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Continuing a great franchise!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I highly recomment this item. The seller was quick, reasonable and I recieved the item in pristine condition. i highly recommend both this seller to anyone!

Burnout Revenge- Open World Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great and fun racing game. It has intense crashes great cars and many events. Once you get acustom to the open world and the new racing style you will fall in love with another great Burnout racing game.

Spectacular Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Quite possibly the best racing game I have ever played. The freeburn online and the offlinbe portions of the game work seamlessly together and the mugshots and race photos are a tight addition. I absolutely love this game.

Just over all fun!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have never played any Burnout game before. I tryed this one out and can't put it down. Online expeience is okay, but the over game maybe got repetative but I still never got tired of it, Because lets just face it crash, race, 75 different cars, large map, awsome grphics, great music, NO glitches, why put the controller down. But One con that i agree with everyone is the driving and looking at the map. Instead i find my self pausing looking at the make and continuing the race every min. To hard to look at the map and drive at the same time.

fun,fun, daddy's got his car and is driving crazy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

While I have read many reviews that say this permutation of the game series is not what they hoped for, I believe that as a first time player to this particular series, the game holds up extremely well. It is a fast paced, heart pounding driving game that allows new comers as well as the jaded players that scream "give me more excitement". The layout is immense, the virtual City is big enough , that getting lost is a reality. The number of mini games within the game itself , are fun and intoxicating themselves, that is so realistic ,that I have trouble remembering not to drive like I do while playing the game when I get behind the wheel off my car. Unlike some strategy games, you don't feel cheated by not being able to unlock everything too quickly, learning the game and getting good at it , is well paced and worth the $60 you have to plop down to get this in your home.
Happy trails,

Feed Your Need To Crash Your Car

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My family is new to the world of the XBOX 360, so I don't have any experience with prior versions of Burnout with which to compare Burnout Paradise. This is my favorite kind of racing game, the kind where you can smash up your car and still keep going.

My son (10) and I did think that the car doesn't show enough damage for our tastes. We have Stuntman Ignition and we spend a lot of time trying to break the back window and have the hood and trunk fall off. It's probably not what most people are looking for in a racing game, but it's what makes it fun for me so I thought I'd note that the back end of the car always looks pristine.

We like the narrator helping us through the parts that are new to us. It's not intrusive and actually much more helpful than making you go through a formal tutorial and then letting you loose on your own. I found the controls fairly easy to use once I got used to the level of sensitivity of the left stick. We don't own a steering wheel but I'll bet that would really improve the experience.

I like this game, and would recommend it.

A little different from previous releases

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of racing games, and in particular of the Burnout series. Burnout Paradise is more open ended than previous releases, and also less fun.

Why? Where is my crash mode? I loved that single feature of the game most of all. You can make the most realistic driving environment I've played. You can use an awesome physics engine. You can put in great music and a really open ended environment. You can achieve the right blend of difficulty and measured progress. All these elements exist in Burnout Paradise.

If you've never played Burnout Revenge you'll never know that Criterion took away a little bit of the fun that made Burnout stand out from the rest of the racers. Crash mode! Bring it back or you'll never rate five stars again...

Hold on to your hats

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I need to make a disclaimer--I have really loved the Burnout series. I love racking up points for the best "accident" and the overall feel of the game. And, this new one did not disappoint. The functionality of the game is high and I like the look of the new game. EA did a great job with this updated version.

I've also found that my family continues to enjoy the Burnout series. These games are unlike the GTA games that are filled with hardcore violence, foul language, and sexuality. Instead, Burnout will help you hone your eye hand coordination as you try to hug the tight corners. My hands/fingers get a workout with this game. I love it!

Suprisingly addictive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have had limited experience with the Burnout series. The only time I've even played a Burnout game was with a free Demo of Burn out Revenge. With the abundance of average and downright bad racing games out there, I didn't expect much of the demo, but I actually found it quite entertaining and fun. Usually I expect some sort of realism in racing games, but Burnout Revenge was the exception, after a while I found myself playing the demo more than the game that the demo was included on. As much fun as I had with the Burnout Revenge demo, I never got around to getting the full game. Then after awhile, I forgot about it all together.

A few years later I got the opportunity to get a copy of Burnout Paradise City. I was expecting more of the same as compared to Burnout revenge, and for the most part it is still the same type of game, but there are a few disappointments.

First off there is no "Crash Breaker" in Paradise. I seem to recall in the Revenge Demo, I would sometime be able to break out of a crash by a perfectly timed button press; however this feature is no longer available. Why it was taken out is beyond me, I suppose they wanted the game to be more "realistic". Secondly there is no after touch either which was also in Revenge. When you crash in Paradise the computer takes over and you are no longer in control.

Another disappointment is the extremely cumbersome and confusing menus. Whoever designed the menus needs a class in user interface design. When someone is playing a game for the first time or the first time in quite a while, the last thing they want to deal with is confusing menus making the game needlessly more frustrating; when all they want to do is to figure out how to do something. A menu design should be a simple as pressing Start or Select and scrolling down to what you want to do, it does not require much more than that and I wish game companies would realize that most of us don't care about how "cool" the menu system is. They need to stop trying so hard and get back to the basics.

Despite the negatives, Burnout Paradise is still a fun game to play. I was so turned off by the menu system, that I didn't play it again for a couple of days, but I came back to it after letting my son play it for about 20 minutes. He seemed to really enjoy it and after playing it for the second time I started to enjoy it as well.

The graphics are very well done, the first thing I thought about when I played this game on my main TV in the living room were the racing games we see in video arcades. The graphics are that good. The city that you drive in looks downright real; better than PGR3. The gas stations and repair shops all over the city are also authentic looking and the gas stations in the game even have today's inflated prices. In addition the cars YOU drive are also quite convincing in the realism department. While they are not actual licensed cars, they are still designed very well and the damage they sustain is realistic. The only area in graphics that could use improvement are the NPC cars.

The audio is also great. From the engine sounds to the sounds of screeching tires and the inevitable crashes, add a great deal of excitement to the game. Additionally, if you drive on the wrong side of the road or about to hit a passing car head on, you will hear the cars honk at you. For best results it's good to have the volume cranked up to get the best effect.

Presentation is a big part of all games and that alone determines if a game is good or bad; at least in my book. For the most part Paradise delivers. This game's presentation is quite similar to Need For Speed : Underground in which you are given free roam of the city with no blocked off areas or linear routes in actual racing. If you want to drive off a cliff, you can. In addition not only do you have to contend with traffic while you are cruising you also have to deal with them during actual events. So not only do you have to worry about beating your opponents, you also have to worry about weaving through slow traffic. Unlike PGR3, your computer controlled opponents WILL crash and are not "unwreckable". In fact one of the points of the game is to wreck your opponents.

Another fun thing about the game is that you are free to race whenever YOU want to; both during free roam as well as actual races. Similar to GTA if you just want to drive around the city wrecking other cars and doing stunts all day you can. But when you do decide to race, there are over 100 "events" you can compete in all over the city and in categories such as "Street Race", "Marked Man", "Stunt Run", and "Road Rage". All events are fun, but some are understandably more difficult than others. The presentation is done well enough to keep me interested for a while. However on a side note, I never knew cars could drive themselves. There are no drivers in your and any of the other cars in Paradise so that is pretty lame, but if you can look past that you still should be able to have fun playing.

By no means can this game be considered realistic by any stretch of the imagination. Things are way too easy to do like pressing X will allow you to perform a perfect E-brake turn every single time, and not even in PGR3 can I make a sharp turn at 120 MPH without crashing. But the important thing is that this game is fun to play for me. In the long run I do see it getting a little repetitive, but for now it keeps my son and me entertained.

Lots of Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played this myself, and I have 5 and 9 year old sons who also played, and we all enjoyed it. Initially it was a little confusing and I highly recommend the tutorials. Once we got into the game it was quite fun, even for my 5 year old who didn't understand half of it but didn't have too much trouble with the controls. What I really liked was the freedom and open-world aspect of the game. There seem to be no shortage of events and random things to do. The graphics are very good and the game play is addictive. Top grades on this product!

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