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The level of detail might surprise you, or it might not surprise you either way, you should be impressed. First of all, we must say that the car deformation when a car is crashed is staggering.

So while all of this is very next-gen, what about the graphics? Similar to these features is the ‘Junkyard.’ This is where you can change what car you are driving. It’s not going to help you win a race, they’re just, you know, cool. As you can probably guess, these can be used to change the paint job on your car. Probably the least effective towards your race though, are the Paint Shops. There is also the Repair Shop, which fixes your car up when you drive, or race, through one of them. It’s a good feature, and it will prove vital to know where these are located when in a race. By driving, or racing, through one of these, your boost meter is re-filled. I didn’t mean to drive that fast…it was all a motion blur…”Īnd to continue the positive aspects, there are great features to complement this next-gen feel, such as the Gas Station. During a quiet drive down Ocean View, or halfway into a race – Showtime is most certainly a next-gen feature. The great thing about this is that you can really enter Showtime anytime. Anytime while you drive the streets of Paradise City, you can hit the gas and brake together to crash your car and watch as mayhem ensues. Showtime isn’t an event in itself though. This is effectively crash mode from the previous games. We may be wrong, but we’ll see when the game arrives.Īlso worth mentioning, despite being absent from the demo, is the new ‘Showtime’ mode. No points, no Gold medals for going beyond the Call of Duty and driving faster.

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Now, it seems to the case that if you pass an event, it’s put on your driving license (the game’s stat tracker) and that’s it. In Burnout 3 and Burnout: Revenge, you would get cash or points for doing certain things. Another thing to mention is that the points system has been removed. The demo version is, again, not that fun – but we are sure the faster cars will change that. It’s the old checkpoint-to-checkpoint mode, where you must reach the finish line in time. The ‘race’ though, isn’t so much of a race. But considering the videos we have seen online, the potential for this mode is awesome and we imagine the sense of speed will give it what it needs to make it great. The demo version isn’t too great, considering you’re traversing around in quite a dodgy old banger of a car. You really have to combo together to score those 50,000 points. It’s a bit like the Tony Hawk games, except with cars. You also get multipliers for doing such things as barrel rolls off of jumps and catching big air. To get there, you have to do all the things that can score you points such as stunts, drifting, catching air. To complete this event, you must acquire 50,000 points. Let’s start with the Stunt Run, a new feature to Burnout. In the demo, we are treated to a couple of events: a ’Stunt Run’ and a race. It’s more like Test Drive Unlimited! Events are found by making your way to traffic lights and starting the event from there with a press of the gas and brake. You can drive your car around the streets without taking part in any events.

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The first massive change to the Burnout series is very noticeable.

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Anyway, there are three districts to discover in the recently released Xbox 360 and PS3 demo: Big Surf Beach, Ocean View and Motor City. British-based developers Criterion are once again at the helm, and this time we’re off to a place called ‘Paradise City.’ Yeah… I’m not going to do the Guns N’ Roses reference line there. It’s a little ‘too far’ of a change from the formula.įirst off, let’s get the formalities out of the way.

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A little too far indeed.īut the same could be said for Burnout Paradise in terms of taking things ‘too far.’ The fifth game in the series (let’s forget the average spin-offs for PS2 and PSP), Burnout Paradise looks to evolve the game from random events that were straight up carnage to a Test Drive Unlimited style game with lots of crashes but, from the impressions we got from the demo, not a lot of carnage. Although, we must admit, Burnout 3 took it a little too far by adding screams while you controlled your burning wreck of a car in slow motion… some of which sounded like children.

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Yes, Burnout is indeed a fine example of escaping the reality of being trapped behind an elderly driver who isn’t even driving half the speed limit. Complete events for medals that involve driving very fast cars, racing while crashing other opposing cars, crashing your own car or just driving your car into a busy intersection and blowing it up. Let’s face it, Burnout has pretty much been the epitome of what gaming is all about: escaping from reality.