paradise being the most acclaimed entry in the series buy ironically, it was the one that turned me off the series altogether. Tried several times to like it since the PS3 version, nah...not the same. 2 and 3 were awesome on the PS2!
I hate open world racing games. I love learning the track which is almost impossible in an open world city.
NFS used to be fun now all open world racing. Used to be able select your cars and tracks. Now you drive through a town to get to the race what kind of Crap is that?? Open World is overwhelming. I'm at the point if I want to play NFS it'll be closed circuit old skool NFS PS2 era
Criterion is ruining my favorite racing game.
Midnight club, Project Gotham racing and burnout were peak racing games for me. All arcade racers but at very different levels.
People need to differentiate between Racing games and Driving games. If you just want to race, don't choose an open world game. If you just want to drive around an interesting environment, choose an open world game. There is room enough for both.
i 2nd this! I love them both! Forza Horizon 5 is an amazing open world driving game.. just as Gran Turismo 7 is an amazing racing game. room for both
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Eurogamer has made a mistake, I believe. The last Burnout to take no.1 was Burnout Paradise itself in 2008 - ten years ago. They claim that the last no.1 was 2005's Burnout Revenge.
Burnout will be successful.
We need a new Burnout game.
This game is still a blast. I played the 360 BC version just recently (on the XOne), and it's so hard to put down after tearing through the streets for a while.
Burnout and Kirby both did well.