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Burnout Paradise | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 322
Format: Ntsc
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 15633
Model: 014633156331
UPC: 014633156331
EAN: 0014633156331
ASIN: B000MUW98O
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
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| Features:
| • | Rock Paradise City—Shred your way across more than 250 miles of open road discovering jumps, stunts, and shortcuts. | | • | Infinite Possibilities—Blaze your path to glory in 120 unique events, using your knowledge of the city to find the fastest routes and get the drop on rivals. | | • | Team Up or Takedown—Battle friends online and grab their mugshots, or join forces to complete more than 300 online challenges. | | • | Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time—Send your car wrecking, spinning and scraping down the road, smashing through traffic and leaving a trail of expensive wreckage in your wake. | | • | Road Rules—Make and break the rules of each road by setting speed and destruction records all over town. Track how many you own against your friends! |
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Amazon.com
In Burnout Paradise players are treated to a rarity in the video games universe: a complete reinvention of an established franchise that equals, if not betters any of the previous games in the series. Yes, this is a large claim, but one that can be explained in a single phrase: Next-Gen Freedom.
Driver's heaven is a wide open world |
In Paradise City even cars can fly. View larger. | 
Go for broke in 'Marked Man' Mode. View larger. | 
Nothing is off limits, even head-on crashes. View larger. | 
Start a race any time with 'Easy Drive.' View larger. |
Although the Burnout series' over the top mobile action has been its calling card since it ignited audiences on the PS2 in 2001, and later on the first generation Xbox console, Burnout Paradise is the first game in the series that has been designed specifically for play on Next Generation consoles. This has allowed game developer Criterion to rip the training wheels off the game and rebuild it from scratch. The result is a new, expansive world that players can roll through at will. And what a world it is.Enter Paradise City
Heaven on Earth, at least to road-raging, crash-causing Burnout fanatics, Paradise City is your domain and ultimate proving ground in Burnout Paradise. This expansive driver's playground stretches across 250 miles and encompasses all sorts of road driving conditions, from fun-in-the-sun seaside cruising boulevards, to mountain roads and downtown gridlock. But regardless of what stretch of asphalt you find yourself on, the beauty of this place is that nothing is blocked off and your wits are at least as important as the horsepower under your hood when it comes to racing here. Check out Paradise City's five sub areas (click the links for sample images):- Downtown Paradise City
- Harbor Town
- Palm Bay Heights
- Silver Lake
- White Mountain
Burnout Your Way
Unlike in previous Burnout games, Burnout Paradise not only puts the keys to your ride in your hands, but places you squarely in the driver's seat when it comes to where you can go and what you can do.Along with wide avenues and crowded highways, the open game design of Paradise City is also jammed full of hidden side streets, back roads and alley ways. These can be used as short cuts in races, that is, if you know where they are. As you explore, commit these potential short cuts to memory because they will definitely come in handy in a tight race. And since we are talking Burnout here, players should not expect uneventful, genteel contests of speed and precision driving. In Paradise City players are always free to slam, shunt and wreck opponents in their bids for supremacy and they will. Also, new to the Burnout series, races can now start anywhere, anytime. Just pull up to a stoplight and spin your wheels to start one in one of five different event classes:- Classic Race
- Road Rage
- Burning Route
- Stunt Run (new)
- Marked Man (new)
Instant Online
Burnout Paradise also keeps the mobile carnage coming while simultaneously setting the new standard in online social gameplay. With the new `Easy Drive' feature you can find friends online and with the click of a button invite them to a race. Once they've accepted the race will start immediately. That's right, no more annoying wait times at online lobbies and servers. And keeping in touch with friends is easier than ever.Team up or Takedown
In the winner-take-all universe of Burnout teaming up usually isn't the first option that comes to mind, but on these rough and tumble streets it's a good option to keep in mind. With more than 300 FreeBurn Challenges packed into the game, players always have the choice of going it alone against the field as a whole or joining forces with up to seven of your buddies in user-created race routes. Either way, if you are victorious in your takedown you'll get the chance to talk some trash as you exchange Mugshots with your victim via an optional camera hooked to your gaming system or your gamertag/PSN avatar if you prefer to keep your identity on the down-low.Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time
And finally since a new Burnout release wouldn't be complete without a little something special in the wreckage department, Burnout Paradise continues the carnage with an update of its familiar 'Crash Mode.' Renamed 'Showtime Mode,' players can now crash, bounce and scatter their ride in any location and replay the wreckage over and over in slow motion. One of the most addictive and down right fun features of the game, players activate the mode by simply pulling both triggers on their controller and if they are good enough can also immortalize their Showtime moments on the leaderboards for all to see.Driving fans this is Next-Gen at its best and definitely the Burnout title you have been waiting for.
Product Description
Make action your middle name, as you control what happens when and where in Burnout Paradise. Welcome to Paradise City. Immerse yourself in the open roads of Paradise City from the downtown streets through the hectic freeways to the sweeping mountain roads; the world is waiting to be explored. Slam, Shunt and Wreck opponents in cross-town race events, where you decide the fastest route to the finish line. Hit the jumps and find shortcuts, smash through barriers and get to the places that other racers can't reach to get that competitive edge. Meet your friends online with the revolutionary EasyDrive system that smashes through the tedium of lobbies and servers and cuts straight to the chase. Burnout Paradise provides the ultimate driving playground for you and your friends to play online on the Playstation 3. Mugshots - Track the length and breadth of up to 2,500 online rivalries Speed, Speed and Even More Speed - The rebuilt, race-tuned Burnout game engine delivers intense speed boost gameplay at a super-smooth and super-fast 60 frames-per-second Crash Deformation - Burnout Paradise features an all-new deformation technology that gives players an astounding close-up and slow-motion view of super-real destruction
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
Underated Game June 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lot of people let this game pass them by. It's a great game that has a great developer that is willing to support it. This game has tons of cars to unlock and the online is really good. I've put over 100 hours in the game and I can say that I've enjoyed almost every minute of it. The graphics are top notch and each car has a personality. Don't let this game pass you by. There is free dlc coming soon, including custome soundtracks. If you like to race, or just drive around in a digital world, you'll enjoy the game.
Not all is perfect in this paradise though. The way the games event system is set up is you have to be at a certain point on the map. If you fail the event, you have to drive all the way back to restart. It can be a pain later in the game when you only have a few events left. But it doesn't deter from the funness(not really a word) of the game. Secondly is the pretty annoying soundtrack. How Avril Lavinge(sp?) ever got on a racing game soundtrack is beyond me. The later is being fixed with an update though.
Get this game. You won't regret it.
Tons of Fun! June 22, 2008
I am a fairly big fan of arcade racers. I liked quite a few of the Midnight clubs and Need For Speed series (my favorite is NFS3 for the PC, but Carbon was a ton of fun). I picked up this game hesitantly because the game was made by EA which lately has been giving the shaft to the ps3 versions of the multiplatform games. From review sites, it seems for once the ps3 got the better hand on this game, but I haven't played both versions side to side to tell for myself.
This is the first game of the series I've played. Needless to say, the first few hours can be frustrating. Finding your way around this HUGE open city can be troublesome and alot of the times you'll run in to cars when your looking at your radar. Once I started listening to the turn signal clicks, it made the game A LOT easier. I never did end up memorizing the layout of the city just because it's so big. There are alot of cars to unlock, including the carbon cars which require alot of fun play time. Unfortunately, once you unlock new cars, the majority of your old cars become obsolete, because you cant tweek them. So once you've unlocked 50 cars or so, don't expect to ever race those first 40 cars ever again, unless you have to do the Burning Route (which is an upgrade of the car your using, which also becomes obsolete). Game play was tons of fun, and i played for about 30 hours and still didn't unlock everything. There is alot of game play value in this game. Soon there will be an update that will allow you to race motorcycles and race at night time, which will add to the life of the game, also it is rumored to be able to use your own music to race to (which i think is crucial in racing games, because most of the times, the music is pretty bad).
Online aspect of this game is amazing. I love how it is implemented and seamless. You can be playing single player and all of a sudden you will get an invite from a friend and then without having to deal with game loads, or being relocated to a different part of the city, you will be playing with your friends. I loved completing the challenges with my friends.
This is easily the most addicting racing game I've played to date. The graphics I think are great, and its a feat that this is an open world. One problem I do have with this game is that fact that you cant play 2 player mode on the same system with your friend. This usually adds to the fun of racing games. Also another problem is the fact you cant restart your race if you're doing horrible. You can end the race in the middle, but you cant replay it unless you want to drive all the way back to where the race started. In a way it helps you learn the layout of the world, but I found it to be more frustrating than cool.
 One of the best car games I've played June 7, 2008
Burnout Paradise is easily the best entry in the Burnout game franchise. The crashes graphics are easily some of the best. Playing online is simple and fun. I would recommend this over other racing games such as Gran Turismo and Need For Speed.
The only draw back is that it doesn't have a two player mode (unless you go online).
Great Game June 4, 2008
Great Game very addictive, you will spend a lot of time to finish it 100% and after that you will spend much more time to finish the online points
 This Game Should Be Renamed "Lost Tourist In a Hurry GPS Training" May 11, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've played all the burnout games over the last few years, and while this one looks the best, it is by far the worst to play. The reason is that the whole game is made to make you feel like a lost tourist.
The average race goes like this:
-Pause the action 5 times or more to look at the map.
-Crash 3 times because you are looking at the HUD instead of the road
-Make a wrong turn anyway and lose the race
To add insult to injury most of the race cars require you to keep your nitro button pressed pretty much all the time or you go a lot slower. Of course you have to take it off when you look at the map, so when you come back you've lost your boost chain unless you are really quick to get your finger on the button again.
And it seems like all the events leave you up in the hills where there are only about 5 events within a 3 minute drive, so you find yourself constantly trying to get back to the city just like a lost tourist. I don't know about you but I never enjoyed being a lost tourist. Unfortunately the main characteristic of this game is that it is the perfect lost tourist simulator.
The stunt events are similarly annoying, require that you pretty much know exactly the course you will take in order to get the right points. But if you know it, you probably smashed all the billboards and stuff that give you points.
It's very annoying. And sad, because the graphics and crashes are great (however the crashes are way too drawn out, especially since you will be so unfocused that you will crash a lot and just want to get it over with)
The takedown events are actually the only part that feels somewhat like the fun bits of the old burnout games. They don't require you to go in any specific route, so they are a lot less annoying. Unfortunately they took out the crash events of the old games and put in a much lamer showtime event which takes away all the skill and precision of the crash events with a stupid car that bounces around on other cars.
Overall this game is a huge wasted opportunity. They tried to shoehorn an open ended environment into burnout without thinking at all about the gameplay mechanics. It didn't work.
Games like GTA have solved all of the problems that this game has by putting a ribbon on the road to follow or arrows at the top saying where to turn. I'm not sure why they decided not to do that, but it was stupid. It turns this game from a fun racing game into a tedious map reading excercise.
Taking out the crash events and replacing them with showtime was also a terrible move.
Overall, if they had put 10% of the energy they put into the graphics into gameplay it would have been a fun game.
You may think I'm just complaining because I'm bad at this game. Well I've always been good at burnout and this is no exception. It's actually pretty easy compared to past burnouts. I pass 90% of the events on the first try, but am always annoyed in the process. On the takedown events I routinely double or triple the required number. The point here is that it's not challenging, it's just irritating.
As it stands it is by far the worst entry in the burnout series. They have stopped thinking about how to make a fun game and focussed solely on the flash.
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