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Burnout Paradise |  | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  156 reviews
Sales Rank: 487
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
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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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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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Burnout Paradise PS3
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 For online challengers, it's OK. Buy Burnout Revenge instead for the thrill. July 20, 2010
Nathan Schubach (Escondido, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After playing the emensely addictive Burnout Revenge game for the original Xbox, when I purchased a PS3, I didn't even do my research on this game, but I really should have. While the excitement is still sort of there, I can't tell you how disappointed I was.
Now I'm not that into online playing modes, so immediately I'm regretting what I bought into. Everything is done through the network: gamers' lap times, profiles, and even pictures that can be taken as you play different parts of the game are shared. One of my pet peeves is the fact that you have to go to Criterion's homepage before you even start the game...why? Who knows. It's also evident that more variety to the driving space could have been a huge plus...I can't tell you how many times I drove by the same jumps and garages before I got tired of them real quick. I'm unaware if the ultimate edition of the game gives you more cars or more land to drive on, but everything that you want to drive (the shiny cars, the quirky cars, the "toy cars"), you have to BUY seperately for the game at $6 a pop?!? Why? I bought the damn game, give me some cool stuff, Criterion.
In this version you get to ride motorcycles, too, which is OK, but the show-stoppers modes aren't available for them. You have to listen to the annoying DJ Atomika tell you things you already know all the way through the game, on top of music that cannot be changed to the user's own music...a serious flaw to the fun if you ask me. They even included a CD-worth of classical music in the soundtrack...to blend from Avril Lavigne's track into. What kind of DJ is this? A sadistic one. It's best to throw on some headphones and put the TV on Mute for this game.
Driving these cars (which all start off in various stages of junkyard versions post-demolition-derby-style, for some reason) feels fluid after a little while, but again, it's not like past versions of the game. You progress in the old games from slow, chunky-steering vessels to sleek, speed demons. In this version, you are told after you complete missions that there is a new car racing around out there, and if you find it and take it down, its yours to access in the "junkyard." So you don't really know what's faster, and it doesn't matter either b/c you'll find if you wanna go fast, all of the sudden you'll see a mission to enter that tests your endurance, which you don't have b/c you wanted the fast, light car. Also the "wrecked screens" in this version are terrible, taking 5-7 seconds before you're back on the road.
Ultimately, if you've never played the old versions, buy yourself a used Xbox and Burnout Revenge, but if you're browsing with $20 in your account and want a less-technical driving game that lets you blow your car up and take down unsuspecting motorists all in the nameof killing time, be my guest and purchase it. But the music is boring, you'll get sick of DJ Atomika, and the menus bait you to buy buy buy more more more, so try and be happy with what you bought.
Great game for single player and online, but sadly no split screen July 19, 2010
D. Duncan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is the best auto racing game on the PS3, but would be even better if it had split screen. Its replay value is just so much worse than it should be because of this. The story mode gets old fast, and you have to be creative to make the online mode fun, but it is still a good game. I highly recommend this game, especially if you like online racing.
Burnout Paradise July 13, 2010
Brigid Weldon
It's a really great game but when you see the crashes there are no bodies, and that bother's me. Which is in my opinion the only flaw at all.
 Kids can't turn it off April 2, 2010
B. Steele (The Woodlands, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought this for my 11 yr old son and neither ne, nor my 8 yr old daughter can turn it off. They love driving around and finding new races and things to do. Great game.
 Motorcycle doing wheelie can't flip backwards March 20, 2010
Happy r/c (Scottsdale, AZ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Try GRID racing game which I think is better.
Way, way too many screen options before I could just start racing is very very frustrating.
Only 1 car and 1 motorcycle, the rest have to be bought online (stop nickel and dime me).
I didn't grow up with muscle cars, mostly rice burner cars.
Awesome crash scenes.
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