It seems every racing game is embracing the current generation of consoles by sticking a massive free-roaming world into their previously linear framework, but Burnout Paradise looks truly standout.
Developer Criterion promises the next instalment's sunny island will be both brimming with things to do behind the wheel and incredibly accessible to any type of gamer (it's got no loading and no front-end whatsoever). Oh yeah, there's lots of crashing as well.
CVG recently sat down with Paradise's producer Nick Channon and he answered the following questions, among others:
- Why did Criterion decide to make the PS3 their main SKU for Burnout?
- Why most developers are making Xbox 360 the focus platform for their games? Is it just because it was out earlier?
- What kind of advantages has leading on PS3 given Criterion in terms of exploiting that specific hardware?
- What does Paradise have to offer hardcore fans?
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.
No more Need For Speed, it's time to bring back Burnout.
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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.
Each game gets closer and closer to being good. It's kind of painful how close they are. haha. I hope Dangerous Driving 2 being open world isn't too ambitious for them and it's a polished, fun 7.5-8/10.
Maybe not, but if a quality title in the reigns released now days...People do pay more attention to reviews comparitively
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.
"almost 2 generations" What? Are you talking about the PS3 and the 360?
I agree with the general sentiment that their catalogue of games since the PS4/XB1 has been comparatively terrible to what they used to do though.
Absolutely loved these games back in the day. Paradise was good too but didn't quite have the feel of the old games
Good, make the game not suck like Dominator did. That's aaaaaaaall I ask.
it looks so cool!!
i loved burnout 2 and 3!!
i hope this turns out to be good and use the cells in the ps3 in a good way!! i would love to see the crashes!!
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sh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!t this game is so cool!!!
i check it in gametrailers!!
i like the soundtrack also it reminded me of burnout 2 which had a great soundtrack!!
this and gt will have my driving demon satisfied for years to come. i just hope they didn't catch an EA virus(crappy ps3 game virus) since they joined them.
rid of all the things I loved about Burnout and are making it into some kind of lame Test Drive Unlimited knock-off. I mean come on no more slo-mo crash cam??? That was a huge trademark of the game..
Sad that this will be the first Burnout game I don't purchase. And with all their Sony nuttrubbin it isn't making me feel any better about it. We know how much hell the PS3 causes in multiplatform development and even though they keep using that same BS line of "they look identical" it's almost never the case with CoD4 being the exception(minus the crappy PS3 multiplayer).
After the horrible Dominator, I don't expect anything great from Paradise.