Videogamer writes:
"The demo for EA's Burnout Paradise is without doubt the biggest demo of December, so we thought we'd take a closer look. Our investigation has uncovered numerous things that you can do in the demo that might not be obvious - or simply a few things we thought were quite amusing."
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
Because I'm at the Playstation store right now and I don't see nothing?
Hope it wasn't delayed.
GRAPHICS= 9/10,GREAT LOOKING CITY AND CARS,JAGGIES ARE PRESENT BUT I'M SURE THEY CAN FIX THIS BEFORE RELEASE.
SOUND/MUSIC= 8.5/10,CRASHES SOUND EXCELLENT,THE MUSIC SCORE IS EITHER A HIT OR A MISS(FROM PUNK ROCK TO MOZART,IT'S CRAZY).
CONTROLS= 9/10,HANDLES AS YOU WOULD EXPECT.LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU PRESS RIGHT ON THE D-PAD TO ACCESS ONLINE FEATURES.
GAMEPLAY= 9/10,FEELS LIKE BURNOUT MIXED WITH NEED FOR SPEED UNDERGROUND,CAR WRECKS ARE EASIER TO COME BY AND CAR TAKEDOWNS ARE HARDER DUE TO DRIVING IN SUCH LARGE ROADS.PERSONALLY,I LOVE IT,I'VE ALWAYS DISLIKED NEED FOR SPEED BECAUSE IT NEVER GIVES YOU THE FEELING OF PLAYING A BALANCED GAME,AND I THINK THE NEW BURNOUT DELIVERS THE FEELING.
OVERALL= 9/10.AAA,MUST BUY FOR ME.NOW EXCUSE ME AS I GO BACK TO CRASHING MY WAY AROUND PARADISE.
Yeah it's out, seems pretty sweet... I liked it. The speed is really nice, you can really fly down the street. feels like classic burnout.
I tried both Xbox 360 and the PS3 and the game is the same on both systems. The sound is really done well.
There is a lot to love here, but something does concern me. After driving around for awhile I felt like I really didn't have anything to do but explore.
Sure I played some online games but they where just ok, not as much fun as I thought they would be.(it is easy though to get some online action) Just pull up to the light and hit the direction pad. it's 1, 2 , 3.
But, like in the single player version of Xbox burnout you would be racing down the street and trying to crash the computer into the wall.
but in this new version of drive anywhere you can still hit people but most of the time it's head on as people are never going the same way with you and when they are it's hard to catch them.
Sure this is all minor but I just hope there is a real single player mode to the whole game that is more like that old burnout, because if not I'm really going to miss that.
Overall the game was fun and I played for a good amount of time just enjoying the speed and jumps. So yeah it's worth downloading.
If you like burnout before, anyone of the series, you will love this.
two bottom pic's are of xbox 360 and second is PS3 XMB screen sorry quality sucks this was my Cell phone's camera.
Anyway enjoy the game.