This game is Yummy.
Burnout: Paradise in my eyes, is the greatest Burnout to date. Being able to move at your own pace, complete what any objectives you'd like too in whatever order you'd like, is a huge leap forward in the racing series and offers a new comfortable atmosphere and more user friendly gameplay system.
The game is based around the user's "License," which begins as a D license and continues up to an "elite" license, which is reserved for the die hard, must-complete-everything, player. The user moves up their license ladder by successfully completing challenges, such as races, road rage, and marked man scenarios just to name a few. New to the burnout series is the new "Showtime" system. The user is allowed to turn on their "Showtime" mode at any point offline or online. Having this mode on, now allows the user to compete in a specific crash, or time attack challenge on any and EVERY street. Every Street has a pre-set record of crash and time attack, and it is up to the user to beat them offline, and online.
Burnout: Paradise's online mode completely annihilates Burnout: Revenge's online setup. BP's online mode offers over 300 different challenges, depending on how many players are in a current room, which holds up to 8 users. Users work together to complete tasks such as jumping a certain jump X amount of times, or by setting up rendez vous locations that all users must get to. Signing online whilst showing off your newest prized car to take out everyone and anything is worth the purchase of this game to begin with. Not to mention getting into an online game is now as easy as ever. A simple few presses of the D-pad while crusing around the city will get you online... not too difficult at all.
Plenty of car rewards await the user who is willing to put in the time to complete challenges and take out random city dwelling opponents whom make their presence known throughout gameplay by ramming your car ever so politely... . . If i must list a downfall of this game, and i must... The AI will absolutely annoy you once you hit the A license level. They're harder to knock around and they're love for taking you out is only superseded by their need to cross the finish line ahead of you. You might have a few "Im gonna **** throw my controller" moments...but eh...what game haven't you done that with?
Without taking up my entire night writing down every fantastic thing about this game... allow me to sum it up simply with, buy it. I'm helplessy addicted to Burnout: Paradise. Buy Buy Buy.
-MC543