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Just picked her up yesterday.

Early impressions, I will come back in a couple days with a more thorough impression.

Pros so far:

1) I LOVE the idea of "snapshotting" someone right after you destroy their car. It is so funny. Yesterday I took down a guy online, and his picture came up. He was sitting on a massive couch and he had his arms out like "What the heck man?!" The best part is that it saves the images of your taken down opponents, and I'm assuming you can save them to your hard drive and export them to the web. If so, I am going to post some of my favorite take down pictures right here :p.

2) The game runs excellently. I am amazed that you can go so fast, yet everything is very visible. They didn't go too Need For Speedy on it, and blur everything making it impossible to see. Everything is crisp. Also, it may just be me, but I think the retail version looks slightly better than the demo version. The demo might be a couple months older than the finished copy.

3) I don't know if it was in the most recent Burnout's, but I like that when you see another racer in offline mode with a car you want, you can chase him down, take him out, and it sends his car to your garage. Pretty cool.

Some cons I have run into:

1) Seems like you're forced to learn the layout of the city. In a few races I have attempted, if you take 1 wrong turn, you could be going in the complete wrong direction, with no way to get off of the highway you are on. Thus, all the other cars (in offline mode) go the correct way, and you just drive forever in last place.

2) If you go online, if you invite a friend into your map, you have no idea where he is. You basically have to ask him over the headset "What side of the city are you on? Mountains, city, where about?" I haven't learned the map yet either. I tried bringing up the full screen map in the pause menu, but it only seems to show your car. And the mini map (Like GTA style map) in the screen corner only shows a couple miles in a circle around you, so it is very hard to locate your friend.

If there is more people in your game, it's less of a problem, but it is still a problem, because it seems like you drive forever just to find another racer.

3) Showtime mode is pretty silly. If you've played "Pain", it's like that with cars (With Pain, there is more of a purpose... barely :)). Your car turns into a bouncy ball, and you can control where it lands, trying to aim for other vehicles and rack up points. I don't even know what happens if you get a high score in showtime mode, I guess you just are listed as the high-score holder. It's just kind of mindless.

More impressions to come, like I said. Hopefully some of you picked up the game, I'd like to play you online, I haven't seen any of you on there yet. Just make sure to wear headset and use an Eyetoy if you have one (I have a PS2 eyetoy, works fine. Just a little grainy). Without a headset it'd be hard to locate you on the map.

* Thought of one more thing. As I mentioned to Lyndon, the demo does Burnout a great disservice. By sectioning off such a small portion of the city, disallowing the use of many intersections to test the different play modes out, allowing only one car, etc., despite what they say, the demo didn't cut it. I can safely say that the game makes up for the shoddy demo. It's been said in the past "You can't make a demo for an open-world game". Well, at least they tried :) Uncharted ended up being the same way. The demo doesn't show half of what you get to do. I feel sorry for people who picked up "Assassin's Load Time" instead of Uncharted. Uncharted pulls off the "freerunning" aspect much better than Ubisoft ever could, and without playing it, you wouldn't know that. But look which one makes more money. Sony/Naughty Dog should have advertised the gameplay of Uncharted better than just the short demo...*

MCWHAMMER said:

2) If you go online, if you invite a friend into your map, you have no idea where he is. You basically have to ask him over the headset "What side of the city are you on? Mountains, city, where about?" I haven't learned the map yet either. I tried bringing up the full screen map in the pause menu, but it only seems to show your car. And the mini map (Like GTA style map) in the screen corner only shows a couple miles in a circle around you, so it is very hard to locate your friend.

If there is more people in your game, it's less of a problem, but it is still a problem, because it seems like you drive forever just to find another racer.

After getting more hours of play, I realize that I was completely wrong about this. If you go into the pause menu it DOES show other cars, but if they are in the middle of a RACE that you are not a part of, they will not show up on the map. I may still be wrong about half of that, but I now know that they are all visible on the map.

The hardest part about the game is getting friends online to do the team challenges. I have one friend from another site that helped me complete about 10 challenges in one session, so that was awesome. But really, I expected a lot of ya'll to get the game and be on there with me. I'm a little disappointed that I'm not seeing you online :(

I did get online with JAY Staff a day or two ago, but he was in no mood to play. He quit our race early and never got back on. I hate when people do that just because YOU are winning and not THEM. I must've just been too good for him. I'll post his Takedown snapshots in that thread tommorow ;)

picked it up the other day very impressed with it,the graphics are amazing and how quick you get online is great no waiting about,the only thing i cant work out is why the two car's i thought i had won online i never got :confused: and I'm not really to sure acctually how you win other cars.
i must agree about the map its very hard to follow half the time i have no idea where I'm going,apart from that its a great game.................by the way mcwhammer I've seen you online and tried to invite you but as always it wont let me :confused:

well i got paradise yesterday...man it is awesome. But the gargantuan map is extremely annoying. because of that i never do any of the races. Can i add some of you guys?

something i dont really like with this game is that theres is no driver :confused: they have done an excelent job on the graphics the ammount of detail etc etc but not botherd putting a driver in the car WHY.
its a little thing i no.;)

thats a very good reason i didnt think of it like that,cheers for that.:)

First post, so go easy on me!

Just got the game a few days ago, but loving the offline, although the map is a b*tch to use and often makes the races a guessing game (I often purposely hold back from taking first place until I can see where the other cars are headed).

Online I'm finding that I can't get races started on demand. I go in, search for a open race but when I join it's always Freeburn instead. Am I mising something really obvious here? Maybe I should be hosting my own races? Any simple advice to make this work?

It took me a bit but I'm back to expand upon my earlier post. I've put in a little over 145 hours of offline play and have still only completed 78% of the game, there is just an incredible amount of things to accomplish in Paradise.

A personal word of advise for newcomers is to focus on the Burning Routes, that is where you unlock special versions of cars and it also counts as won events which unlocks other cars. When new cars enter to be taken down, I suggest heading all the way West where there are lots of long stretches of road with few turnoffs for the other car to ditch you.

Another hint is for Stunt Events ( my 2 1/2 year old son stumbled on this for me) when going in reverse all points for stunts are doubled.

Last little bit of info that I found helped immensely is whenever an event starts I hit Select as soon as the light turns green. This pauses the game and gives you more than a few seconds to plan your route. Following the others isn't always the way to victory. You can also hit Select anytime during the event to pause and reasess where you're at and where you need to go.

Those are tidbits for offline play, as for online, I still haven't really spun my wheels that much yet due to timing issues. Also don't know that many people who Burnout online yet. I will be getting to it now though.

Lyndon M STAFF said:

We'd like to hear your comments on Burnout: Paradise, just released on the PS3. Favorite bits? Annoyances? Let's have it. B)

to get online i have to download an update which is 350+ mb and i dont think i can do it from a pc i have to do it from console its really irritatin. if anyone knows how to update through a pc and transfer it to the console and install it plz let me know

I think the game is a little tough but it really has a lot of action