I like that everything is open right from the beginning. After that, I’m left to discover everything else it has to offer with only the occasional tutorial to explain something specific that I need to know.
After giving me my first car, it guides me to the nearest drive-thru body shop and gas station before putting me into my first race. This is actually my first time taking a trip to Paradise City, and I appreciate how quickly the game hands total control over to the player. It sounds enticing, but if the various events aren’t all that exciting, the novelty might wear off quickly. This structure, or rather a lack of structure, offers a more freeing experience than other titles in the genre that tend to tie progression to story, checkpoints, specific races, or some combination of the three. It’s a racing title that mixes simulation and arcade driving in an open-world setting where players are more-or-less left to make their own fun. I anticipated the same sort of brilliance with the Switch port of Burnout Paradise Remastered, but perhaps that previous game set my expectations a bit too high.īurnout Paradise Remastered (PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One)īurnout Paradise Remastered is something of a unique creature. It’s one of the most visually impressive titles on the Wii U platform and still entertaining as hell to play.
Seven years ago, Criterion Games and EA released arguably the best racing sim to hit a Nintendo console with Need For Speed Most Wanted U. The genre is known for its outstanding and realistic graphics, something that’s not always capable of being pulled off on hardware that tends to lag behind the competition. Nintendo doesn’t see very many racing games hit its platforms. If I have to hear that goddamn Guns N’ Roses song one more time…
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