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Burnout Paradise

First seen: 15 june 2007

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Great Deal: $18.25

  • User Score (130)
    8.5 8.5 from 130 reviewers
  • Expert Score (128)
    8.7 8.7 from 128 reviewers
  • Gameplay (48)
    9.3 9.3 from 48 reviewers
  • Graphics (58)
    9.4 9.4 from 58 reviewers
  • Sound (56)
    9.1 9.1 from 56 reviewers
  • Storyline (2)
    4.8 4.8 from 2 reviewers
  • Multiplayer (15)
    9.2 9.2 from 15 reviewers
  • Control (4)
    9.7 9.7 from 4 reviewers
  • Lifespan (7)
    9.8 9.8 from 7 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • new game great grphics, topnotch multiplayer, stunningly realistic crashes, fast and furious racing, best burnout yet
  • not quite cleanly ported, some dull new modes, no restart event option, not necessarily revolutionary, slow pace game easy

Crashing is awesome! That’s the concept behind Burnout™ Paradise , the latest installment in the classic car-crashing Burnout series. A completely open world allows players to take their dangerous driving experience to a whole new level. Travel through and explore Paradise City to find special events and destructive opportunities. Get ready to break the rules, because you’re in Burnout Paradise !

  • Open world: The world of Paradise City is completely open for explorat…

Specifications

  • Developer:
    Criterion Studios
  • Publisher:
    Electronic Arts
  • Genre:
    Racing
  • Release Date:
    1/22/2008
  • Console:
    Xbox 360
  • Game Rating:
    E10 (Everyone 10+) Language Violence

Release Date

  • First seen
    15 June 2007

Burnout Paradise is all about cars and racing, featuring the widest range of cars. Each road has its own Time Trial and Stunt modes and the soundtrack is stunning. You are free to drive over a huge plot of land surrounding Paradise City and its outlying countryside. You will go through desolate urban alleys or shoot up across a rocky railroad trestle. Burnout Paradise is so perfect that you can actually feel the exhilarating thrill of speed and surpassing all obstacles. Paradise City includes many hidden…

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Burnout Paradise is all about cars and racing, featuring the widest range of cars. Each road has its own Time Trial and Stunt modes and the soundtrack is stunning. You are free to drive over a huge plot of land surrounding Paradise City and its outlying countryside. You will go through desolate urban alleys or shoot up across a rocky railroad trestle. Burnout Paradise is so perfect that you can actually feel the exhilarating thrill of speed and surpassing all obstacles. Paradise City includes many hidden secrets to be discovered, such as Super Jumps, shortcuts, gas stations, targets to demolish, and so on. You will experience unique rides and aggressive enemies in Stunt Runs, Road Rage and Marked Man. Drivers must be fast in knocking opponents off the road. It is so fun and addictive that you’ll want to surpass over everything to come out as a winner. Reaching the finish line in one piece requires good ability, thinking skills and luck. According to some reviews not all players are happy with the setup as one cannot straight away retry an event after failing. However every single junction in Paradise City allows an opportunity for victory. A few players find that some missions feel like errands, the game lacks progression and is a bit shallow.

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  • Reviews of Burnout Paradise

  1. Burnout Paradise

    Reviewer: Gamer 2.0
    1 February 2008
    Overall 9
    9.4
    Gameplay 10
    10
    Graphics 9
    9.0
    Sound 8
    8.0
     

    While Burnout Paradise is certainly an addictive game that offers a ton of value for anyone to enjoy, it definitely won’t please everyone that gives it a shot. If you weren’t so sure about the game after playing the demo, a rental is probably your best bet at seeing what the game really has to offer while everyone else that’s excited by the concept of a sandbox Burnout is quickly recommended to buy the game. As for platform differences, it’s very much a minute... Read more

  2. Wear a seatbelt and a coconut bra

    Reviewer: GamesRadar
    18 January 2008
    Overall 9
    9.0
     

    A truckload of fantastic online modes include versions of the single-player activities, as well as very many daft co-op challenges. There are even best times and best bouncy-crash scores for every single road in the game. With a clearer incentive to progress, Paradise would have the cohesion it lacks. But it’s still a stupendous amount of fun to play. It doesn’t offer a challenge for hardcore racing fans, but instead presents you with a giant island of opportunities... Read more

  3. Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box

    Reviewer: ME Gamers
    15 March 2009
    Overall 9
    9.3
    Gameplay 9
    9.0
    Graphics 9
    9.0
    Sound 8
    8.0
     

    L et me start this review off by saying that for the record, I’m not a huge fan of racing games. Heck, even in real life I’m not much of a driver – I’m one of those people you’ll find driving on the last lane of the freeway with their left indicator on for the next 4 kilometres. Having got that off my chest, I must admit that I had a ridiculous amount of fun playing Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box on the Playstation 3. Having not had a chance to play the... Read more

  4. Burnout Paradise

    Reviewer: GameSpy.com
    18 January 2008
    Overall 9
    9.0
     

    Criterion's HD-era sequel takes you to Paradise City, brings out the big guns and ends up smelling like a rose. Read more

  5. Burnout Paradise

    Reviewer: HDR
    31 January 2008
    Overall 9
    9.3
     

    Burnout Paradise may not be the most original game in terms of gameplay, but its implementation of those elements is top-notch, and the franchise’s open-world evolution is definitely welcome. The lack of Crash Mode? Don’t sweat it; Showtime Mode is a blast, and with any luck Criterion will include an update down the road to let online crashers go head-to-head. My first inclination was to say this was the best Burnout since Takedown. Having spent even more... Read more

  1. Burnout Broken

    Reviewer: TheOrs from Southampton, LOVEFiLM
    6 June 2008
    Overall 6
    6.0
     

    Still has the speed and insane crashes but takes so long to travel from place to place to find races it gets annoying. Part of the beauty of the previous burnouts for me was their simplicity. Pick up controller, press go, immediately jump into a race, get pretty fast, hit boost button, enter ludicrous speed, crash, wipe liquid away from near retina scorched eyes. It takes away from the game to have this open freeroaming city like you do in the Need for Speed games means... Read more

  2. "Great Game for all ages"

    Reviewer: BigNasty, J&R
    28 July 2009
    Overall 10
    10
     

    Great game, tons of cars to unlock it will take you a while to beat it. Read more

  3. "The best burnout yet"

    Reviewer: CNET
    20 May 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    The vast expanse of driving terrain is simply a dream to drive through, and finding a horde of stunts (like smashing through billboards, or parallel parking at 100-mph) is easy. Paradise city is the platform upon which you can try the craziest, most death defying stunts that you see only in the movies. Barrel rolls, driving into oncoming traffic on a freeway, jumping of a mountain observatory, drifting, hand-brake turns, road rampages (where you battle to knockoff other... Read more

  4. Take Me Down To The Paradise City...

    Reviewer: Shopping.com
    10 May 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    Despite negative reviews (I'm looking at you, jrhigh34) this is really an awesome game. Awesome enou Read more

  5. This is paradise!!!

    Reviewer: shadowx187x, GamePro.com
    24 October 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    When first saw this game i was doubting it.But the old saying is right "Dont judge a book by its cover" cause you'll miss a fun ass game.First of all this is like the midnight club games where you look for the challenges in an open world setting.The new showtime mode is fun but it is way easier than the old crash mode in Burnout revenge.Meanwhile the challenges are quite hard at the end but most are easy and u can breeze through it.The new vehicle types bring in some... Read more

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