I’ve read what EA calls a manual, to little avail. There were other cars way off in the city and yellow points designated on the map with numbers.
But once I was there, I had no idea what I was supposed to do. So wait a minute, let me get this clear, but I have a hard time believing it: There’s still no way to simply reset a given race or challenge from the beginning? After I fail, I have to drive all the way back to the starting line if I want to replay the race I just failed while it’s still fresh in my memory?Īs for multiplayer, don’t get me started.
Now what about the Showtimes, which are apparently the half-assed substitute for the dearly departed crash modes? How do Showtimes work? I mess around with the D-pad until the screen displays a dollar value and then I drive as fast as I can into an oncoming car and…nothing. These are Road Tules, right? I see on the map that I’m whiting out the street signs where I’ve recorded a time. I get that you’re supposed to log your best times on certain stretches of road. All Burnout games have been like that and the game would take an even more savage beating from the mass press if you could crush old ladies and children with your pimped out wheels.ĮA and Criterion are well aware that Burnout has massive appeal in the younger audiences who enjoy smashing cars together and is wise not to threaten that by filling the virtual streets with blood and guts.So I was messing around with Burnout Paradise to see what’s new in the Cagney patch, and I realized that one of the things I hate about the game is that I have no freakin’ idea what the hell is going on!
We were playing the game through on the PlayStation 3, which is an admittedly more powerful machine than the Xbox 360, and both the graphics and physics were fantastic.Īt times the city can seem a little bit empty thanks to the lack of any pedestrians (plus it looks weird that none of the cars have drivers), but that’s forgivable. What brings the whole experience together though is the truly amazing graphics. Start at a busy intersection or in an underground tunnel though and you’ll be able to set up a life-sized game of pinball of truly epic proportions. Start a Showtime up on a mountain road and you’ll quickly run out of targets to hit and space to fly. Now, as I said, you can enter into Showtime anytime you want – even mid race if you don’t mind coming out of the competition – but the key is to choose your places wisely. Hitting a bus doesn’t net you a criminal record or a tortured conscience either, but bags a x1 multiplier for your entire score, which also takes into account how far you flung your wreck. Every car or van you hit causes a few thousand dollars worth of damage and gives you a little bit more boost so that you can bounce once more. The aim of Showtime is simple – bounce your car as far as possible, causing havoc along the way. When you run out of Boost, it’s all over. Suddenly, your Boost bar no longer speeds you up, but lets you perform a ground break – a move that lifts your wreck into the air again.
HOW TO ACTIVATE SHOWTIME IN BURNOUT PARADISE ZIP
If you’re going at speed when you enter Showtime then you’ll carry that momentum on and zip forwards at the same time. Doing so will make your car explode immediately, sending it catapulting a few feet up into the air. Showtime can, unlike all the other game modes, be entered into at anytime and anywhere by pressing L1 and R1 together. In Paradise it’s called Showtime and it’s even more addictive than Geometry Wars and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. ShowtimeWhat’s more, the game isn’t solely about exploration and competition – just like Burnout Takedown there’s a quick game mode which is less about winning a race or performing a tricky manoeuvre and more about having some mindless fun.
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