![]() It would've made more sense as an open world game to pepper the world with races of varying difficult from the start. It's nice to be pushed but there's no way to de-level the world so you're stuck playing hard missions. I've won maybe 3 out of the last 11 races I did. This meant that for the first couple of hours, I was blasting through content unchallenged- then I hit gold rank. The game functions on a world difficulty system that levels up as you clear missions so "Do x number of missions to unlock silver tier races". Lastly, and this one is a biggy, is mission design and Quality of Life features. The handling for different vehicle classes and categories was never tutorialized very well so I would frequently spin out while trying to drift or ploughing into a wall because the motorcycles handled so strangely. Some of the first cars you unlock will last you the entire game because they're so busted. Secondly, vehicles and how they handle can be weird. Even in this remastered version, there's kind of this vasoline smear across all the textures and a lack of stylized art direction underneath shows the game's age. There's even leaderboards for random stretches of road to keep you speeding wherever you are.ĭriving blisteringly fast cars is cool and all, but there are some caveats to my enjoyment of the game. ![]() In so many games, you are commuting from objective to objective, meanwhile in Burnout, every minute on the road, you are unlocking useful shortcuts for the main events. ![]() What really does this for me is that despite being so old, it arguably handles its open world map in a more interesting way than most modern titles. You don't just unlock cars, you have to find them in the world and smash them into oncoming traffic. You don't have a menu for vehicle select, you drive into a Junkyard. Paradise is this but brought to an open map.ĭespite making the jump to open world, it's still the same simple, no frills racer with plenty of character I remember. The Burnout games have always been fairly simple games: race your competition while indulging in plenty of foul play by running them off the road. It's been over 10 years since I properly played a Burnout game so I decided to pick up Burnout Paradise Remastered on Switch and it's a fun little open world racer. They were incredibly fun arcade racers with banging soundtracks full of early 2000s cheese. I grew up playing Burnout games on my PSP till my eyes were dry and my thumbs bled.
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