The vgchartz ranking game--Burnout Paradise

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I LOVE GIGGS on 14 October 2009

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salaminizer on 14 October 2009

what? the races always ended in the same places, I dunno how you could not know where they were... and the game even told you where to turn!

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Barozi on 14 October 2009

salaminizer said:

what? the races always ended in the same places, I dunno how you could not know where they were... and the game even told you where to turn!

You're just giving me more things I can write on my contra list lol

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SmokedHostage on 14 October 2009

7.6

+Nice visuals and animations
+Alot of freedom
+Generally solid core
+Alot of DLC, much of which is free
+Great scent of speed

-Annoying AI
-Likely won't capture your attention for longer than a week due to repetition
-Bothersome racing map
-No splitscreen

Pixel Art can be fun.

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MonstaMack on 14 October 2009

8.5

Yeah... It's Burnout.
... mixed with Need for Speed? I dunno why it just seems like that.

Not a big fan of the open environment they have, and I prefer the old style Burnouts.

Test Drive Unlimited did the open environment better.

It's just that simple.

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Boutros on 14 October 2009

Barozi said:

6.5/10 (5.7 without the DLC)

+ crashing on purpose
+ support (great (free) DLCs)
+ lots of things to do (lol @ Boutros)

- art style (Paradise City, but feels like a generic place that could be anywhere on earth)
- track design (only one city and the outskirts are boring)
- no restart function
- repetitive
- being forced to open the map frequently during a race (can result in breaking a boost chain)
- horrible crash mode
- not being able to push cars from behind without crashing (yeah I loved that in Revenge)
- AI often takes a different route (boring and critical when you crashed and not able to catch up)
- frustration (But I guess that's more like a feature of the Burnout games...)
- no splitscreen

and that's not nitpicking, those are things that make the game almost unjoyable to me.
Surprisingly, I loved the demo.

Why lol at me?

There's not a lot of things to do. It's always the same thing. Race, escape and destroy...you can do all those things in GTAIV.

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Barozi on 14 October 2009

Boutros said:

Barozi said:

6.5/10 (5.7 without the DLC)

+ crashing on purpose
+ support (great (free) DLCs)
+ lots of things to do (lol @ Boutros)

- art style (Paradise City, but feels like a generic place that could be anywhere on earth)
- track design (only one city and the outskirts are boring)
- no restart function
- repetitive
- being forced to open the map frequently during a race (can result in breaking a boost chain)
- horrible crash mode
- not being able to push cars from behind without crashing (yeah I loved that in Revenge)
- AI often takes a different route (boring and critical when you crashed and not able to catch up)
- frustration (But I guess that's more like a feature of the Burnout games...)
- no splitscreen

and that's not nitpicking, those are things that make the game almost unjoyable to me.
Surprisingly, I loved the demo.

Why lol at me?

There's not a lot of things to do. It's always the same thing. Race, escape and destroy...you can do all those things in GTAIV.

Because that what you listed as contra is on my pro list.

The games has tons of content, but the implementation was poorly done. Lots of events and billboards to destroy etc.

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nordlead on 14 October 2009

9.0/10

Great game. Fun, fast, lots of great crashes. My biggest gripe was the lack of the crash mode from 2 & 3 where you rammed your car to earn $. The showtime was a pointless and stupid replacement. Online was flawlessly integrated and lots of fun.

Also, the game was better supported than most other games with lots of free downloads so you could restart races among other things.