Slick crash effects. Open world racing done at its best. Better then expected. Seemless online interaction with others.

User Rating: 9 | Burnout Paradise X360
By MrSchmo | Review Date:
I was expecting this open world racing not to work with the Burnount formula, oh but it did. It stays true to the Burnout series of flat out crazy drifting, boosting, and most importanly... crashing. The Crash effects are the best done to date on any racing game. It has a slick cut scean for when you crash that zooms up on the car to watch it crumple right in front of you then flip down the street. Its cool but gets old 2 hours into the game. I dont need a 5 second interuption everytime I crash, which will be alot.
The other flaw is that open racing means you can get to the finish anyway, but leads to driving down the same roads most of the time.
Online is a blast with friends, but some kids want to do nothing but crash you and ruin your fun, especialy when doing challenges. Also the 'Set-up' crash intersections are gone, replacing htem with an arcadey crash anywhere style. Its ok but not the highlight of the game.

All in all its a well done game that evoled the classic series to the next-gen.

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