It's a great game too, somewhat daunting in that you have to learn the layout of the city for the best chance of success - but unparalleled in the amount of sweat it coaxes out of you after near misses. The city also, obviously, has races and challenges of various hues (see Wackier racing) attached to each major junction - all of which lead to car unlocks and untold vehicular carnage. Paradise City then, split into nine zones of differing style and substance, is a vast network of billboards to crash through, secret areas to pile into, junk yards to store your cars in and cliffs to drive off while giggling. When I came to Burnout Paradise it was an opportunity to take some of that open-world experience and really put it into, what I think, is a much better game because it's got so much more depth.' 'I loved that game - smashing and ripping the car in half, sideways, from front to back.

'Carmageddon II was my favourite game of all time,' explains Shepherd as I make my first tentative acceleration boost into Paradise City. Criterion, unsurprisingly to wails of Guns N' Roses, unveiled Paradise City to the world - a free-roaming playground of destruction the likes-of which had never been seen before.

This all lay within the somewhat archaic different countries, different environments jet-set deal that seems to have been with every racing game or fighter since Street Fighter II though, so Burnout Paradise re-threw the dice. The continued post-release development of Burnout Paradise on console is fascinating, and seeing as we'll be getting it all in a great big lump, with snazzier (yet eminently scalable) graphics, keyboard control above and beyond that of a bog-standard port, and all manner of community features - a little bit of dabbling in history is required.īurnouts first four iterations were fabulous on console - focussing on a remarkable sense of speed, hilarious crashes, pile-up-centric game modes and, increasingly as the series went on, takedowns of your opponents -ramming all and sundry off roads, into walls and off cliffs. We've never come across them before, since Burnout and Black never ventured to the PC - but as I sat on a casually discarded tyre in the gentle hubbub of their studio watching community members, who had been invited in, controlling the PC version of Burnout Paradise with a Rock Band guitar plugged into the machine's USB port (a raised guitar neck providing boost) everything just felt a bit special.

This was our first sign that Criterion (a subsidiary of industry megalith EA let's not forget) are something different from your usual development house.

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