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Burnout Paradise Demo Crashes Head-On Into XBLM and PSN

By Alex Petraglia on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 2:30 PM EST  

EA gave speed junkies a taste of its latest arcade racer Burnout Paradise today: there are demos for the game now available on Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network.

I spent about an hour with it earlier and wasn’t particularly impressed. Sure, the game is a beauty to behold, but the jaw-dropping crash sequences seem to be toned down considerably since Burnout Revenge’s release in early 2006. The environments aren’t nearly as interactive as one might hope and there doesn’t seem like a bountiful amount of ramps to launch from or obstacles to plow through. Furthermore, the game just doesn’t function as successfully as a pure racing title, compared to Need for Speed, for instance.

Noticeably absent from the demo is the game’s laughably bad Showtime mode, which will still reportedly find its way into the retail product.

Developer Criterion Games promises that Burnout Paradise is “a complete reinvention of the series,” but might that really mean a step backward?

We’ll have a final verdict next month when the game is released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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