Burnout Paradise smashes into North America Jan. 22
The demo will have the new "stunt" mode and also feature online support for apparently one other friend. You'll be able to play with them in three challenges or "simply smash each other up and grab your friend's Burnout Mugshot." Oh Burnout, never disappointing in vicariously allowing us to experience our real life driving fantasies. One day we'll slip up forgetting we're driving a real car and attempt some Burnout maneuvers ... one day, soon.
[Via press release]
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- Actually bother to SAVE my SETTINGS! Every time I start the game and load my profile, I have to remind the retarded thing that I *DON'T* want to listen to that "EA Trax" auditory diarrhea.
- Allow me to selectively disable specific EA Trax songs ENTIRELY, not removed from JUST menus or JUST gameplay, but from BOTH menus AND gameplay. (You know, just in case they accidentally let one or two good songs slip in. So I can listen to JUST those.)
- Put in an actual MENU to select my custom soundtrack. Pressing X to switch soundtracks works fine if you have two or three custom soundtracks. But with so much licensed crap shoved into games these days, my custom soundtrack library it at around 50. An absolute pain in the ass if I have to cycle through them with X.
- Add an option to turn off those damn slow-motion crashes. I'm having a grand old time racing around, along comes a wall or a rival car, and BOOM!: a fucking mid-race cutscene. Unskippable, too. I don't care if it means I can't perform the Aftertouch and Crashbreaker gimmicks, just let me turn that crap off!
If they can do all that, I'll gladly sell Burnout 4 and pick up this new one without a second thought. It's a great game otherwise, but those things really conspire to ruin the whole experience.
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Now I've got plenty of time to work on SMG...plus Need For Speed: ProStreet will tide me over for a long time!
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Never played 1 unfortunately.
3 is my fave, mostly cuz of the all-night online races.
4 just doesn't grab me. I'm about 40% through it and I really don't care if I never finish it. (Unlike 2 and 3 which both had me hooked like a junkie)
Just might get this one.
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I'd be very interested in some Burnout franchise entry for Wii too. The entire 4 days I spent playing ExciteTruck, I couldn't help but wish it were Burnout.
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