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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 85 reviews)
Sales Rank: 293
Category: Video Games
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Studio: Electronic Arts
Brand: Electronic Arts
Label: Electronic Arts
Format: Ntsc
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15633
Model: 014633156331
UPC: 014633156331
EAN: 0014633156331
ASIN: B000MUW98O
Release Date: January 22, 2008
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| • | 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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Product Description
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 Playstation 3. 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
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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. | 
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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... (Game Rocks) October 12, 2008
ok well this game is totally awsome, the bikes update was amazing and everything and plus thats the reason i bought it, was for the bikes and they were everything expected... this game is an overall amazing game and theres not much bad a person could say about it except that it should have like ofline multi-players besides just playing online with peeps, but besides that tha game rocks... and the trophies are like easy to get also etc. just one thing you gotta keep your speed up to win, so work hard at it and you'll become a prodigy, plus you can pull of so many tricks etc its just amazing :=)..
 Just a super game October 11, 2008
Very engrossing and plenty of sustained fun for my 14 year old son. Graphics are awesome and the controls are very responsive. Great selection of tracks too. The only negative I came across is the weak music selection. Apart from that I'm very happy!
 Aargh... Insipid and Bore. October 10, 2008
I'm new to VideoGaming. And, this is the first game I played on PS3. Was very excited about it until I played for 10 minutes. There is no objective in the game as such. You just have to drive around in the city. I really got DIZZY after few more minutes, due to poor high-speed simulation. Will never play again.
Easy to Pick Up, Easy to Put Down October 6, 2008
Been a fan of the series since Burnout 2:Point of Impact and on to Takedown and Revenge.. I loved the series enthusiastic pursuit of outrageous speed, cinematic crashes, and beautifully rendered environments.
My problems with this title are 2:
Bland online gameplay... I tried several servers available to me and after the fifth one, I had had enough of listening to garbled bluetooth chatter and people just aimlesssly driving around. There didn't seem to be much in the way of structured race events, more like open ended goal oriented driving assignments.
& One huge interconnected environment...
I personally prefer racing games that offer varied and more difficult tracks, so you hone your driving skills the more you play, as opposed to a great big city that you have to LEARN to exploit it's secrets. Remembering which intersections have shortcuts or checking the map when your doing 200 mph usually caused a wreck more often than success for me. After a while, I got with the program and moved up.
I just prefer the older structure of the games... Paradise feels to me more like a first effort at an online world. Beautiful, with dazzling speed, but without that addictive 'Can't wait to beat that next track' feeling. There's nothing about it's presentation that isn't top-notch.. but it's online design seemed vague to me.
Easy to pick up, but easy to put down.
Intense October 4, 2008
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Burnout Paradise in my book is easily one of the top 5 PS3 games so far, it's fast, it's intense and it looks darn pretty. Unlike previous Burnout games this takes place in a free roam environment known as Paradise City. You're a racer of no particular name or gender, you have no particular purpose other than to win the numerous car races going on around Paradise City. The side missions are simple and in a way kind of boring or pointless, they are either smash through gates, jump over stuff or smash billboards.
The lack of any sort of storyline and the existence of repetition, I guess brings up the question "So why 5 stars?" Well that's simple, with all that aside this game is still awesome on a magnificent scale. The variation of cars the different race types and the fact that you can initiate showtime mode (Crash mode of the new generation) anywhere and any time. The game looks perfect and crashing one of these cars is both dramatic and in another sense pretty.
Road Rage is my personal favourite mode as those familiar with the old games will know what this mode is about. The concept is generally the same, make your fellow racers crash in a blaze of twisted metal to gain the win. This mode is the most fun simply because of the intensity and speed of it all, it's a mode and a game that tests your reflexes as you really have to be quick to survive.
They also now have a mode similar called Marked man, it's simply a game of getting from A to B without being taken down by 2 other cars whos simple goal is to take you down. This is relatively fun but when in a strong enough car it's pretty damned easy.
Over the past few weeks Burnout has gotten a number of new updates including Bikes and Trophies. These give the game a whole new dimension and with the news that a new Island is just around the corner the game only seeks to get better and better.
An awesome game that even with its flaws is still massively entertaining.
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