Comments on: Smashing Stuff: Burnout Paradise Revisited

By: Andrew Duggan

Andrew Duggan — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:21:51 +0000

I’m lovin Burnout Paradise. I’m about 70 wins away from elite. Done all super jumps and billboards but have two smashes left to find.

My only complaint about this game is when you fail at an event you can’t just restart it. You have to drive back to the beginning to restart it. This can get tiresome when you are concentrating on one event and redoing it over and over until you get it, (such as the GT500 burning route).

Other than that, it’s fantastic.

By: Dinger

Dinger — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:21:31 +0000

Gutter, if the control scheme is like the PC, you hit the L1 (normally change display info mode or something) and R1 (normally skip Guns and Roses) buttons at the same time to launch showtime mode.

By: Gutter

Gutter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:49:04 +0000

I am only missing my a few race for the Elite license, and (it shame me to say) I never found out how to do Showtimes.

I didn’t make a single one playing the whole game. I pressed every freaking buttons, and never ever could do it… (thats on the PS3, in case someone wanna laugh at me and point me in the right direction)

By: Gutter

Gutter — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:45:54 +0000

@Matilda The Witch : It sent from green to gray… Not awesome at all.

By: Matilda The Witch

Matilda The Witch — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:47:49 +0000

Did anyone noticed that the color palette of this game is too green? Gray objects like road should be gray, not green. Does it annoy anyone other than me? Look at the screenshots of ENBSeries, color correction makes this game much more realistic: http://boris-vorontsov.narod.ru/ss_burnp_en.htm

By: Poltergeist

Poltergeist — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:49:18 +0000

Guess I’ll try this then because everyone loves it so much!

By: Wedge

Wedge — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:29:28 +0000

So what you’re saying is I have to get this for my 360 or suffer missing content and game breaking bugs? Well it’s not like I ever use that thing for anything else, so I guess.

By: Tricky

Tricky — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:03:41 +0000

STAAAAAAAAAND AND DELIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVER!

By: Gravey

Gravey — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:28:32 +0000

Edit: I mean the second time online was by accident, it’s that easy.

By: Gravey

Gravey — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:19:01 +0000

@Poltergeist: I second Phil H. BP is built around online (friends’ best times, best showtime records, seamless match-starting, “freeburn” dicking around), but not entirely for online. I’ve sunk well over 100 hours into the game and the island on the 360 and only gone online once (well, twice actually, it’s that easy to hop online) just to see how it worked.

By: Phil H

Phil H — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:35:30 +0000

Quite, Poltergeist, I’ve gone through it about 2 1/2 times now (intial go on a friend’s 360 for a while, then nearly complete on my PS3, then again on my PS3 when the Trophies patch hit and they failed to make the save games unlock the Trophies you’d have otherwise earned) and it was completely excellent each time, even though I’ve touched the online component but once or twice. If it ever gets a nice fat Steam discount, I’m sure I’ll pick it up for the PC and do it all over again.

As to Big Surf Island, yes, you can do the stuff quite quickly, I’ve got just a hair over 4h15m on the island and that’s including some time spent doing the last of the Stunt Runs for my Elite license (the little dome thing on the beach is AMAZING for it).

Burnout is such an amazing franchise- discovered it with Takedown and put in an ungodly number of hours, racking up well over 15000 takedowns, Revenge was solid fun but didn’t see near as much playtime due to the revamped menu system, and I’ve recently crossed the 7000 takedown mark on Burnout Legends on my PSP (with a few thousand more lost to an AWOL save).

By: Poltergeist

Poltergeist — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:47:18 +0000

Is this game good when I’m not planning to play online?