The vehicles handle perfectly for an arcade racer, feeling weighty and firmly stuck to the tarmac, but can perform handbreak turns that would break the drivers neck with whiplash. I’d forgotten just how damn fast this game is. The Crash mode is still bobbins though. Racing at breakneck speed through tunnels, performing ridiculous stunts, and jumping huge gaps with flames spewing from the back of your vehicle never gets boring. From the moment the classic Guns N’ Roses anthem blasts out I started to smile and I only stopped grinning when I turned the game off many hours later.
It’s Burnout Paradise and it’s still bloody great. In fact, it was a pain in 2008 as well, and people complained it and the lack of fast travel at the time.īut do you know what? Who cares. However, game design has progressed since the game first launched and having to listen to DJ Atomica explain every single event, ever single time, becomes annoying very quickly – a skip button would have been very welcome during these monologues. Anyone new to the game will also notice the traffic is surprisingly sparse, there’s very few other vehicles on the road considering that Paradise City is a huge sprawling metropolis, and having to drive to a Junk Yard to swap vehicles is just a pain.
You certainly get a lot of content with all eight expansions, which includes over 150 bikes and vehicles and Big Surf, an addition island to the west of the map to race around. You can be driving in pitch black because the residents of Paradise City don’t seem to have functioning lights in many of their buildings, although oddly the inhabitants of Big Surf island do. Playing on a modern 4K TV also reveals just how dark the game gets when night falls. The smoke effects from burning rubber have been tweaked but still look rather pathetic and it’s noticeable that when you do crash your car crumples and the odd wheel pops off, what is mostly happening is small black shards spurt from your vehicle like a malfunctioning firework.
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