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Burnout Paradise

by Electronic Arts
 Ages 3 and Over
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)

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Platform: Xbox 360
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  • Explore Paradise - From big-surf beach, to downtown gridlock, there's over 30 square kilometers of the ultimate driving playground to explore from the get-go. Nothing is blocked off.
  • Burnout Your Way - Just pull up to over 120 stoplights and spin your wheels to start one of five different events - the classic Race, Road Rage and Burning Route, and the all-new Stunt Run and Marked Man games.
  • Instant Online - Burnout Paradise sets the new standard in online social game play. See your friends online with the Easy-Drive Friends List and connect with them instantly without having to wait or exit your game.
  • Team up or Takedown - Join forces with up to 7 of your buddies to beat hundreds of online Free-Burn Challenges together or heat up the competition and go head-to-head in user created race routes.
  • 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!
  • Mug-shots - Track the length and breadth of up to 2,500 online rivalries. In your moments of victory, grab mug-shots of opponents who have connected PLAYSTATION Eye and Xbox LIVEVision cameras. Gloat over them even more in your trophy room or export them for ultimate bragging rights!
  • Speed, Speed and Even More Speed - The rebuilt, race-tuned Burnout game engine delivers intense speed boost game play at a super-smooth and super-fast 60 frames per second.
  • Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time - Feel like bringing chaos to the streets of Paradise? Set your car wrecking, spinning and scraping down the road, smashing through traffic and leaving a trail of expensive wreckage in your wake.
  • Crash Deformation - Burnout Paradise features an all-new deformation technology that gives players an astounding close-up and slow-motion view of super-real destruction.
  • Cars - Muscle cars, exotics, hot rods and even supercharged SUVs, engineered to look beautiful whether they're brand new or mashed into scrap. Choose from stunt, speed or aggression car classes, each built with their own unique boost ability to give you the upper hand for specific challenges. Shut down roaming rivals and rack up wins on your licence to strut the streets in a wide selection of unique rides.
  • Take it Aerial - Go airborne and pull boostearning barrel rolls and spectacular mid-air spins. Find the hidden jumps to reach secret rooftop routes and 120 smashable Burnout Billboards.
  • Driver's License - Start with a Learner's Permit then rack up wins to progress all the way up to a Burnout Elite Driver's License - the ultimate accolade for any safety-unconscious motorist.
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  • Platform:   Xbox 360
  • Media: Video Game
  • Item Quantity: 1

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Platform: Xbox 360 | Edition: Standard Edition
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  • ASIN: B000I5TL4I
  • Item Weight: 27 g
  • Release Date: 25 Jan 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,301 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)

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  • Warning: Not suitable for children under 3 years. For use under adult supervision

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360 | Edition: Standard Edition

Manufacturer's Description

Burnout Paradise proves that crashing is awesome! Next generation technology has enabled an unprecedented level of crash deformation allowing you to experience the most explosive pile-ups in the series' history. Now the development team can realise their original vision for the Burnout franchise: an open world environment where you can do anything, anywhere, anytime.

Feel the adrenaline course through your veins as you take to the road for the first time in Paradise City, where the action is all around you. Explore the city, discover events, and look for the best opportunities to crash, jump and pull signature takedowns. In Burnout Paradise you're given the keys to the city, but it's up to you to earn the keys to the meanest and most dangerous cars on the street, and earn your Burnout licence.

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The fifth entry in the gonzo racing series, Burnout Paradise gives players license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate racing battleground, with a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse.

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Poor demo, Excellent game 28 Jan 2008
By M. O. HAYNES VINE™ VOICE
Platform for Display:Xbox 360|Edition:Standard Edition
Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
Having read some reviews on Amazon and playing the dreadful demo I was pretty much put off buying this game. But then I recalled the demo of 'Revenge' being just as lacklustre and had a look at some other reviews on independant gaming sites e.g. 9/10 from gamespot. At which point I went and got it the day of the release. To put this into perspective I have 97% complete on the previous Xbox release 'Revenge' and had been waiting for this game for what seemed like eons so I am a big fan and wasn't going to be put off by a few odd people moaning about the demo. Critereon have produced a really good game here and then shot themselves in the foot with the demo. Forget the demo, the real McCoy is here and it is brilliant.

Gone are the painfully slow loading screens and equally irritating reloads and run throughs if you messed up a crash event - this is as close to seamless as it can get in terms of save/load functionality. The single player 'campaign' for want of a better term makes you work for license upgrades from learner, to C, B, A, Burnout and then Burnout Elite by doing races, takedown challenges and stunt challenges. The graphics are great as ever and the feeling of speed is unlike any other racing game.

The 'side quests' are discovery challenges like finding all the special jumps, barriers across shortcuts, car parks, drive thrus (were you can get a re-spray, swap cars, fill up your boost and fix damage) and then time challenges for each road on the map and 'show time'. Show time basically replaces the crash events in previous versions of the game allowing you to enter into a crash at any point in the game and guide your gravity defying wreck through the $ valued vehicles to try and beat preset offline records and online records.

The increase in difficulty as your license progresses is well judged and discovery of shortcuts is rewarded and integral to the game. Another integral thing, and I suppose the most fundamental change, is need for good navigation skills. The idea of a linear route with a few shortcuts has gone out of the window. All you are told for a race event is the start and end point - how you get there is up to you. However, there are a number of good features to help you navigate - road signs flash to tell you to hang a left or right as you approach junctions, your indicators blink and if you are really struggling you can skip over to a big map with the touch of a button, the game pauses and lets you think about where you need to go. You need to have some patience as you get used to this new feature but eventually you will grow to love it.

One thing which usually trips up open-world design games such as this is the time it takes and the irritation factor of having to walk (or drive in this case) around looking for events. This is definately not the case in Burnout Paradise - there are things to do on pretty much every road junction clearly colour coded and described on the large map. The time it takes to burn from one junction to another is nowhere near how long it used to take 'Revenge' to load / re-load events. those people who moaned about the lack of variety in the game obviously were only reviewing the demo - the full map has the equivalent of White Mountain, Sunshine Keys, Motor City etc. in different areas of the city.

The only downsides of this game I can think of is that most of the EA Trax are not to my taste and I actually ended up switching them off. Also some reviewers have said that the DJ Atomica voice over is irritating - I would agree but he does every now and again give useful advice - replacing the on screen tips you used to get while you were waiting for levels to load. other things that might have been nice but I can understand why they aren't there are weather/time of day effects and pedestrians. But in a driving paradise who wants people getting in the way?

To summarise I think this game could have been subtitled 'Freedom' as it removes all the tedious constraints present in previous versions of Burnout. I am an out and out Burnout fan and I am in no way disappointed, if you can't read a map stick to PGR.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best driving game out there! 10 Jun 2009
Platform for Display:Xbox 360|Edition:Standard Edition
Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
I'm not a racing gamer. Most driving games are really difficult to control unless you know what you're doing and I usually don't have fun. But in the case of Burnout Paradise, my opinion has completely changed for this game.

You have a huge variety of cars to pick from, the controls are really easy, allowing you to have really good control over the car, beautiful graphics, you get free roam over the entire island, which is fantastic and most of all, slow motion crashes!

If you've had a really stressful day, I found Burnout Paradise was an excellent way to releaving that stress, either smashing up your car at high speeds or smashing someone else's!

The online gameplay is excellent as well. There's always people on the servers and a lot more challenges if you've completed the main game. But you have to make sure you have a good car, because you'll always have at least one person online that will do everything they can to smash up your car for points. Unless you play the game until you get a good car, you won't last long online.

Overall a fun game with brilliant graphics. A must have for any 360 collection.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars GTA Of Racing Games 26 Jan 2008
Platform for Display:Xbox 360|Edition:Standard Edition
Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   
This was hyped up to be the first really intense game of 2008. I watched every trailer and video I could find and was really excited for it to come out,Anyways, I just got it yesterday.

After first going through a long setup and turoral video that plays before you can start they give you yuor first car and pretty much take you by the hand step by step on how to start races, where to get you car repaired, and pretty much everything else that you can do in the game. This is nice since it is such a indepth game. Once I got myself started I noticed that the controls and gameplay were very similar to Grand Theft Auto in that it's not only an open world where you can go pretty much anywhere, but also there are sub missions that you can play such as crashing through billboards, finding 'No Enterance' gates to crash through, and a mode called SHowtime where you basically create the ultamate accident by fliping your car into traffic and collecting points for how much damage you cost them.

The races are intense. There are no rules what so ever! No tracks that say go here then here. If you can find a better shortcut, take it. Though side streets, jumps off broken bridges (which this game has tons and tons of), and of course running the other cars off the road which also gives you more boost for your car.

One thing that dissapointed me about this game were the crashes. Yea, there very detailed and what not but you have no way of changing the camera angle. This was one of the things that I was most excited about and while they are well done, you're still limited.

Over all, I would have to say that this is a fun game that does keep your interest. If you liked Grand Theft Auto's miles and miles of open road and free gameplay then this you will like. Dont ask me about the online features since I have no idea. But single player is fun enough and off of that I can say I recomend this game.
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5.0 out of 5 stars very good
Very good price and promt service. Just what i wanted. No hasstles or worries with this product, you must buy,
Published 1 month ago by Mr. J. Frayne
5.0 out of 5 stars Rubbish
Don't waste your money. Poor excuse of a game. All the joy from previous excellent need for speed games has gone. It's like a 1980's first attempt at gaming.
Published 1 month ago by NEJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Great game
great game,with a huge area to explore. it has kept an eight year old well entertained. I would recommend this game!
Published 4 months ago by Sim-sim
4.0 out of 5 stars old game but stiil great fun
im going to say that this game is good however i do feel that it does get a bit repetitive with the licenses also there is no circuit racing or crash mode. Read more
Published 12 months ago by matt
3.0 out of 5 stars A Grand Step Down
Since Burnout: Revenge, This franchise has gone down a hill faster then marbles.

I originally brought this game for the online mode; only to find that online 'races'... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jonathan
4.0 out of 5 stars Burnout Paradise (xbox 360)
A lot of fun so far. No problems with the disc either (knock on wood). The game even came with the proper case and its booklet in practically mint condition. Read more
Published 14 months ago by ContentShopper
1.0 out of 5 stars Rip-off Game
I bought this game and then I found out in order to unlock other parts of the map, you have to buy Microsoft points. No way am I falling for that! Read more
Published 21 months ago by Darren Fuge
4.0 out of 5 stars Paradise
Excellent game with STUNNING graphics.
Who doesn't like driving around and crashing into things!?
Will get boring eventually as its very samey... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr. Sb Hicks
5.0 out of 5 stars Great game - until mum takes it off you!
Although I bought my copy from hmv, I think that this is a great game where you can play lots off fun events and unlock new cars. Read more
Published 24 months ago by S S Prasad
5.0 out of 5 stars Low Price, High Fun
This is a great game to buy if you're feeling bored.

It doesn't really have a story, just a lot of sexy cars crashing about the screen. Read more
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