Zero Punctuation: Burnout: Paradise
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Yahtzee,
I loved the joke about the driving instructor.
"My driving instructor gave me enough stick for taking my eyes off the road at 30 mph, and here's you hurlding through the streets at Mach 10 with any number of crash hazards closing in on your distracted ass."
Priceless. Keep the cynisism coming and that headset mic on.
I loved the joke about the driving instructor.
"My driving instructor gave me enough stick for taking my eyes off the road at 30 mph, and here's you hurlding through the streets at Mach 10 with any number of crash hazards closing in on your distracted ass."
Priceless. Keep the cynisism coming and that headset mic on.
Laugh out Loud or LOL! Mongoloid Hippos! Slapping around bears! Another solid review. Well done sir, as always.
Meh, good review I guess, just not a very interesting game to me in general.
Very interested in what you'd have to say on Army of Two, Bully, and Frontlines. See you next week.
Very interested in what you'd have to say on Army of Two, Bully, and Frontlines. See you next week.
Nice review, and fully agreed to it being a 'play-for-an-hour-then-put-it-away!!' shallow type of game.
I must say I really like the easy means of engaging into an event and the freedom involved in choosing your route. True, map reading is very distractive, especially at those insane speeds (actually, I think the driver's seat is taken up with nitro as well, explaining the lack of humanoids); however, if I'm not mistaken I heard Atomic talk about getting to know the environment, and evolve on choosing routes. This can actually serve as a great challenge and a significant goal of the game.. but then again, familiarizing with the environment at those speeds is going to take ages!! In any case, those TINY flashing street signs at the top are far from ideal, so this is something for the dev team to evolve on themselves.
Talking about the dev team brings me to my final remark. My guess at the constant bloat of slowmo's is that it is - in combination with a big seemless environment - simply too computationally involved to simulate the crash in real-time. While this is fairly speculative, it could account for the lack of a simple "turn off slowmo" option similar to the action cam in the Need For Speed series.
Cheers
I must say I really like the easy means of engaging into an event and the freedom involved in choosing your route. True, map reading is very distractive, especially at those insane speeds (actually, I think the driver's seat is taken up with nitro as well, explaining the lack of humanoids); however, if I'm not mistaken I heard Atomic talk about getting to know the environment, and evolve on choosing routes. This can actually serve as a great challenge and a significant goal of the game.. but then again, familiarizing with the environment at those speeds is going to take ages!! In any case, those TINY flashing street signs at the top are far from ideal, so this is something for the dev team to evolve on themselves.
Talking about the dev team brings me to my final remark. My guess at the constant bloat of slowmo's is that it is - in combination with a big seemless environment - simply too computationally involved to simulate the crash in real-time. While this is fairly speculative, it could account for the lack of a simple "turn off slowmo" option similar to the action cam in the Need For Speed series.
Cheers
People are actually trying to think of all the songs?
Yahtzee release your thralls!
Good review. I was planning on getting this game but might rent it instead.
Generally, mini maps piss me off.
Yahtzee release your thralls!
Good review. I was planning on getting this game but might rent it instead.
Generally, mini maps piss me off.
Hey, as a street racer I take offense!
My hat always faces forwards, and I have never owned a car with hydraulics, are you sure you aren't confusing street racers with the ghetto sled driving morons?
Also, I like the burnout games, they're a welcome relief to the over the top seriousness of the better racing games(Gran Turismo comes to mind)
My hat always faces forwards, and I have never owned a car with hydraulics, are you sure you aren't confusing street racers with the ghetto sled driving morons?
Also, I like the burnout games, they're a welcome relief to the over the top seriousness of the better racing games(Gran Turismo comes to mind)
word to yahtzee! i have played and thoroughly enjoyed burnout takedown and revenge. despite it's cool points, i will never own or as thoroughly enjoy paradise because you have to check your map mid race. sure sure, my friends all called me wussy cause once you learn the routes it's easier, yet i watch them trying to complete the final 10% of the game and they're still obsessively checking the map.
i'm willing to check my map in a gta game or the like, but NEVER EVER EVER in a burnout game. until they get rid of that "feature" i will not bother with another burnout game ever again. ruined formula!
i'm willing to check my map in a gta game or the like, but NEVER EVER EVER in a burnout game. until they get rid of that "feature" i will not bother with another burnout game ever again. ruined formula!
How so? He live's here in Australia. You Americans may have brawl, but we don't even have a release date. At all. I hear rumours for a Q1 09 release here. So you'll just have to wait like us for his review. SUFFER. SUUUUUUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEEEERRRR.Zephyr618 said: