Ridiculously pretty Burnout Paradise footage

by Richard Mitchell { Nov 2nd 2007 at 5:30PM }

The Burnout series has always had a penchant for looking good. With that in mind, it looks like Burnout Paradise is set to raise the bar again. GameTrailers has posted a handful of new videos showing off some of the cars in the game, and it is hard not to be impressed by the visual fidelity presented here. Our only gripe, the stupid cars stay in one piece. Where's the crashing, damn it?! Ah, well, for now you'll have to be satisfied with death-defying jumps and traffic evasion. Someone owes us an explosion though.

[Via GameStooge]

Tags: burnout, burnout-paradise, burnoutparadise, criterion, ea, electronic-arts

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sam @ Nov 2nd 2007 5:57PM

why is it that just as Burnout goes open-ended, NFS goes closed, single race gameplay?

Jonah Falcon @ Nov 2nd 2007 6:10PM

Pro Street has one purpose - racing. Wait til Most Wanted II for more open-ended.

Anticrawl @ Nov 2nd 2007 6:35PM

Fucking lame, this isn't new footage at all. It's just a chopped up version of the live demo some guy from criterion played in a video. Just added in some different camera angles(proably from the replay cam no less) and put some music to it. They didn't even bother to doctor up that those lame-ass mysterious noises everything makes. Atleast EA use to polish their trailers heavily with well clipped footage to sell you their turd, now they know they can get away with using us and don't respect us anymore. They think we'll blindly buy sequals now so they don't really have to try anymore with Burnout.

I didn't like the Paradise demo(what the first trailer was derived from) either. It is as if they substituted the one great aspect of the game, its sense of speed, for a lame sand-box approach. I don't wanna cruise around an open world. I want insane explosions, tight corners, the sound of metal bending, glass breaking, tires skidding and women weeping! With an open environment that big how will we get bombarded with constant crashes? I dunno, but the sound still sounds like they used a handycam or cellphone to record the sounds in the game.

DjDATZ @ Nov 2nd 2007 7:37PM

wow...gorgeous.

only thing i'm longing for is the feature of burnout: CRASHES AND EXPLOSIONS! I WANT TO SEE MANGLED WRECKS OF CARS!!

yeattsd @ Nov 2nd 2007 8:55PM

May I just say...take me down to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the cars are pretty, oh won't y...oh sorry.

Seriously though, can't wait. I loved the crap out of some Takedown and Revenge. Let's hope Paradise delivers.

Ciaran Gallagher @ Nov 3rd 2007 9:53AM

It's really starting to piss me off that I haven't seen any crashes yet.

rockeranimefreak @ Nov 3rd 2007 2:36PM

omg pretty cars! very nice! how much? :)
I will destroy my opponents pretty cars! ;)

snsr @ Nov 4th 2007 1:18AM

Looks a lot like the last xbox360 Burnout.. (which was fun- too much time waiting around in menus, though.)

Foggy Bottoms @ Nov 4th 2007 1:05AM

seriously, ciaran. i guess they're trying to sell it as a pretty driving game where you CAN but dont necessarily have to destroy the shit out of everyone else. the demo driver didnt even bump a single other car. i used other cars to slow me down around turns in burnout revenge. f the break pedal.

jax sedrin @ Nov 4th 2007 11:46AM

I just hope they fixed that insanely crappy and annoying menu system from Revenge. I don't understand why EA's idea of a good user interface is ultra-urban graffito-tagged bouncy random crap all over the screen - they seem to do it for every new game that comes out.

I much prefer the simple and clean look (and not to mention ease-of-use) of something more like Halo 3. Burnout 3's was tolerable... with the world map I had a sense of how far into the menu system I was, but Revenge was just plain terrible.