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They ruined Burnout

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 19
Date: January 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played all the Burnout games and I have to say this is the worst. The graphics are top notch and the cars just as fast, but it's nothing like the previous Burnouts at all. It's more like Grand Theft Auto where you cruise around except you only do mini races and crash through a few things. If you are a fan of the Burnout series you will be very disappointed in this game. No dedicated crash mode. When you race you have to look for turns or short cuts. Miss a turn and you will be going halfway across the city and unable to catch up to the other racers. They should have called it something other than Burnout, but I guess the name will ensure sales. I'm glad I only rented this.

biger is not better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: January 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

wll this game looks amazing but thats all,the people that gives this game 5,4 or even 3 stars evidentli dont like to get ther moneys worth.this game is a big disapointment to all burnout fans,lets start by sayn crach mode is gone,you have to drive like a retard all over the city and stop at a street light to get on a race,takedown and other shep tipes of raaces.It had the potential to be a great game but it didnt even came close to it.Dont make the same mistake that i did and buy this doungrade of a great game,just wait for grran turismo 5 that would be a better bet.

Great engine / terrible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great graphics and framerate but the game sucks. Instead of a menu system for starting races you have to drive around forever to find an event you want to play. They took away crash mode. LOTS more DJ Atomica talking at you which you can't skip or turn off. You can't play against friends on the same system because they removed all local multiplayer modes. One of the best things about previous version of Burnout was playing local multiplayer. You get bored of the island instantly because you have to drive around it forever trying to start events. Getting from event to event doesn't feel like playing, it feels like work. Burnout Revenge was the last great racing game and now we need another one to take the reigns.

Game for a 5 year-old

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game has nothing to do with a racing game! Not realistic what so ever, not even the cars actually exist!
A 5 year-old may have fun pressing on the gas and seeing himself wreck his car 100 times with no consequences and pushing other cars off the road in order to win a """race"""... But if I buy a racing game I expect to at least see a speedometer and have a decent sense of reality!

Rediculous!!!

Boooooring!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 23
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Burnout 3 is my all-time favourite racing game. Since then, every new instalment manages to warp and destroy what was so fun. I guess it depends on what YOU enjoy about Burnout... Me, I basically just want to play Road Rage all the time. That's the best part, but here I mostly find myself driving (and constantly crashing) BETWEEN events. What's the point of an "open city" if you cannot get out of the car anyway? It's just annoying! (and the nice graphics make all those empty cars, yours included, driving around pretty strange). The few seconds loading the race would have taken, are now spent LOOKING FOR a new race... You still lose time. And Burnout being such a fast and violent game - you don't have time to look at maps to figure out where to go next! And since it's "a city", any given race includes 90º turns that are impossible, unless you know there there - so prepare to loose a lot, until... What? Am I supposed to memorise this whole city? That makes sense in GTA, but not in a racing game. Another beautiful opportunity ruined.

Riddled with flaws.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: February 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is so painfully flawed. I've been a Burnout fan for a long time, and sadly this one doesn't have what it takes. Visually this game is amazing. It gets 5 stars there. But that's the only really good thing about it.

At the title screen you have to deal with the horrible "Take me down to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the girls are pretty!" song. *Stabs his ears out* Then you have to deal with it while the game loads. Then you have to deal with it when you select and customize your car. Then you have to deal with it on "EA Trax". Thanks guys. Couldn't find a more annoying song?

Secondly, you CANNOT customize the controller. At all. Yeah, we all like having to switch our play for the one freaking game that doesn't allow for customization.

Third, there's no "reset" option mid race. I'm a perfectionist and if I screw up where I don't want to, I'll reset a race. But not on this game! Oh ho NO! I have to go all the way to the end of the race, then drive all the way back to the beginning (because this Burnout utilizes the map race layout like other games in this genre, as opposed to a structured race setup, but does a horrible job of it). There's no way to warp back to a race you've already attempted... you get to drive alllll the way back, and stew on your miserable defeat.

Fourth, There's no way to turn off the extra camera for when you take someone down (named "Takedown Camera" in other versions), it ALWAYS goes to the opposing car. At least this could be shutoff in other Burnouts. Not this one! No no no... EA worked so hard in making these crashes, they DEMAND every moment of your attention on them.

The stunt run is... okay. It's very hard if you're not familiar with the area. If you're lucky enough to find a jump or series of jumps back to back, just keep using them.

And lastly... the one thing every Burnout fan liked wasn't included in this game. What is it you ask? The crash mode. NO CRASH MODE. Yup. Bad move EA. Was to take a brilliant game and butcher it until it was just another Need for Speed. (Yes I know about Showtime mode, and it's somewhat fun to play around with... however, it doesn't top the structured Crash mode of this game's predecessors.)

I had very high expectations for this game and was seriously let down. I'd give the game 2.25 stars, but since I can't it only gets 2. It's definitely not a three star game.

Change - Not Always for the Best

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like Burnout: Paradise. The graphics are beautiful, the soundtrack is fantastic with a few exceptions -- Avril Lavigne? -- and online play is integrated well. It's obvious that the developer was going for a seamless play experience - load times are pretty much non-existent. However, the cost in implementing this system is that simple commands like retrying a race or swapping cars is gone. Annoyingly after losing a race you'll find yourself having to either move on or trudge back to the start of that particular event. Another problem is that many of the events require a specific car or a specific class, here again you'll have to find a junk yard and swap out your car. I also noticed while playing that all of the events conclude at one of eight predetermined points and while you're free to choose a path of your liking there are realistically only so many optimal routes to race. Unfortunately with the `sandbox' environment you'll find yourself relying on maps a lot. The game has a great map - but you have to pause the action and go to a different screen to use it. The mini-map that you get while driving is essentially useless as you only see a small portion of the total map. I found that I'd usually start a race only to immediately pause the game and study the map for a route. Then along the way I'd pause a few more times to stay on track. Annoying. Winning cars in Paradise is actually pretty cool - many times you first have to find a rival and `take them out' in order to win their car. What's unexplainable is why the developer chose to give you a damaged car that has to be immediately repaired after selecting it. Get used to driving to the repair shop often. All in all Burnout: Paradise could've been the pinnacle of the series, as it stands poor choices by the developer in a few areas keeps the game from being great. Ultimately the game is enjoyable, especially for anyone new to Burnout, for veterans the shortcomings will be all to obvious.

Great game only if you play alone. NO local multiplayer

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I agree with all the reviews here about the great graphics and depth of the game, so I won't go into that. However, my favorite part of burnout was playing with friends. There is NO split-screen multiplayer with burnout paradise. You need more than one PS3 to play with multiple players via the internet. This really ruins the game for me because it makes burnout paradise solely a game for those who play alone (and none of the reviews at the game websites mentioned this). Unfortunately for me, I got this game hoping to play with friends. There is no crash mode either, which was pretty fun.

Nothing New Here!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: January 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First of all I would like to say the Burnout series is amazing. With that being said Burnout Paradise is completely unoriginal and very much a GTA clone. I'm sorry but the "open" map idea has been done by every genre on every system. That doesn't make a game Next Gen. The graphics are great the controls are just as good. But the completely un-orginal idea to make this a GTA clone makes me laugh. you blew it burnout!

can't play with your friends

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

sorry, but they took out the best parts of burnout.
1. you CAN'T play with your friends at home (no split-screen multiplayer).
2. no road-rage online.

really sucked to find that out after getting the game..

outherwise it's cool but without those 2, i'd skip it.

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