Now coming to racing, the only title that has ruled this
world is Need For Speed. But there are many titles emerging, which
prove to be better than NFS(Ofcourse I have not tried out the latest installation of NFS : Hot Pursuit
). Burnout Paradise
is one such game which
has a slight edge over NFS in terms of gameplay. Eventhough Burnout
does not have an appealing story line, the gameplay is simply
awesome. The graphics is good as well, and it works well on a mid
range computer.
Now on to the 'Vehicles' you get to drive. I mentioned
it as 'vehicles' rather than 'cars' because you have a wide variety
of selection. You have quick cars, monster trucks, strong vans, F1
cars and even bikes. Bikes were not available at launch, it was added
up later, so has a couple of new cities and hell lot of vehicles.
There are 4 types of racing available : Survival, Race, Stunt and
Target man. All these game modes are very enjoyable, especially the
ramming you can do in Survival and Target man. You unlock cars and
bikes as you progress in the game, obtaining new licenses and
capturing new cars.
). Burnout Paradise is one such game which
has a slight edge over NFS in terms of gameplay. Eventhough Burnout
does not have an appealing story line, the gameplay is simply
awesome. The graphics is good as well, and it works well on a mid
range computer.
Now on to the 'Vehicles' you get to drive. I mentioned
it as 'vehicles' rather than 'cars' because you have a wide variety
of selection. You have quick cars, monster trucks, strong vans, F1
cars and even bikes. Bikes were not available at launch, it was added
up later, so has a couple of new cities and hell lot of vehicles.
There are 4 types of racing available : Survival, Race, Stunt and
Target man. All these game modes are very enjoyable, especially the
ramming you can do in Survival and Target man. You unlock cars and
bikes as you progress in the game, obtaining new licenses and
capturing new cars.
The
crash physics of the game is admirable. Its a joy to watch a car
crashing and spinning out of control. A huge city is available to
explore, with many sub challenges. A few of the sub challenges are
really interesting as you have to explore the whole city to
accomplish it, and the rewards are worth it. Paradise City is very dense, especially the eastern, downtown section, offering you a myriad of ways to get through a race. When a race starts, you simply must race from point A to point B as fast as you can, along whatever route you want. While this means that you're given the freedom to create your own course, it also means that you'll be stopping the action and referring to the map fairly often to make sure that you don't take any wrong turns. Since there are so many different tunnels, highways and such to take, it can be easy to make a wrong turn and wind up going off course for a bit. Until you've memorized the bulk of the map, which given its complexity, will take quite a long time, you'll likely have to pause and check the map two or three times during a race to make sure that you're on the right path.
Burnout Paradise, have multiplayer challenges which are
extremely fun to play. A wide variety of challenges are available.
Overall the game is fun, but still no match to NFS. So if you love
smashing up a car in all possible ways, do it the Burnout style.
Finally I would like to put a note on how it worked on my laptop the HP Pavilion dv6000 with specs
- Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 @2.00 GHz
- 3.00 GB Ram
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard(64 bit) edition
- NVIDIA Gefore 8400M GS - 1518 MB(256 Dedicated)
- 150 GB Hard Disk
