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Burnout Paradise |  | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  297 reviews
Sales Rank: 621
Format: NTSC
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: car_and_truck_racing_and_flying_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: PlayStation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.6
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MPN: 15633
Model: 15782961
UPC: 014633156331
EAN: 0014633156331
ASIN: B000MUW98O
Publication Date: January 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Rock Paradise City—Shred your way across more than 250 miles of open road discovering jumps, stunts, and shortcuts. | | • | Infinite Possibilities—Blaze your path to glory in 120 unique events, using your knowledge of the city to find the fastest routes and get the drop on rivals. | | • | Team Up or Takedown—Battle friends online and grab their mugshots, or join forces to complete more than 300 online challenges. | | • | Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time—Send your car wrecking, spinning and scraping down the road, smashing through traffic and leaving a trail of expensive wreckage in your wake. | | • | Road Rules—Make and break the rules of each road by setting speed and destruction records all over town. Track how many you own against your friends! |
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Product Description
Burnout Paradise PS3
Amazon.com
In Burnout Paradise players are treated to a rarity in the video games universe: a complete reinvention of an established franchise that equals, if not betters any of the previous games in the series. Yes, this is a large claim, but one that can be explained in a single phrase: Next-Gen Freedom.
Driver's heaven is a wide open world |
In Paradise City even cars can fly. View larger. | 
Go for broke in 'Marked Man' Mode. View larger. | 
Nothing is off limits, even head-on crashes. View larger. | 
Start a race any time with 'Easy Drive.' View larger. |
Although the Burnout series' over the top mobile action has been its calling card since it ignited audiences on the PS2 in 2001, and later on the first generation Xbox console, Burnout Paradise is the first game in the series that has been designed specifically for play on Next Generation consoles. This has allowed game developer Criterion to rip the training wheels off the game and rebuild it from scratch. The result is a new, expansive world that players can roll through at will. And what a world it is.Enter Paradise City
Heaven on Earth, at least to road-raging, crash-causing Burnout fanatics, Paradise City is your domain and ultimate proving ground in Burnout Paradise. This expansive driver's playground stretches across 250 miles and encompasses all sorts of road driving conditions, from fun-in-the-sun seaside cruising boulevards, to mountain roads and downtown gridlock. But regardless of what stretch of asphalt you find yourself on, the beauty of this place is that nothing is blocked off and your wits are at least as important as the horsepower under your hood when it comes to racing here. Check out Paradise City's five sub areas (click the links for sample images):- Downtown Paradise City
- Harbor Town
- Palm Bay Heights
- Silver Lake
- White Mountain
Burnout Your Way
Unlike in previous Burnout games, Burnout Paradise not only puts the keys to your ride in your hands, but places you squarely in the driver's seat when it comes to where you can go and what you can do.Along with wide avenues and crowded highways, the open game design of Paradise City is also jammed full of hidden side streets, back roads and alley ways. These can be used as short cuts in races, that is, if you know where they are. As you explore, commit these potential short cuts to memory because they will definitely come in handy in a tight race. And since we are talking Burnout here, players should not expect uneventful, genteel contests of speed and precision driving. In Paradise City players are always free to slam, shunt and wreck opponents in their bids for supremacy and they will. Also, new to the Burnout series, races can now start anywhere, anytime. Just pull up to a stoplight and spin your wheels to start one in one of five different event classes:- Classic Race
- Road Rage
- Burning Route
- Stunt Run (new)
- Marked Man (new)
Instant Online
Burnout Paradise also keeps the mobile carnage coming while simultaneously setting the new standard in online social gameplay. With the new `Easy Drive' feature you can find friends online and with the click of a button invite them to a race. Once they've accepted the race will start immediately. That's right, no more annoying wait times at online lobbies and servers. And keeping in touch with friends is easier than ever.Team up or Takedown
In the winner-take-all universe of Burnout teaming up usually isn't the first option that comes to mind, but on these rough and tumble streets it's a good option to keep in mind. With more than 300 FreeBurn Challenges packed into the game, players always have the choice of going it alone against the field as a whole or joining forces with up to seven of your buddies in user-created race routes. Either way, if you are victorious in your takedown you'll get the chance to talk some trash as you exchange Mugshots with your victim via an optional camera hooked to your gaming system or your gamertag/PSN avatar if you prefer to keep your identity on the down-low.Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time
And finally since a new Burnout release wouldn't be complete without a little something special in the wreckage department, Burnout Paradise continues the carnage with an update of its familiar 'Crash Mode.' Renamed 'Showtime Mode,' players can now crash, bounce and scatter their ride in any location and replay the wreckage over and over in slow motion. One of the most addictive and down right fun features of the game, players activate the mode by simply pulling both triggers on their controller and if they are good enough can also immortalize their Showtime moments on the leaderboards for all to see.Driving fans this is Next-Gen at its best and definitely the Burnout title you have been waiting for.
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 Does not work with wheels September 8, 2010
J. Pierce (Atlanta, GA)
I have a Thrustmaster and Logitech Wing Man and neither work with this game. I stand corrected, there is a slight feedback when wrecking, very slight. But compared to Dirt 2 (awesome!) this game has almost no feedback or feel and let me say that overall the game play is just sorry. It reminds me of Pole Position by Atari. If the feedback was great when I MIGHT give this game a chance but the gameplay is just rediculous.
It's Fun September 1, 2010
Joshua Holland (Corpus Christi, TX)
I enjoy playing this game, but its easy for me do set down and do something else (5 stars - i'd have a hard time putting the controller down).
 Fun Game August 27, 2010
crcbon
If you like racing games this is a great game fun fast driving and the car crashes are just great to watch. Totaly recomended
 All That Could Have Been..... August 14, 2010
Gobzer (Renton, WA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have not ever been a fan of open-world racing games. When I heard Paradise was going to be done in this way, I was skeptical to say the least. Then I got my hands on the game and my fears were realized. First off, the map is TINY. So tiny that you will drive down the same roads so many times you'll forget you even care how small the world is. The events are presented in an interstingly enough way; you pull up to intersections with traffic lights and initiate races from there. There are over 100 events to choose from, which is nice. The unfortunate thing is that because the city is so small, the races are over VERY quickly. There is also no feature which allows you to warp to events (a mistake seen in earlier EA produced NFS titles during the last console generation), so if you race from one end of the map to the other (this can be completed in under 3 minutes) you have to drive WAY back to the other side if you have events over there to complete. This happens often. Another curious design choice with the events is how they are setup. The races begin at traffic lights but every single race ends at one of six pre-determined locations. Pretty soon it feels like you've gone from an open world racing game, to one with only 6 closed tracks. Only the tracks are poorly designed and you can't tell where to go.
Another gripe is the fact that the navigation system is a mess. It is very hard to tell which direction you are supposed to be going because there are no arrows or barriers to keep you on track. Small green signs pop up on either the left or right side of the screen to indicate to turn left or right. This is distracting for two reasons. 1. You have to move your eyes too far away from your car to see which way to go. Taking your eyes off your car is a death sentence in ANY game. 2. Because there are no barriers to indicate where your turns are, you have to rely very heavily on depth perception against many similarly colored objects to determine WHERE to turn. This results in many crashes because you are having to not crash into things while simultaneously trying to understand where to go while driving too fast to even be able to do this. Luckily since the AI is so bad, you can recover from these instances. Trust me, it happens A LOT. However, the game is not all bad.
The best thing about this game is easily the cars. There are around 70 cars but half of them are just upgraded versions of the other half, which is stupid. This problem not withstanding, the cars are fun to drive and the game does a good job of ratcheting up the speed gradually. You start off with a clunker (albiet a fast one) and slowly work your way up to supercars. The speed increase is done very well, something this series is known for. You never feel like you're driving something you can't handle. The sense of speed is also top notch and you feel like a champion after wrecking seven cars in a row on any given event. And for some STUPID reason the crash camera cannot be turned off. I feel like the crash cam takes you completely out of the moment just to show some chump crashing.
All in all the game is ok. Its shortcomings are pretty big but that doesn't change the fact that it is still fun. If you NEED a Burnout fix, pick this up for $20. Just don't get the Big Surf Island expansion pack, its a lot of money for 6 cars and not much else.
Remember: Its just one man's opinon.
Fun! August 5, 2010
Philip Ekema (Kalamazoo, MI)
I really like this game. The gameplay is pretty fun, and the graphics are very well done. I only wish that some aspects had been kept from previous versions, such as the races where you smash and make as much damage as possible. This version has something to replace it (show) but I liked the old version a lot better.
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