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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $26.68
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Avg. Customer Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 545
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): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15633
Model: 15782961
UPC: 014633156331
EAN: 0014633156331
ASIN: B000MUW98O
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Tons of Fun! June 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 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
12 out of 19 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.
Avaliaçao Burnout Paradise May 5, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Excelente Jogo! Tem como ponto forte a dirigibilidade. No entanto, tem como ponto fraco a ausência de legenda em português.
Fantastic Racing & Crashing Fun April 30, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a heart-pumping thrill ride through an amazingly rendered 'real world' that lets me exorcise all my Starsky and Hutch street racing fantasies. As well as Dukes of Hazard stunts and jumps and on and on. If you like street racing or car stunts then this is a must have. The Amazon sales pitch and screen shots are real, and it plays as good as it looks. It's like putting yourself in the best movie car chase scenes! When you do an E-brake turn you can see your own dust, and if you're on mud it's brown. Details details.
While there is a lot of destruction (some in super cool slow mo to show off the physics engine), it's all just sheet metal not people. This antiseptic aspect of 'Paradise City' is fixed with the neat-o multi-player mode where you can talk with the people you are racing against, beating up on, or joining together to perform team challenges. It's a fantasy world, so no speedometer ('cos you're going far too fast!) and you're always getting lots more boost.
The Good: Looks more real than $25 million flight simulators. Racing. Stunts. Variety of game play. Excellent online modes. Fun. Challenging. Can use six axis motion control. Lots of cars with different profiles.
The Gripes: No dual duels! Single-player or go online and have a blast. So much on screen you will really want a big widescreen. The cars are made up, not models of real makes. Lose a race; you have to drive all the way back to the beginning to try again.
Overall? Best racing PS3 game I own.
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