great job Yahtzee! for the last few reviews I thought you were losing your touch but this one proved me wrong. The way you made the D.J. look was hilarious.
Zero Punctuation: Burnout: Paradise
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Note #1: Great review this week, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Note #2: Wait... No lemmings first-posting to their very demise this week? Double-ewe tee ehf?
Note #2: Wait... No lemmings first-posting to their very demise this week? Double-ewe tee ehf?
First racing game review, and a good 'un at that.
I also have to agree - Paradise does always seem two nanoseconds away from mocking you relentlessly at any moment, but therin lies the challenge/frustration.
I also have to agree - Paradise does always seem two nanoseconds away from mocking you relentlessly at any moment, but therin lies the challenge/frustration.
There was also Epic by Faith No More, although that falls under Rock Band instead of GH.
I will say the soundtrack for Paradise was overall more tolerable then the previous Burnout games, mainly due to including a much higher percentage of non-indie punk crap.
I've found the best way to play is to have someone else watch the minimap for you to tell you where the turns are. And to get the DEATH VAN OF DEATH, which lets you demolish all same-direction traffic without crashing.
There is a Formula 1 racer in the game you can get that has a person in a helmet. Or a robot in a helmet. That's the closest I've seen to an actual person.
I will say the soundtrack for Paradise was overall more tolerable then the previous Burnout games, mainly due to including a much higher percentage of non-indie punk crap.
I've found the best way to play is to have someone else watch the minimap for you to tell you where the turns are. And to get the DEATH VAN OF DEATH, which lets you demolish all same-direction traffic without crashing.
There is a Formula 1 racer in the game you can get that has a person in a helmet. Or a robot in a helmet. That's the closest I've seen to an actual person.
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.