Burnout Paradise is an open world racing video game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. It was later remastered and released on Xbox One and Playstation 4. In the original version of the game, in game unbreakable billboards would feature real world advertisements, which drew criticism for a game that cost $60 on release. In the Remaster, these billboards were replaced and no real world advertisements were shown.
Along with a number of other DLCs in the game, the game features a Legendary Cars pack, that included cars that had nods to the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters, the General Lee from Dukes of Hazard, and the Delorean from Back to the Future. In 2014 when Harold Ramis passed away, Criterion gave away the Ecto-1 to all players of the game in honor of him.
Burnout Paradise always reminded me of Fast and Furious since you could wreck cars, there was no rules really and it was Dominic Toretto's dream city.
Like other games in the Burnout series, it wasn’t just strictly racing. There was time trials, cause as much damage as you can mode, etc. Unlike other racing games that give you a set path to run, the open world lets you take any route to the finish line, meaning you can find short cuts or go all the way around the map if you want to. In Burnout Paradise, it’s the destination and not the journey that matter.
