The arcade racer is all but dead these days. Held up against today's modern racers, there's nothing else quite like Burnout Paradise Remastered. As you complete events, you learn more about Paradise City in an organic way taking those lessons to heart is what separates being good from being great. You need to get from point A to point B before anyone else and part of making that happen is knowing the shortcuts, jumps, and hidden entrances on every street and back alley. Racing around the city in Burnout Paradise isn't just a measure of your reflexes and handling, it also illustrates of your understanding of Paradise City itself. (Rockstar had been doing it for years with the Midnight Club games.) Burnout Paradise was new, with online lobbies and the ability to stop at any traffic light in the city to take part in one of the many events. It was the latest Burnout, leaving behind the linear tracks and courses of the previous entries for that shiny new open-world that every publisher was jumping in on. It doesn't feel like enough for the $20 premium though: Ultimate Box on Steam is $19.99, while Remastered is $39.99 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.īurnout Paradise Remastered is a weird gateway into nostalgia those opening chords of Guns N' Roses "Paradise City" transport me back to 2008 when I first picked up a controller to play Burnout Paradise.
Overall, the image quality is cleaner here. The biggest change is a removal of the soft filter over the original game, which added a weird shimmer and isn't present in the Remastered edition. If you have Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box on PC, I'd say there's not much you're getting out of this new release except the platform. It includes all of the downloadable content available for the original release, including Big Surf Island, Cops and Robbers, and Burnout Bikes. It's still 60fps like the original iteration, but the textures don't feel like a huge improvement, outside of a change in some billboards.
It's not the best one ever put together, but it brings the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 original up to current standards.īurnout Paradise Remastered runs at 1080p on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with 4K resolution support for PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X. With new locations, challenges, and 130+ vehicles to explore, from hot rods to vintage classics – ready to race and ready to wreck!Įxperience high-octane races and cinematic crashes in glorious 60 FPS.Having thrown a great deal of time into Burnout Paradise Remastered over the weekend, I can say it's a decent remaster. THE DEFINITIVE BURNOUT PARADISE EXPERIENCEīurnout Paradise Remastered delivers the complete original game and 8 main DLC packs, including Big Surf Island, Burnout Bikes, and the Cops and Robbers pack. Race hard and crash harder, wrecking your friends online, or joining forces in hundreds of online challenges Leave a very expensive trail of wreckage in your rearview. Send your car launching, spinning, and smashing through traffic. Throw out that driver’s handbook and blaze your own path to victory, leaving a trail of speed and destruction across the streets. Burnout Paradise Remastered is the ultimate driving playground to play with friends or on-the-go. Fully optimized for the Nintendo Switch in 60 FPS, including pinch-and-pull map control for ease of navigation. Packed with 8 pieces of extra content, with 130+ vehicles, new areas to explore such as Big Surf Island, and hundreds of online challenges, embrace high-octane stunts and wanton destruction in one of the greatest arcade racers. Leave your friends in the dust and define your route to victory – or crash out in spectacular and devastating effect. Smash through traffic, wreck your opponents, and use the open city to find shortcuts. Hurtle through hectic downtown avenues to wild mountain roads. Test the limits of skill and endurance as you push the boundaries of speed itself. Make action your middle name as you rule the open streets of Paradise City, in Burnout™ Paradise Remastered. The multi-million selling Burnout™ franchise races onto Nintendo Switch for the first time ever.