Burnout Paradise Official Thread

Metalface Mark · 23 Jan 2008 at 23:52

It really reminds me of Midtown Madness on the PC. Collecting all the jumps, billboards and barriers is going to be as frustrating as getting all the things on crackdown.

RuMp3l4$k1n · 24 Jan 2008 at 01:21

Oh wow thats a blast from the past Metalface, I loved Midtown Madness they should resurrect that series.

Andybtsn · 24 Jan 2008 at 01:23

RuMp3l4$k1n said:
Oh wow thats a blast from the past Metalface, I loved Midtown Madness they should resurrect that series.

Yeah it was cool, as was Motocross and Monster Truck Madness

RuMp3l4$k1n · 24 Jan 2008 at 01:26

Yup and yup! A spit and polish is all those 3 would need for me to buy them on 360 if I'm honest.

GreenMint · 24 Jan 2008 at 01:39

RuMp3l4$k1n said:
Yup and yup! A spit and polish is all those 3 would need for me to buy them on 360 if I'm honest.

Motocross Madness = MX Vs ATV Untamed

RuMp3l4$k1n · 24 Jan 2008 at 01:40

TimBrad said:
Motocross Madness = MX Vs ATV Untamed

This is true and I have played the (waaay too easy) demo many times since downloading it.

LadFromWales · 24 Jan 2008 at 03:04

Jammy sods having it already

I'll have to wait til Friday, at which point I'd love a game with the usual few!

Dutch Guy · 24 Jan 2008 at 08:14

The intro music is cool, it is playing Paradise City by Guns and Roses, very nice detail :cool:

Sadly I am at work the whole day today so can't play anymore until tonight :mad:

~J~ · 24 Jan 2008 at 08:16

Well if it's anything like the last few days, postman won't be arriving till after midday! I NEED to play this today, I've waited nearly a year now to play this.

Windle · 24 Jan 2008 at 10:11

Got mine this morning

~J~ · 24 Jan 2008 at 10:20

Windle said:
Got mine this morning

Get on and report back!!

McManicMan · 24 Jan 2008 at 10:42

got my Ps3 one this morning just now, day early, thats a 1st!

msmalls74 · 24 Jan 2008 at 11:02

McManicMan said:
got my Ps3 one this morning just now, day early, thats a 1st!

If your at home can you try to see if the in game XMB is working? Heard that you can access your friends list and ingame messages

Simply pause the game at any point, select the "Paradise City Online" menu, and press Triangle. Bam, there's your friends list, just as you remember it from the XMB. You can send and receive messages, change your comment, add, block, remove... anything you could normally find listed under the Friends icon can be found here. Although a few other titles have allowed messaging from certain menus, this is the first time it's been available during gameplay.

Not heard mentioned before in the PS3 game so am just curious.

McManicMan · 24 Jan 2008 at 11:04

Reading the manual for those just looking for pure racing much like Burnout Revenge

"to start racing, select UNRANKED RACE or RANKED RACE from the EASY DRIVE menu, then choose PLAY NOW or SEARCH to join a pending RACE (or select CREATE to start one)

V1N · 24 Jan 2008 at 11:08

Mine arrived this morning, but no free car code from GAYme yet.
Anybody else get one?

Will load it up shortly

V1N.

Wyrdo · 24 Jan 2008 at 11:10

McManicMan said:
Reading the manual for those just looking for pure racing much like Burnout Revenge

"to start racing, select UNRANKED RACE or RANKED RACE from the EASY DRIVE menu, then choose PLAY NOW or SEARCH to join a pending RACE (or select CREATE to start one)

The host can also just create normal races in freeburn mode through the dpad menu.

~J~ · 24 Jan 2008 at 11:15

YEAH!!!!!!!!!

See you next week!!!!

MadFruit · 24 Jan 2008 at 11:36

OK, convince me to buy it. I am not sure. Also I lose my net connection for a week or two next week as I am moving house.

The demo was crappy poor. Even though chasing Roser down and making him crash A LOT was fun for a while, I have serious questions about longevity of this game - especially online. Are there lobbies? Can you do mini tournaments, like the last game (i.e three races in a row with points totalling for each one)? I fear I'd play it a few times and then just go back to CoD4 wasting cash I can't afford right now.

Hmmm... fingers itching, but just not convinced.

~J~ · 24 Jan 2008 at 11:37

No lobbies, all in game. Loads of mini tournaments, plus you can make your own up!

Gotta go, too much to do!!

McManicMan · 24 Jan 2008 at 11:44

msmalls74 said:
If your at home can you try to see if the in game XMB is working? Heard that you can access your friends list and ingame messages

Not heard mentioned before in the PS3 game so am just curious.

yep, press pause - goto freeburn online then press triangle, brings up XMB where you can send meesages - you could do this in Singstar also so this is the 2nd game i know off that allows this

just had a ranked online race, 3 races with checkpoints scattered throughout the map, took ages lol