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Burnout Paradise is a blast. I have no idea how long it had been collecting dust on my Steam shelf but I sincerely regret not giving it a go sooner.

As a Burnout game, I think the expectation is for vehicle destruction to be the highlight of the experience. I was personally more impressed with the unbelievable sense of speed that this game accomplishes. Typically when I see the absolutely maddening speed found in the first 10 minutes of Paradise, it comes with one of two tradeoffs. Either a) the vehicle movement is actually so fast that you literally are incapable of reacting in time to obstacles or b) the handling becomes so weak by the time you reach top speed that you have to either slow down or crash. Burnout Paradise makes you feel like you’re going 300 miles an hour at all times but never - not even for a moment - out of control. I don’t have any game design experience so I don’t know the tricks for how they achieved this, but let me tell you it’s the most fun I’ve had in an arcade racing game. Ever.

If I had a complaint it would be the “late game” content. Honestly, the issue I’m about to describe should really be a big deal, but I had SO much fun with the hours of wacky racing that I just don’t care. The game is not difficult, from my first time launching the game until I stopped playing I was steadily and relatively effortlessly progressing. I collected lots of cars, got the upgraded versions of all of them, drove like a mad-man through alleys and twisting hills, wrecked more rivals than I can count, and loved every minute of it. Then I hit a wall. It wasn’t the kind of wall that makes you think “Oh wow, the AI finally caught up and I need to start trying”. No, this was the wall where I could have a FLAWLESS race but literally never see the person in first. I had some theories that I missed something or need a different car, but at this point I had gotten something like 10 hours of awesome racing and I was satisfied.

So yes, I think there may be an issue with late game content (or else I just missed something) but it really didn’t matter because I got more than I ever expected out of Burnout Paradise and I would recommend it to any of my friends.

Burnout Paradise is a blast. I have no idea how long it had been collecting dust on my Steam shelf but I sincerely regret not giving it a go sooner. As a Burnout game, I think the expectation is for vehicle destruction to be the highlight of the experience. I was personally more impressed with the unbelievable sense of speed that this game accomplishes. Typically when I see the absolutely maddening speed found in the first 10 minutes of Paradise, it comes with one of two tradeoffs. Either a) the vehicle movement is actually so fast that you literally are incapable of reacting in time to obstacles or b) the handling becomes so weak by the time you reach top speed that you have to either slow down or crash. Burnout Paradise makes you feel like you’re going 300 miles an hour at all times but never - not even for a moment - out of control. I don’t have any game design experience so I don’t know the tricks for how they achieved this, but let me tell you it’s the most fun I’ve had in an arcade racing game. Ever. If I had a complaint it would be the “late game” content. Honestly, the issue I’m about to describe should really be a big deal, but I had SO much fun with the hours of wacky racing that I just don’t care. The game is not difficult, from my first time launching the game until I stopped playing I was steadily and relatively effortlessly progressing. I collected lots of cars, got the upgraded versions of all of them, drove like a mad-man through alleys and twisting hills, wrecked more rivals than I can count, and loved every minute of it. Then I hit a wall. It wasn’t the kind of wall that makes you think “Oh wow, the AI finally caught up and I need to start trying”. No, this was the wall where I could have a FLAWLESS race but literally never see the person in first. I had some theories that I missed something or need a different car, but at this point I had gotten something like 10 hours of awesome racing and I was satisfied. So yes, I think there may be an issue with late game content (or else I just missed something) but it really didn’t matter because I got more than I ever expected out of Burnout Paradise and I would recommend it to any of my friends.