Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-01-25
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description
Burnout Paradise proves that crashing is awesome! Next generation technology has enabled an unprecedented level of crash deformation allowing you to experience the most explosive pile-ups in the series' history. Now the development team can realise their original vision for the Burnout franchise: an open world environment where you can do anything, anywhere, anytime.

Feel the adrenaline course through your veins as you take to the road for the first time in Paradise City, where the action is all around you. Explore the city, discover events, and look for the best opportunities to crash, jump and pull signature takedowns. In Burnout Paradise you're given the keys to the city, but it's up to you to earn the keys to the meanest and most dangerous cars on the street, and earn your Burnout licence.

Customer Reviews

Great game!
This is a very fun game to play. I will give you a few details about the game...

-Some of the controls can be sloppy at times, but other than that, it's fine.

-Graphics are great. Water ripples, damage looks great.

- Soundtrack is okay. It's mainly rock that's on there.

As most of you probably know, the game is a free roam game. When you want to do an event, you pull up to a set of traffic lights and start them. This is both good and bad.
If you lose an event, you can't immediately restart it, you have to drive to the point at which it begins.

There are 5 different modes;

Marked man: Other cars are trying to take you down, you have to survive and reach the finish point.
Road Rage: All out chaos, you have to take down as many cars as you can before time runs out.
Race: Race against other cars.
Burning route: Get to the finish line before time runs out.
Stunt run: Perform stunts to get points. Get the set number of points before time runs out.

I think road rage has improved as the game now has more cars. More cars = more chaos!


I know this was short, but, I think it gives a general idea of what the game is like.

I think the cars are great too, each of them having their own "special something" that will help contribute to certain game modes.

Overall, I would give this game 8/10

Hugely accomplished and awesome fun
For me Burnout Paradise rocks on pretty much every level.

I've clocked some 30-odd hours of gameplay so have seen a lot of what the game has to offer and I've still lots to see.

I guess there are two main parts, the offline singleplayer nad the online game. The singleplayer game revolves around completing challenges dotted around the city at the many sets of lights and intersections to gain new higher grade licenses. The main motivation though is gaining new cars as you complete a certain number of challenges. These newer and mostly better cars can then be used in the online game.

Anyone familiar with burnout should feel right at home. The game has been expanded and the city itself is HUGE - it'll take tens of hours to learn it and all the shortcuts needed to give you the advantage. The map is very useful showing where all the events are and what type they are (road-rage, race, stunt run, marked man, burning route). What it doesn't show you are any shortcuts unless you look closely...

The variety of gameplay on offer is vast. If you like racing there's loads of races and if you like carnage there are the road rage events and showtime modes. SHowtime can actually be started anytime and lets you crash into cars whilst you try to acculmulate the highest cash damage bonus.

A simple press on the D-pad is all you need to access the multiplayer online menu. From there you can invite friends, start a game, arrange races or events - it's a really great system. If you want to end the game you can and the game just drops you seamlessly back into single player mode.

The graphics are cool and the crashes are amazing. I still have not got bored of seeing cars being smashed up and in particularly high speed crashes the game goes into slow-motion - awesome.

The range of cars is large and they are generally won b shutting them down. This means that on completing a certain number of events a car will begin roaming the city and if you smash it up its yours. This is a great part of the game and it's great fun coming across the new cars and chasing them down. On winning a certain model you can then go hunting for its relevant 'burning route' which is a time trial for you to beat to win a slightly modded version of the car you used.

The soundtrack to the game is superb too - 40 songs by artsist like Jane's Addiction, The Pigeon Detectives, Gun's n Roses, Faith no More...plus 30 tracks from other burnout games. If you leave the game paused it will play a seemingly endless number of well known classical pieces too, even though that's hardly what you bought it for!

I think the game succeeds so well by the sheer level of freedom it gives. Even if you're not doing an event you still may come across a car you have not shut down or you can go searching for the 50 super jumps in the game or the shortcuts or just generally go around causing carnage. Then there's the whole road rules part...

The cars themselves display a large degree of handling characteristics and are grouped into 3 types: speed, stunt and aggression. Speed cars are fast and light and generally a small shunt will put themout of action. ALso their boost meter has to be full to engage boost. However, if you use all the boost in one go your meter gets about a 85% refill so you can quickly fill it with a manouvre and boost again almost indefinitely until you prang yourself. Stunt cars are the good allrounders, there are some fast models which are quite strong and you can boost whenever you want as long as you have some boost. Aggression cars are generally very strong and hard to steer but great for the road rage events as most other cars can be smashed up with barely a flick of the stick.

The sense of speed conveyed by the game is frighteningly good and very exhilarating - especially on a big screen. I've never seen anything like it.

There's so much in here I've probably missed a lot.

This is without a doubt one of the finest games on PS3 at moment and possibly up there in my all time top 5 games. I love my first person shooters but Call of Duty 4 which I bought at the same time hasn't had a look in since I got this. I know it won't be to everyone's taste as it's an arcade game - if you're wanting a GT clone look elsewhere. However, if you want all out fun, something with a pumping soundtrack, huge gamplay, online modes, awesome graphics and mental challenges get this without delay!!

Mega!

From a racing game player
Have played this game to death. Have the Elite licence. Done the Paradise Awards. Unlocked all 77 cars. If you like fast car driving this is it. Lots of reviews here of people who havent played the game. Because you can stop a race by staying still for 5 secs there really is no problem about restarting a race. Online is unbelievable & getting a pic of people you takedown is really enjoyable.

Best game I have ever owned. The Criterion guys ROCK! Listen to their podcast too. Lots of helpful hints & very funny.