Produced by: EA Games
ESRB rating: Everyone
Basic Summary:
Race, Jump, Crash, Dodge, Run, Spin, Boost, Search, Drift. This is what Burnout Paradise is all about. Drive through the Paradise City, completing races and challenges, both offline and online.
Gameplay:
Enter Paradise City, A relatively small city with lots of streets and plenty of sights. But of course this game isn't about the scenery, heck no. you'll be going too quick to pay attention to that. Once the game starts up, you go straight to picking the vehicle that you would like to use. after that, the city is yours to explore if you want. but of course just exploring isn't going to get you anywhere in this game. Pick from any of the games meny events that can accessed at every intersection in the game. No that isn't a joke, you literally go up to an intersection and rev your engine to start any of the games events. the game features a couple of different event types. other than races (of course, this IS a driving game after all), you can do stunt runs that involve collecting doing jumps, slides, and just about anything to rack up the score. Road rage events that involve knocking your opponents out by any means, from running them into a wall, to running them into traffic, and even land on top of them to take them out. Timed runs to one of the main locations of Paradise City, Burning routes that challenge your skill with each individual vehicle. Marked man events that will have you running from your opponents as long as possible. But that's not all, oh no. that's just for OFFLINE game play. online game play is completely different ballgame. enter the Freeburn Online mode, where up to 8 players total can join a game room that is hosted. So what do you do in Freeburn online? Everything you can do in offline, and more! complete the 500 online only missions that will challenge both you and the other players, work together to complete the challenges, or else you'll all fail! don't wanna work together? then start a race, or a road rage event, or a stunt run, at any time! the game features voice chat capabilities, so you can communicate with other players in the same room. What about unlockables? well, the game features 75 different vehicles that can be obtained by either finishing burning route challenges with specific cars, or just "shut them down" while driving around the city. either way, you'll get new vehicles instantly, and they can be accessed easily by going to the nearest Auto yard in game. If cars are not your thing, why not drive a motorcycle instead? there are plenty of bike-only challenges available as well. Search the city for hidden billboards and gates you can smash through, and hidden super jumps, finding all the billboards and gates and jumps can be quite the challenge, but you'll be rewarded for doing so. Utilize the three different types of boost available, each car in the game uses one of the three boost types: Speed boost for a one-time full shot of power, Stunt boost for sending you car soaring through the air longer and keeping you sliding longer, and the Agression boost, that gives extra power for taking down opponent cars and becomes stronger as you take down more opponents.
Graphics and Sound:
The game features a lot of awesome looking scenery, from boosting through the city, to driving up and down the city's mountains, it's a very dynamic enviornment. the vehicles themselves are quite detailed as well, showing reflections and damages to the car are easily seen. the crashes are well detailed, you can see the parts of your car go flying off depending on the angle and force of your crash. the soundtrack is quite good, the games title song "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses sets the mood of the game quite well. the other music featured in the game covers a wide variety of genres, rock, pop, hip-hop, punk, emo, even classical music (never thought you'd be racing to Beethoven's symphony did you :P).
Difficulty: Average
completing all the challenges (offline and online, cars and bikes) can take a LONG time to finish, finding all of the hidden billboards and gates can be hard at times, sometimes you'll find yourself trying to get the same billboard, only being able to hit it after a dozen tries at it. the online challenges can be more difficult, because not only do YOU have to do them, but the other players must do the same as well! try getting 7 other players to listen to you, good luck >_>;;
Personal Opinion:
this game can be a load of fun, but it's missing quite a few things that could make it better. an offline spilt-screen co-op would've made game a lot more fun, but isn't available at all, instead you're given a turn-based offline party mode, which really isn't that fun because you don't get to select ANYTHING, the game does it for you, blah >_>. A personal issue of mine was the amount of time the game takes to show you things, starting an offline event you have wait for the whole "go to this location doing etc etc." dialog from the announcer, and even after you finish an event you have to wait for the "you win" stuff to go away, which is about 20 seconds. you can't skip the messages, you HAVE to wait for them to go away themselves. this game also uses a LOT of unrealistic physics, I mean hey I know it's not supposed to be real since it's a game, but come on i don't think tapping your handbrake sends your car INSTANTLY to a 180 degree turn... also you'll be easily surprised at how easy it is to wreck your car, even a slight contact with a traffic car can send you FLIPPING down the road. The bikes in this game..., first off NO BOOST FORA BIKE, really!? you don't think a motorcycle can boost EA? second, you don't even "see" the crashes while on a bike, you hit something, the screen blacks out for 3 seconds, that's it! anyways that's all the complaints I have for the game itself. dealing with players online is an issue sometimes, but that's not the games fault so i'm not talking about that :\.
the entire game map and all it's events, note that they're placed every single road intersection!
also you can't tell from this map, but the mountain roads on the left go REALLY HIGH UP!
"What's next? this challenge is complete." - DJ Atomica, in-game announcer
fun fact, DJ Atomica was also the in-game announcer of the SSX snowboarding series, and he was also an unlockable character in SSX 3!
testing if this works >_>
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