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    Burnout Paradise

    Game » consists of 27 releases. Released Jan 22, 2008

    Burnout Paradise turns the Burnout series on its head by moving from closed set tracks to an open world full of events to experience both alone and in a group online.

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    4.3 stars

    Average score of 69 user reviews

    Not the burnout i remember, but good though... 1

    Although its still called burnout it's completely different to the previous games.It's still about cars and driving insanely fast but it's not as fast pasted as burnout 3 and the others were.If you're a new comer to the franchise you should just plain like it but if you are looking for the burnout you love and remember, prepare to be surprised. If it's a good or bad surprise it depends what you're looking for. If you want a sandbox style racer, look no further, but if you want the old burnout si...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    It's a little to nichey to be 5 stars. 0

    Burnout Paradise is an insanely crazy driving game, It's also structured like a grinding MMO. You spend your time completing one event at a time of the three types being stunt run, road rage, race, and marked man. The game however merely rewards you with new cars that control nearly the same as the others it just changes some of the luck and speed. This makes the single player game feel monotonous. The Online play is okay but the original way they wanted people to play it rarely comes forth, the...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Glorious Crashing 0

    As the latest entry in the Burnout proves, wrecking your car can prove to both incredibly cool, but also somewhat annoying if you get taken down 100 yds from the finish line and your wreck doesn't manage to slide over the finish.  But this point aside Burnout Paradise is fun game.  The game world looks beautiful even when the environments are flying by at 200mph.  The wide variety of cars allows for every player to find a ride that fits their driving style.  I myself prefer aggression cars even ...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Favorite Burnout So Far 0

    I have rented this game multiple times and am unable to tare my hands away from my controller.All of the different aspects of this game are near perfection. All the different challenges have me driving around Paradise City like a mad man. I just want to complete them all. Online is pure addiction. If I do not have the game on me I sometimes play the demo online, which is fun.There are, as with every game, some flaws. I sometimes get lost in the giant landscape that is Paradise City and the surro...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    The art of setting clear objectives and overacheiving. 0

    I loved Burnout Paradise. Every gate crash, superjump, stunt run and race was an amazing time. I was finishing this game when the Dualshock 3 was released and made the experience all the better.BP doesn't do everything you'd think a driving game (or even a Burnout game) should, but what it does, it does very well. Blistering sense of speed, cringe-inducing crashes, interesting locale.If I had to bitch about it, here are my top gripes:- cars aren't different enough.- can't turn off the slowmotion...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Best Future proof game, ever. 0

    From the first moment you start the game you will notice that the game is entirely free roaming and you can go anywhere. This however creates a big flaw to the game since the franchise has been known for it's arcadey racing tracks. To start a race you'll have to go to one of the many intersections where you will have to hold the left and right triggers. Once a race has started you're let go, you will briefly see the finish area and you'll have to get ready for a confusing sprint where you'll hav...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Burnoult Paradise : a true paradise 0

    Since it was first released Burnout has been an arcade racer. A crazy arcade racer, full with adrenalin, crashes and fast paced action. You see, there are two types of racer, the arcade race like Burnout, Forza and Grand Turismo. And there is the free - roaming racers, like Need for Speed and Midnight Club. Both stay in their own territory, and both remained popular. But now Burnout has made the jump to free roaming(and Need for Speed has made the jump to Arcade racing, funny eh). And, my god i...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Burnout Paradise Review 0

    In Burnout Paradise you're a lone driver whose goal is to become the best in Paradise City and to use every twist and turn to take you one step closer to reaching the finish line. In this newest installment of Burnout things take a whole new turn as you get to unlock events and a whole variety of different vehicles. Burnout has continued to live up to its name with full-fledged crashes that will leave you on the edge of your seat. In this sequel you begin with a driver license that you must leve...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Worth Your While 0

    The racing game genre in recent years has split between varieties of themes. Most racing games can be categorized under street, simulation, or arcade racing. The Burnout series squeezes a little bit from each of those categories and makes the thesis of the game quite clear: wreck havoc. Burnout Paradise takes a turn into new territory this time around, giving the opportunity to freely cruise throughout an open-ended city. The city's name is pretty obvious given the title of the game, but many ro...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Not the burnout I remember 2

    Back in the day when Burnout existed on PS2, it was one of the best games out there. Crashes seemed fairly decent, and the races were generally fun. Burnout Paradise tries to mix up that formula and does so somewhat successfully. First of all it is an Open-World burnout game, which the gaming market is generally moving up to anyways, but it added a few new interesting concepts. At the beginning I enjoyed Paradise, the races were fun and the no retry demo wasn't bad, it was okay. After a while I ...

    0 out of 1 found this review helpful.

    Paradise is not near...it's here! 0

    WELCOME TO PARADISEBurnout Paradise is an amazing game where you basically just drive around, do races, beat cars down, do some amazing tricks, go off a lot of jumps, and have a blast doing it all....plus the amazing scenery to see. THE LOOK THROUGH MY SUNGLASSESParadise has to be one of the best looking racing games ever. For me i believe Motorstorm is amazing in the graphics area but Paradise comes amazingly close. The reflection on the cars look amazing, the sky looks natural and realistic....

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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    0 out of 1 found this review helpful.

    Burnout Paradise is the 3Fs to a Tee 0

    I originally owned Burnout Paradise for the 360, when I still had one. After the Box and I parted ways, I knew there were going to be couple games I was going to have to repurchase for the Playstation 3. One of them was Burnout.At 20 bones, it is a complete steal, plus it is available on PSN, so you don't even have to leave the safety of whichever divorced parents basement you are currently residing in. (Although, you might save time running to the store, as the download and installation can tak...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    beeping down the street has a new meaning. 0

    This game came out for the PS3 and Xbox360 in Jan. of 08, and has just been released on PC this past Feb. It’s been constantly updated with new modes and vehicles, some free, some for a price, the support from the developer has been great. The Good – Intense arcade style racing gameplay. Graphics have a fast, silky smooth framerate. Car wrecks seem to be randomly generated and are some of the most spectacular of any game.The sense of speed is exhilarating, the satisfaction from wrecking other ...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Navigation can be a pain, but Burnout is still an addictive rush. 0

    Full disclosure -- I wasn’t a fan of Burnout Paradise when it originally was released. I tried to give it my best effort, but the open-city format proved to be too jarring at the time and so it sat on my shelf for three long years. I’m sure I wasn’t alone in this. Criterion’s decision to eliminate discrete racing tracks in favor of a GTA-style “open world” format quickly alienated a lot of racing fans who just couldn’t wrap their heads around the freedom the developers wanted to bring into their...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    A Paradise City for Speed Junkies 0

    If you were just thinking of moving to Paradise City, you might want to rethink that. What with the constant vehicular carnage that spews across the streets and intersections of the city. Maybe we weren’t talking about the same Paradise City? I was of course referring to the setting of Criterion’s racing masterpiece, Burnout: Paradise. There really is not a whole lot of negative things to say about this iteration in the long running Burnout series. With a fantastic marriage of racing game and op...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    A (high-speed) change of direction 0

    Burnout Paradise is Criterion's 5th Burnout game, and the first built from the ground up for this console generation. It's apparent from the first moment you get behind the wheel, not just from the bump up in graphics, but  also the complete lack of loading screens.It's a major change, which requires an adjustment in how you attack the game. The game's much less arcade-like now, taking the fashionable sandbox approach instead. Events appear on your HUD and world map once you discover them at ind...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Showtime cant replace Crash mode, but still .... 0

    So Burnout Paradise, the newest edition into the series for the Xbox 360 / PS3 and soon to be windows platforms. Ok to jump right into the review if your reading this you've proberly played any of the 5 or 6 games that are in the series which means your wondering, exactly how does this stack up to the rest...? Well if you are you'll be glad to know that Burnout paradise is by far the best game in the series, bar only a few quarks here and there. As soon as you pop the game in you'll be greeted...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    An enjoyable & unique arcade driving experience. 0

    Being new to the Burnout franchise I went into this latest iteration of the series oblivious as to what to really expect from the title. While an arcade racer in nature, a run of the mill driving experience ala PGR, Forza, Sega Rally or NFS it certainly isn't. A welcome change for a machine not exactly dry on racing titles. The big selling point of this title compared to it's predecessors is its new open world aspect, the same you would find in say a GTA or Driver game.You start driving around t...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Racing Revolution 0

    This game is amazing. Now that I got that out of the way, let me explain why. On the surface, it's simple: stop at a stoplight and perform in one of five events to gain new cars and better, yet still creased, licenses. But underneath is a daunting level of complexity and the scale of the game is really very frightening. There are Superjumps, which are special ramps that activate beautiful cinematic camera angles and can result in some daunting crashes, which I will talk about more later, Billboa...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    First Burnout game, Pretty damn good 0

    Well this was one of my most anticipated games when i finally got an Xbox 360and picked out all the games that i wanted and to be honest from what ive played only at class B right now its a pretty fullfully and worthy game of this score for these reasons that i will show right now.Lets get on to the gameplay since there is really no story at all...your basically just crashing into people and earning rep for your licence class to go up every time you win like 15 events or 30 or more.So when it co...

    0 out of 1 found this review helpful.

    a great game but could be better i would tell everone 2 buy this 2

    alright great game i mean great cars great free roam excellent muiltplayer online is very strong and the challange's are great to do with a bunch of friends i think this is the best burnout game out buy this game u won't be sad about this game it has everthing and burnout fan wants in a burnout game the best in the series i know i said bad things about EA but this is the best series they ever had BUt let's look at some things that r bad about the game u can't mod ur car and when ur first playing...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Burnout: Paradise, but where did all the Burnout go? 2

    Let me preface this first by saying that I like my structure in racing games. I don’t get a kick out of sand-box style driving because it’s stressful and time-consuming. I like to have that linear feel that allows me to more or less memorize the tracks. I can name a long list of titles that I enjoy, that restrict you in what you can actually do. Paradise really sums up the reasons for loving that open world freedom, and also for hating it. It sets up all events at each of the intersections. It w...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    Better than fading away 0

    When I was little, my cousin and I would play the Rush games a ton on the N64. We didn’t play it for the racing as much as we played it for the stunt course. When we got sick of that, we would play the races with the sole purpose of ramming all of the other drivers off the road. I can vividly remember pushing a car into a palm tree and thinking, “Why the hell isn’t there a racing game that encourages all of this?” A few years later, I rented Burnout 2 for my Gamecube and my deep love for the Bu...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

    EA's tainted fingerprints are all over this game 0

    I'll begin by getting the good out of the way. The driving is fast and exhilirating, Paradise City itself is simple gorgeous and burnout fans will love it, while Average Joe will be entertained.My problem is the air of falseness hanging over this title like a choking smog. The constant " If only you had an Xbox 360 Camera(tm) then this would be so much better" and "Playing online and gaining rivals is really awesome, try it out now" make this game much damper than it should be.The n00b friendly ...

    0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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