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Burnout Paradise on 360

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Burnout Paradise is a Racing game available on the 360. It can be played in Singleplayer modes.

Burnout Paradise is a Racing game. Racing games, although sometimes seen as a sporting sub category, are a well established video game genre in their own right.

Burnout Paradise can be played in a Singleplayer mode. Single Player Campaign games focus on one player's experience. Rather than collaborate with other players either locally or online, players progress alone. The campaign style of gameplay offers a connected series of challenges to play through. These chapters work together to tell a story through which players progress. Single player games are able to focus on one experience of a scenario, so that it is usually a richer, more visceral game.

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Family Gamer review Tue, 11 Sep 2007

Fact mirrors fiction as Criterion put their game's risk-reward metaphor into practice - they go all-in entrusting the success of Burnout Paradise to open world racing. Thankfully, although the absence of large neon flashing arrows initially disturbs cloistered drivers, they soon learn to love the (now truly) open road.

Burnout has always been pushing boundaries with each release, but Paradise City really bets their chip-stack on innovation. Let's track back to the beginning: into the safe calm world before Burnout, Point of Impact burst onto the scene and was a risk-reward revelation sketching an experience that would take Criterion some years to flesh out. Maximum Impact then tickled player's accelerator foot with chained burnouts and bigger crashes, tempting ridiculous speeds. Takedown stopped teasing and allowed competitors the climax of the crash, each with its own unique reward. Revenge stretched the danger still further by letting drivers nudge civilian traffic into the path of competitors.
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