Burnout Paradise

Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box

by Sandra Prior on Aug 27, 2009

Remember those toy cars you used to have as a kid that were designed to explode in a shower of tiny plastic bits, each more than capable of choking a whole classroom of slow learners? The ones that could break then be put back together again so you could make them hurtle into walls all over again? Well, Criterion certainly does and they've provided a hell of a lot of walls too. Making its first appearance on the PC, the Burnout franchise has had its market perfectly and satisfactorily taken care of by the vaguely copycat - but equally crash-tastic - FlatOut series. Where this inaugural PC outing differs though, is the setting. This time, you're dropped into a freeform city where you can drive about at will, stopping at intersections to pick and choose different events. Instead of being entirely course-based, events begin at the chosen crossroads and finish at one of six pre-defined locations around the map. Burnout Paradise is all about the rewards system. Win a race and you get...Read More >>