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Burnout Paradise
TxdoHawk
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Burnout Paradise
What is it?
Newest in the Burnout series, Burnout Paradise takes the series into an open-world environment, the fictional Paradise City.
Release Dates:
USA: January 22, 2008
PAL: January 24, 2008
Demo:
Available now on PSN and Live.
360 users send "PAburnout" a friend request. Check the friends of PAburnout to find people in Penny Arcade that want to play.
If your FR isn't being accepted, send a message to gtag: "smashism"
Burnout Paradise
What is it?
Newest in the Burnout series, Burnout Paradise takes the series into an open-world environment, the fictional Paradise City.
Release Dates:
USA: January 22, 2008
PAL: January 24, 2008
Demo:
Available now on PSN and Live.
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I hate EA..
This is going to be awesome. With all the games that have been delayed to early 08, it looks like Christmas Lite.
EA has been doing really good with demos on the 360 so far. I love it.
Well... the game is focused on a 'jump-in' multi-player, as well as stunning graphics, two things that wouldn't translate well if this game was ported to the Wii.
Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to this game, I'll be downloading the demo right away.
As for the graphics, the Wii is decently powerful. Game companies always had to port stuff down for the PS2 which never seemed to be a problem. They have no excuse when the Wii is becoming the top seller.
I'm just still ticked from the lack of 3 after enjoying the first two on GC..
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Burnout 3 was my first and that was gods game which he shared with us. I call him Gamezorz! Revenge's only cool thing was its car designs although I liked legends a bit.
Still played the crap out of it though, just nowhere near as much as 3 or Legends/Dominator on the PSP.
Couple this with the impending release of GT5P and I've got more than enough reason to fork out for a G25 (or the newer wheel theyre bound to release with GT5)
it relies on sharp control and crashes. The first wouldn't work because the Wiimote, awesome as it is, is simply not precise enough on the tilt to work well for Burnout style racing.
For the crashes, its an issue of power. Burnout relies on large numbers of physics objects, deformations of the vehicles/objects involved, and lots of debris. Even without a high texture resolution or polycount, these aspects of the game can tax a system.
They could, you know, use the nunchuck's stick for steering. Or even provide both control methods as options.
As for physics, if the original XBox can run Half Life 2, the Wii can run this.
Would it be the exact same game? No. At least the visuals would be different.
Still, getting nothing is an insult.
Throw me in the same boat. Revenge was fun, but it just wasn't as great as 3.
Really looking forward to this though.
It sounds like there are designated end points, and you just kinda pull up to some other cars, challenge them to a race, and choose a finish line. Then, you get there however you can. There's an interview with one of the devs in this week's Major Nelson podcast.
Although I still haven't really finished half of Burnout Revenge. Oh, and if forum buzz on GAF is correct, traffic checking is both seriously minimized and also can be removed entirely by a menu option. The only part of Revenge I'm not crazy about.
I hope the new one is half as good as 3.
Speaking as a diehard Forza/PGR fan, I've read enough to guess that you're not in anything even close to a minority. I always got the impression that the general gamer populace anointed Burnout the New Hotness long ago with its easy-to-play mechanics ("Automatic or Manual? I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS") and its wicked radicool explosionations, while sims and technique/drifting-oriented titles like PGR could piss up a rope. Me, I always wind up buying Burnout games, enjoying them for a week and a half and then finding out that the AI is complete bullshit (Burnout 3) or the cars all handle identically and don't require much skill to drive outside dodging things (Revenge).
Still, I'm optimistic for Paradise since it looks sickeningly good graphically and maybe the open-world format will help cure some of the series' encroaching staleness. So long as the cars handle uniquely and the open-world format works on a similar level as Test Drive Unlimited or Midnight Club 3, I could see myself enjoying this, especially if it's coming out in the middle of what looks to be a decent-sized gaming drought for the 360. (On the other hand, speaking of Midnight Club, MCR: Los Angeles looks to be doing something really similar -- one preview actually compared its crashes to Burnout -- and does it with real-world, customizable cars, day-night cycles and weather effects. So I'm a bit more geeked for that.)
Yup, that's me to a tee, actually.
Burnout 2 was the last one in the series that I actually enjoyed. I'm kind of a nerd for licensed cars, so my relationship has always been kind of shaky with Burnout anyhow. I'll probably end up picking this one up because of the open world thing (I too had a really great time with TDU), and the fact that there are no other racing games coming up that have me excited.
On an off-topic note, GT5 will be the reason I buy a PS3, but there isn't a doubt in my mind that's it's a LONG way off.
Looking forward to this demo, though the layout they're noting has me a bit skeptical.
I DO NOT want sandboxing in a racing game.
why the fuck not?
That stuff gets everywhere.
A definite post X-mas buy.
The Crash mode for Paradise is intriguing -- there are no set locations. You can apparently just trigger them anywhere in the city that you want, so part of the challenge is finding the right spot to crash.
I'm not sure how I feel about the sandbox-y nature of the game either, Evander. I normally don't like the faffing about of open-roam games like GTA, but on the other hand it'll be a nice approach as opposed to the siloed menu approach to races. I never did play TDU, mostly because people said the handling was really clunky.
I can understand them shafting the Wii on this. Burnout 3 not coming out on Gamecube back in the day? That was fucking criminal. There was absolutely no reason for the to ignore the Cube audience. (Weren't the Cube versions of Burnout 1&2 pretty damn good to begin with?) I think their excuse was that since BO3 was online, it wouldn't have made sense to release it without online features on the Cube. Really EA? Really? So why did you still release your entire sports lineup, without online multiplayer, on the XBox back when you and Microsoft couldn't come to an agreement on Live?
They should just port Burnout 3 to the Wii, add friend codes and waggle, and call it a day.
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Edit: Or not...website now says "Demo avaliable for download from the PlayStation® Network, PlayStation® Store and Xbox Live® Marketplace starting 8am PST Dec 13th."
Better be goddamn global.
Edit: PST... so...3 am ish here?
I did read rumours that they were thinking of making a wii burnout, but that it'd be a port of burnout dominator. Wasn't a bad bunrout, but no crash mode? Heresy! Make it dominator with the extra PSP levels and crash junctions included and maybe we'll have something.
edit: neogaf says it's up for xbox live now, but not yet on PSN.
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You can no longer check traffic at high speeds otherwise you will get wrecked. I haven't found the Showtime yet, but racing/burning route is fun as hell. The problem with the demo is it's too damn small and if you do happen to mess up an event, you need to drive all the way back to the starting point. I didn't see anything that says I could instantly retry.
The wrecks are amazing though. No longer can you just simply tap a guy and watch them do 50 barrel rolls in the air. You really need to put an effort into making a sick takedown.
This is definitely a different game from the rest of the series. It just annoys me that I need to wait for more things to do because the demo is so limited.
they could get so annoying
What do you mean "annoying"?