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tsquared72

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is honestly a lot of fun. Not only do you have the racing aspect but there are many other things you can do to complete the game. Stunts, races, aggression, etc. This game honestly has kept me busy for quite some time. When you're done playing you're own game you can branch out and go to do online challenges. These are actually very fun. What i especially like is that they are constantly updating the game. Not many developers actually go to this trouble. It seems as if they honestly want you to enjoy the content that is available and will go to great lengths to add new content so that you don't get bored. Don't take my word for it. Try it out. :)

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a must buy for anyone that loves racing games. One of the best things about this game is that the maker releases FREE updates to the game on regular basis. Can't go wrong.

This Game Should Be Renamed "Lost Tourist In a Hurry GPS Training"

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

Avaliação Burnout Paradise

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excelente Jogo! Tem como ponto forte a dirigibilidade. No entanto, tem como ponto fraco a ausência de legenda em português.

Fantastic Racing & Crashing Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

A Satisfying Racer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My son and I have been playing this for a couple weeks now. Okay, my son has played quite a bit more than I. We're very satisfied with the graphics. Playability is wide open. Only one time did we use the sixaxis and noticed it took a little more practice so we've been sticking with the normal mode. I found the races hard to win, my son not so much. Overall very satisfied with the game. The first thing my son noticed and said was "How can I tell how fast I'm going?" No speedometer.

Fun racing game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is different enough from other racing games to make it fun and something new.

In a nutshell the object of the game is to complete street races and perform stunts and jumps to open new cars.After completing so many "tasks" a new car is released for the taking into the game.You then have to wreck out that car to own it.So when you get your new car it will pretty much be totaled.Not a problem though because all you have to do is drive through a body shop and you are good as new!These shops are located all over the game so not a problem to find.

It is also fairly easy to spot the car you need to wreck because if you drive around long enough you will see it whiz by and will definately stand out from the regular traffic.You will also easily be able to find the stunt locations while driving around just look for bridges and cliffs.The DJ on the radio will offer tips and hints to help you as well.

For the most part this game isn't very challenging although when you reach top speeds and hit something(which is easy to do) you will wreck out and have to retry.One of my favorite things about the game is watching the wrecks,they look awesome in slow motion!

I really only have two complaints on this game.First I do like some of the music but some of the tracks are questionable,particularly the Avril Lavigne song.I didn't know people still liked her?It drives me crazy when I am into the game and her song comes up so you will probably want to put your own tunes on here.
The second thing is the setup for selecting the car you want to use.You scroll through and each one drops from the air of a junkyard.Not that that is a bad idea considering that they are junk once you wreck them but it really takes an unnecessarily amount of time for them to fall,especially when you have your collection built up.I would prefer a faster more direct approach to viewing your cars.

This game has a certain charm and flow that is fun to play and of course watch.While it is not my favorite racing game,it is a great addition that is fun to play and a definate keeper.

Arcade Racing at Breakneck Speeds

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

January is the quintessential slow months for video games. Fortunately, each year they're seems to be a stand-alone title that gamers looks forward to filling this niche. Last year, it was Capcom's Lost Planet, & this year, Criterion's own Burnout franchise has come, reached, & sped past the expectation of January being a "slow" month (pun intended). Despite the low standards that come with delivering a game in January, Burnout Paradise provides one hell of an intense racing experience, sure to occupy arcade purists for months. If your looking for some good ol' arcade racing, you have come to the right place.

As my title suggests, Burnout Paradise is fast, very, very fast. In fact, it may very well be the fastest racing game created, well, ever. And while it is possible I am overlooking some clear competition for this title, I have severe doubts that any game has retained this level of consistent speed, scrambling traffic-dodging, & rock solid framerate concurrently. So yeah, it's fast, take my word for it.

Besides the utterly insane speed at which this game is played, Burnout Paradise is accompanied with essentially the largest re-invention of the franchise to date: the open world. Now for the most part this is a good thing. It lets you decide when you want to partake in which events, & it gives you the keys to an immensely detailed & varied world to explore (one of my favorite Paradise pastimes). Not only that, but the open world paves way for some new & particularly interesting design choices (both positive & negative). First, you have the very coherent way by which you go about joining races. To join a race, your required to do little more than roll up to an intersection, hit your gas & break simultaneously, & wait for the seamless racing experience to begin. It's a simple way to join races to be sure, but for this pro, there are some conflicting cons that leave a lot to be desired. For one, once a race is started, there's no simple way to go about restarting it. Sure you can stop the race, turn around & return to the starting intersection, but the lack of a simple menu option is frustrating. To be fair the racing in Burnout Paradise will never punish you for getting off to a bad start or making the occasional mistake, so a lot of the times you won't even want to restart during mid-race, making the complaint a little forgivable in the long run. Besides the lack of a restart option, Burnout:Paradise also makes a questionable choice of how it thinks you should race through the city. Where most racers of this kind give you checkpoints to guide you through the perplexing metropolitans, Burnout Paradise give's you little more than sporadically flashing signs to guide you through the city. Now, in another game this would all be fine & dandy, but in Burnout:Paradise - a game which is played at such an intense speed that merely blinking will flip you into a turbulent explosion of shrapnel - the implementation is somewhat questionable. Otherwise though, the open world gameplay has turned out to be a huge win for the Burnout franchise.

While my review may make it seems like Burnout:Paradise is flawed past the point of no return, I assure you this is not the case. While it's true that the game is not everything it could have been, this still is the next-gen arcade racing game that fans of the genre have been waiting for. It's fast, it's fun, & the gameplay is tight... presuming you don't find yourself lost.

4 Stars - A must-buy for arcade racing fans

Oh no, not another car racing game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I must say that we really take technology for granted. I'm old enough to remember getting excited about being able to play "Pong" on my TV, with nothing but two lines and a blip. And, well, this is just insane.

I feel like I am inside a movie playing this, as it's so realistic. The stunts are crazy fun, and there are no hookers getting in your way. You really feel like you are learning to drive again because it takes you a while to get used to the speed. It may be a bit far-fetched as far as maneuverability and street reality. But it sure is great when you feel like you are really flying in your car. Sure, it's going to be compared with GTA, but what sales competition this will be once people take this for a test drive.

Awesome visuals and gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Criterion Games has released another winner in its 'Burnout' franchise with its first release on the next-gen systems. The difference between 'Burnout Paradise,' and past entries in the system is the open-world/Sandbox nature of gameplay. From the get go, you're launched into the world of Paradise City with a decent but very basic ride. Players used to previous titles may feel slightly disoriented at first as the game lacks a coherent task structure instead forcing you to roam around the beautifully rendered city taking in the varous sights all while wondering when is the game gonna start? Very soon though, players get instructed through the in-game radio on how to activate the hundreds of challenges scattered throughout the city. Players will engage in a variety of gameplay ranging from straight on timed-racing to full tilt car battles all while building up gameplay points that will allow for upgrades in new vehicles. This style of game works great for the short-attention span gamer looking to get their fix in short chunks - 10 minutes here, 15 minutes there, etc. Also, by all means do play this title on a proper high-def TV. The visuals are simply gorgeous ranging from pastoral mountain roads to intricate and dense cityscapes. Also, a downloadable expansion will soon be made available - from what i hear a new island - giving players even more beautiful environments to carve through.

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