A game that you wont soon forget
The Burnout series has pretty much been the same since the beginning with slight changes and graphical updates. In my opinion i think Burnout Paradise is the best of the series.
Many games have tried the open world concept, and most of them have failed. Burnout successfully tackles the open world concept. If you played other burnout games you will be familiar with this one even though it can get confusing and annoying at times. You start out the game with a junker and have to go to the repair shop to repair it and get racing. To start out events you must got to any stop-light and preform a burnout by pressing L2+R2 and the events include all the Burnout classics including the following: Race, Road Rage and others. In a review for a game with no story i cant think of much to say. To play burnout online is a seamless experience by pressing LEFT on the d-pad you get to choose from you friends and other things like freeburn. There are no menus to go through to get to any of the game and there are no loading times to get to online or the other side of the map. The bad thing about burnout is that when you finish or fail an event you dont go to the start you end up where you end up. The navigation in burnout suck to say the least. In the time I've played it it darn near impossible to get to your starting point if you want to but its fun just to driving arround find events and doing them, but the bad thing is to get new cars you need to go the the junkyard which is a pain in the ass to find while your driving arround. Thats just me some of you might be good at that kind of thing. The online aspect of burnout is cool. It's a seemless transfer form offline to online, it has online leader boards for every street in the game and has 50 challenges for 2 players 50 for 3 and so on. In the multi-player portion of the game there are 350 challenges to be completed and best completed with your personal friends or mature clan-mates, beacuse it take concentration and cooperation to complete the challenges. This is my first game purchase of 2008 and i could have thought of a better game to buy. If you a fan of the burnout series and have 60$ to spend get this game.
In the recent update (Cagney) which was released July 10th and added custom sound tracks for the ps3 version.
Here is a list strait from Criterion of all the added features.
"3 New Freeburn Game Modes:
• Road Rage
Up to 8-player team event. One team must race through a series of Paradise City checkpoints. The other team must stop them.
Cue incredible chases and battling through the city, tons of voice communication as players co-ordinate their efforts.
• Stunt Run (vs)
Pull stunts to score points - hit barriers, billboards and ramps; ace barrel rolls, flat spins and massive airtime to score big. Everybody competes to simultaneously reach the biggest total. Hit your rivals to kill their scores and gain multipliers.
• Marked Man
A player is selected at random and everyone gangs up to take them down. The Marked Man scores for reaching the end point intact and taking anyone down along the way.
70 New Freeburn Challenges
• 70 new timed multi-part Freeburn Challenges
• Leaderboards for these challenges that log your best time (as well as those people who did it with you)
Vehicles
• Hunter Olympus
• A secret Criterion Car!
New liveries
• Rossolini Tempesta Dream
• Two fan-created liveries – the Oval Steel Racer and Inferno Hippie Van
• Two secret Criterion liveries!
Ranked Race Changes
• Too much to report in this blog entry but click here for the full breakdown!
Custom Soundtracks
• Custom Soundtrack support on PS3
Other high-priority fixes and updates
• If you're in a 3 or more player challenge and a player drops out, the remaining players can still complete it (subject to it being a challenge that can handle this!)
• "Previously" section on the search games list now displays Challenges, Today's Best and Freeburn game modes, making it loads easier to decide which game you want to join
• You can now view Leaderboards and Options in an online game
• You can now mute other online players in the show players screen
• You can now mute yourself if you have a PS3 Eye/Eye toy
• We've increased time-out for online races, and if all players complete the races within the timer, then you go straight to results
• The Airfield has been changed to help with the drivability of the area and make it a little easier to complete the hoop challenges
• Online cars now show damage - roll up to the start in a half-destroyed Hunter Cavalry and everyone else will see it!
• Added a stronger display message if you rule all of Todays Best
• The Easy Drive menu & Challenges page now loops from top to bottom
• Fixed the navigation system so that it takes into account the next check point in a race
• Fixed traffic not reappearing in Freeburn after a no-traffic race
• Fixed online races using Lawrence Road - it's been reporting finish distances with a little inaccuracy
• Revised 30+ car resets following crashes
• All new sound effects added for Easy Drive
• Driving backwards in Road Rage now ends the event as it does in Marked Man
• Option to invert camera axis for the look around camera on right stick
• Online player information made accurate on the instance a player goes through a checkpoint in races
• If you set VOIP mix to zero it is now saved correctly
• 1080i support for "almost HD" sets - PS3 only
• Improved the Standard Definition rendering on PS3
• New highlight to show the player in Today's Best
• Easy Drive fades out if it's unused for 20 seconds
• Boost chaining no longer possible by drifting in open areas"
5 stars is my score for this game
