Dr Gadget - Burnout Paradise

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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Video Game Brand: Electronic Arts EAN: 0014633156393 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+ Feature: Rock Paradise City—Shred your way across more than 250 miles of open road discovering jumps, stunts, and shortcuts. Format: NTSC Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: Electronic Arts Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Model: 014633156393 Platform: Xbox 360 Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: 2008-01-22 Studio: Electronic Arts
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!
Accessories Burnout Paradise (Prima Official Game Guide) The Official Xbox Magazine [1-year] Electronic Gaming Monthly Play
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Only average overall Comment: All of the previous Burnout games were great. This time around, you drive around in an fairly large (but not gigantic) open world and as you drive around you can choose different racing events. There are cars to earn as you move up in the ranking. The opposing car AI isnt bad and in general the racing is fun. Why the average score? The world may be large but it is terribly bland. Sure there's mountains on one side and water on the other but the general color scheme is gray, gray, gray. This actually matters because it can be difficult to discern crossroads as they come up (remember in Burnout you are driving REALLY fast). There's so much gray that the road looks like the buildings as they zip by. When you race you can take any path to the destination you like. That's great, but good luck trying to see visual landmarks so that you know when to take that hard left turn. So the game is fun, but best bought at a discount and enjoyed for what it is: a solid arcade style racing game that doesnt in any way surpass the previous Burnout games. Customer Rating: Summary: Average game Comment: When i purchased it, it was listed as a lightning deal so the price was great. Its a OK game, just lacks some of the creativity and excitement other similar games have. Customer Rating: Summary: Fun game Comment: I do like the idea of the game, where you can drive where ever you want, and start an event and any red light. But for some reason, I seem to keep driving on the same road and can't find all of the events. It's not like the map is that big, but I like to drive looking at the map, not the road. DJ Atomica is kind of annoying. Overall, it's a fun game for many hours, it just seems like I'm stuck. On races, I can't seem to slow down and make the turn on the correct street, and it seems like I always get separated towards the end of the race and it's too late. That is frustration also. Customer Rating: Summary: A nice change of pace Comment: I am not a fan of racing games. With the exception of silly ones that end with the word "Kart," I stay far, far away from this genre. That said, I AM a fan of huge explosions, causing chain reactions from said explosions and figuring out intricate ways to cause all sorts of virtual mayhem. It's because of this second part that I enjoy the Burnout series. But Burnout has become a stagnant series, in my opinion, with subsequent sequels simply tweaking the modes and gameplay while relying on slicker graphics to attract gamers. And so it is that we have Burnout Paradise, a game that tries to completely re-invent the series by making it more about an open world. This completely changes the way the game plays, both for the good and the bad. The freedom to traverse a beautiful city, see the sights and plan your attack is liberating and makes the game feel less like a racing game. This isn't Grand Theft Auto, so don't expect to see cops trailing you for the mayhem you cause. If anything, it's an explosion simulator. While you're busy driving around the city, you'll come across many events for you to partake of. These events are grouped into five categories, Race, Marked Man, Road Rage, Burning Route and Stunt Run. Race and Marked Man have you racing around the city, with Marked Man having other cars chasing you. Road Rage has you attempting to destroy as many cars as you can withint a set time limit and Burning Route is a time trial, using a certain car. My favorite is the Stunt Run, which tags you with trying to string combos together with various stunts ( boosts, jumps, drifts, reverse driving, near misses, etc.). The controls feel just right and spot on. A lot of recent driving games have felt loose to me and it was nice to "get behind the wheel" and feel like I actually had control over my car. I've already mentioned the graphics (they're beautiful in case you missed it) and the sound is also meaty, with some nice explosions and a pleasant soundtrack adding to the immersion. Utilizing varous system-specific peripherals (Xbox Live Vision in this case), you can take a picture for your driver's license and when you take the game online, you'll show your driver's license to whoever you're playing against. It's kind of a cool feature. Since this game has been out for awhile, you can also partake in some expansions that add a ton of different content and modes to both the online and offline game. So it's nice to see Criterion support the game post release, especially with some of the free updates. The biggest problem is one inherent in an open-ended game. It's easy to lose focus and pacing when you're not being pulled along a more linear course. I think this change is a good one for Burnout, but, unfortunately, as far as the crashing goes I think the earlier games were better. That said, it's nice to see a company not simply coast through with minor tweaks and actually release a product that dares to be different. It's still the best place to go if you want to cause untold amount of car-related virtual destruction. Customer Rating: Summary: Almost Paradise Comment: I have every Burnout and love them all. Went out and bought this on release day, it's still in the mix of games I play. While single player can get repetitive and seriously aggravating having to go all the way back, it gives you a better chance to know where you need to go or what you need to do. Never did I get mad that I had to go all the way after a last sec crash, you just move to the next event. The open world is great and it's seriously easy to know the areas once you've played the game enough. Which is you've done ea event at least once AND paid attention to where you are/were. Not every game city has to be a known place. Showtime is no crash mode but is still very addictive once you get the hang of it. Way more fun than trying to launch at a certain angle or just missing that multiplier and waiting to blow you car up. I see a lot of complaints on no traffic checking. It's not needed but you can still knock cars into your opponent from the sides. While it was fun, this game is about smoothness and that slowed it down. Online is the main key to this game. So if you don't have friends, guess this game would suck as would most others these days. It would have been nice to have 2-4p split screen, maybe next time. Easy to get on and very little load or waiting to go from sp to online. Even though almost all the challenges are the same from 2-8p, it's gets better with more people. Unless you have someone that can't do something and you're waiting on them. The Host can create a race instead of using the preplanned ones. Best of all is they have down loadable content(dlc) coming to extend the online life. AND IT'S ALL GOING TO BE FREE!!! FREE DLC!!!! http://criteriongames.com/ to keep track of what's coming 3 things I'd like to see in the next Burnout is local split screen, tune your car and paint you car. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Make action your middle name, as you control what happens when and where in Burnout Paradise. Welcome to Paradise City. Immerse yourself in the open roads of Paradise City from the downtown streets through the hectic freeways to the sweeping mountain roads; the world is waiting to be explored. Slam, Shunt and Wreck opponents in cross-town race events, where you decide the fastest route to the finish line. Hit the jumps and find shortcuts, smash through barriers and get to the places that other racers can't reach to get that competitive edge. Meet your friends online with the revolutionary EasyDrive system that smashes through the tedium of lobbies and servers and cuts straight to the chase. Burnout Paradise provides the ultimate driving playground for you and your friends to play online on the Xbox 360. Mugshots - Track the length and breadth of up to 2,500 online rivalries Speed, Speed and Even More Speed - The rebuilt, race-tuned Burnout game engine delivers intense speed boost gameplay at a super-smooth and super-fast 60 frames-per-second 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