Burnout Paradise Review

This was a review I wrote for gamefly for Burnout Paradise a while back.

First off, let me tell you that this game is great, and can be easily enjoyed by anyone. Its simple enough to just jump right in, but has more than enough content to keep fans going for hours on end. Now onto the details.

First the good: To start this game simply looks amazing, the car physics are awesome, great lighting effects, good textures on the cars, just everything about it looks great. The presentation of the game is also outstanding, once you navigate through the opening menus where you can read up on the latest burnout news, pick your car, purchase content, and more, you can play for hours with no loading screens unless you want to restart your race. The way the game is setup is that you have free roam of the entire city at all times, this offers multiple path choices where you can avoid traffic, take shortcuts, or avoid sharp corners. The game also rewards you for exploring, for example, once you smash through all 400 of the games hidden gates, you get an awesome new car to play with. The game also supports multiple play styles, offering; stunt, speed, and aggression car types. These different cars are better suited for different race types, speed is good for simple races, stunt is good for stunt runs, and aggression is good for marked man, and road rage. All of these multiple modes play out exactly as you imagine, for example in road rage, you smash apart rival cars until you reach a preset number of take downs. Burnout is also being constantly updated, having bugs removed, content added, tweaks made, etc. One big add on was the free addition of bikes to ride.

The Bad: The soundtrack to this game is pretty awful, you can pick what songs you want to play, and what ones you want turned off, but chances are you’re only going to like maybe 3-5 of the songs. Also, when you crash the camera takes control of the game and shows your car being destroyed, while this looks good, sometimes its a bit annoying.

Overall: Burnout is just plain fun. 9/10.

Future Reviews will be better, I just wanted to get something out here.

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