Burnout Paradise

Burnout is back!

Strengths: Great HD Graphics, open world, online challenges, fantastic controls.

Weakness: Open world, cant retry a race, crash mode is missing.

Burnout is back with the 5th game in the series, Burnout Paradise. This time pretty much everything has changed. Crash mode is gone, and the game is located in one huge city called Paradise City. There are over 120 different races and 350 online challenges! You will be playing the game for at least 50 hours if you want to beat this game. Also after you complete a race, you are not able to...
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Burnout is back with the 5th game in the series, Burnout Paradise. This time pretty much everything has changed. Crash mode is gone, and the game is located in one huge city called Paradise City. There are over 120 different races and 350 online challenges! You will be playing the game for at least 50 hours if you want to beat this game. Also after you complete a race, you are not able to "restart". Criterion disabled the restart option because it would require loading time. At first, this is pretty annoying, but after a while you wont notice, because you can just move on to the next race and come back later to the one you didn't finish. Online play is pretty much set up the best of any game I have played. With just a couple presses on the d-pad you are online. No more waiting in lobbies! Online play is also lag free even when there are 7 of your friends racing with you. This is recommended for racing fans or even people who don't like racing games. Buy it now and I will see you online......

By PirateChaun - Mar 17, 2008

Was The Change A Good Thing?

Strengths: Nice graphics and MP challenges.

Weakness: Repetitive racing and need buddies to play with online.

I really wish that they kept with the old formula for burnout. The wide open Grand Theft Auto game play just didn't fit for this game. The city is huge and it takes a long time to get to a certain point on a map. Racing from point to point is way to repetitive and gets old after a week of play. Multi-player is really a blast when you have your friends playing. That's if you could get them to play...
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I really wish that they kept with the old formula for burnout. The wide open Grand Theft Auto game play just didn't fit for this game. The city is huge and it takes a long time to get to a certain point on a map. Racing from point to point is way to repetitive and gets old after a week of play.
Multi-player is really a blast when you have your friends playing. That's if you could get them to play all the time. The challenges are really fun and you can mess around by crashing into them.
The graphics are really nice and the music is pretty good in the game. Unfortunately, this game could be a trade-in in the near future.

By markc72 - Feb 18, 2008

Ain't What It Used To Be

Strengths: Great Graphics, Awesome Car Crashes, Online

Weakness: Low Angle Camera, Open World, No Crash Mode

Although some people may enjoy the changes that have come to this new addition to the Burnout series, I for one do not. For me, the camera angle is way too low. I can barely see the cars and obstacles in front of me. The open-world factor isn't too great either. It takes a while to drive from one race to another, so it feels like they put it in there just to take up time. One of the things that I...
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Although some people may enjoy the changes that have come to this new addition to the Burnout series, I for one do not. For me, the camera angle is way too low. I can barely see the cars and obstacles in front of me. The open-world factor isn't too great either. It takes a while to drive from one race to another, so it feels like they put it in there just to take up time. One of the things that I miss most of all is the Crash Mode. It used to be a mode in which you crash in an intersection and the most damage possible. The person that cause the most damage (in dollars) would win. This mode was not included and I was very disappointed.

By Hybrid5006 - May 27, 2008

Decent, Although Less-Than-Expected Game

Strengths: * Good Game-Play * Lots of Races / Big Map * Okay Graphics

Weakness: * ONE PLAYER ??! * Poor Online Set-up

It's a decent game, but I expected much more after being hooked on Burnout 3. Stupidly, I didn't even look in the store to see how many players (I figured it would be multiple like 3 was). That's my biggest disappointment with the game - that it's one-player.

By morganstrf - Mar 21, 2008

Times making changes

Strengths: Great gameplay, graphics, sense of speed, online integration

Weakness: Not really "Burnout"

I am very divided on this game. On the one hand, it is one of the fastest, most exhilarating racing games I've ever played. The ability to instantly jump in and out of online play, the massive city to race in and explore, the wonderful sense of speed... it all just clicks. However, there are some problems that do come up. Races can quite literally take place from one end of the city to the other....
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I am very divided on this game. On the one hand, it is one of the fastest, most exhilarating racing games I've ever played. The ability to instantly jump in and out of online play, the massive city to race in and explore, the wonderful sense of speed... it all just clicks. However, there are some problems that do come up. Races can quite literally take place from one end of the city to the other. However, if you screw up, or get lost (VERY easy to do until you learn the city, since the races are completely open ended, no fake "tunnels" guiding you along) there is no way to instantly restart the race. There aren't menus to navigate and select a course, and because of this, it doesn't really feel like Burnout. Once you adapt and stop playing it like Burnout, and just view it as an open world racer, it is a great time.

By zmonkay - Jun 25, 2008