Burnout Paradise will give you license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate racing battleground..
The latest entry in the Burnout racing series, Burnout Paradise gives you (and me, of course) license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate racing battleground, with a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse. Gone is the need to jump in and out of menus and aimlessly search for fun like many open world games; in Burnout Paradise, every inch of the world is built to deliver heart-stopping Burnout-style gameplay. Every intersection is a potential crash junction and every alleyway is an opportunity to rack up moving violations. Feel the adrenaline course through your veins as you take to the road for the first time in Paradise City, where the action is all around you. Explore the city, discover events, and look for the best opportunities to crash, jump and pull signature take downs. In Burnout Paradise you are given the keys to the city, and it's up to you to earn the keys to the meanest and most dangerous cars on the street, and earn your Burnout license. Burnout Paradise marks a complete and fairly radical reinvention of the series, bringing together all the best stuff from the past games, adding some new stuff in and then wrapping it all up in a totally free-roaming urban environment.
Burnout Paradise is, by far, the most open and interesting Burnout game I've ever played. Burnout Paradise this time is an extremely elegant solution, re-designing the entire game so effortlessly and naturally that you might struggle to believe that there was ever a Burnout game that wasn't like this.
Does it have flaws? Yes, of course. The most major one is obvious when you fail a race and have to hike back across the entire map in order to restart – a simple quick-travel or retry function would have been a welcome addition. The same is true when you want to change the car and have to spend a while hunting down one of the five junkyards on the map.
Still, Burnout Paradise is clearly a new highpoint for the series. The game is a must buy for any racing fan (and who loves to crash and smash his cars as well ;))...