It's not as tight a game as its predecessor - focus is almost always lost in open-world games - but what it loses in forward momentum is more than made up for in the sheer fun of screwing around. Instead, you have to drive to particular intersections of Paradise City and rev your engine to begin one of the variety of types of events, ranging from point-to-point races, time challenges and several based on destruction. Events are no longer selected from a menu. If you're artistic, you can use the vinyl tool to create (and sell) your own elaborate car decals.Īfter 'Burnout 3' perfected the series' "pick an event and go" structure, developer Criterion Games blew the whole shebang up and made 'Burnout Paradise' an open-world game. More than 400 cars and 100 track layouts means you should be able to find something that appeals to you. How? With gorgeous graphics, terrific online multiplayer, realistic car physics and, most importantly, a sense of fun that GT had misplaced somewhere around its second game.
In an Obi-Wan/Darth Vader reversal of positions, 'Forza' - long in the shadow of 'Gran Turismo' - finally became the master with this third entry in the series. Played today, the experience is hampered by EA taking down the online servers in 2010, but for its time, 'Burnout 3' couldn't be touched. Adding to the madness was the now-familiar combination of Aftertouch and Impact time, letting you control the motion of your vehicle as it flips around in slow motion after crashing even when taken out, you still had the ability to take out others if you managed your wreck properly. Like driving on the other side of sanity (aka "the fun way")? Get even more boost by taking out opposing cars by forcing them into walls or on-coming traffic. Like driving with skill? Get rewarded with "boost" for careful - yet risky - drifting. The racing game for those who love racing games or hate them, 'Burnout 3' can be enjoyed by anyone. With that in mind, the staff of the IndyStar video games department - me - debated for several weeks on this list of the greatest racing video games ever. With the Grand Prix of Indianapolis kicking off Saturday and the Indianapolis 500 later this month - not to mention NASCAR's Coca-Cola 400 and Formula One's Spanish and Monoco grand prix races over the next few weeks - it's like "Christmas in May" for those fond of automobile racing. Admittedly rudimentary in nature, racing games have actually evolved less than other genres such as shooter or RPG you have to squint really hard to see the shared DNA between "Gunfight" and "Grand Theft Auto V," but Atari's "Night Driver," for example? Unmistakably a racing game.
With electro/mechanical games populating the penny arcade in the '50s and '60s, racing video games pre-date what we think of as arcade/computer games.
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