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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 779
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
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Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15639
Model: 014633156393
UPC: 014633156393
EAN: 0014633156393
ASIN: B000MUXLOK
Release Date: January 22, 2008
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 Nice Graphics - but gets boring quickly April 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The graphics in this game were stunning. And there is definately a "fun factor" to tearing up a city, taking massive jumps off of bridges and smashing up other cars.
But the fun on this game wore off within about 1 hour. It just seemed like it was doing more of the same thing over and over again.
I'm not a big fan of racing games. So I would imagine that someone who likes racing games might find this much better than I do. But, even so, I found some of the previous Burnout games and other racing games (Midtown Madness, Project Gotham) to be more engaging because they made it possible to play multi-player on the same console - when I can play it with my kids, it tends to have much more value for me.
So, if you're only moderately interested in racing games, and especially if you like to play them multi-player (without having to go online), then you're probably not going to enjoy this one for very long.
Huge scale, small scope. Some will love it, others (like me) will fall asleep at the wheel. April 16, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Burnout Paradise is a beautiful looking and sounding game, with an expansive city throughout which a wide variety of events beckon. It is a competent and worthwhile racer, with the added pleasures of stunt driving, and worthwhile online play.
I believe that all to be true, even as I'll say that I found the game rather dull, and very repetitive. With each aspect of the game that impressed me, I found related issues that were equally annoying. The draw distance for the roads and city/scene-scape for example is extraordinary -- not so for traffic which may and does at times appear almost immediately in front of you. Online play was fun while it worked, and my connection was solid, but that didn't seem to be the case for many others as people kept dropping and having to rejoin as we tried to play.
I am a huge fan of free/open driving type games, but this one feels more like the longest and most complex closed track in the world, rather than like a living city. The traffic is sparse and mindless, there's no real evidence of life in the city itself, no police-related consequences for racing through a busy intersection at 100mph and smashing into another car. My suggestion is not that these things would have been important to the core purpose of the city, which is really just a backdrop to a series of racing and stunt events on a closed network or roads, but it would have been nice if everything had felt a little more alive and vibrant between races.
I felt little drive to move from event to event. Like every other 360 title, there were achievements to obtain, better licenses to earn, more cars to drive, but I just felt that the game lacked a quality that made me really want to progress though. Instead, it was more of a hodgepodge of unrelated individual events that required a rather drab commute.
I'm going to stop well short of calling this a bad game. It's absolutely not, and I believe that a lot of people do and will enjoy it. For me, it's more rental than purchase quality, but that's a pretty subjective measure.
Here's the bottom line. If all you're looking for is a good racer; good audio, visuals, physics, online accessibility, and free roaming, then this is an entirely worthwhile choice. If you prefer some depth to your driving games; whether that come in the form of increasingly hostile authorities as is the case in Need for Speed Most Wanted, the hyper-realism (to cross platforms for the sake of example) Gran Turismo: 5 Prologue, the pure stunt/story play of Stuntman: Ignition, or the "living world" quality of Grand Theft Auto IV -- then this probably isn't what you're looking for.
If you don't desire that extra depth (and there's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a specialized/focused game), then do check this one out, because I think you'll have a blast even if I didn't. I know, a mixed message review, "it wasn't for me, but it may well be for you," but that's the trick with these things, isn't it? Particularly when it's a solid, high-quality, well-developed product such as this, but one that may be a little too niche or otherwise narrow in scope to please those who want a more immersive experience. Ask yourself what you want out of a racing game, that's the trick to deciding whether this is a purchase, a rental, or a pass.
 Clear your afternoon before you start playing April 15, 2008
This is one of those "WOW!" games you find every so often. The graphics here are great, and it's a free-roam city to race in (and a pretty big one at that). You choose to run a mission or if you'd like you can just drive around and find shortcuts or complete side tasks like hitting billboards or busting private areas. The car physics are good, and there's not a huge learning curve right off the bat to keep you from playing.
Starting off you only have one car to choose from. It's all right for a starter, but gets old quickly. Getting a new car isn't that hard though, so you don't have to keep it for long. And I love the way you can get a new paint job for free just by driving through the paint place!
The enemy AI is competitive, but not impossible. If you know shortcuts (and some of them will take a while to find), you can win most races with time to spare. Trying to win the race with no shortcuts, however, will be frustrating quickly.
Of course, the major draw of the game is the crashes and instant replays of such. You can do some spectacular smash-ups here, and when you hit top speed it will probably be what you do on an ongoing basis just to be amazed. There's a lot of fun to be had here, and it's not a game you get tired of quickly.
The only major downside to the game is the fact that it's single player only. I wish they'd have allowed us some head-to-head racing that didn't involve an online account. Still, it's the only fault I could see in this game and I wouldn't let it stop me from buying it. Highly recommended!
 Revolutionary game stumbles, but picks itself back up April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Burnout Paradise removes the old Burnout forumula and replaces it with an amazingly fun but seriously flawed open-world game more reminiscent of Need for Speed: Most Wanted than Burnout: Revenge.
The city you race in is well detailed. While it is only a 3 minute race from one side to the other, the amount and variety of that terrain is unparalleled. There are dozens of things to do in the single player campaign, from street races to shutting down other racers to landing all of the super jumps, etc. If you just want to take hot wheels cars and smash them all together, this is a great game.
Unfortunately, there are some fundamental flaws. If there is a particular race you need to complete, but you fail, you will have to drive back to the beginning to start over. This can take three + minutes above and beyond the time you have already lost by crashing. And you will crash... constantly. The crashes in Burnout Paradise are spectacular ballet of destruction that you will see every few seconds as you drive around. That is, of course, what happens while you're staring at the mini-map trying to navigate. Races in Paradise City have no big glowing chevrons and forced walls setup, so you'll have to race while keeping an eye on the map. Taking a wrong turn in Burnout is far more detrimental than crashing head-first into a bus.
All of these things point to a rushed development schedule, and keep Paradise from achieving quite what it could have: racer of the year. Your personal enjoyment of the game will be determined by how much the above issues (along with other stragglers) keep you from enjoying an otherwise amazing game.
250 miles of realistic heart pumping fun in Paradise City April 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not a big video game player. I don't care for Halo type games or ogres running around. But, I was very excited to be able to try out Burnout Paradise as I've always been a fan of racing. Unlike several other racing games, Burnout Paradise has approximately 250 miles of open road set in beautiful Paradise City (Hollywood/So. California).
This newest burnout game did away with crash mode and replaced it with Showtime mode, which allows the car to continue to crash all the way across the map if you'd like. Each time you hit a car you get a boost and the crash gets more spectacular.
The map is sometimes difficult to follow, and if you make a mistake you have to find your way around on your own. You can't just restart from where you were. I think this is nice because it's more realistic and challenging. Overall, you can unlock about 75 cars in this game. So far I have only a handful and they do handle and sound different from each other.
The music is standard fun rock, and I haven't found any curse words or sexualized images, which makes the game fairly appropriate for kids unless you are opposed to them crashing cars and developing road rage.
It's also fairly fun to crash through fences and drive through areas cars would not normally be able to drive such as train tracks, tunnels, and parking garages. Did I mention the graphics are simply amazing? They are incredibly realistic and gorgeous.
Overall, the game is fun and relaxing.
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