Burnout Paradise

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $24.35

Features:

• Rock Paradise City—Shred your way across more than 250 miles of open road discovering jumps, stunts, and shortcuts.
• Infinite Possibilities—Blaze your path to glory in 120 unique events, using your knowledge of the city to find the fastest routes and get the drop on rivals.
• Team Up or Takedown—Battle friends online and grab their mugshots, or join forces to complete more than 300 online challenges.
• Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time—Send your car wrecking, spinning and scraping down the road, smashing through traffic and leaving a trail of expensive wreckage in your wake.
• Road Rules—Make and break the rules of each road by setting speed and destruction records all over town. Track how many you own against your friends!

Accessories:
PlayStation: The Official Magazine (1-year)	Electronic Gaming Monthly	Play	Tips & Tricks Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Frustrating but somewhat fun [Posted on 2008-12-01]
The game graphics are very well done. The gameplay is very smooth and the controls are very well organized. This game is based on open road driving just like city driving. Racing can get very frustrating because crashing is very easy. Traffic is heavy and the added park cars makes you want to slam the controller. I had this game for sometime now and I love playing it but I have to turn it off within an hour because I'll be heated from crashing once and losing the race. Also, you can't restart the race from the pause screen, you'll have to drive all the way back to where the street light was so you can retry that race all over.
The added bikes make the game much more enjoyable but still frustrating with the crashing.

Pros
-Looks great and the cars handle good
-Game is far from short
-Motorcycles
-Crashing and take downs look amazing
-Real time damage

Cons
-NO DRIVER, it really upsets me that EA couldn't put a driver in the car.
-Can't restart a race.
-Crash easily.
-Game is far from easy.
-Maps are complex.
-GPS is horrible. It doesn't tell you when to turn till the last minute.
-Added Trophies were late! EA released trophy support for this game but I already completed 50% and I'm not planning on starting all over.

Not a Good Burnout Game [Posted on 2008-12-09]
Burnout Paradise has fantastic graphics and car handling. It really is a pleasure to drive around in the city. But, most of the game is not up to par with my favorite Burnout game - - Burnout 3: Takedown.

B3:T had something called SPLIT-SCREEN MULTIPLAYER. This is a feature that I take as granted. The actual disappearance of this feature was something I could not accept. There is absolutely no trace of it, and it's disgusting.

The other thing I have a problem with is the game's structure itself. Many other reviewers have mentioned this as well. When attempting a race, failing is not the best option as there is no available choice to just "restart" if you fail. Everyone does it. When you fail an event, you hit start and press RESTART! Then, you magically appear back where you started the event. This is not the case in Burnout Paradise. When an event is failed, you must drive all the way back to where it started, which is difficult because the map does not have target points that you can set (like GTA does) so you can drive to it fast. It's ridiculous.

I've put the game down. Not only is the structure terrible and the multiplayer MISSING, but the incessant drone of "Paradise City" by G&R that plays EVERY TIME YOU START THE GAME drove me crazy after the 3 times I played it.

Don't buy it. Play Burnout 3: Takedown or simply any other Burnout game. This is a waste of time.

Awesome but not as good as Burnout Revenge on PS2 [Posted on 2008-12-11]
I guess it's a bit unfair to compare this to Burnout Revenge which is my all time favorite racing game, bar none.
This is a very cool game but the controls take some adjustment. Now you use the right trigger button for the gas, left trigger for reverse, X for Boost and [] (square) for the brake.
I'd really like it to be able to map out the buttons so I can use X for Gas and right trigger for boost. Reverse isn't much of an issue for me. My wife has a much harder time playing this, than she does Revenge.
The Burnout Pardise looks awesome but you can't smash other cars off the road anymore and no more Smash ups at Intersections. I also seem to crash a lot more in this than I do in Revenge, but, overall, I really like this game. Being able to power drift in Wriggly Field is pretty cool.
This is a good follow-up to the other Burnout games but how I long for Burnout Revenge 2 on the PS3! That would be Intense!

Worth the price of admission, fun for hooligans! [Posted on 2008-12-28]
The graphics in this game are absolutely luscious, particularly the lurid slow motion crashes which have a cinematic feel and some amazing kinetics. The soundtrack is hip and fits the action perfectly. The vehicles sound wicked and the dynamics/physics are excellent - e brake turns are accomplished easily and sweetly. The free range driving experience will suit those who don't want a lot of rules and the ability to stop at will and crash some gates or do a "super jump" will appeal to those who like treasure hunts. It has kept my teenagers entertained for hours already. Highly recommended for those who like cars, car games and a bit of free form fun.

Dont listen to others, they just want to ask for more [Posted on 2008-12-29]
In all my years of playing racing games, this is by far, the best game, the graphics are incredible, and it deserved the name it got PARADISE. You may hear people say that they have to pause and look at the map, just to get to the finish..... NOT TRUE!!! Theres a compass that shows where to go, and theres a small map on the bottom left corner, leading you to finish. The game is not hard, online is very clean and fast, the cars are beautiful, and you get to roam around the city, and do what you want. To let you all know earning cars is a little more different now, you need to find the car, and take it down, which is a real challenge.

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