Invite Your Friends to Explore Paradise City and Rule the Roads
Burnout Paradise is built with an all-new open world design to provide the ultimate in freedom and discovery online* and offline. Players will be able to create their own personal driving experience, as you decide when and where the action begins. It is a totally seamless experience, as Burnout Paradise sets the new standard in online social game-play.
See your friends online with the EasyDrive Friends List and connect with them instantly without having to wait or exit your game. You can battle up to seven of your friends and grab their Mugshots, or join forces to complete more than 300 online challenges.
“Burnout Paradise is the natural evolution of the franchise as we wanted to give the player full control to create their own personal Burnout experience,” says Alex Ward, Creative Director at EA Criterion. “The city really comes alive when players get together with their friends online, aggressively blasting through the streets at insane speeds to see who is king of the road. The team at EA Criterion couldn’t be more happy and excited to be delivering a truly next generation Burnout title.”
Burnout Paradise has been rated E10+ by the ESRB and 3+ by PEGI. For more information about Burnout Paradise, please visit http://burnout.ea.com or the EA press website at http://info.ea.com.
The Game
*Paradise City
From big-surf beach, to downtown gridlock, there’s over 30 square kilometers of the ultimate driving playground to explore from the get-go. Nothing is blocked off.
*Burnout Your Way
Slam, Shunt and Wreck opponents in cross-town race events, where YOU decide the fastest route to the finish line.
Hit the jumps and find shortcuts, smash through barriers and get to the places that other racers can’t reach to get that competitive edge!
Just pull up to over 120 stoplights and spin your wheels to start one of five different events – the classic Race, Road Rage and Burning Route, and the all-new Stunt Run and Marked Man modes.
*Instant Online
Burnout Paradise sets the new standard in online social game-play. See your friends online with the EasyDrive Friends List and connect with them instantly without having to wait or exit your game
*Team up or Takedown
Join forces with up to 7 of your buddies to beat hundreds of online FreeBurn Challenges together or heat up the competition and go head-to-head in user created race routes.
*Car Classes
Muscle cars, exotics, hot rods and even supercharged SUVs, engineered to look beautiful whether they’re brand new or mashed into scrap. Choose from stunt, speed or aggression car classes, each built with their own unique boost ability.
Event Types
•Race: Races consist of the player and at least 1 other car. The player is given a location to race to. First one to arrive wins.
•Road Rage: The player is given a target number of takedowns and a time-limit. A Road Rage event is won by meeting or exceeding this target in the given time-limit.
•Marked Man: In this event, the player is given a destination. At least 1 opponent is trying to stop the player from reaching the destination by scoring takedowns against them. The player must survive from start to finish in order to win (the player can crash/be taken out, but loses the event if he totals the car).
•Stunt Run: Players are given a target score. They must earn points towards by using boosts, jumps, and other stunt moves.
•Burning Route: Each Burning Route requires the player to use a specific car. Once the player is driving the required car, they race against the clock to a specified location. This is the only kind of event that doesn’t reset when the player earns a new license because it’s tied to the car used to run it rather than the license level the player is presently at.
My Views
I have never really been a fan of racing style games (mainly because I am rubbish at them), more into Golf and FPS style games, however, I have to admit Burnout Paradise has piqued my interest.
From the get go you are immersed in the world of street racing, however life is a lot easier if you spend some time roaming the streets of Paradise City first getting to know your way around and locating all the petrol stations, repair shops and scrap yards – Knowing where they all are will definitely help you later on!
Once you are ready to go, got your car looking mean and lean and have your driving gloves on, simply pull up to a set of traffic lights and put your foot on the brake and accelerator at the same time! Now your are in the race of your life, whichever one of the events you are in you can be sure that it will be hair raising, exciting and full of fast adrenaline pumping action, and hey don’t worry if you turn out to be a loser, you can just run the race again, and again until you get it right. Even after winning the event you can still keep taking part – just to practice (do not under-estimate the power of practice as each race gets harder and harder the better your license gets!).
My personal favourite was the Road Rage Event, a 180 mph smash the others off the road street race where your objective is to run the others off the road before they run you off, great fun redolent of demolition derby, and even more enjoyable when you are playing against your mates.
If you are a fan of Leisurely driving the streets taking in the sights then this is not the game for you it would be slaughter, if you love carnage, fast adrenaline pumping races and feel the need to be the best driver on the street, then you need to have Burnout Paradise City in your collection, if you are like me and not a fan of racing type games, go on and try it you’ll be hooked in no time!
Marks out of 10 (score & comments)
Graphics: Average 10 – Awesome using the full power of the PS3
Sound: Average 9 – A mixed bag with something to suit everyone
Gameplay: Average 9 – Great on your own, magnificent with online gameplay
Lifespan: Average 9 – One that will stand the test of time
Overall: Average 9 – A great game to own, an even better one to play online with your friends.
Reviewed by Ricardoh
