9.8 out of 10

Burnout Paradise

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  • User Score (1002)
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  • Expert Score (107)
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  • Gameplay (12)
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  • Graphics (23)
    9.9 **********
  • Sound (21)
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  • Storyline (3)
    9.7 **********
  • Multiplayer (8)
    9.0 *********
  • Control (4)
    10 **********
  • Addiction (5)
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  • Lifespan (2)
    9.2 *********

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  • Activity: 5/5

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Manufacturer's Specs

  • Genre
    Racing
  • Rating
    Everyone 10+ Violence , Language

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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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  • Crashing - Witness the power of next generation technology.
  • Burnout Your Way - With no menus or load times, there are no modes; you can kick start the action whenever you want.
  • Paradise City …
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  1. Burnout Paradise

    Reviewer: ztgamedomain.com
    10 April 2008
    Overall 9
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    Change is always a hard thing to swallow. When Unwritten Law changed from punk rock to pop rock I sighed. When Nintendo changed the name of their latest console from Revolution to Wii I chuckled; and when Criterion announced the latest chapter in their Burnout franchise was going from a straight-forward arcade title into an open world experience I was skeptical. The Burnout series has always been known for certain things: buttery smooth control, sharp visuals, and no-... Read more

  2. Reviewer: gamevortex.com
    29 February 2008
    Overall 10
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    in my hot little hands. I was amped from the second I selected the disc on my PS3's menu and the Burnout License Plate filled the screen while Guns and Roses' song, "Paradise City" filled the room. Luckily, Read more

  3. Burnout Paradise

    Reviewer: gaming-age.com
    24 February 2008

    Burnout Paradise is a fine racing game indeed. I only wish there were more Road Rage modes and other varieties spread along the map as I would say a good 65% of the modes are races. While this is fine and certainly fun, I don’t buy Burnout titles to race, I buy them for the carnage. Hopefully the creators will give us some downloadable races or modes, or maybe even a proper crash mode option in the future. Even if this never happens, the new direction the developers t... Read more

  4. 22 February 2008
    Overall 9
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    Genau so und nicht anders hatte ich mir den Einstieg der Burnout-Reihe ins Next-Generation-Zeitalter gewünscht. Audiovisuell ist Burnout: Paradise wirklich ein echter Hammer und zeigt auf eindrucksvolle Weise, zu welchen Leistungen die aktuellen Konsolengenerationen fähig sind. Bereits beim ersten Crash wird euch ordentlich die Kinnlade nach unten klappen, da wirklich jeder Unfall ein faszinierendes Spektakel ist und darüber hinaus immer individuell ausfällt. Etwas ve... Read more

  5. Burnout Paradise

    Reviewer: hard.hardgame2.com
    13 February 2008
    Overall 8
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    Independientemente del resultado, es digno de elogio que en Criterion, lejos de estancarse, hayan reinventado por completo la experiencia Burnout. Pero es que además el resultado es muy notable. Confirma a Burnout como la saga insignia de conducción de EA, muy por encima de los últimos y flojos Need For Speed, sino también es uno de los títulos del género más completos que hemos podido ver hasta el momento en esta generación. Enorme, lleno de retos, con un multijugado... Read more

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  1. User Review by coa17ch

    Reviewer: coa17ch, gametrailers.com
    3 weeks ago

    This is one of the best racing games I've come across. From the beginning, it is fast paced. With plenty of cars. The game says there are 75 cars. In all reality there are less than that. There are several cars with different modifications. More armor or more boost or speed. Even with this, it is still fun. It is definately not a game that goes by too quick. The online play is great. With the use ... Read more

  2. Burnout Paradise

    Reviewer: swapgame.com
    08 February 2008
    Overall 8
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    Still has all the elements of Burnout: Burnouts, fast, furious, Takedowns, wrecks, guts and glory! Open World Game play - Can't blame them from trying something different but it gets old very quick in one-player mode. I think the consensus out there is some love it some hate it, I'm... in the middle! The way you go online seamlessly is a nice touch and racing online is a lot of fun. Definitely worth a play to form your own opinion. Read more

  3. So, so annoying

    Reviewer: Splint07 from Kent, England, lovefilm.com
    31 January 2008
    Overall 2
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    Burnout Paradise should have been a great game. The handling is suitably arcadey, drifting and dodging oncoming traffic is satisfying, the graphics are great, and you can have a lot of fun just wandering around the city, driving the wrong way down the interstate, causing mayhem in rush hour traffic, boosting off the ends of unfinished bridges, exploring building sites, leaping from the roofs of multi-storey car parks and looking for ramps to launch you through the air... Read more

  4. Burnout Paradise

    Reviewer: Gaming Guru, metacritic.com
    30 January 2008
    Overall 9
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    No other racing game (except maybe Motorstorm when boosting) gives the sense of just barely in control speed and the OMG wow crashes like Burnout. Super graphics, physics and the cars don't handle like pushing a shopping cart uphill on ice like some other racing titles do. The sandbox style means lots of replay value, its a buy not a rental. Read more

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  1. Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

    Burnout Paradise for the PS3.

    forums.bit-tech.net: 01 February 2008 Read more

  2. Who can I contact?

    what about burnout paradise cuz crashing cars is really fun

    forum.gamespot.co.uk: 20 December 2007 Read more

  3. Burnout Paradise DLC detailed

    Burnout Paradise is superior to NFS: Pro Street by a large margin.

    forums.bit-tech.net: 02 August 2008 Read more

  4. The DCEmu Interview - Question 10 - What Game(S) Would you like to see Remade ?

    Playing the Burnout Paradise demo made me long for a new Carmageddon...

    forum.dcemu.co.uk: 03 February 2008 Read more

  5. Burnout Paradise

    i'v played the demo, and becasue of the freeride system it has put me off geting burnout Paradise.

    forums.bit-tech.net: Read more

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