Burnout Paradise
Burnout Paradise is an arcade racing game set in an open world called Paradise City, a departure from the fixed tracks of earlier Burnout games. Players roam the city freely and start events by pulling up to…
Burnout Paradise is a racing developed by Criterion Games, released 22 January 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Burnout Paradise is
Burnout Paradise is a racing game developed by Criterion Games and released in 2008. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RenderWare.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Burnout Paradise is a 2008 racing video game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. It was also released on the PlayStation Store and via Xbox Live Marketplace's Games on Demand. It was later added to the libraries of Greatest Hits and Platinum Hits titles and was made backward compatible with the Xbox One in November 2016. It is the first game in the Burnout series to be released on Microsoft Windows.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Burnout Paradise holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 28 points above the year average. Players rate it 87, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 40 hrs.
What it launched against
Burnout Paradise launched on 22 January 2008, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Devil May Cry 4, Bully: Scholarship Edition and Sins of a Solar Empire. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Devil May Cry 4, Bully: Scholarship Edition, Sins of a Solar Empire.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Burnout Paradise yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Quick answers
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